Author: Keith Jones
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312073101
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This is a comprehensive local history of Jelm and The Big Laramie Valley, Wyoming, with a chronological story from 1865 through about 1930, including maps, photos, reminiscences, newspaper clippings and other items, with extensive indexing. It includes the true story of "The Cummins City Caper", wherein one John Cummins created a false gold rush to the area, as well as the story of the creation of Woods Landing. Color cover and Black & White interior. A companion (59 pp.) volume contains miscellaneous records, letters, stories and recollections. By separate FB request, you may also receive a DVD of "Man From Painted Post" (filmed at Jelm) and a copy of "He Lives Again", by Conrad Hansen, a short story telling of the restoration of a Model T, from the vantage point of the Model T.
History of Jelm, Wyoming, Vol. 1
Author: Keith Jones
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312073101
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This is a comprehensive local history of Jelm and The Big Laramie Valley, Wyoming, with a chronological story from 1865 through about 1930, including maps, photos, reminiscences, newspaper clippings and other items, with extensive indexing. It includes the true story of "The Cummins City Caper", wherein one John Cummins created a false gold rush to the area, as well as the story of the creation of Woods Landing. Color cover and Black & White interior. A companion (59 pp.) volume contains miscellaneous records, letters, stories and recollections. By separate FB request, you may also receive a DVD of "Man From Painted Post" (filmed at Jelm) and a copy of "He Lives Again", by Conrad Hansen, a short story telling of the restoration of a Model T, from the vantage point of the Model T.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312073101
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This is a comprehensive local history of Jelm and The Big Laramie Valley, Wyoming, with a chronological story from 1865 through about 1930, including maps, photos, reminiscences, newspaper clippings and other items, with extensive indexing. It includes the true story of "The Cummins City Caper", wherein one John Cummins created a false gold rush to the area, as well as the story of the creation of Woods Landing. Color cover and Black & White interior. A companion (59 pp.) volume contains miscellaneous records, letters, stories and recollections. By separate FB request, you may also receive a DVD of "Man From Painted Post" (filmed at Jelm) and a copy of "He Lives Again", by Conrad Hansen, a short story telling of the restoration of a Model T, from the vantage point of the Model T.
County Name Origins of the United States
Author: Michael A. Beatty
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
This massive reference work supplies the origins of all county (and parish) names in the United States. It is organized into 49 chapters, covering the 48 states with counties and the one state (Louisiana) with parishes (Alaska, with no comparable subdivisions, is omitted), each giving the counties in alphabetical order and ending with its own bibliography. Each entry, rich with historical details, explains the origins of its name. Among the diverse origins are such things as presidents, rivers, Indian tribes and military heroes. A general bibliography and full index complete this reference work.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
This massive reference work supplies the origins of all county (and parish) names in the United States. It is organized into 49 chapters, covering the 48 states with counties and the one state (Louisiana) with parishes (Alaska, with no comparable subdivisions, is omitted), each giving the counties in alphabetical order and ending with its own bibliography. Each entry, rich with historical details, explains the origins of its name. Among the diverse origins are such things as presidents, rivers, Indian tribes and military heroes. A general bibliography and full index complete this reference work.
