Download or read book The Adventures of a Black Man in Wild West written by Oscar Micheaux and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Conquest – The novel narrates the story of Micheaux, who bears the same name as its famous author, and his struggles to become a successful homesteader in Dakota. Largely autobiographical, the novel details the early years of struggle and hard work that went into surviving the tough Wild West. The Homesteader – Jean Baptiste is a hard-working man whose only dream is to make a life for himself in Dakota. However, even as a Black pioneer, he is doomed to be separated from the love of his love due to racial laws prohibiting interracial marriages. Thus, to avoid the all-consuming loneliness, he instead decides to get married to Orlean. However, his new father-in-law is a nightmare from hell and although a preacher, all his attention is focused upon him rather than in the service of god. Can Baptiste survive the ordeal or will he succumb to the psychological pressures?
Download or read book The Life and Adventures of Nat Love written by Nat Love and published by Black Classic Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of black cowpunchers drove cattle up the Chisholm Trail after the Civil War, but only Nat Love wrote about his experiences. Born to slaves in Davidson County, Tennessee, the newly freed Love struck out for Kansas after the war. He was fifteen and already endowed with a reckless and romantic readiness. In wide-open Dodge City he joined up with an outfit from the Texas Panhandle to begin a career riding the range and fighting Indians, outlaws, and the elements. Years later he would say, "I had an unusually adventurous life". That was rare understatement. More characteristic was Love's claim: "I carry the marks of fourteen bullet wounds on different parts of my body, most any one of which would be sufficient to kill an ordinary man, but I am not even crippled". In 1876 a virtuoso rodeo performance in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, won him the moniker of Deadwood Dick. He became known as DD all over the West, entering into dime novels as a mysteriously dark and heroic presence. This vivid autobiography includes encounters with Bat Masterson and Billy the Kid, a soon-after view of the Custer battlefield, and a successful courtship. Love left the range in 1890, the year of the official closing of the frontier. Then, as a Pullman train conductor he traveled his old trails, and those good times bring his story to a satisfying end.
Download or read book Black Gun Silver Star written by Art T. Burton and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-09 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Story of Oklahoma, Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves appears as the "most feared U.S. marshal in the Indian country." That Reeves was also an African American who had spent his early life enslaved in Arkansas and Texas made his accomplishments all the more remarkable. Black Gun, Silver Star sifts through fact and legend to discover the truth about one of the most outstanding peace officers in late nineteenth-century America--and perhaps the greatest lawman of the Wild West era. Bucking the odds ("I'm sorry, we didn't keep Black people's history," a clerk at one of Oklahoma's local historical societies answered one query), Art T. Burton traces Reeves from his days of slavery to his Civil War soldiering to his career as a deputy U.S. marshal out of Fort Smith, Arkansas, when he worked under "Hanging Judge" Isaac C. Parker. Fluent in Creek and other regional Native languages, physically powerful, skilled with firearms, and a master of disguise, Reeves was exceptionally adept at apprehending fugitives and outlaws and his exploits were legendary in Oklahoma and Arkansas. In this new edition Burton traces Reeves's presence in the national media of his day as well as his growing modern presence in popular media such as television, movies, comics, and video games.
