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Beyond the frontiers The biography of Colonel F M Bailey explorer and special agent
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Davy Crockett was a child of the frontier where violence and danger were everywhere A hunter soldier and backwoods politician he helped settle large swaths of the stillgrowing United States In the process he became an American legend with his life and exploits dramatizedand often fictionalizedin film and TV Renowned author George Edward Stanley tells the true story his difficult childhood his time in the militia fighting the Indians and the British his decision to become a Justice of the Peace and eventually run for the Tennessee State Legislature and his final stand and death at the famous battle of the Alamo
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Stretching from Aaron Sam Arizona pioneer to Zutacapan Acomo pueblo chief the threevolume Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography profiles approximately 4500 frontier pioneers and Native Americans Dan L Thrapps comprehensive work will interest scholars researchers and general readers curious about the figures who developed defended decorated and devilized the American WestnbspAll the famous ones are here Volume I AF includes Billy the Kid Daniel Boone Calamity Jane George Custer Buffalo Bill Cochise and John C Fremont among others There are also entries for worthies less well known Big Nose Kate Nellie Cashman Scott Cooley to cite a few Even Gary Cooper and other actors who portrayed westerners are sketched in Thrapps richly detailed biographies are continued in Volumes II GO and III PZnbspThrapp has included seventeenth and eighteenthcentury figures in both New France and New England as well as the transAppalachian country but the majority are nineteenthcentury men and women who discovered settled fought for or simply lived in the raw lands west of the Mississippi River
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A biography of the two doctor brothers whose Minnesota clinic became worldfamous
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Outstanding Title by Choice MagazineOn the banks of the Pacific Northwests greatest river lies the Hanford nuclear reservation an industrial site that appears to be at odds with the surrounding vineyards and desert The 586squaremile compound on the Columbia River is known both for its origins as part of the Manhattan Project which made the first atomic bombs and for the monumental effort now under way to clean up fortyfive years of waste from manufacturing plutonium for nuclear weapons Hanford routinely makes the news as scientists litigants administrators and politicians argue over its past and its futureIt is easy to think about Hanford as an expression of federal power a place apart from humanity and nature but that view distorts its history Atomic Frontier Days looks through a wider lens telling a complex story of production community building politics and environmental sensibilities In brilliantly structured parallel stories the authors bridge the divisions that accompany Hanfords headlines and offer perspective on todays controversies Influenced as much by regional culture economics and politics as by war diplomacy and environmentalism Hanford and the TriCities of Richland Pasco and Kennewick illuminate the history of the modern American West
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Here is a great adventure in America history a great collection of treasured American art George Catlin And The Old Frontier is the first comprehensive picture gallery and biography of George Catlin the dean of American Indian painters It contains 36 paintings in brilliant full color and 131 blackandwhite reproductions of of pictures by the American artist whose talent and achievement place him among the most extraordinary men of the nineteenth century
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Celebrated as one of Americas frontier heroes Daniel Boone left a legacy that made the Boone name almost synonymous with frontier settlement Nathan Boone the youngest of Daniels sons played a vital role in American pioneering following in much the same steps as his famous father In Nathan Boone and the American Frontier R Douglas Hurt presents for the first time the life of this important frontiersmanBased on primary collections newspaper articles government documents and secondary sources this wellcrafted biography begins with Nathans childhood in presentday Kentucky and Virginia and then follows his familys move to Missouri Hurt traces Boones early activities as a hunter trapper and surveyor as well as his leadership of a company of rangers during the War of 1812 After the war Boone returned to survey work In 1831 he organized another company of rangers for the Black Hawk War and returned to military life making it his career The remainder of the book recounts Boones activities with the army in Iowa and the Indian Territory where he was the first Boone to gain notice outside Missouri or Kentucky Even today his work is recognized in the form of state parks buildings and placenamesAlthough Nathan Boone was an important figure he lived much of his life in the shadow of his father R Douglas Hurt however makes a strong case for Nathans contribution to the larger context of life in the American backcountry especially the execution of military and Indian policy and the settlement of the frontierBy recognizing the significant role that Nathan Boone played Nathan Boone and the American Frontier also provides the recognition due the many unheralded frontiersmen who helped settle the West Anyone with an interest in the history of Missouri the frontier or the Boone name will find this book informative and compelling
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These biographies emphasize the wide diversity of style temperament activity and occupation of frontier soldiers Included are William Clark Stephen H Long William S Harney James Henry Carleton Philip H Sheridan George Armstrong Custer George Crook John G Bourke Benjamin H Grierson Ranald S Mackenzie William B Hazen Nelson A Miles Frank D Baldwin and Charles King
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Traces the life of Nathan Boone and his activities as a hunter trapper and surveyor and documents his leadership of a company of rangers during the War of 1812 and the Black Hawk War
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Traces the life and career of General Custer discusses his leadership capabilities and examines how he embodied the attitudes of the age
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These biographies emphasize the wide diversity of style temperament activity and occupation of frontier soldiers Included are William Clark Stephen H Long William S Harney James Henry Carleton Philip H Sheridan George Armstrong Custer George Crook John G Bourke Benjamin H Grierson Ranald S Mackenzie William B Hazen Nelson A Miles Frank D Baldwin and Charles King
