The Pike S Peakers And The Rocky Mountain Rangers
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The Pike S Peakers And The Rocky Mountain Rangers
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Author : Kenneth E. Draper
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris
Release Date : 2012
The Pike S Peakers And The Rocky Mountain Rangers written by Kenneth E. Draper and has been published by Xlibris this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
The Pike S Peakers And The Rocky Mountain Rangers
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Author : Kenneth E. Draper
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2012-05-07
The Pike S Peakers And The Rocky Mountain Rangers written by Kenneth E. Draper and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-07 with History categories.
Having been born and raised on the Missouri River at Atchison, Kansas, and having the ghosts of the Civil War about me constantly, I have been passionately interested in the Civil War as long as I can remember. The Victorian and antebellum homes with servant quarters still behind them, the wooded bluffs and caves where escaped slaves were hidden, and the mystique of the Missouri River area itself have maintained this feeling of the war for me. My mothers immediate family was from the Missouri River bottoms on the Missouri side and my fathers immediate family was from rural Atchison on the Kansas side. From my incomplete and somewhat misinformed family and formal history education, I assumed for most of my life that my mothers family was Confederate in its leanings and that my fathers family was Union. I was unaware that the town and countys namesake, Sen. David Rice Atchison, was from Missouri and had much Pro-Slavery activity. No effort has ever been made to change the towns name since the war. No Confederate tie to him was taught in any of my classes in school.
The Second Colorado Cavalry
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Author : Christopher M. Rein
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2020-02-13
The Second Colorado Cavalry written by Christopher M. Rein and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-13 with History categories.
During the Civil War, the Second Colorado Volunteer Regiment played a vital and often decisive role in the fight for the Union on the Great Plains—and in the westward expansion of the American empire. Christopher M. Rein’s The Second Colorado Cavalry is the first in-depth history of this regiment operating at the nexus of the Civil War and the settlement of the American West. Composed largely of footloose ’59ers who raced west to participate in the gold rush in Colorado, the troopers of the Second Colorado repelled Confederate invasions in New Mexico and Indian Territory before wading into the Burned District along the Kansas border, the bloodiest region of the guerilla war in Missouri. In 1865, the regiment moved back out onto the plains, applying what it had learned to peacekeeping operations along the Santa Fe Trail, thus definitively linking the Civil War and the military conquest of the American West in a single act of continental expansion. Emphasizing the cavalry units, whose mobility proved critical in suppressing both Confederate bushwhackers and Indian raiders, Rein tells the neglected tale of the “fire brigade” of the Trans-Mississippi Theater—a group of men, and a few women, who enabled the most significant environmental shift in the Great Plains’ history: the displacement of Native Americans by Euro-American settlers, the swapping of bison herds for fenced cattle ranges, and the substitution of iron horses for those of flesh and bone. The Second Colorado Cavalry offers us a much-needed history of the “guerilla hunters” who helped suppress violence and keep the peace in contested border regions; it adds nuance and complexity to our understanding of the unlikely “agents of empire” who successfully transformed the Central Plains.
The Cowboy Cavalry
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Author : Gordon Errett Tolton
language : en
Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co
Release Date : 2011
The Cowboy Cavalry written by Gordon Errett Tolton and has been published by Heritage House Publishing Co this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
When Native and Métis unrest escalated into the Northwest Rebellion of 1885, white settlers in southern Alberta`s cattle country were terrified. Three major First Nations bordered their range, and war seemed certain. In anticipation, 114 men mustered to form the Rocky Mountain Rangers, a volunteer militia charged with ensuring the safety of the open range between the Rocky Mountains and the Cypress Hills. The Rangers were a motley crew, from ex-Mounties and ex-cons to retired, high-ranking military officials and working ranch hands. Membership qualifications were scant: ability to ride a horse, knowledge of the prairies, and preparedness to die. The Rangers were resolutely prepared to fight, as mounted cavalry, should the rebellion spread. This is their story, inextricably linked to the dissensions of the day, rife with skirmishes, corruption, jealousies, rumour, innuendo and gross media sensationalizing . . . all bound together with what author Gordon Tolton terms "a generous helping of gunpowder."
Recollections Of A Rocky Mountain Ranger
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Author : Jack C. Moomaw
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
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The Rocky Mountain Rangers
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Author : Vincent Bezeau
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
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Pony Express Courier
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1954
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Pony Express
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1955
Pony Express written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1955 with California categories.
The American Booksellers Guide
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1874
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The Reader S Encyclopedia Of The American West
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Author : Howard Roberts Lamar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
The Reader S Encyclopedia Of The American West written by Howard Roberts Lamar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with History categories.
The American West is an evocative term that conjures up images of cowboys and Indians, covered wagons, sheriffs and outlaws, and endless prairies as well as contemporary images ranging from national parks to the oil, aerospace, and film industries. In addition, the West encompasses not only the past and present of the area west of the Mississippi but also the frontier as it moved across each of the fifty American states, offering the promise of freedom and a better life to pioneers and settlers in every era. This authoritative, comprehensive encyclopedia is a rich source of information about these many characteristics of the American West, real and imaginary, old and new, stretching from coast to coast and throughout the country's history and culture.