Download or read book Which Way to the Wild West written by Steve Sheinkin and published by Flash Point. This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Honor recipient Steve Sheinkin welcomes young readers to the thrilling, tragic, and downright wild historic adventure of America’s westward expansion in Which Way to the Wild West? Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn’t Tell You About America’s Westward Expansion, featuring illustrations by Tim Robinson. 1805: Explorer William Clark reaches the Pacific Ocean and pens the badly spelled line “Ocian in view! O! the joy!” (Hey, he was an explorer, not a spelling bee champion!) 1836: Mexican general Santa Anna surrounds the Alamo, trapping 180 Texans inside and prompting Texan William Travis to declare, “I shall never surrender or retreat.” 1861: Two railroad companies, one starting in the West and one in the East, start a race to lay the most track and create a transcontinental railroad. With a storyteller's voice and attention to the details that make history real and interesting, Steve Sheinkin delivers the wild facts about America's greatest adventure. From the Louisiana Purchase (remember: if you're negotiating a treaty for your country, play it cool.) to the gold rush (there were only three ways to get to California--all of them bad) to the life of the cowboy, the Indian wars, and the everyday happenings that defined living on the frontier. “An engaging...medley of anecdotes about the Wild West in nine lively chapters starting with the Louisiana Purchase and ending with the Lakota massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890. Casual vignettes of famous figures and ordinary people come to life.” —School Library Journal “Sheinkin builds his conversational narrative around stories of the men and women who peopled the west, with particular attention given to African Americans, Chinese workers, and everyday farmers and cowboys. There's plenty of humor here, but Sheinkin's strength is his ability to transition between events.”—The Horn Book Also by Steve Sheinkin: Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War King George: What Was His Problem?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the American Revolution Two Miserable Presidents: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the Civil War Born to Fly: The First Women's Air Race Across America
Download or read book Judged by Twelve a wild western action adventure written by Chris Lowry and published by Grand Ozarks Media. This book was released on 2024-10-16 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fort Smith - Edge of the Indian Territories A last stop for Outlaws, Desperados and Bandits who made the lawless city a land of terror. A young Judge Isaac Parker is assigned to the Western District by President Ulysses Grant with a mission. Clean it up to make way for the St. Louis – San Francisco railroad. The train is coming, civilization on its heels and its Parker’s job to prepare the border whether it’s ready or not. Against the corrupt Garrison leader. The Saloon Owner. The gangs of bad men that use the tiny town as a base of operations to loot, pillage and plunder. Parker’s got help. A crusty Marshal. A freed slave turned tracker in the territories and a wide-eyed idealist turned deputy who only wants a safe place to raise his family. It won’t be easy. Work on the frontier never is. Judge Parker’s got a fight on his hands and if he has to hang every last bad man in the land to make America safe, he will. Unless they get him first. Download this gripping tale of the old west that will shoot your socks off. Fall in love with the Marshal, root for Rufus and learn why they called Judge Parker the Swinging Judge. AUTHOR’S NOTE: I grew up on Westerns. My grandfather didn’t enjoy them, he was more of a NASCAR fan, but my grandmother did. She was industrious, as a lot of southern women who grew up in the depression era were. I remember a Sunday afternoon matinee on one of the three networks they got on their television that showed a Western each week. After church, she would take my brother and I to Big Chef for burgers and fries, and then back to her house for homemade chocolate pie or some other treat. Then we’d sit on the couch to watch a movie at 2:00. Even as she watched, she was busy knitting an afghan or sewing a quilt, or shelling peas from her garden. In the fall and winter, we would spend an hour gathering pecans from their six pecan trees, and she would shell them while we watched the westerns. Her favorite was Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and when it came on, she would roast the pecans with sugar and butter so we had special treats to snack on during the movie.
Download or read book Cowboys Mountain Men and Grizzly Bears written by Matthew P. Mayo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-01-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From slaughters, shootouts, and massacres to maulings, lynchings, and natural disasters, Cowboys, Mountain Men, and Grizzly Bears cuts to the chase of what draws people to the history and literature of the Wild West. Matthew P. Mayo, noted author of Western novels, takes the fifty wildest episodes in the region’s history and presents them in one action-packed volume. Set on the plains, mountains, and deserts of the West, and arranged chronologically, they capture all the mystique and allure of that special time and place in America’s history. Read about: John Colter’s harrowing escape from the Blackfeet Hugh Glass’s six-week crawl to civilization after a grizzly attack Janette Riker’s brutal winter in the Rockies John Wesley Powell’s treacherous run through the rapids of the Grand Canyon The Earp Brothers’ hot-tempered gun battle at Tombstone General Custer’s ill-advised final clash with the Sioux
Download or read book Black Heroes of the Wild West written by Ruth Pelz and published by Open Hand Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 1990 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographical sketches of nine African American pioneers .
