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). |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-3 מתוך 17
עמוד 59
... roundup . The wild Longhorns hid in the brush and chaparral , and had to be pulled out by force , or lured out with tame cattle decoys . James H. Cook , a trail driver who later became one of the great cattlemen of the West , has ...
... roundup . The wild Longhorns hid in the brush and chaparral , and had to be pulled out by force , or lured out with tame cattle decoys . James H. Cook , a trail driver who later became one of the great cattlemen of the West , has ...
עמוד 60
... roundup usually rested largely upon the shoulders of the range boss , who in the early days was the ranch owner . As big ranching developed , the owner would select an experienced and re- spected cowhand for the job . During a roundup ...
... roundup usually rested largely upon the shoulders of the range boss , who in the early days was the ranch owner . As big ranching developed , the owner would select an experienced and re- spected cowhand for the job . During a roundup ...
עמוד 61
... roundup , the men would be up before dawn to eat their breakfasts hurriedly at the chuckwagon , and then in the graying light they would mount their best ponies and gather around the range boss for final instructions . As soon as he had ...
... roundup , the men would be up before dawn to eat their breakfasts hurriedly at the chuckwagon , and then in the graying light they would mount their best ponies and gather around the range boss for final instructions . As soon as he had ...
תוכן
INTRODUCTION | 17 |
Westward March | 27 |
The Prairies and the Great Plains | 30 |
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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