Eyewitness To The Old West

Author : Richard Scott
Publisher : Roberts Rinehart
ISBN 13 : 1461635373
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eyewitness to the Old West written by Richard Scott and published by Roberts Rinehart. This book was released on 2004-02-07 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of over 150 vignettes from the journals and diaries of people who lived or traveled in the Old West, these accounts begin with the sixteenth-century collisions between the Spaniards and the Indians and conclude with Black Elk's mournful description of the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1890. Storytellers include explorers, missionaries, India leaders, a poet, an artist, and a future president.

Author : Frank Clifford
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806185406
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deep Trails in the Old West written by Frank Clifford and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Richard Scott
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN 13 : 1570984263
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eyewitness to the Old West written by Richard Scott and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of over 150 vignettes from the journals and diaries of people who lived or traveled the Old West.

Author : David Murdoch
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 075666909X
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book DK Eyewitness Books: Cowboy written by David Murdoch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-05-31 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is an energetic and informative look at the workinglives of cowboys from around the world. Spectacular real-life photographs of horses, cattle, branding irons, and lariats offer a unique "eyewitness" view of life on the range. See what an authentic chuckwagon looks like, how an expert ropes a calf, a rodeo rider in action on a wild steer, how a saddle is made, and a Mongolian herdsman lassoing a wild horse. Learn where wild horses and bulls livein France, why cowboys wear chaps, how to tame a bucking bronco, and why a gaucho decorates his belt with silver coins. Discover how Annie Oakley got her nickname, why an Australian saddle has no horn, and how the cowboy''s romantic image influenced music and films, and much, much more! Discover the real-life world of working cowboys from longhorns and lariats to chuckwagons, chaps, rodeos, andranches

Author : Stuart Murray
Publisher : DK Children
ISBN 13 : 9780756610975
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild West written by Stuart Murray and published by DK Children. This book was released on 2005-04-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be an eyewitness to the settlement of the American West. How did pioneers, cowboys and calvary win the frontier.

Author : Paul Robert Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trail of the Wild West written by Paul Robert Walker and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There, upon the rock, about six inches beneath the surface of the water, I discovered the gold. I was entirely alone at the time" James Marshall, 1848. Trail of the Wild West re-creates this colorful period in all its vivid variety, from the legendary desperadoes, soldiers, and Indian leaders, whose enduring myths often stray far from the truth, to the "little people" whose diaries and letters record a plainer yet more poignant reality.

Author : Johnny D. Boggs
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN 13 : 1556228929
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Murder Trials of the Old West written by Johnny D. Boggs and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2002-11-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recreate and analyze some of the wildest murder trials on the American frontier.

Author : Stephen G. Hyslop
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 142621555X
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Geographic the Old West written by Stephen G. Hyslop and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From Lewis and Clark's epic 1803 expedition to the showmanship of Buffalo Bill, the story of the American West is epic in scope, full of amazing tales of tragedy and triumph ... Illustrated with ... photographs and ... maps, [this book] is [a] ... history of a time and place that forever lives in legend"--

Author : David Hamilton Murdoch
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN 13 : 9780789465948
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cowboy written by David Hamilton Murdoch and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 2000 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a spectacular and informative look at the fascinating lives of cowboys from around the world. Stunning real-life photographs of horses and cattle and branding irons and lariats offer a unique "eyewitness" view of life on the range. See what an authentic chuckwagon looks like, how an expert ropes a calf, a rodeo rider in action on a wild steer, how a saddle is made and a Mongolian herdsman lassoing a wild horse. Learn where wild horses and bulls live in France, why cowboys wear Long Johns, how to tame a bucking bronco and why a gaucho decorates his belt with silver coins. Discover how Annie Oakley got her nickname, why an Australian saddle has no horn and how the cowboy's romantic image influenced music and films, and much, much more!

Author : James David Horan
Publisher : New York : Crown Publishers, c1976-c1980.
ISBN 13 : 9780517526804
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Authentic Wild West written by James David Horan and published by New York : Crown Publishers, c1976-c1980.. This book was released on 1976 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounts by eyewitnesses and the outlaws themselves.