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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782223303321

Autore

Milner Clyde A., II, <1948->

Titolo

As big as the West [[electronic resource] ] : the pioneer life of Granville Stuart / / Clyde A. Milner II and Carol A. O'Connor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-19-992370-1

1-281-86821-3

9786611868215

0-19-972292-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (447 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

O'ConnorCarol A. <1946->

Disciplina

978.6031092B

Soggetti

Pioneers - Montana

Frontier and pioneer life - Montana

Ranchers - Montana

Ranch life - Montana - History

Gold miners - Montana

Politicians - Montana

Montana Gold discoveries

Montana History

Montana Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-410) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Maps; Introduction: Show Your Hand; 1 Moving West; 2 Partners in a New Land; 3 Stampedes; 4 Ties to the Nation; 5 Brothers Apart; 6 An Opportunity with Cattle; 7 Home on a Contested Range; 8 Stranglers; 9 A Harsh Business; 10 Second Life; 11 Outliving the Frontier; Epilogue: A Room Full of Diaries; Acknowledgments; Notes; Illustration Credits; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Granville Stuart (1834-1918) is a quintessential Western figure, a man whose adventures rival those of Wyatt Earp, Buffalo Bill, or Sitting Bull, and who embodied many of the contradictions of America's westward expansion. Stuart collected guns, herded cattle, mined for gold, and killed men he thought outlaws. But he also taught himself Shoshone,



French, and Spanish, denounced formal religion, married a Shoshone woman, and eventually became a United States diplomat. In this fascinating biography, Clyde A. Milner II and Carol A. O'Connor, co-editors of the acclaimed Oxford History of the American