The Far West and the Rockies Historical Series, 1820-1875
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Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : West (U.S.) |
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Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : West (U.S.) |
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Author | : George O. Shields |
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Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : Bighorn Mountains (Wyo. and Mont.) |
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Author | : Michael J. Spencer |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2013-07-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1625846525 |
In the early days of the twentieth century, movies weren't made in California. As America's film pioneers traveled westward, Colorado became a beacon to them, contributing to the early motion picture business with all the relish and gusto of a western saga. The gorgeous natural scenery was perfect for the country's (and the world's) growing infatuation with the West, turning Colorado itself into a bigger star of the early cinema than any particular actor. Using rare photos and contemporary accounts, writer and filmmaker Michael J. Spencer explores the little-known filmmaking industry that flourished in the Rocky Mountains between 1895 and 1915--west of New York but east of Hollywood.
Author | : Elizabeth Stevenson |
Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1412823595 |
"Figures in a Western Landscape is an absolutely stunning book. A biographer's take on the story of the American West, it posits that the turns of history are based on people-major 'figures' who shape their time and place. In her sequence of biographical essays, Elizabeth Stevenson tells the story of the northern Rockies and, in particular, Montana, a state of mind even more than it is a state of the Union. As her readers have come to expect, she offers more than a mere recounting of events. Stevenson captures the humanity of her subjects." -Charles Little, author of Louis Bromfield at Malabar and Greenways for America The northern Rocky Mountains and adjacent high plains were the last American West. Here was the final enactment of our national drama-the last explorations, the final battles of the Indian wars, the closing of the frontier. In Figures in a Western Landscape, award-winning biographer Elizabeth Stevenson humanizes the history of the region with a procession of individual lives moving across generations. Each of the sixteen men and women depicted left behind his or her own unique written record or oral history. The stories they have bequeathed are rich in revealing anecdote and colorful detail. Among them: Meriwether Lewis, America's "most introspective explorer," John Kirk Townsend, known to the Chinooks as "the bird chief," Pretty-Shield, wife of the Crow scout who warned Custer to turn back at Little Big Horn, James and Granville Stuart, early settlers lured by rumors of gold in the 1850s. In a concluding chapter, Stevenson draws on previously unpublished material to reveal new information about Martha Jane Cannary Burke, better known as Calamity Jane, the woman who could ride, shoot, and drive a mule team as well as any man (but who once failed to "pass" because she didn't cuss her mules like one). She lies buried in Deadwood, South Dakota, next to the man some said was her husband, Wild Bill Hickok. These and other men and women whose stories Stevenson tells helped to shape, and were in turn shaped by, the uniquely challenging landscape of America's "last West." Their words and actions, here rediscovered, give vivid color to a climactic chapter in American history. This book will be of interest to historians and general readers interested in the people of the American West. Elizabeth Stevenson (1919-1999) was Candler Professor of American Studies, Emeritus, at Emory University and the author of the Bancroft Award-winning Henry Adams: A Biography; The Grass Lark: A Study of Lafcadio Hearn; Babbits and Bohemians: From the Great War to the Depression; Henry James: The Crooked Corridor, and Park Maker: A Life of Frederick Law Olmsted, published by Transaction.
Author | : American West |
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Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Daniel Fuchs |
Publisher | : Alfred A. Knopf |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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A female movie star on the decline finds that she and her opportunistic agent want the same things.
Author | : Washington Irving |
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Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1843 |
Genre | : Northwestern States |
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Author | : Charles Alexander McMurry |
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Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Explorers |
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Author | : John T. McIntyre |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 103 |
Release | : 2022-01-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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This is a fictional adventure, involving the real life character, Kit Carson (1809 - 1868). It was written to appeal to young boys of the time. The story begins with the unexpected arrival by mule, of two boys Joe and Dave, into a soldiers' camp near Los Angeles. They are from a schooner called Gadfly and are on the hunt for one of the crew who has deserted along with some stolen items.