Deadly Dozen
Author: Robert K. DeArment
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806185120
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday—such are the legendary names that spring to mind when we think of the western gunfighter. But in the American West of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, thousands of grassroots gunfighters straddled both sides of the law without hesitation. Deadly Dozen tells the story of twelve infamous gunfighters, feared in their own times but almost forgotten today. Now, noted historian Robert K. DeArment has compiled the stories of these obscure men. DeArment, a life-long student of law and lawlessness in the West, has combed court records, frontier newspapers, and other references to craft twelve complete biographical portraits. The combined stories of Deadly Dozen offer an intensive look into the lives of imposing figures who in their own ways shaped the legendary Old West. More than a collective biography of dangerous gunfighters, Deadly Dozen also functions as a social history of the gunfighter culture of the post-Civil War frontier West. As Walter Noble Burns did for Billy the Kid in 1926 and Stuart N. Lake for Wyatt Earp in 1931, DeArment—himself a talented writer—brings these figures from the Old West to life. John Bull, Pat Desmond, Mart Duggan, Milt Yarberry, Dan Tucker, George Goodell, Bill Standifer, Charley Perry, Barney Riggs, Dan Bogan, Dave Kemp, and Jeff Kidder are the twelve dangerous men that Robert K. DeArment studies in Deadly Dozen: Twelve Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806185120
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday—such are the legendary names that spring to mind when we think of the western gunfighter. But in the American West of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, thousands of grassroots gunfighters straddled both sides of the law without hesitation. Deadly Dozen tells the story of twelve infamous gunfighters, feared in their own times but almost forgotten today. Now, noted historian Robert K. DeArment has compiled the stories of these obscure men. DeArment, a life-long student of law and lawlessness in the West, has combed court records, frontier newspapers, and other references to craft twelve complete biographical portraits. The combined stories of Deadly Dozen offer an intensive look into the lives of imposing figures who in their own ways shaped the legendary Old West. More than a collective biography of dangerous gunfighters, Deadly Dozen also functions as a social history of the gunfighter culture of the post-Civil War frontier West. As Walter Noble Burns did for Billy the Kid in 1926 and Stuart N. Lake for Wyatt Earp in 1931, DeArment—himself a talented writer—brings these figures from the Old West to life. John Bull, Pat Desmond, Mart Duggan, Milt Yarberry, Dan Tucker, George Goodell, Bill Standifer, Charley Perry, Barney Riggs, Dan Bogan, Dave Kemp, and Jeff Kidder are the twelve dangerous men that Robert K. DeArment studies in Deadly Dozen: Twelve Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West.
Annals of Wyoming
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wyoming
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wyoming
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Tracks, Trails, and Thieves
Author: Jack E. Deibert
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813725216
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Ride the trails and rails across the Wild West with Ferdinand Hayden through this first-ever detailed recounting of the first government-sponsored geological survey of the Wyoming and adjacent territories in 1868. The discovery of new archival material has helped bring the day-to-day adventures of this unique survey to life. Events of the survey are intertwined with one of the most noteworthy events in U.S. history—the building of the transcontinental railroad. Activities of the railroad led Hayden to have serendipitous and influential encounters with famous Civil War generals, railroad executives, politicians, photographers, prominent geologists, and thieves. The results of Hayden's survey provided the earliest descriptive stratigraphic-structural profile across the Rocky Mountains and the initial discovery of dinosaur tracks in western North America. Featuring more than 50 vintage photographs, this volume will appeal to a general audience as well as those interested in the history of geology.
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813725216
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Ride the trails and rails across the Wild West with Ferdinand Hayden through this first-ever detailed recounting of the first government-sponsored geological survey of the Wyoming and adjacent territories in 1868. The discovery of new archival material has helped bring the day-to-day adventures of this unique survey to life. Events of the survey are intertwined with one of the most noteworthy events in U.S. history—the building of the transcontinental railroad. Activities of the railroad led Hayden to have serendipitous and influential encounters with famous Civil War generals, railroad executives, politicians, photographers, prominent geologists, and thieves. The results of Hayden's survey provided the earliest descriptive stratigraphic-structural profile across the Rocky Mountains and the initial discovery of dinosaur tracks in western North America. Featuring more than 50 vintage photographs, this volume will appeal to a general audience as well as those interested in the history of geology.
