The lost frontier : momentous moments in the Old West you may have missed / / Rod Miller
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| Autore: |
Miller Rod <1952->
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| Titolo: |
The lost frontier : momentous moments in the Old West you may have missed / / Rod Miller
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| Pubblicazione: | Guilford, Connecticut ; ; Helena, Montana : , : Twodot, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 978 |
| Soggetto topico: | Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.) |
| Soggetto geografico: | West (U.S.) History, Local |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Introduction; Head 'Em Up and Move 'Em Out:Trail Driving; Alexander Mackenzie:Crossing the Continent; Zebulon Pike: Lost in theLouisiana Purchase; Maximilian and Bodmer:Science and Art in the Old West; "Corralled for Defense":Indian Attacks on Wagon Trains; Porter Rockwell: God's Gunfighter; Edward Fitzgerald Beale:A Frontiersman for All Reasons; The Free and Independent State of Deseret; Samuel Brannan: The Man Who Startedthe Gold Rush; Before Civil Rights: The Chinese in America; Dear Sir: Corresponding via theJackass Mail; Ships of the Southwest Desert:Camels Join the Army |
| American Royalty: Emperor Norton IRoot Hog or Die: The Pig War; Randolph B. Marcy: Tour Guide for theWestward Emigration; The Comstock Lode:A Silver-Lined Mountain; Barney Ford: From Runaway Slave toWealthy Businessman; Battle of Glorieta Pass:The Gettysburg of the West; Massacre at Bear River:First, Worst, Forgotten; Adobe Walls: Ruins of a Way of Life; The End of the Civil War:Battle at the End of Texas; First Blood: Showdown in the Street; Jacob Brodbeck: First Flight, First Crash?; Mass Murder: Circleville Massacre; Black Hawk's Last Ride: Reconciliation | |
| The Métis: Gone the Way of the BuffaloMaking Barbwire Famous:The Frying Pan Ranch; Surviving a Lead Storm: Elfego Baca; The Birth of the Modern World: Electricity; Bibliography; Index; About the Author | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The lost frontier |
| ISBN: | 1-4930-1520-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910797661003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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