Download or read book Fifty Years on the Old Frontier written by James H. Cook and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-13 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all that has been written of the cowboy and the life of the cattle range, very little has been written by the principal actors themselves. The same is equally true of the famous government scouts, mail riders and other adventurous figures, who were men of deeds rather than words. Not many possessed, like David Crockett and W. F. Cody, the power to dramatize themselves. James H. Cook, the author of Fifty Years on the Old Frontier, first published in 1923, was, however, a genuine cowboy, and he was able to recount in a most readable way his adventures over half a century. During the Seventies and part of the Eighties he rode the ranges in Texas and New Mexico. A vivid account is to be found in the first part of the book of the life of the cattlemen in the Southwest, including such details as rounding up entirely wild cattle and horses, and the conveying of droves of animals hundreds of miles through extremely rough, Indian-infested territory. Those who desire thrills can find them here. The author served as government scout in the campaign against Geronimo in 1885, and later, in the North, saw much of the unfortunate troubles with the Sioux and the Cheyennes, whom he showed to have been shamefully misused by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Much space is given to the Sioux chief, Red Cloud, of whom Cook was a champion and faithful friend. Not the least entertaining parts of the book are the narratives of hunts after big game in the Rockies, during the years when Cook was one of the foremost guides and hunters of the regions bordering the one transcontinental railway. An invaluable addition to any Old West collection!
Download or read book Fifty Years on the Old Frontier written by James Henry Cook and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fifty Years on the Old Frontier as Cowboy Hunter Guide Scout and Ranchman written by James Henry Cook and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fifty Years on the Old Frontier As Cowboy Hunter Guide Scout and Ranchman by James H Cook With an Introd by Charles King written by James Henry Cook and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fifty Years on the Old Frontier as a Cowboy written by James Henry Cook and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fifty Years on the Old Frontier as Cowboy Hunter Guide Scout and Ranchman Etc With Plates Including Portraits written by James Henry COOK (Cowboy.) and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fifty Years on the Old Frontier written by James H. Cook and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fifty Years on the Old Frontier written by James Henry Cook and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fifty Years on the Frontier written by James Henry Cook and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fifty Years on the Space Frontier written by Robert Farquhar and published by . This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FIFTY YEARS ON THE SPACE FRONTIER: Halo Orbits, Comets, Asteroids, and More Robert W. Farquhar Foreword by Roger-Maurice Bonnet An autobiographical account of one man's 50-year career in creating, selling, designing, and implementing deep-space missions. The book tells the story of how the author was able to achieve several important space "firsts" despite difficult technical, management, and programmatic hurdles. These firsts include the following: *First libration-point mission, ISEE-3 (1978) *First exploration of Earth's distant magnetotail, ISEE-3 (1983) *First comet encounter, ICE (1985) *First asteroid orbiter, NEAR Shoemaker (2000) *First landing on an asteroid, NEAR Shoemaker (2001) *First orbiter of Mercury, MESSENGER (2011) First flyby of Pluto/Charon, New Horizons (2015) * At the beginning of his career, the author was motivated by a driving ambition to design and implement the first mission to a libration point. This aspiration resulted in the placement of the ISEE-3 spacecraft into a "halo orbit" around the Sun-Earth L1 libration point. By successfully demonstrating the utility and practicality of libration-point orbits, ISEE-3 prepared the way for a number of follow-on missions including SOHO, ACE, MAP, Genesis, Herschel/Planck, and JWST. The author's advocacy of libration-point staging for human missions to the Moon and beyond is also discussed. The author also had a special interest in comets and asteroids. This interest led to several proposals for missions to these small bodies----some flown, others not. The NEAR Shoemaker mission to the asteroid Eros is described in some detail. Others mentioned include missions to Halley's comet, the ICE flyby of comet Giacobini-Zinner, a U.S.- Japanese proposal for a comet sample-return, the CONTOUR multi-comet flyby mission, and the Stardust-NExT flyby of comet Tempel-1.
Download or read book Fifty Years on the Trail written by John Young Nelson and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wondrous Times on the Frontier written by Dee Brown and published by august house. This book was released on 1991 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses many sources to portray the diversity of the American frontier of the 1800s.
Download or read book Wild West Women written by Erin H. Turner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild West Women features the true stories of the pioneering wives, mothers, daughters, teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists who shaped the frontier and helped change the face of American history. These fifty stories cover the Western experience from Kansas City to Sacramento and the Yukon to the Texas Gulf.
Download or read book On the Western Frontier with the United States Cavalry Fifty Years Ago Classic Reprint written by Herman Werner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-16 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from On the Western Frontier, With the United States Cavalry, Fifty Years Ago Have you brought back my beautiful daughter? If not, then blood for blood and more war. Hooker Jim, a Modoc Indian warrior, to the Indian Commissioner, N. Measham, pleading for return of his daughter who had been stolen by a white man in the Lost River Valley, Oregon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Outposts on the Frontier written by Jay Chladek and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest man-made structure to orbit Earth and has been conducting research for close to a decade and a half. Yet it is only the latest in a long line of space stations and laboratories that have flown in orbit since the early 1970s. The histories of these earlier programs have been all but forgotten as the public focused on other, higher-profile adventures such as the Apollo moon landings. A vast trove of stories filled with excitement, danger, humor, sadness, failure, and success, Outposts on the Frontier reveals how the Soviets and the Americans combined strengths to build space stations over the past fifty years. At the heart of these scientific advances are people of both greatness and modesty. Jay Chladek documents the historical tapestry of the people, the early attempts at space station programs, and how astronauts and engineers have contributed to and shaped the ISS in surprising ways. Outposts on the Frontier delves into the intriguing stories behind the USAF Manned Orbiting Laboratory, the Almaz and Salyut programs, Skylab, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, Spacelab, Mir station, Spacehab, and the ISS and gives past-due attention to Vladimir Chelomei, the Russian designer whose influence in space station development is as significant as Sergei Korolev's in rocketry. Outposts on the Frontier is an informative and dynamic history of humankind's first outposts on the frontier of space.
Download or read book Frontier House written by Simon Shaw and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows three families as they recreate the lives of Western homesteaders.
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