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1) The rivermen
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Old West volume no. 12
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English
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Traces the history of transportation on the Missouri River in the nineteenth century and its impact on the development of the West.
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English
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"NO WOMEN NEED APPLY." These four discouraging words of admonition often greeted female physicians looking for jobs in the frontier-era West. Despite the dire need for medical help, it seemed most trappers, miners, and emigrants would rather suffer and die than be treated by a female doctor. Nevertheless dozens of highly trained women headed West, where they endured hardship and prejudice as they set broken limbs, performed operations, delivered generations...
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English
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"John Sedgwick recounts the decade-long fight between General William J. Palmer, the Civil War hero leading the 'little family' of his Rio Grande, coming down from Denver, hoping to showcase the majesty of the Rockies, and William Barstow Strong, the hard-nosed manager of the corporate-minded Santa Fe, venturing west from Kansas. What begins as an accidental rivalry when the two lines cross in Colorado soon evolves into an all-out battle as each man...
6) The townsmen
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Time-Life Books
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English
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Surveys the establishment and development of towns in the early American West and discusses daily life, recreation, culture, business and government there.
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Publisher
TwoDot
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
By and about the greatest celebrities of the Wild West, these are the stories of their adventures told in their own words through excerpts from autobiographies, articles they wrote, newspaper interviews, private journals, personal letters, and court testimony. These glimpses into the worlds of these legendary figures as they describe their own personal experiences, impressions, what life in the Wild West was like, reveal the roles they played in notable...
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Between 1840 and 1910, hundreds of thousands of men and women traveled deep into the underdeveloped American West, lured by the prospect of adventure and opportunity, and galvanized by the spirit of Manifest Destiny. Alongside this rapid expansion of the United States, a second, overlapping social shift was taking place: survival in a settler society busy building itself from scratch required two equally hardworking partners, compelling women to compromise...
15) The Spanish West
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Language
English
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Discusses the land, history, and people of the Southwestern United States.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Frémont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America's first great political couple John Frémont grew up amid family tragedy and shame. Born out of wedlock in 1813, he went to work at age thirteen to help support his family in Charleston, South Carolina. He was a nobody. Yet, by the 1840s, he rose to...
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Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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In the summer of 1823, a grizzly bear mauled Hugh Glass. The animal ripped the trapper up, carving huge hunks from his body. Glass's fellows rushed to his aid and slew the bear, but Glass's injuries mocked their first aid. The expedition leader arranged for his funeral: two men would stay behind to bury the corpse when it finally stopped gurgling; the rest would move on. Alone in Indian country, the caretakers quickly lost their nerve. They fled,...
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Publisher
McFarland & Co
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"This work catalogs camps in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. Entries include location, names of miners known to have worked the site, year of discovery, and ore value. The work is indexed by topic and mine, and offers a glossary and a copy of the Miners' Ten Commandments"--Provided by publisher.