Tales of the frontier : from Lewis and Clark to the last roundup

Tales of the frontier : from Lewis and Clark to the last roundup /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dick, Everett (Everett Newfon), 1898-1989
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1964, ©1963]
Subjects:
Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.)
Frontier and pioneer life.
West (U.S.) > History.
West United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • I. Opening up the way west
  • The schoolmaster sees the Devil
  • Northwest to empire
  • Doranto
  • The race of death
  • Mother love
  • Adventures of an engagé
  • Nicomi
  • The mountain men
  • Fat man's misery
  • Friday, the Indian white boy
  • Bent's Fort
  • A Connecticut Yankee in the Santa Fe trade
  • II. Pioneering on the middle border
  • In the potter's field
  • The settlers' stratagem
  • Traders on the Mississippi
  • The circuit rider and the sinners
  • Barring out the teacher
  • Pioneer horse play
  • The settlers hold their own
  • Rollingstone
  • Fasten down the safety valve
  • III. Overland trails
  • The Oregon Trail
  • When the apple orchard moved
  • The Mormon Trail
  • By handcart to Zion
  • The California Trail
  • Gold! Gold!! Gold!!!
  • The forty-niners
  • Let her go, if she will
  • She prayed for the ravens
  • Sagebrush justice
  • IV. The trans-Missouri frontier
  • A bushel of doughnuts
  • Linking old and new frontiers
  • Pikes Peak or bust
  • Gold is where you find it
  • The big thaw
  • Aboard the overland stage
  • The princess of Fort Laramie
  • War on the plains
  • A battle with Plains bandits
  • Frontier railroading
  • The monarch of the prairies
  • The Indians' gift
  • V. The last frontiers
  • The sod-house frontier
  • The phantom piccolo player
  • Look out below!
  • All kinds of weather
  • The kitchen frontier
  • The traveling courthouse
  • The long drive
  • "They went thataway!"
  • Where the horse was king
  • Road agents
  • The iron horse to the rescue
  • The last land rushes
  • The end of the open range.

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