Western Frontier Library Series – serie
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Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
Av Isabella L. Bird, Daniel J. Boorstin
Häftad, 1975
143 kr
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In 1872, Isabella Bird, daughter of a clergyman, set off alone to the Antipodes 'in search of health' and found she had embarked on a life of adventurous travel. In 1873, wearing Hawaiian riding dress, she rode her horse through the American Wild West, a terrain only newly opened to pioneer …
Life of Tom Horn
Government Scout and Interpreter
Av Tom Horn
Häftad, 1973
225 kr
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On November 20, 1903, Tom Horn was hanged in Cheyenne, Wyoming, for the murder of a fourteen-year-old nester boy. Horn-army scout and interpreter for Generals Willcox, Crook, and Miles in the Apache wars, Pinkerton operative, cattle detective, and ""King of Cowboys""-was hanged like a common …
West of the Texas Kid, 1881-1910
Recollections of Thomas Edgar Crawford Cowboy, Gun Fighter, Rancher, Hunter, Miner
Av Thomas Edgar Crawford, J. C. Dykes
Häftad, 1973
264 kr
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Thomas Edgar Crawford - variously known as ""The Texas Kid,"" ""The Montana Kid,"" ""Buckskin,"" ""Kid,"" and ""Ed"" - teamed up early with such notorious characters as Black Jack Ketchum and Henry Starr. Later Crawford took up ranching in Montana and lived to tell about the war between the …
My Life on the Plains
Or, Personal Experiences with Indians
Häftad, 1976
192 kr
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When General Custer led his troops to annihilation in the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876, he was possibly the most notorious Indian fighter the army had known. In his own time, he achieved much of his fame as a daring soldier through his own published accounts of his adventures. Indeed, in …
Wah-to-Yah and the Taos Trail
Or Prairie Travel and Scalp Dances, with a Look at Los Rancheros from Muleback and the Rocky Mountain Campfire
Häftad, 1972
218 kr
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In the bright morning of his youth Lewis H. Garrard traveled into the wild and free Rocky Mountain West and left us this fresh and vigorous account, which, says A. B. Guthrie, Jr., contains in its pages ""the genuine article-the Indian, the trader, the mountain man, their dress, and behavior and …
Boots and Saddles
Or, Life in Dakota with General Custer
Häftad, 1961
264 kr
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The honeymoon of Elizabeth Bacon and George Armstrong Custer was interrupted in 1864 by his call to duty with the Army of the Potomac. She begged to be allowed to go along, thus setting the pattern of her future life. From that time on, she accompanied General Custer on all of his major …
Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid
A Faithful and Interesting Narrative
Häftad, 1974
227 kr
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Of all firsthand accounts of lawlessness in the old Southwest, none is more fascinating than Pat F. Garrett's The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid. First published in 1882, a year after Sheriff Garrett killed the Kid, ""the bravest and most feared' gunman of the Lincoln County, New Mexico, cattle …
Banditti of the Plains
Or the Cattlemen’s Invasion of Wyoming in 1892
Av A. S. Mercer
Häftad, 1975
218 kr
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In 1894, when A. S. Mercer published this angry eyewitness account of the cattlemen's invasion of Wyoming, the book was so thoroughly and ruthlessly suppressed that few copies of that edition remain today.Although historians have since questioned some of Mercer's conclusions about the Johnson …
Campaigning with Crook
Av Charles King
Häftad, 1983
153 kr
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The Big Horn and Yellowstone Expedition in 1876 was successful in scattering the united and victorious Indians of the Custer massacre. Commanded by General George Crook and covering eight hundred miles in ten weeks, the campaign was a hard one on Indians and soldiers alike. Before it ended, many of …
Vigilantes of Montana
Being a Correct . . . Narrative of . . . Henry Plummer’s Notorious Road Agent Band
Häftad, 1977
170 kr
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The tainted sheriff in this narrative is Henry Plummer, who arrived in Nevada City, a gold camp in California's high Sierra, in 1852 and soon had two murders to his credit-both the results of bawdy-house brawls. Ten years later he was a full-fledged villain directing a gang of criminals. In 1863 …
Pasó Por Aquí
Häftad, 1973
220 kr
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Taking his title, Pasó Por Aquí, from Juan de Oñate's carving in the living rock of El Morro, New Mexico, Eugene Manlove Rhodes created his own memorial to the decent people of his world who had ""passed this way"" without fanfare.Rhodes wrote about them with wit, gusto, and tenderness, with …
XIT Ranch of Texas and the Early Days of the Llano Estacado
Häftad, 1977
218 kr
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Among the famous ranch brands of Texas are the T Anchor, JA, Diamond Tail, 777, Bar C, and XIT. And the greatest of these was XIT - The XIT Ranch of Texas.It was not the first ranch in West Texas, but after its formation in the eighteen-eighties it became the largest single operation in the cow …
Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta
Celebrated California Bandit
Häftad, 1977
260 kr
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In 1854, a Cherokee Indian called Yellow Bird (better known as John Rollin Ridge) launched in this book the myth of Joaquin Murieta, based on the California criminal career of a 19th century Mexican bandit. Today this folk hero has been written into state histories, sensationalized in books, poems, …
Tour on the Prairies
Häftad, 1985
286 kr
