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Autore |
Townshend R. B (Richard Baxter), <1846-1923.> |
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Titolo |
A tenderfoot in Colorado / / R.B. Townshend ; foreword by Thomas J. Noel |
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Boulder, : University Press of Colorado, c2008 |
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ISBN |
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9781457110467 |
1457110466 |
9780870819896 |
0870819895 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (301 p.) |
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Collana |
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Soggetti |
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Pioneers - Colorado |
English - Colorado |
Frontier and pioneer life - Colorado |
Colorado Description and travel |
Rocky Mountains Description and travel |
Colorado History To 1876 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally published: [New ed.] Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [1968]. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Copyright; Contents; Foreword; 1: Enter the Tenderfoot; 2: Exit the Tenderfoot; 3: Three Per Cent; 4: Tiger Bill; 5: Wild Bill of Colorado; 6: Our Red Brothers; 7: Wild Justice; 8: Our Lost Paradise; 9: The Expanding Bean; 10: My Running Fight; 11: Wolves and Crows; 12: On My Own; 13: The Battle of the Bulls; 14: A Texas Nursery; 15: Hide and Seek with Dog-Soldiers; 16: A Bull in a Barn; 17: The Fate of the Maverick; 18: The King of the Prairie; 19: The Big Yellow Stag. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Now back in print, A Tenderfoot in Colorado is R.B. Townshend's classic account of his time in the wild frontier territory known as Colorado. Townshend arrived in the Rockies in 1869, fresh from Cambridge, England, with 300 in his pockets. He found friends among some of Colorado's more colorful characters, people who taught him much about life on the frontier. Jake Chisolm taught him how to shoot after |
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