Bull Trains To Deadwood
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Bull Trains To Deadwood
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Author : Chuck Cecil
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2020
Bull Trains To Deadwood written by Chuck Cecil and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with History categories.
Pandemonium wafted up out of Deadwood Gulch whenever bellowing, muddy oxen teams led wagons rattling into town. For a decade, thousands of bull trains hauled all that miners, settlers and ne'er-do-wells needed to survive in that isolated prairie oasis. The bulls, thousands of them in mile-long, meandering trains, had last known civilization in Fort Pierre, two hundred miles to the east. After weeks on the harsh prairie of the Sioux, the exhausted convoys appeared out of the prairie dust, each team of twenty or more oxen pulling sturdy, white-bonneted wagons filled with provisions. Author Chuck Cecil restores the glory of the near-forgotten yet indispensable symbols of the West that made life possible on the frontier's western fringe.
Bad Boys Of The Black Hills
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Author : Barbara Fifer
language : en
Publisher: Farcountry Press
Release Date : 2008
Bad Boys Of The Black Hills written by Barbara Fifer and has been published by Farcountry Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Welcome to the Black Hills of the 1880s, where you will meet a host of rowdies ranging from madams to stagecoach robbers, from tall-tale tellers to killers.
Searching For Calamity
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Author : Linda Jucovy
language : en
Publisher: Linda Jucovy
Release Date : 2012
Searching For Calamity written by Linda Jucovy and has been published by Linda Jucovy this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“Who in the world would think that Calamity Jane would get to be such a famous person?” one of the pallbearers at her funeral asked an interviewer many years later. It seemed like a reasonable question. Who else has accomplished so little by conventional standards and yet achieved such enduring fame? But conventional standards do not apply. Calamity was poor, uneducated, and an alcoholic. For decades, she wandered through the small towns and empty spaces of the Dakotas, Wyoming, and Montana. But she also had a natural talent for self-invention. She created a story about herself and promoted it tirelessly for much of her life. The story emphasized her love of adventure and the heroic role she played in key events in the early history of the American west. She became that story to people around the country who read about her. And she became that story to herself. The details about her exploits were rarely accurate, but a larger truth lay beneath them. In an era when there were few options for women, Calamity had the audacity to be herself. She lived as she pleased, which is to say that she allowed herself the same freedoms her male contemporaries assumed as their birthright. She spoke her mind. She flouted the rules. She dressed as a man when it was illegal for women to wear pants; hung out in saloons although that was unheard of for any woman who was not a prostitute; did men’s work; cursed, hollered, and smoked cigars. Although Calamity’s name is imprinted in history, most people know little about her. This highly readable biography brings Calamity to life against the backdrop of the American west and of women’s determination to break free from their historical constraints.
Pierre And Fort Pierre
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Author : Jan Cerney
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2006-04-26
Pierre And Fort Pierre written by Jan Cerney and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-26 with Photography categories.
From prairie to rivers edge, the Pierre and Fort Pierre area resounds with historical adventure. Visited in 1743 by French explorersthe Verendrye brothersand by Lewis and Clark in 1804, Fort Pierre was established as a significant fur trading post in 1817 and served briefly as a military fort in 1855. The decaying port settlement was revived during the Black Hills gold rush of 1875, outfitting bull trains. For over a decade, it bustled with freighting activity and stagecoach travel on the Fort Pierre-Deadwood gold trail. When the Chicago, Northwestern Railroad reached the Missouri River in 1880, Fort Pierres sister city, Pierre, emerged as an important river town. During the days of the open range, Fort Pierre served as a holding place for the millions of cattle to be ferried across the Missouri to the trains at Pierre. In 1889, Pierre was named capital of the state and became the political heart of South Dakota. When nearby reservations opened for settlement, the cattle range began to fill with settlers, changing the scene once again. In these pages, a pictorial history unfolds, the drama of men and women who lived out their dreams near the Missouri.
Them Was The Days
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Author : Martha Ferguson McKeown
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1950-01-01
Them Was The Days written by Martha Ferguson McKeown and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1950-01-01 with History categories.
"This is real Americana. What Mrs. McKeown has written is out and out history but a whacking good narrative as well. . . . Some of the finest adventure yarns you ever came across. . . A fascinating account."--Joseph Henry Jackson, San Francisco Chronicle. "It is America itself Mrs. McKeown writes about, the shaping of our country and the forging of our social conscience. . . . As readable as a novel, making effective use, indeed, of a novelist's devices, her book is also history of the first water and should have lasting value."--Dale L. Morgan, Saturday Review. "Mont Hawthorne embodies the spirit of America. . . . You feel as though you'd been a pioneer yourself."--Paul Jordan-Smith, Los Angeles Times. "When the reader picks up this book it is exactly like pulling up an armchair and settling down to hear for the first time a prime story-teller spin pioneer adventures in his own unvarnished way."--Seattle Times. "This true-life story of a family and a country at the beginning of an epoch contains life and death, hunger and cold, courage and endurance. It also contains humor and humanity. I don't see how it could disappoint any reader."--Walter Havighurst, Chicago Sunday Tribune Magazine of Books.
North Dakota
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Author : Joseph L. Gavett
language : en
Publisher: Watchmaker Publishing, Ltd
Release Date : 2008
North Dakota written by Joseph L. Gavett and has been published by Watchmaker Publishing, Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Cities and towns categories.
North Dakota Historical Quarterly
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1930
North Dakota Historical Quarterly written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1930 with Indians of North America categories.
It May Be Forever
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Author : David M. Quinn
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2005-10-03
It May Be Forever written by David M. Quinn and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
It May Be Forever is a nineteenth century tale of adventure and tragedy, based upon the real-life story of Michael Quinn. To escape the grinding poverty of Irelands Great Famine, Michael and his family flee to England, where at age eight, Michael becomes a child laborer in a textile mill. As he grows older and more aware of British prejudice and discrimination, he is motivated to enlist with the Fenian rebels, a group determined to free Ireland from British colonial rule. Chronic unemployment, however, drives him to America, and defeat on the battlefield lands him on the untamed plains of the Wild West. Faced with unaccustomed opportunity, Michael quickly abandons the fight against oppression and turns away from family and friends. Dreams of achieving a great fortune lead him to support the dispossession of Native Americans of their lands and livelihood. But after the massacre at Wounded Knee, demons of conscience rise up in terrible nightmares, and only a Lakota holy man offers the hope of redemption. It May Be Forever is a cautionary tale, which shows how the many small decisions of life can create the most unintended consequences, and how easily a man of strong convictions may become that which he hates. Visit David Quinns website: www.davidquinnbooks.com.
Gold Rush
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: SDSHS Press
Release Date : 2012
Gold Rush written by and has been published by SDSHS Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
Blood Train To Deadwood
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Author : Chuck Rackley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-08-06
Blood Train To Deadwood written by Chuck Rackley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-06 with categories.
Passengers aboard a train headed for Deadwood have no idea of the gruesome death that lies ahead for them as the train steadily rolls down the tracks. Nore do they know that the young man whose only dream was to venture west and hopefully meet some of his childhood heroes he had only dreamed of and read about in books or newspapers. That that same young man is going to be responsible for their slaughter and the slaughter of many to follow.