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In 1832, Washington Irving, recently returned from seventeen years' residence abroad and eager to explore his own country, embarked on an expedition to the country west of Arkansas set aside for the Indians. A Tour on the Prairies is his absorbing account of that journey, which extended from Fort …
Dallas Stoudenmire
El Paso Marshal
Av Leon C. Metz
Häftad, 1993
173 kr
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Before Dallas Stoudenmire accepted the position as marshal of El Paso, there existed no authority except that of the six-shooter, and very little precedent for a peace officer to follow. No one before had held the job for more than a couple of months. Yet, within two years, with the help of Jim …
Arctic Schoolteacher
Kulukak, Alaska, 1931–1933
Häftad, 1994
264 kr
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When Abbie Morgan arrived with her husband Ed in the Alaskan village of Kulukak in 1931 to teach school, many of the Eskimos had never before seen a white woman. Kulukak could be reached by boat when the approach was not frozen over and by dogsled when ice made travel by boat impossible. Arctic …
Tenting on the Plains
Or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas
Häftad, 1994
294 kr
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From the time of her husband's death at the Battle of the Little Big Horn until her own death fifty-seven years later, at the age of ninety, Mrs. George Armstrong Custer devoted herself to defending or embellishing her husband's reputation.This account, the second in Elizabeth's trilogy of her life …
Five Years a Cavalryman
Or, Sketches of Regular Army Life on the Texas Frontier, 1866–1871
Häftad, 1996
264 kr
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First published in 1889, H. H. McConnell's Five Years a Cavalryman remains one of the best accounts of what it was like to be an ordinary cavalryman on the post-Civil War frontier. Posted for five years (1866-1871) with the Sixth U.S. Cavalry at Fort Belknap and Fort Richardson, in West Texas, …
Life in the Saddle
Av Frank Collinson, Mary W. Clarke
Häftad, 1997
264 kr
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At the age of 79 Collinson began writing and this work is a collection of letters, articles and transcriptions of his conversations about the Old West. Collinson tells of the last days of Buffalo hunting on the Plains, the clashes of hunters, cowboys and Indians, and the nature of violence.
Girl on a Pony
Häftad, 1998
260 kr
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Girl on a Pony is the gritty, humorous, unflinchingly courageous story of five children growing up on a cattle ranch in the remote Valley of the Dry Cimarron in northeastern New Mexico near the little border town of Kenton, Oklahoma. Narrated years later by the oldest daughter, LaVerne, it is a …
Under Cover for Wells Fargo
The Unvarnished Recollections of Fred Dodge
Häftad, 1999
243 kr
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Three Years on the Plains
Observations of Indians, 1867–1870
Häftad, 2003
429 kr
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History has its heroes and its villains, but most of all it has its witnesses. As post chaplain at Fort D. A. Russell in Wyoming Territory from 1867 to 1870, the Reverend Edmund B. Tuttle was an eyewitness to the evolving relationship between the U.S. Army and American Indians on the northern high …
Lady's Ranch Life in Montana
Av Isabel F. Randall, Richard L. Saunders
Häftad, 2004
294 kr
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A faithful and unvarnished Record of a Settler's Life"" is how Isabel Randall described her letters when they were first published in 1887. Many foreign travelers published accounts of their visits to the American West, but Randall was one of the few European women to write about the western …
Henry a. Wallace's Irrigation Frontier
On the Trail of the Corn Belt Farmer, 1909
Av Richard Lowitt, Judith Fabry m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
294 kr
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When Franklin D. Roosevelt's agriculture secretary and vice-president, Henry A. Wallace, had completed his junior year at Iowa State College in 1909, his family sent him on a western tour ""in search of the Corn Belt farmer."" Young Henry was to report to the family journal, Wallace's Farmer, how …
Our Centennial Indian War and the Life of General Custer
Inbunden, 2011
556 kr
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Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer was widely known as a Civil War figure, author, and successful cavalry leader before his spectacular defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876 by Lakota and Northern Cheyenne Indians. His actions - and those of his troops - would have been of public …
Following the Guidon
Into the Indian Wars with General Custer and the Seventh Cavalry
Häftad, 1976
253 kr
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Few figures in American history are as arresting as George Armstrong Custer, America's Hostspur. His career ranged back and forth from depths of disgrace to heights of glory. If he was no classroom scholar, he was a magnetic battlefield commander. From dead last in his 1861 class at West Point, he …
Sketch of Sam Bass, the Bandit
Häftad, 1997
260 kr
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Sam Bass is perhaps the most notorious Texas outlaw of the 1870s. Within four years he and his band robbed trains, stages, and stores from the Dakota Territory to the Mexican border. He was not a killer, and because the railroads and their high freight rates were unpopular, Bass quickly became a …
Lady's Ranch Life in Montana
Av Isabel F. Randall, Richard L. Saunders
Inbunden, 2004
396 kr
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A faithful and unvarnished Record of a Settler's Life"" is how Isabel Randall described her letters when they were first published in 1887. Many foreign travelers published accounts of their visits to the American West, but Randall was one of the few European women to write about the western …
