A Wild West History of Frontier Colorado

A Wild West History of Frontier Colorado
Title A Wild West History of Frontier Colorado PDF eBook
Author Jolie Anderson Gallagher
Publisher Arcadia Publishing
Pages 165
Release 2011-09-15
Genre History
ISBN 1625842015

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Jolie Anderson's collection of wild west tales focuses on the early frontier history of Colorado's plains and includes a look at some of the state's early pioneers like the "59ers" who promoted the state through travel guides and newspapers, exaggerating tales of gold discovery and even providing inaccurate maps to promote settlement in the plains; the perils of living and traveling the major gold routes the town of Julesburg relocated four times in a decade; feuds; Indian fights; outlaws, and even early rodeo history. These stories and events shaped the Colorado territory and are a rich glimpse into the early history of the state.

A Wild West History of Frontier Colorado

A Wild West History of Frontier Colorado
Title A Wild West History of Frontier Colorado PDF eBook
Author Jolie Gallagher
Publisher History Press Library Editions
Pages 146
Release 2011-11
Genre History
ISBN 9781540205650

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Strange But True, Colorado

Strange But True, Colorado
Title Strange But True, Colorado PDF eBook
Author John Hafnor
Publisher John Hafnor
Pages 148
Release 2005
Genre History
ISBN 9780964817531

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Find out quirky facts and wacky trivia about Colorado.

The Bad Old Days of Colorado

The Bad Old Days of Colorado
Title The Bad Old Days of Colorado PDF eBook
Author Randi Samuelson-Brown
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 217
Release 2020-03-15
Genre History
ISBN 1493046535

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The Bad Old Days of Colorado celebrates the state’s glorious and rowdy past. Many people born and bred here relish just how “bad” things used to be: the terrain, the inhabitants and especially the quality of whiskey. It almost goes without saying that Colorado had all the characteristic Wild West elements—and in abundance! The chapters focus on the infamous and notorious rather than the law-abiding and civic-minded settlers. These pages, like the state, recount the tales of people who came West seeking, if not their fortune, at least opportunity. It is no secret that Colorado was settled by the adventurous willing to brave the harsh conditions and to prevail. Whether on the right or the wrong side of the law, all settlers and pioneers made unique contributions to the state’s complex culture. Certainly, in the nineteenth century, Colorado was not for the faint of heart.

African Americans on the Western Frontier

African Americans on the Western Frontier
Title African Americans on the Western Frontier PDF eBook
Author Monroe Lee Billington
Publisher
Pages 296
Release 1998
Genre History
ISBN

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Thirteen essays examine the roles African-Americans played in the settling of the American West, discussing the slaves of Mormons and California gold miners; African-American army men, cowboys, and newspaper founders; and others on the frontier. Also includes a bibliographic essay.

Black Women of the Old West

Black Women of the Old West
Title Black Women of the Old West PDF eBook
Author William Loren Katz
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 181
Release 2010-05-11
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 1439115869

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Black women were always part of America's westward expansion. Some escaped slavery to live with the Native Americans, while others traveled west after the Civil War to settle the new lands. They came as servants and as independent pioneers struggling to make a life in the wilderness. Brief text and extraordinary photos record many of the black women who went West to find a new life for themselves and their families.

The Frontier in American Culture

The Frontier in American Culture
Title The Frontier in American Culture PDF eBook
Author Richard White
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 145
Release 1994-10-17
Genre History
ISBN 0520915321

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Log cabins and wagon trains, cowboys and Indians, Buffalo Bill and General Custer. These and other frontier images pervade our lives, from fiction to films to advertising, where they attach themselves to products from pancake syrup to cologne, blue jeans to banks. Richard White and Patricia Limerick join their inimitable talents to explore our national preoccupation with this uniquely American image. Richard White examines the two most enduring stories of the frontier, both told in Chicago in 1893, the year of the Columbian Exposition. One was Frederick Jackson Turner's remarkably influential lecture, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History"; the other took place in William "Buffalo Bill" Cody's flamboyant extravaganza, "The Wild West." Turner recounted the peaceful settlement of an empty continent, a tale that placed Indians at the margins. Cody's story put Indians—and bloody battles—at center stage, and culminated with the Battle of the Little Bighorn, popularly known as "Custer's Last Stand." Seemingly contradictory, these two stories together reveal a complicated national identity. Patricia Limerick shows how the stories took on a life of their own in the twentieth century and were then reshaped by additional voices—those of Indians, Mexicans, African-Americans, and others, whose versions revisit the question of what it means to be an American. Generously illustrated, engagingly written, and peopled with such unforgettable characters as Sitting Bull, Captain Jack Crawford, and Annie Oakley, The Frontier in American Culture reminds us that despite the divisions and denials the western movement sparked, the image of the frontier unites us in surprising ways.