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Author : Floyd Benjamin Streeter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Prairie Trails & Cow Towns: the Opening of the Old West written by Floyd Benjamin Streeter and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Gordon Morris Bakken
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)
Download or read book The World of the American West [2 volumes] written by Gordon Morris Bakken and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing everything from the details of everyday life to recreation and warfare, this two-volume work examines the social, political, intellectual, and material culture of the American "Old West," from the California Gold Rush of 1849 to the end of the 19th century. What was life really like for ordinary people in the Old West? What did they eat, wear, and think? How did they raise their children? How did they interact with government? What did they do for fun? This encyclopedia provides readers with an engaging and detailed portrayal of the Old West through the examination of social, cultural, and material history. Supported by the most current research, the multivolume set explores various aspects of social history—family, politics, religion, economics, and recreation—to illuminate aspects of a society's emotional life, interactions, opinions, views, beliefs, intimate relationships, and connections between the individual and the greater world. Readers will be exposed to both objective reality and subjective views of a particular culture; as a result, they can create a cohesive, accurate impression of life in the Old West during the second half of the 1800s.
Author : Thomas C. Bicknell
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 157441741X
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Ben Thompson written by Thomas C. Bicknell and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben Thompson was a remarkable man, and few Texans can claim to have crowded more excitement, danger, drama, and tragedy into their lives than he did. He was an Indian fighter, Texas Ranger, Confederate cavalryman, mercenary for a foreign emperor, hired gun for a railroad, an elected lawman, professional gambler, and the victor of numerous gunfights. As a leading member of the Wild West’s sporting element, Ben Thompson spent most of his life moving in the unsavory underbelly of the West: saloons, dance-houses, billiard halls, bordellos, and gambling dens. During these travels many of the Wild West’s most famous icons—Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Bat Masterson, Wild Bill Hickok, John Wesley Hardin, John Ringo, and Buffalo Bill Cody—became acquainted with Ben Thompson. Some of these men called him a friend; others considered him a deadly enemy. In life and in death no one ever doubted Ben Thompson’s courage; one Texas newspaperman asserted he was “perfectly fearless, a perfect lion in nature when aroused.” This willingness to trust his life to his expertise with a pistol placed Thompson prominently among the western frontier’s most flamboyant breed of men: gunfighters.
Author : Sean Dennis Cashman
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814714943
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book America in the Gilded Age written by Sean Dennis Cashman and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1993-10 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **** New edition (an earlier version is cited in BCL3). Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Mike Newton
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1599635925
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Writing Westerns written by Mike Newton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Craft a novel that evokes the spirit of the West Western Movies don't appear as frequently today as they did in the 1960s, but those that make the cut in Hollywood prompt frequent Oscar buzz. Nor have Western novels been eclipsed. In 2010, Amazon.com offered 213 new Western novels for sale, plus many reprints of older classics. Writing Westerns examines what a Western is, while teaching you how to research and write one. You'll benefit from the author’s experience—248 books published since 1977—and the example of masters in the field, from Zane Grey and Max Brand to Louis L’Amour and Cormac McCarthy. Each chapter includes a short list of recommended sources for further reading. Appendices to the main text include a glossary of Old West slang and jargon, which is helpful in writing realistic dialogue, a timeline of significant historical events, and a list of classic Western films and novels. Research, talent, and imagination are the keys to writing a successful novel. Join us now, as we set off into the West.
Author : Paula Mitchell Marks
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806128887
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (288 download)
Download or read book And Die in the West written by Paula Mitchell Marks and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gunfight at the O.K. Corral has excited the imaginations of Western enthusiasts ever since that chilly October afternoon in 1881 when Doc Holliday and the three fighting Earps strode along a Tombstone, Arizona, street to confront the Clanton and McLaury brothers. When they met, Billy Clanton and the two McLaurys were shot to death; the popular image of the Wild West was reinforced; and fuel was provided for countless arguments over the characters, motives, and actions of those involved. And Die in the West presents the first fully detailed, objective narrative of the celebrated gunfight, of the tensions leading up to it, and the bitter, bloody events that followed. Paula Mitchell Marks places the events surrounding the gunfight against a larger backdrop of a booming Tombstone and the fluid, frontier environment of greed, factions and violence. In the process, Marks strips away many of the myths associated with the famous gunfight and of the West in general.
Author : Jennifer Patten
Publisher : Jennifer Patten
ISBN 13 : 1458123979
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (581 download)
Download or read book In View of the Mountains written by Jennifer Patten and published by Jennifer Patten. This book was released on 2011-06-11 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Howard R. Lamar
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826361668
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Charlie Siringo's West written by Howard R. Lamar and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlie Siringo (1855–1928) lived the quintessential life of adventure on the American frontier as a cowboy, Pinkerton detective, writer, and later as a consultant for early western films. Siringo was one of the most attractive, bold, and original characters to live and flourish in the final decades of the Wild West. His love of the cattle business and of cowboy life was so great that in 1885 he published A Texas Cowboy, or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony—Taken From Real Life, which Will Rogers dubbed the “Cowboy’s Bible.” Howard R. Lamar’s biography deftly shares Siringo’s story within seventy-five pivotal years of western history. Siringo was not a mere observer but a participant in major historical events including the Coeur d’Alene mining strikes of the 1890s and Big Bill Haywood’s trial in 1907. Lamar focuses on Siringo’s youthful struggles to employ his abundant athleticism and ambitions and how Siringo’s varied experiences helped develop the compelling national myth of the cowboy.
