03167nam 2200721Ia 450 991045368120332120200520144314.01-281-86821-397866118682150-19-972292-7(CKB)1000000000550977(EBL)415097(OCoLC)476239987(SSID)ssj0000106241(PQKBManifestationID)11133702(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000106241(PQKBWorkID)10107977(PQKB)10771607(MiAaPQ)EBC415097(Au-PeEL)EBL415097(CaPaEBR)ebr10263688(CaONFJC)MIL186821(EXLCZ)99100000000055097720080314d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrAs big as the West[electronic resource] the pioneer life of Granville Stuart /Clyde A. Milner II and Carol A. O'ConnorOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20091 online resource (447 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-512709-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-410) and index.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; IndexGranville 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 AmericanPioneersMontanaBiographyFrontier and pioneer lifeMontanaRanchersMontanaBiographyRanch lifeMontanaHistoryGold minersMontanaBiographyPoliticiansMontanaBiographyMontanaGold discoveriesMontanaHistoryMontanaBiographyElectronic books.PioneersFrontier and pioneer lifeRanchersRanch lifeHistory.Gold minersPoliticians978.6031092BMilner Clyde A.1948-1000371O'Connor Carol A.1946-1000372MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453681203321As big as the West2296258UNINA