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English
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ere is a myth-shattering look at the women who helped to settle the West, told through their own words and illustrated with 150 period photographs. Through diaries, memoirs, letters, and journals, "Women of the West" introduces 11 real frontier women whose words combine to recreate a place and time when resourcefulness and courage were demanded of everyone. 146 photos.
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Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
Two Colorado authors, one on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains, the other on the western, begin writing letters to one another at the beginning of Colorado's shelter-in-place orders. Their friendship forms and blooms amidst discussions of COVID-19, nature, politics, and daily life.
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Publisher
Caxton Printers
Pub. Date
1970
Language
English
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Here's a vivid part of the old west of 1879 that J.H. Harshman saw when he headed for the Rockies that year in search of healthier climate. Those who sent him meant for him to stay eight weeks; he remained for eight years, roaming far and wide over Colorado, New Mexico, parts of Texas and Kansas, and even into Oklahoma when it was Indian Territory.
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Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"When Leroy Carpenter left his home near Tipton, Iowa, in April 1871 to pursue farming in the recently settled Union Colony of Greeley, Colorado, he left behind Martha Bennett, a young lady from De Witt, Iowa. The two had been introduced the previous fall and began writing letters to each other in December of 1870. Over the next sixteen months their correspondence would blend romantic elements with the practical challenges of frontier life as the...
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Publisher
Range Conservation Foundation & RANGE magazine
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
This book contains many of Harry Webb's stories and letters about the high desert country where he was a cowboy, rancher, bronc-buster, trapper and horseman. Also includes reproductions of paintings and portraits of the West by J.N. Swanson.
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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Tamsen Donner. For most the name conjures the ill-fated Donner party trapped in the snows of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1846-47. Others might know Tamsen as the stoic pioneer woman who saw her children to safety but stayed with her dying husband at the cost of her own life. For Gabrielle Burton, Tamsen's story, fascinating in its own right, had long seemed something more: the story of a woman's life writ large, one whose impossible balancing...
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University of Nebraska Press
Language
English
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"In 1924 eight young women drove across the American West in two Model T Fords. In nine weeks they traveled more than nine thousand unpaved miles on an extended car-camping trip through six national parks, "without a man or a gun along." It was the era of the flapper, but this book tells the story of a group of farm girls who met while attending Iowa's Teacher's College and who shared a "yen to see some things." A blend of oral and written history,...