Author : Christopher Knowlton
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0544369971
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (443 download)
Download or read book Cattle Kingdom written by Christopher Knowlton and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The best all-around study of the American cowboy ever written. Every page crackles with keen analysis and vivid prose about the Old West. A must-read!” — Douglas Brinkley, author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America The open-range cattle era lasted barely a quarter century, but it left America irrevocably changed. Cattle Kingdom reveals how the West rose and fell, and how its legacy defines us today. The tale takes us from dust-choked cattle drives to the unlikely splendors of boomtowns like Abilene, Kansas, and Cheyenne, Wyoming. We meet a diverse cast, from cowboy Teddy Blue to failed rancher and future president Teddy Roosevelt. This is a revolutionary new appraisal of the Old West and the America it made. “Knowlton writes well about all the fun stuff: trail drives, rambunctious cow towns, gunfights and range wars . . . [He] enlists all of these tropes in support of an intriguing thesis: that the romance of the Old West arose upon the swelling surface of a giant economic bubble . . . Cattle Kingdom is The Great Plains by way of The Big Short.” — Wall Street Journal “Knowlton deftly balances close-ups and bird’s-eye views. We learn countless details . . . More important, we learn why the story played out as it did.” — New York Times Book Review “The best one-volume history of the legendary era of the cowboy and cattle empires in thirty years.” — True West
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1380 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1968 with total page 1380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)
Author : Steven Lubet
Publisher : Yale.ORIM
ISBN 13 : 0300129246
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Murder in Tombstone written by Steven Lubet and published by Yale.ORIM. This book was released on 2004-09-10 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of the court case that followed the gunfight at the OK Corral “will interest Wild West buffs as well as readers interested in legal history” (Publishers Weekly). The gunfight at the OK Corral lasted less than a minute—yet it became the basis for countless stories about the Wild West. At the time of the event, however, Wyatt Earp was not universally acclaimed as a hero. Among the people who knew him best in Tombstone, Arizona, many considered him a renegade and murderer. This book tells the nearly unknown story of the prosecution of Wyatt Earp, his brothers, and Doc Holiday following the famous gunfight. To the prosecutors, the Earps and Holiday were wanton killers. According to the defense, the Earps were steadfast heroes—willing to risk their lives on the mean streets of Tombstone for the sake of order. The case against the Earps, with its dueling narratives of brutality and justification, played out themes of betrayal, revenge, and even adultery. Attorney Thomas Fitch, one of the era’s finest advocates, ultimately managed, against considerable odds, to save Earp from the gallows. But the case could easily have ended in a conviction—and Wyatt Earp would have been hanged or imprisoned instead of celebrated as an American icon. “This trial has everything: a family feud, famous outlaws and lawmen, politics, sex, and the most famous shootout in frontier history . . . Lubet’s accessible and highly original book will set a standard for scholarship in a field laden with folklore.” —Allen Barra, author of Inventing Wyatt Earp
Author : Garnet M. Brayer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book American Cattle Trails, 1540-1900 written by Garnet M. Brayer and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christy Steele
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN 13 : 9780836857870
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (578 download)
Download or read book Cattle Ranching in the American West written by Christy Steele and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2004-12-15 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the history of cattle ranching in the West and the role of the cowboy in the expansion and culture of the western United States.
Author : Dee Brown
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 147110933X
Total Pages : 815 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)
Download or read book The American West written by Dee Brown and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-25 with total page 815 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the railroads opened up the American West to settlers in the last half of the 19th Century, the Plains Indians made their final stand and cattle ranches spread from Texas to Montana. Eminent Western author Dee Brown here illuminates the struggle between these three groups as they fought for a place in this new landscape. The result is both a spirited national saga and an authoritative historical account of the drive for order in an uncharted wilderness, illustrated throughout with maps, photographs and ephemera from the period.
Author : Gardner Soule
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Long Trail written by Gardner Soule and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1976 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To survive after the Civil War, settlers in Texas turned to raising, rounding up, and driving cattle to railheads in Kansas, or to on-the-spot buyers elsewhere in the midwest. This is the story of that heyday.
Author : Jeremy Agnew
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786468882
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Old West in Fact and Film written by Jeremy Agnew and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years, movie audiences have carried on a love affair with the American West, believing Westerns are escapist entertainment of the best kind, harkening back to the days of the frontier. This work compares the reality of the Old West to its portrayal in movies, taking an historical approach to its consideration of the cowboys, Indians, gunmen, lawmen and others who populated the Old West in real life and on the silver screen. Starting with the Westerns of the early 1900s, it follows the evolution in look, style, and content as the films matured from short vignettes of good-versus-bad into modern plots.
Author : Donald Emmet Worcester
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781566193979
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (939 download)
Download or read book The Chisholm Trail written by Donald Emmet Worcester and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