The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane
Author: Richard W. Etulain
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806147873
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane. Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed this original Wild West woman as an adventuresome, gun-toting hellion. Although Calamity Jane has probably been written about more than any other woman of the nineteenth-century American West, fiction and legend have largely obscured the facts of her life. This lively, concise, and exhaustively researched biography traces the real person from the Missouri farm where she was born in 1856 through the development of her notorious persona as a Wild West heroine. Before Calamity Jane became a legend, she was Martha Canary, orphaned when she was only eleven years old. From a young age she traveled fearlessly, worked with men, smoked, chewed tobacco, and drank. By the time she arrived in the boomtown of Deadwood, South Dakota, in 1876, she had become Calamity Jane, and the real Martha Canary had disappeared under a landslide of purple prose. Calamity became a hostess and dancer in Deadwood’s saloons and theaters. She imbibed heavily, and she might have been a prostitute, but she had other qualities, as well, including those of an angel of mercy who ministered to the sick and the down-and-out. Journalists and dime novelists couldn’t get enough of either version, nor, in the following century, could filmmakers. Sorting through the stories, veteran western historian Richard W. Etulain’s account begins with a biography that offers new information on Calamity’s several “husbands” (including one she legally married), her two children, and a woman who claimed to be the daughter of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity, a story Etulain discredits. In the second half of the book, Etulain traces the stories that have shaped Calamity Jane’s reputation. Some Calamity portraits, he says, suggest that she aspired to a quiet life with a husband and family. As the 2004–2006 HBO series Deadwood makes clear, well more than a century after her first appearance as a heroine in the Deadwood Dick dime novels, Calamity Jane lives on—raunchy, unabashed, contradictory, and ambiguous as ever.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806147873
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane. Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed this original Wild West woman as an adventuresome, gun-toting hellion. Although Calamity Jane has probably been written about more than any other woman of the nineteenth-century American West, fiction and legend have largely obscured the facts of her life. This lively, concise, and exhaustively researched biography traces the real person from the Missouri farm where she was born in 1856 through the development of her notorious persona as a Wild West heroine. Before Calamity Jane became a legend, she was Martha Canary, orphaned when she was only eleven years old. From a young age she traveled fearlessly, worked with men, smoked, chewed tobacco, and drank. By the time she arrived in the boomtown of Deadwood, South Dakota, in 1876, she had become Calamity Jane, and the real Martha Canary had disappeared under a landslide of purple prose. Calamity became a hostess and dancer in Deadwood’s saloons and theaters. She imbibed heavily, and she might have been a prostitute, but she had other qualities, as well, including those of an angel of mercy who ministered to the sick and the down-and-out. Journalists and dime novelists couldn’t get enough of either version, nor, in the following century, could filmmakers. Sorting through the stories, veteran western historian Richard W. Etulain’s account begins with a biography that offers new information on Calamity’s several “husbands” (including one she legally married), her two children, and a woman who claimed to be the daughter of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity, a story Etulain discredits. In the second half of the book, Etulain traces the stories that have shaped Calamity Jane’s reputation. Some Calamity portraits, he says, suggest that she aspired to a quiet life with a husband and family. As the 2004–2006 HBO series Deadwood makes clear, well more than a century after her first appearance as a heroine in the Deadwood Dick dime novels, Calamity Jane lives on—raunchy, unabashed, contradictory, and ambiguous as ever.
Quarterly Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wyoming
Languages : en
Pages : 1144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wyoming
Languages : en
Pages : 1144
Book Description
American Indians and Yellowstone National Park
Author: Peter Nabokov
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The Making of Legends
Author: Mark Dugan
Publisher: Swallow Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Drawing mainly from unpublished materials on frontier history and people, the author recounts legendary law-breaking figures from Pennsylvania to California. Each of the 11 chapters is devoted to an outlaw or outlaw family in a specific U.S. state. In addition to the lesser known legends, he includes the story of Wyatt Earp (and the Earp family), in his post OK Corral years in Idaho's Coeur d'Alene Mountains. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Swallow Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Drawing mainly from unpublished materials on frontier history and people, the author recounts legendary law-breaking figures from Pennsylvania to California. Each of the 11 chapters is devoted to an outlaw or outlaw family in a specific U.S. state. In addition to the lesser known legends, he includes the story of Wyatt Earp (and the Earp family), in his post OK Corral years in Idaho's Coeur d'Alene Mountains. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
General Technical Report INT
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description