Why the West Was Wild Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
• File Size : 49,6 Mb
• Release Date : 01 March 2003

"... collection of material" from "newspapers, legal records, letters, and diaries, contemporary" sources. Includes material on "Wild Bill Hickok, Bat Masterson, and Doc Holliday, and such locales as Abilene, Wichita, Caldwell,

• Publisher : SAGE
• File Size : 55,7 Mb
• Release Date : 09 August 2001

This book, written by the author of the celebrated volume Six Guns and Society, explains why the myth of the Wild West is popular around the world. It shows how

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• File Size : 38,9 Mb
• Release Date : 07 June 2024

This history shows just why, for a fifty year period in the 19th century, the American West was an extraordinary place. Dramatic storytelling are combined with engaging graphics and archival

• Publisher : Penguin
• File Size : 44,6 Mb
• Release Date : 25 April 2017

Saddle up and get ready for a ride back into the wild and wooly past of the American West. The west was at its wildest from 1865 to 1895, when territories west

• Publisher : University of Arizona Press
• File Size : 28,9 Mb
• Release Date : 15 April 2011

When the Spanish explorers brought horses to North America, the horses were, in a sense, returning home. Beginning with their origins fifty million years ago, the wild horse has been

• Publisher : Stanford University Press
• File Size : 38,5 Mb
• Release Date : 07 June 2024

Cooperation, not conflict, is emphasized in a study that casts America's frontier history as a place in which local people helped develop the legal framework that tamed the West.

• Publisher : Nomad Press
• File Size : 30,9 Mb
• Release Date : 18 June 2012

Explore the Wild West! 25 Great Projects, Activities, Experiments invites young readers ages 6–9 to experience the spirit of the Wild West. Kids learn about explorers who mapped the American West, Native

• Publisher : Flash Point
• File Size : 44,9 Mb
• Release Date : 06 July 2010

History--with the good bits put back. Discover the drama, discoveries, dirty deeds and derring-do that won the American West. With a storyteller's voice and attention to the details that make

• Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
• File Size : 55,8 Mb
• Release Date : 01 May 2003

"... collection of material" from "newspapers, legal records, letters, and diaries, contemporary" sources. Includes material on "Wild Bill Hickok, Bat Masterson, and Doc Holliday, and such locales as Abilene, Wichita, Caldwell,

• Publisher : Children's Press
• File Size : 29,6 Mb
• Release Date : 07 June 2024

"During the 1800s, many settlers moved westward across North America to seek their fortunes as farmers, ranchers, and miners. In the Wild West, there were few towns and few people