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Author : Diane Bair
Publisher : Benchmark Education Company
ISBN 13 : 1450907865
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Western Legends written by Diane Bair and published by Benchmark Education Company. This book was released on 2011 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Zane Grey
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0765320657
Total Pages : 785 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)
Download or read book Western Legends written by Zane Grey and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of three western classics by early twentieth-century American author, Zane Grey, that includes "To the Last Man", "The Mysterious Rider," and "The Lone Star Ranger."
Author : Richard Erdoes
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0307801616
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Legends and Tales of the American West written by Richard Erdoes and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Davy Crockett, Wild Bill Hickok, and Calamity Jane to Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, and Frank and Jesse James, here are more than 130 colorful stories of the pioneers, cowboys, outlaws, gamblers, prospectors, and lawmen who settled the wild west, creating a uniquely American hero and an enduringly fascinating folk mythology. In this wonderfully boisterous treasury of tall tales, everyone and everything is larger than life and bragging is elevated into an art form. Many of these stories are of real people and real events; more than a few, however, grew taller and funnier as they made their rounds from wagon train to campfire to rodeo to miners' quarters. But even if it is far from established that Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett were able to kill three men with one bullet or subdue ferocious grizzly bears with their fists, they come vividly to life here as beloved characters who have become part of the fabric of the American imagination. With black-and white illustrations throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
Download or read book Western Legends written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brad Williams
Publisher : Galahad Books
ISBN 13 : 9780883940938
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Lost Legends of the West written by Brad Williams and published by Galahad Books. This book was released on 1996-04-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legends start from fact, but they are kept alive through faith. Th-is book will prove fascinating reading for everyone interested in American folklore and history.
Author : Editors of True West
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0307236382
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)
Download or read book True Tales and Amazing Legends of the Old West written by Editors of True West and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2005-08-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about the west—most of it clouded by exaggeration and fabrication. Since 1953, True West magazine has been devoted to celebrating the West’s true colors, giving the men and women who settled there accurate voices, exploring every triumph and tragedy of their time—and exposing every vice and virtue. True Tales and Amazing Legends of the Old West commemorates these unforgettable cowboys, Indians, and city slickers through a mix of classic histories and brand-new narratives, all illustrated with photographs—many reproduced here for the first time—of the people and places that gave rise to America’s Western mythology. With twenty-six stories that blend fact with folklore, this collection abounds with accounts of the famous and the infamous, including Sacagawea, Wild Bill Hickok, Pancho Villa, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Davy Crockett, and Wyatt Earp. Also here are lesser-known figures whose stories were pivotal to shaping the culture of the era, such as European conquistador Francisco Coronado, rancher “Black Billy” Hill, and fearless lawman Orlando “Rube” Robbins. Other tales recount the wide open plains, lawlessness, drama, mayhem, and promise embodied in the Old West. Whether you’re a history buff, an Old West devotee, or simply someone who is fascinated by the characters of America’s early years, these timeless tales and photographs epitomize the legendary spirit of what it meant to settle the West.
Author : Diane Bair
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781410825773
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (257 download)
Download or read book Western Legends written by Diane Bair and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out about how Jim Bridger, Buffalo Bill Cody and Sitting Bull were influential people in the American West. (Set of 6 with Teacher's Guide and Comprehension Question Card)
Author : Marian K. Carpenter
Publisher : Western Horseman Books
ISBN 13 : 9780911647488
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Arabian Legends written by Marian K. Carpenter and published by Western Horseman Books. This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arabian is very likely the most storied breed in equine history, and unquestionably one of the most popular. In the last 50 years, a number of key stallions, and several mares, have played prominent roles in establishing the Arabian breed in the United States.This 280-page book includes chapters about 24 of these horses. Each chapter features a particular horse and includes a story about his/her life, a four-generation pedigree, many photographs, and a summary of the horse's performance record and sire or production record. (8 x 11, 280 pages, b&w photos)
Author : Robert Edelstein
Publisher : Centennial Books
ISBN 13 : 1951274350
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Legends of the Wild West written by Robert Edelstein and published by Centennial Books. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For several hundred years, the West had been the land of dreams, an extraordinary region of hope, expansion and opportunity where European countries—and then the young USA itself—sent their finest explorers to plant seeds in a seemingly untapped, open landscape. This spirit captured the popular imagination in the Wild West, those raucous 30 years between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of a new century. Within these pages, readers will explore true tales of rebels and heroes such as General George Custer, Buffalo Bill, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Annie Oakley, and Sitting Bull, among others. The Wild West was the American Dream on steroids. It was an age of gunfights and gold rushes, cowboys and Comanches, with the likes of Buffalo Bill, Jesse James and Billy the Kid making their names. It forged extraordinary legends and even bigger lies, with everything fueled by dime novels written back East that encouraged folks to grab their share of a promise that was difficult for this hard land to keep. This book looks at all these mythical characters, the start of the railroad across the nation, the cost it all dealt to the Native Americans whose land was lost, and the way Hollywood still keeps the dream alive. As historian Richard White says, “People could go west and no matter their failures elsewhere, they had an opportunity to remake themselves. It’s a symbol for a kind of individualism that actually doesn’t exist in the West, but mythically it does.”
Author : Consumer Guide
Publisher : N A L
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Legends of the Wild West written by Consumer Guide and published by N A L. This book was released on 1997 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring profiles of the most famous--and infamous--characters of the time, this special guide covers everyone from Buffalo Bill to Sitting Bull to Custer. Lively, anecdotal, and entertaining, this is something no fan of the Old West should be without!
