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 University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1957 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The keen-eyed, cool-headed, and fearless men (Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, Buffalo Bill Cody, Big Foot Wallace, and Captain Jim Cook, among others) who were pivotal personalities for more than half a century in the almost ceaseless task of clearing the way for and guarding the lives and properties of explorers, emigrants, and settlers in the West, are an extinct type of pioneer, Accounts of the heroic deeds of this handful of men, however, remain today as indelible records that dramatize the melting away of this country’s vast frontiers.
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 Scouting on the Old Frontier with Flintlock and Fife written by Everett Titsworth Tomlinson and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The scene of this story, originally published under the title 'With flintlock and fife' is located [in the] region between Albany and Montreal, and the time precedes the war for independence."--Pref.
Download or read book Scouting on the old frontier written by E. T. Tomlinson and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chief of Scouts written by William F. Drannan and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain W.F. Drannan – Chief of Scouts is an autobiography of a Scout Captain William F. Drannan in which he has tried to portray that part of his earlier life which was spent in piloting emigrant and government trains across the Western Plains.
Download or read book Fearless Scouts written by Jeff Savage and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores scouts, the men and women who opened up the West, including early scouts like Sacagawea, other famous scouts like Kit Carson, and the maps and trails that scouts helped create that changed the American landscape"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Fifty Years on the Old Frontier As Cowboy Hunter Guide Scout and Ranchman written by James H. Cook and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1923 edition.
Download or read book Famous Scouts Including Trappers Pioneers and Soldiers of the Frontier written by Charles Haven Ladd Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: the lives of famous pioneers and men of the plains.
Download or read book Scouting for the Mormons on the Great Frontier written by Sidney A. Hanks and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book US Army Frontier Scouts 1840 1921 written by Ron Field and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2003-07-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of the Frontier scout in the US Army during the period of westward expansion, was often far more important than that of the commanding officer. They possessed a priceless knowledge of the geography, people and characteristics of the great, unknown American hinterland and from the earliest days of exploration, the US Army depended on its scouts to guide troops across the plains and through the mountains as they guarded the nation's frontier settlements. This book tells the colourful story of these frontier men, covering many famous scouts such as 'Wild Bill' Hickok and 'Buffalo Bill' Cody.
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 Famous Scouts written by Charles H. L. Johnston and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1910 Edition.
Download or read book The Frontier Trail written by Homer W. Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sergeant Silk The Prairie Scout written by Robert Leighton and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sergeant Silk by Robert Leighton is about Honorable Percy Rapson and his adventures in Western Canada. Excerpt: "If you ask me, there's nothing like riding across the open prairie for quickening a fellow's eyesight," remarked the Honourable Percy Rapson, breaking a long spell of silence. "There's so little to be seen, anyhow, except the grass and the flowers, that he's bound to catch sight of anything unusual." Sergeant Silk smiled at his companion's boyish enthusiasm for the open-air life of the plains. Percy had been sent out to Western Canada to learn farming but there was no doubt that he was learning a lot that had no direct connection with agriculture."
Download or read book 31 Years on the Plains and in the Mountains written by William F. Drannan and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains is autobiographical account of Captain William F. Drannan, Scouts Chief. The author has narrated in his own blunt way the incidents of his life in the West. He starts out with the most notable events of his boyhood days, then come his flight and a trip, to St. Louis, hundreds of miles on foot, his accidental meeting with that most eminent man of his class, Kit Carson. The author also gives sketches of the springing into existence of many of the noted cities of the West, and the incidents connected therewith that have never been written before. This book represent one of the classics of frontier literature.
Download or read book Last of the Great Scouts written by Helen Cody Wetmore and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naturally, there were incidents in Colonel Cody's life more especially in thr earlier years -- that could be given only by those with whom he had grown up from childhood. For many incidents of his later life I'am indebted to his own and other accounts.
Download or read book Famous Scouts Including Trappers Pioneers and Soldiers of the Frontier written by Charles Haven Ladd Johnston and published by Johnston Press. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
