Author : John Gibbon
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 26,80 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Above all, Gibbon recounts in detail the realities of army life and Indian warfare. He saw no gallant cavalry charges in the Sioux Campaign of 1876, only footsore infantrymen marching in search of Indian warriors who always managed to outdistance their pursuers. An avid sportsman and explorer, Gibbon also recounts hunting and fishing trips in the wilderness and a visit to the newly created Yellowstone Park.
Author : John Gibbon
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,82 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 9780608210315
Author : Robert Peecher
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 20,99 MB
Release : 2021-09-26
Category :
ISBN :
Heck and Early are down and out. With their debts catching up to them and no good prospects, they set out across the territory to earn a wage. The pay ain't good, but something's better than nothing. When they find work as lawmen in a boomtown in the Devil's Mountains, the unlikely partners realize they've pinned on badges in a town terrorized by a mining outfit run by ruffians with a grudge. If this gold rush town is going to be settled, it's going to take a couple of Hard Bit Men to do the job. If you love a Western where you can smell the gunsmoke and leather, then cinch up your saddle and grab a box of cartridges, because a couple of Hard Bit Men are riding deep into the Sierra Diablo to tame a town. Click the buy button to order today!
Author : James Henry Cook
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,53 MB
Release : 1942
Category : Cattle trade
ISBN :
Author : Susanne George Bloomfield
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 35,16 MB
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0803259743
A collection of adventure stories set in the American West, originally published in The Youth's Companion and St. Nicholas, two of the most popular children's magazines at the turn of the twentieth century, captures life on the Western frontier and the values of the period in works by L. Frank Baum, Hamlin Garland, Mary Austin, and others. Original.
Author : Frank Clifford
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 16,11 MB
Release : 2012-09-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0806187506
Cowboy and drifter Frank Clifford lived a lot of lives—and raised a lot of hell—in the first quarter of his life. The number of times he changed his name—Clifford being just one of them—suggests that he often traveled just steps ahead of the law. During the 1870s and 1880s his restless spirit led him all over the Southwest, crossing the paths of many of the era’s most notorious characters, most notably Clay Allison and Billy the Kid. More than just an entertaining and informative narrative of his Wild West adventures, Clifford’s memoir also paints a picture of how ranchers and ordinary folk lived, worked, and stayed alive during those tumultuous years. Written in 1940 and edited and annotated by Frederick Nolan, Deep Trails in the Old West is likely one of the last eyewitness histories of the old West ever to be discovered. As Frank Clifford, the author rode with outlaw Clay Allison’s Colfax County vigilantes, traveled with Charlie Siringo, cowboyed on the Bell Ranch, contended with Apaches, and mined for gold in Hillsboro. In 1880 he was one of the Panhandle cowboys sent into New Mexico to recover cattle stolen by Billy the Kid and his compañeros—and in the process he got to know the Kid dangerously well. In unveiling this work, Nolan faithfully preserves Clifford’s own words, providing helpful annotation without censoring either the author’s strong opinions or his racial biases. For all its roughness, Deep Trails in the Old West is a rich resource of frontier lore, customs, and manners, told by a man who saw the Old West at its wildest—and lived to tell the tale.
Author : Elsa Jane Guerin
Publisher : Sterling/Main Street
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 36,53 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN :
Author : John Rollin Ridge
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 30,13 MB
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1513288431
The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta (1854) is a novel by John Rollin Ridge. Published under his birth name Yellow Bird, from Cheesquatalawny in Cherokee, The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta was the first novel from a Native American author. Despite its popular success worldwide—the novel was translated into French and Spanish—Ridge’s work was a financial failure due to bootleg copies and widespread plagiarism. Recognized today as a groundbreaking work of nineteenth century fiction, The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta is a powerful novel that investigates American racism, illustrates the struggle for financial independence among marginalized communities, and dramatizes the lives of outlaws seeking fame, fortune, and vigilante justice. Born in Mexico, Joaquin Murieta came to California in search of gold. Despite his belief in the American Dream, he soon faces violence and racism from white settlers who see his success as a miner as a personal affront. When his wife is raped by a mob of white men and after Joaquin is beaten by a group of horse thieves, he loses all hope of living alongside Americans and turns to a life of vigilantism. Joined by a posse of similarly enraged Mexican-American men, Joaquin becomes a fearsome bandit with a reputation for brutality and stealth. Based on the life of Joaquin Murrieta Carrillo, also known as The Robin Hood of the West, The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta would serve as inspiration for Johnston McCulley’s beloved pulp novel hero Zorro. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of John Rollin Ridge’s The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta is a classic work of Native American literature reimagined for modern readers.
Author : Richard White
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 35,78 MB
Release : 1994-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0520915321
Log cabins and wagon trains, cowboys and Indians, Buffalo Bill and General Custer. These and other frontier images pervade our lives, from fiction to films to advertising, where they attach themselves to products from pancake syrup to cologne, blue jeans to banks. Richard White and Patricia Limerick join their inimitable talents to explore our national preoccupation with this uniquely American image. Richard White examines the two most enduring stories of the frontier, both told in Chicago in 1893, the year of the Columbian Exposition. One was Frederick Jackson Turner's remarkably influential lecture, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History"; the other took place in William "Buffalo Bill" Cody's flamboyant extravaganza, "The Wild West." Turner recounted the peaceful settlement of an empty continent, a tale that placed Indians at the margins. Cody's story put Indians—and bloody battles—at center stage, and culminated with the Battle of the Little Bighorn, popularly known as "Custer's Last Stand." Seemingly contradictory, these two stories together reveal a complicated national identity. Patricia Limerick shows how the stories took on a life of their own in the twentieth century and were then reshaped by additional voices—those of Indians, Mexicans, African-Americans, and others, whose versions revisit the question of what it means to be an American. Generously illustrated, engagingly written, and peopled with such unforgettable characters as Sitting Bull, Captain Jack Crawford, and Annie Oakley, The Frontier in American Culture reminds us that despite the divisions and denials the western movement sparked, the image of the frontier unites us in surprising ways.
Author : Walter Cooper
Publisher : Falcon Guides
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,47 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Bozeman (Mont.)
ISBN : 9781560448914
Collection of western stories illustrated by photos and 11 never-before-published C.M. Russell pen and inks.
