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Autore: | Wootton Dick <1816-1893.> |
Titolo: | Uncle Dick Wootton, the pioneer frontiersman of the Rocky Mountain region / / by Richens Wootton |
Pubblicazione: | Santa Barbara, Calif., : Narrative Press, 2001 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (309 p.) |
Soggetto topico: | Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.) |
Indians of North America - West (U.S.) | |
Pioneers - West (U.S.) | |
Soggetto geografico: | West (U.S.) History |
Altri autori: | ConardHoward Louis QuaifeMilo Milton <1880-1959.> |
Note generali: | "A Bison book." |
Based on interviews between Wootton and Conard. | |
Reprint of the 1957 ed. published by R. R. Donnelley, Chicago, which was issued as no. 55 of the Lakeside classics. | |
Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PREFACE -- A FAMOUS MOUNTAINEER -- UNCLE DICK TALKS -- HUNTING AND TRAPPING -- FIVE THOUSAND MILES ON HORSEBACK -- BUFFALO FARMING -- AMONG THE UTES AND APACHES -- INDIAN TRIBES OF THE FAR WEST -- INDIAN CUSTOMS AND SUPERSTITIONS -- PERILS OF THE PIONEERS -- A CONVENTION OF GRIZZLIES -- THE TAOS MASSACRE -- A TRIP TO OLD MEXICO -- A STAGE COACH MASSACRE -- A CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE NAVAHOES -- DULL TIMES ON THE FRONTIER -- OVERLAND TO CALIFORNIA -- HOBNOBBING WITH BRIGHAM YOUNG -- OLD FASHIONED JUSTICE -- PENNED UP BY THE UTES -- COLORADO'S OLDEST FARMER -- OX TEAMS AND PRAIRIE SCHOONERS -- MUTINOUS TEAMSTERS -- FREIGHTING FOR UNCLE SAM -- AN INFANT CITY -- THE HAUNTED FORT -- PLAINS INDIANS ON THE WAR PATH -- PATHFINDER AND BUILDER -- STAGE COACH STORIES -- FAREWELL VISITS OF THE RED MEN. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Uncle Dick Wootton, the pioneer frontiersman of the Rocky Mountain region |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910811106103321 |
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