Author : Richard W. Etulain
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806147865
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane written by Richard W. Etulain and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane. Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed this original Wild West woman as an adventuresome, gun-toting hellion. Although Calamity Jane has probably been written about more than any other woman of the nineteenth-century American West, fiction and legend have largely obscured the facts of her life. This lively, concise, and exhaustively researched biography traces the real person from the Missouri farm where she was born in 1856 through the development of her notorious persona as a Wild West heroine. Before Calamity Jane became a legend, she was Martha Canary, orphaned when she was only eleven years old. From a young age she traveled fearlessly, worked with men, smoked, chewed tobacco, and drank. By the time she arrived in the boomtown of Deadwood, South Dakota, in 1876, she had become Calamity Jane, and the real Martha Canary had disappeared under a landslide of purple prose. Calamity became a hostess and dancer in Deadwood’s saloons and theaters. She imbibed heavily, and she might have been a prostitute, but she had other qualities, as well, including those of an angel of mercy who ministered to the sick and the down-and-out. Journalists and dime novelists couldn’t get enough of either version, nor, in the following century, could filmmakers. Sorting through the stories, veteran western historian Richard W. Etulain’s account begins with a biography that offers new information on Calamity’s several “husbands” (including one she legally married), her two children, and a woman who claimed to be the daughter of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity, a story Etulain discredits. In the second half of the book, Etulain traces the stories that have shaped Calamity Jane’s reputation. Some Calamity portraits, he says, suggest that she aspired to a quiet life with a husband and family. As the 2004–2006 HBO series Deadwood makes clear, well more than a century after her first appearance as a heroine in the Deadwood Dick dime novels, Calamity Jane lives on—raunchy, unabashed, contradictory, and ambiguous as ever.
Author : Judy Zehner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781564771254
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (712 download)
Download or read book Quilted Legends of the West written by Judy Zehner and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone fascinated with Native American culture will love these 10 easy-to-piece wild-animal designs inspired by Native American lore.
Author : Matt Doeden
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1429612940
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book Dragon Legends written by Matt Doeden and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2008 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes popular dragon legends and myths from around the world.
Author : Dan Slott
Publisher : Marvel Comics Group
ISBN 13 : 9780785122807
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (228 download)
Download or read book Marvel Westerns written by Dan Slott and published by Marvel Comics Group. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No further information has been provided for this title.
Author : David Lusted
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317874919
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book The Western written by David Lusted and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Western introduces the novice to the pleasures and the meanings of the Western film, shares the excitement of the genre with the fan, addresses the suspicions of the cynic and develops the knowledge of the student. The Western is about the changing times of the Western, and about how it has been understood in film criticism. Until the 1980s, more Westerns were made than any other type of film. For fifty of those years, the genre was central to Hollywood's popularity and profitability. The Western explores the reasons for its success and its latter-day decline among film-makers and audiences alike. Part I charts the history of the Western film and its role in film studies. Part II traces the origins of the Western in nineteenth-century America, and in its literary, theatrical and visual imagining. This sets the scene to explore the many evolving forms in successive chapters on early silent Westerns, the series Western, the epic, the romance, the dystopian, the elegiac and, finally, the revisionist Western. The Western concludes with an extensive bibliography, filmography and select further reading. Over 200 Westerns are discussed, among them close accounts of classics such as Duel in the Sun, The Wild Bunch and Unforgiven, formative titles like John Ford's epic The Iron Horse, and early cowboy star William S. Hart's The Silent One together with less familiar titles that deserve wider recognition, including Comanche Station, Pursued and Ulzana's Raid.
Author : Marvin West
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1582618895
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (826 download)
Download or read book Legends of the Tennessee Vols written by Marvin West and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2005 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tennessee football is hundreds of victories, the giant stadium, passionate fans, sensational statistics, unforgettable plays, unbelievable stories--Jack Reynolds hacksawing his Jeep in half, Richmond Flowers racing a quarter-horse, Peyton Manning dropping his drawers. Tennessee football is the checkerboard end zone and the Pride of the Southland band and nicknames like Bad News and Wild Bull and Swamp Rat. It is that 1928 con job and the stunning triumph over Alabama. It is the series of miracles that produced the national championship of 1998. Tennessee football is long runs and long passes and long punts and 161 extra points in a row. It is a million memories of pancake blocks, knockout tackles, impossible interceptions, missed calls and fumbles lost and found. Tennessee football is fantastic comebacks and horrendous upsets and the wonderful, awful difference in winning and losing. What is Tennessee football? It's really the men who put on the pads, pull on the jersey and fasten the chin strap. Their names are carved in marble on the Tennessee wall of fame. The are unforgettable. A chosen few are bigger than life. They are the legends. It's easier to be a Tennessee legend if you could get your hands on the football--Johnny Majors, Hank Lauricella, Willie Gault. If you didn't run with it or throw it or catch it, next best thing was to chase it--Doug Atkins, Steve Kiner, Reggie White. The deck is stacked against offensive linemen. To qualify, they must be extra legendary. Generally speaking, legends, like good wine and cheese, need a little age. It is often said that the best football players get better and better at Tennessee, beginning about 10 years after eligibility expires. Thatsaid, three are in this book as young legends, so ordained without benefit of gray beards or rocking chairs. There hasn't been and may never be a more memorable quarterback than Peyton Manning. Al Wilson was the heart and soul of the national championship team of 1998. John Henderson was America's best defensive lineman in 2000. Three cheers for the legendary Volunteers, hip, hip, hooray...
Author : J.R. Roberts
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
ISBN 13 : 1612324282
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)
Download or read book The Legend Maker written by J.R. Roberts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
