Book Description
Takes readers on a journey back in time in order to experience life in the American West in the 1800s, describing clothing, accommodations, foods, local customs, transportation, a few notable personalities, and more.
Author : Rita J. Markel
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 41,8 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780822530749
Takes readers on a journey back in time in order to experience life in the American West in the 1800s, describing clothing, accommodations, foods, local customs, transportation, a few notable personalities, and more.
Author : Kent Ruth
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 24,70 MB
Release : 1987-04
Category : History
ISBN :
Touring the Old West is a practical guide to what is left of the western frontier and a page-turning history for those wo can't hit the trail. In this "love letter to half of America," Kent Ruth takes the reader through twenty-one states, pointing out legendary and little-known attractions on and off the main highways. Ruth directs today's explorer to famous old trails and landmarks, crumbling cemeteries, and original rail lines to Indian encampments and military forts (some of them restored and catering to history buffs). The tour is dotted with old-time fur trading posts, boom-and-bust mining camps, sleepy ghost towns, and near-ghosts with hotels still standing. Photographs and a state-by-state index identify authentic highlights for anybody's "out West" tour.
Author : Ken Amorosano
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 44,14 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN : 9780692989579
For 65 years, True West magazine has inspired travelers to take the road less traveled and explore the historic sites and towns of the American West. Now, in honor of its 65th anniversary, the publishers of True West have compiled the essential Old West guidebook, which takes the traveler to where Old West history happened in 22 Western states. True West¿s Ultimate Historic Travel Guide: Your Guide to History in the Old West is a fact-filled handbook that will prove an essential guidebook to experience first-hand its most important historic sites, towns, parks, museums, battlefields and monuments.
Author : True West Magazine
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 34,3 MB
Release : 2019
Category :
ISBN : 9781732917118
For 65 years, True West magazine has inspired travelers to take the road less traveled and explore the historic sites and towns of the American West. Now, in honor of its 65th anniversary, the publishers of True West have compiled the essential Old West guidebook, which takes the traveler to where Old West history happened in 22 Western states.
Author : Michael P. O’Connor
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 18,2 MB
Release : 2024-05-24
Category : Travel
ISBN :
Wyatt Earp and Tombstone, Wild Bill Hickok and Deadwood, George Custer and the Little Big Horn, Davy Crockett and the Alamo, Bat Masterson and Dodge City; Names and locations forever linked to the legacy and myth of the Old West. Through hundreds of photographs and illustrations, O’Connor delivers a concise, light-hearted yet accurate depiction of a pivotal event in the settlement of the American frontier, and what the location offers today’s visitor, with particular attention devoted to surviving structures, including authentic saloons! Whether planning a road trip, or simply interested in America’s Old West history and culture, the reader is provided an entertaining, and informative look into the locations that shaped the history and myth of the Wild West.
Author : Randolph B. Marcy
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 31,82 MB
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781387977277
Randolph Marcy wrote this guide for fellow travelers wanting to brave the wilderness of North America, at a time when the western reaches of the continent were barely settled. A captain in the U.S. military, Marcy wrote this guide partly to allay the many myths and fears of the Western frontier, and partly to offer guidance to the dangers which were actually manifest. The information within takes readers across two popular trails - northerly, ending in Oregon, and southerly, ending in Santa Fe. Written in 1859, this book is both a guidebook and an authentic history of the Wild West era. Various anecdotes are interspersed through the text - Marcy is careful to differentiate between friendly Indian tribes such as the Delawares and Shawnees, whom he admires. The Plains Indians however are considered to have hostile tendencies; Marcy instructs on how to sign, and gives a detailed account of how to safely sleep with a gun cocked and loaded.
Author : Bobbie Kalman
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 38,20 MB
Release : 2007-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780778735038
A visual dictionary of the Old West that focuses on the life of cowboys, western settlers, boomtowns, and the gold rush.
Author : Randolph B. Marcy
Publisher :
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 22,49 MB
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781387977260
Randolph Marcy wrote this guide for fellow travelers wanting to brave the wilderness of North America, at a time when the western reaches of the continent were barely settled. A captain in the U.S. military, Marcy wrote this guide partly to allay the many myths and fears of the Western frontier, and partly to offer guidance to the dangers which were actually manifest. The information within takes readers across two popular trails - northerly, ending in Oregon, and southerly, ending in Santa Fe. Written in 1859, this book is both a guidebook and an authentic history of the Wild West era. Various anecdotes are interspersed through the text - Marcy is careful to differentiate between friendly Indian tribes such as the Delawares and Shawnees, whom he admires. The Plains Indians however are considered to have hostile tendencies; Marcy instructs on how to sign, and gives a detailed account of how to safely sleep with a gun cocked and loaded.
Author : Mike Flanagan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 35,83 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780028629452
Little known lore about pioneers, easy to understand explanations of land agreements, fascinating adventures of Native Americans, and photos the people of the ole West.
Author : Josepha Sherman
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 12,42 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780822530732
Takes readers on a journey back in time in order to experience life in China during the Han Dynasty, describing clothing, accommodations, foods, local customs, transportation, a few notable personalities, and more.