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For nearly three decades the settlers of Lampasas were challenged by frontier hardships and dangers The isolated Hill Country community was founded in the 1850s amid bubbling mineral springs During summer watering seasons hundreds of Texans made their way through the wilderness to take the waters at Lampasas Springs Most of the summer visitors camped for weeks in shady groves beside the springsenjoying such simple recreations as visiting singing communal meals and preaching serviceswhile children swam and played in large gangs Lampasas merchants learned to rely upon an annual surge of business as the population doubled and sometimes tripled each summer During the towns formative years Lampasans endured Comanche raids numerous saloon shootouts a vicious blood feud stock theft lynchings stagecoach robberies and conflict between cattlemen and sheepherders Trail drives paused at Lampasas Springs and area drovers herded cattle up from the famous trails as the cowboy culture permeated Lampasas Trail boss Pink Higgins became a gunfighter of the front rank the Horrell brothers were notorious cattle rustlers and the Horrells triggered a saloon fight unique in the annals of frontier violence The long frontier era ended when railroad tracks reached Lampasas in 1882 The magnificent Park Hotel was built as the centerpiece of a 200acre park which for a few years became the leading resort in Texas Statewide political and denominational conventions were held at the Saratoga of the South The Texas Bankers Association organized at the Park Hotel and the Daughters of the Republic of Texas adopted their name during a Lampasas meeting The Texas Sate Guard forerunner of the National Guard held its first two statewide encampments on the spacious grounds of the Park Hotel The urban pioneers of the frontier Lampasas enjoyed a Victorian heyday through the glamour of the Saratoga of the South
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As new bright clean and unmarked hardcover in original plain white dust jacketBluestem Books is an independent brickandmortar bookstore established in 1984
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Complete set as published in three volumes A fourth volume supplement was published in 1994 An original publishers prospectus is laid in the front of volume I though shows some wear and math notations on the front Although these volumes were issued without dust jackets a previous owner has added plain white jackets with short title inked over spine All three volumes are tight bright and very clean A couple of corners are very slightly bumped Due to weight additional charges will be required for Priority andor International shipping
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In the 1870s surgery was a crude affair performed on the patients kitchen table In the frontier town of Rochester Minnesota Dr W W Mayo brought his young sons Will and Charlie to assist him with operations Fifty years later Rochester became a medical mecca as the Mayo brothers were established as worldclass surgeons With a firm belief in sharing information and learning from others the Mayo brothers proved the benefits of cooperation in a jealously competitive field and accomplished more than any single colleague of their time Emily Crofford gives a vivid account of the Mayos meteoric rise to fame and their contributions as pioneers on the frontier of modern surgery
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This updated and revised edition of Hells Belles takes the reader on a soundly researched welldocumented and amusing journey back to the early days of Denver Clark Secrest details the evolution of Denvers prostitution the gambling the drug addicts and the corrupt politicians and police who palms outstretched allowed it all to happen Also included in Hells Belles is a biography of one of Denvers original police officers Sam Howe upon whose crime studies the book is based The popular veneer of Denvers presentday Market Street its fancy bars posh restaurants and Coors Field is stripped away to reveal the streets former incarnation a mecca of loose morals entrenched in prostitution liquor and money Hells Belles examines the neglected topics of vice and crime in Denver and utilizes a unique and invaluable historic source the scrapbooks of Detective Sam Howe
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For nearly three decades the settlers of Lampasas were challenged by frontier hardships and dangers The isolated Hill Country community was founded in the 1850s amid bubbling mineral springs During summer watering seasons hundreds of Texans made their way through the wilderness to take the waters at Lampasas Springs Most of the summer visitors camped for weeks in shady groves beside the springsenjoying such simple recreations as visiting singing communal meals and preaching serviceswhile children swam and played in large gangs Lampasas merchants learned to rely upon an annual surge of business as the population doubled and sometimes tripled each summer During the towns formative years Lampasans endured Comanche raids numerous saloon shootouts a vicious blood feud stock theft lynchings stagecoach robberies and conflict between cattlemen and sheepherders Trail drives paused at Lampasas Springs and area drovers herded cattle up from the famous trails as the cowboy culture permeated Lampasas Trail boss Pink Higgins became a gunfighter of the front rank the Horrell brothers were notorious cattle rustlers and the Horrells triggered a saloon fight unique in the annals of frontier violence The long frontier era ended when railroad tracks reached Lampasas in 1882 The magnificent Park Hotel was built as the centerpiece of a 200acre park which for a few years became the leading resort in Texas Statewide political and denominational conventions were held at the Saratoga of the South The Texas Bankers Association organized at the Park Hotel and the Daughters of the Republic of Texas adopted their name during a Lampasas meeting The Texas Sate Guard forerunner of the National Guard held its first two statewide encampments on the spacious grounds of the Park Hotel The urban pioneers of the frontier Lampasas enjoyed a Victorian heyday through the glamour of the Saratoga of the South
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Stretching from Aaron Sam Arizona pioneer to Zutacapan Acomo pueblo chief the threevolume Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography profiles approximately 4500 frontier pioneers and Native Americans Dan L Thrapps comprehensive work will interest scholars researchers and general readers curious about the figures who developed defended decorated and devilized the American WestnbspAll the famous ones are here Volume I AF includes Billy the Kid Daniel Boone Calamity Jane George Custer Buffalo Bill Cochise and John C Fremont among others There are also entries for worthies less well known Big Nose Kate Nellie Cashman Scott Cooley to cite a few Even Gary Cooper and other actors who portrayed westerners are sketched in Thrapps richly detailed biographies are continued in Volumes II GO and III PZnbspThrapp has included seventeenth and eighteenthcentury figures in both New France and New England as well as the transAppalachian country but the majority are nineteenthcentury men and women who discovered settled fought for or simply lived in the raw lands west of the Mississippi River
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An account of the early years of the legendary American frontiersman
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