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A Lady's Ranch Life in Montana - Bok av Isabel F. Randall - Häftad

A Lady's Ranch Life in Montana - Bok av Isabel F. Randall - Häftad

\A faithful and unvarnished Record of a Settler's Life\ is how Isabel Randall described her letters when they were first published in 1887. Many foreign travelers published accounts of their visits to the American West, but Randall was one of the few European women to write about the western experience from the inside. In 1884 Randall and her husband settled on a ranch in Montana hoping to make their fortune in the livestock boom. Randall's letters home to England describe the practical affairs..

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Beyond Bear's Paw: The Nez Perce Indians in Canada - Bok av Jerome A. Greene - Inbunden

Beyond Bear's Paw: The Nez Perce Indians in Canada - Bok av Jerome A. Greene - Inbunden

In the fall of 1877, Nez Perce (Nimiipuu) Indians were desperately fleeing U.S. Army troops. After a 1,700-mile journey across Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana, the Nez Perces headed for the Canadian border, hoping to find refuge in the land of the White Mother, Queen Victoria. But the army caught up with them at the Bear''s Paw Mountains in northern Montana, and following a devastating battle, Chief Joseph and most of his people surrendered.The wrenching tale of Chief Joseph and his followers is now..

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Custer and the 1873 Yellowstone Survey - Bok av John M Lubetkin - Häftad

Custer and the 1873 Yellowstone Survey - Bok av John M Lubetkin - Häftad

Progress on the nation's second transcontinental railroad slowed in 1873. The Northern Pacific's proposed middle-the 250 miles between present Billings and Glendive, Montana-had yet to be surveyed, and Sioux and Cheyenne Indians opposed construction through the Yellowstone Valley, the heart of their hunting grounds. A previous surveying expedition along the Yellowstone River in 1872 had resulted in the death of a prominent member of the party, the near-death of the railroad's chief engineer, the..

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Red Cloud's Folk - A History of the Oglala Sioux Indians - Bok av George E. Hyde - Häftad

Red Cloud's Folk - A History of the Oglala Sioux Indians - Bok av George E. Hyde - Häftad

The westward drive of the warlike Sioux Indians along a thousand miles of prairie and woodland, from the upper reaches of the Mississippi to the lower Powder River in Montana, is one of the epic migrations of history. From about 1660 to the first quarter of the nineteenth century, the Teton Sioux swept away all opposition: Arikaras, Ponkas, Crees, Crows, Cheyennes--all fell away and dispersed as the Sioux advanced, until the invaders ranged over a vast territory in the northwest, hunting buffalo..

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When Money Grew on Trees - Bok av Greg Gordon - Häftad

When Money Grew on Trees - Bok av Greg Gordon - Häftad

Born in the timber colony of New Brunswick, Maine, in 1848, Andrew Benoni Hammond got off to an inauspicious start as a teenage lumberjack. By his death in 1934, Hammond had built an empire of wood that stretched from Puget Sound to Arizona-and in the process had reshaped the American West and the nation's way of doing business. When Money Grew on Trees follows Hammond from the rough-and-tumble world of mid-nineteenth-century New Brunswick to frontier Montana and the forests of Northern California-from..

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The Secret Life of Cowboys - Bok av Tom Groneberg - Häftad

The Secret Life of Cowboys - Bok av Tom Groneberg - Häftad

In this classic memoir, a young man facing a future he doesn't want to claim has an inspiration-Go West. Tom Groneberg leaves behind friends and family, follows his heart, and heads to a resort town in the Colorado Rockies, where he earns his spurs as a wrangler leading tourists on horseback. Later, Groneberg moves to Montana, where he works for wages at a number of ranches before buying his own ranch. Demystifying the image of cowboys as celluloid heroes, The Secret Life of Cowboys is a coming-of-age..

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