The American WestScribner, 1994 - 461 עמודים "Beginning with the demise of the Native Americans of the Plains, Brown depicts the onrush of the burgeoning cattle trade and the waves of immigrants who ultimately "settled" the land. In the retelling of this oft-told saga, Brown has demonstrated once again his abilities as a master storyteller and an entertaining popular historian. Byturns heroic, tragic, and even humorous, The American West brings to life American tragedy and triumph in the years from 1840 to the turn of the century, and a roster of characters both great and small: Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, Dull Knife, Crazy Horse, Captain Jack, John H. Tunstall, Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, Wyatt Earp, the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang, Wild Bill Hickok, Charles Goodnight, Oliver Loving, Buffalo Bill, and many others. The American West is about cattle and the railroads; it is about settlers who came to claim a land not originally their own and how they slowly imposed law and order on these wild and untamed places; and it is about the wanton destruction of the Native American way of life. This is epic history at its best and popular history at its most readable" (from Amazon.com). |
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תוצאות 1-3 מתוך 32
עמוד 39
... pioneer " appeared as a special type , imbued with the spirit of Manifest Destiny , the major character of a national saga , rather than a person of average quality in search of more and better land . Pioneer societies were formed among ...
... pioneer " appeared as a special type , imbued with the spirit of Manifest Destiny , the major character of a national saga , rather than a person of average quality in search of more and better land . Pioneer societies were formed among ...
עמוד 40
... pioneer was at- tached to commercial ventures , and the covered wagon hid a multitude of promotional sins . The " Western " movie and the fictional Western developed a formula of the Great Plains as seen from a car window , not of the ...
... pioneer was at- tached to commercial ventures , and the covered wagon hid a multitude of promotional sins . The " Western " movie and the fictional Western developed a formula of the Great Plains as seen from a car window , not of the ...
עמוד 440
... Pioneer Kansas Livestockman . ” Kansas Historical Quarterly 16 ( 1948 ) : 245–73 . McCann , Leo P. " Ride ' Im , Cowboy ! " Sunset Magazine 59 ( September 1927 ) : 18-20 , 62 . McNeal , Thomas A. " Southwestern Kansas . " Kansas State ...
... Pioneer Kansas Livestockman . ” Kansas Historical Quarterly 16 ( 1948 ) : 245–73 . McCann , Leo P. " Ride ' Im , Cowboy ! " Sunset Magazine 59 ( September 1927 ) : 18-20 , 62 . McNeal , Thomas A. " Southwestern Kansas . " Kansas State ...
תוכן
INTRODUCTION | 17 |
Westward March | 27 |
The Prairies and the Great Plains | 30 |
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מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Abilene Apaches army attack band battle became began Billy the Kid Black brand Buffalo Bill camp Captain Jack Carrington cattle cattlemen cavalry Charles Goodnight Cheyennes chief Colonel Colorado Comanches cowboys Crazy Horse Creek Crook Custer Dakota dance Dodge City Earp Fetterman fight fire Fort Phil Kearny frontier Goodnight guns herd Hills Hooker Jim Horn hunting Indians John Joseph Joseph McCoy killed Kiowas land Laramie later Little lodges Longhorns McSween Mexico miles Missouri Modocs Montana mountains moved Nebraska Nez Percés night Oregon Panhandle peace pioneer plains Platte ponies Powder prairie raid railroad ranch ranchers range Red Cloud reservation riders riding River rode rodeo roundup saloons scouts settlers Shoshones shot Sioux Sitting Bull soldiers soon Territory Texans Texas thousand Tom Horn trail drive trail towns train treaty tribes valley wagon warriors Western White Bear Wild Bill Wild West Show Wyatt Earp Wyoming