Download or read book Black Cowboys of the Old West written by Tricia Martineau Wagner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-12-21 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word cowboy conjures up vivid images of rugged men on saddled horses—men lassoing cattle, riding bulls, or brandishing guns in a shoot-out. White men, as Hollywood remembers them. What is woefully missing from these scenes is their counterparts: the black cowboys who made up one-fourth of the wranglers and rodeo riders. This book tells their story. When the Civil War ended, black men left the Old South in large numbers to seek a living in the Old West—industrious men resolved to carve out a life for themselves on the wild, roaming plains. Some had experience working cattle from their time as slaves; others simply sought a freedom they had never known before. The lucky travelled on horseback; the rest, by foot. Over dirt roads they went from Alabama and South Carolina to present-day Texas and California up north through Kansas to Montana. The Old West was a land of opportunity for these adventurous wranglers and future rodeo champions. A long overdue testament to the courage and skill of black cowboys, Black Cowboys of the Old West finally gives these courageous men their rightful place in history. Praise for an earlier book by the same author: “Whether you are a history enthusiast or a lover of adventure stories, African American Women of the Old Westpresents the reader with fascinating accounts of ten extraordinary, generally unrecognized, African Americans. Tricia Martineau Wagner takes these remarkable women from the footnotes of history and brings them to life.” —Ed Diaz, President of the Association for African American Historical Research and Preservation
Download or read book Black Cowboys in the American West written by Bruce A. Glasrud and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-09-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who were the black cowboys? They were drovers, foremen, fiddlers, cowpunchers, cattle rustlers, cooks, and singers. They worked as wranglers, riders, ropers, bulldoggers, and bronc busters. They came from varied backgrounds—some grew up in slavery, while free blacks often got their start in Texas and Mexico. Most who joined the long trail drives were men, but black women also rode and worked on western ranches and farms. The first overview of the subject in more than fifty years, Black Cowboys in the American West surveys the life and work of these cattle drivers from the years before the Civil War through the turn of the twentieth century. Including both classic, previously published articles and exciting new research, this collection also features select accounts of twentieth-century rodeos, music, people, and films. Arranged in three sections—“Cowboys on the Range,” “Performing Cowboys,” and “Outriders of the Black Cowboys”—the thirteen chapters illuminate the great diversity of the black cowboy experience. Like all ranch hands and riders, African American cowboys lived hard, dangerous lives. But black drovers were expected to do the roughest, most dangerous work—and to do it without complaint. They faced discrimination out west, albeit less than in the South, which many had left in search of autonomy and freedom. As cowboys, they could escape the brutal violence visited on African Americans in many southern communities and northern cities. Black cowhands remain an integral part of life in the West, the descendants of African Americans who ventured west and helped settle and establish black communities. This long-overdue examination of nineteenth- and twentieth-century black cowboys ensures that they, and their many stories and experiences, will continue to be known and told.
Download or read book The Magnificent Wild West Adventures Emerson Hough Westerns written by Emerson Hough and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 2453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and meticulously edited collection of the greatest works by Emerson Hough includes: The Girl at the Halfway House_x000D_ The Law of the Land _x000D_ Heart's Desire_x000D_ The Way of a Man_x000D_ 54-40 or Fight_x000D_ The Man Next Door_x000D_ The Magnificent Adventure_x000D_ The Sagebrusher_x000D_ The Covered Wagon_x000D_ Emerson Hough (1857–1923) was an American author best known for writing western stories, adventure tales and historical novels. His best known works include western novels The Mississippi Bubble and The Covered Wagon, The Young Alaskans series of adventure novels, and historical works The Way to the West and The Story of the Cowboy._x000D_
Download or read book The American Jungle written by Harvey E. Oyer and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children's adventure stories based on actual people, places and events on the south Florida frontier during the late 19th century.
Download or read book Ebony Jr written by and published by . This book was released on 1978-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created by the publishers of EBONY. During its years of publishing it was the largest ever children-focused publication for African Americans.
Download or read book The American West on Film written by Johnny D. Boggs and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a history of Western movies, The American West on Film intertwines film history, the history of the American West, and American social history into one unique volume. The American West on Film chronicles 12 Hollywood motion pictures that are set in the post–Civil War American West, including The Ox-Bow Incident, Red River, High Noon, The Searchers, The Magnificent Seven, Little Big Man, and Tombstone. Each film overview summarizes the movie's plot, details how the film came to be made, the critical and box-office reactions upon its release, and the history of the time period or actual event. This is followed by a comparison and contrast of the filmmakers' version of history with the facts, as well as an analysis of the film's significance, then and now. Relying on contemporary accounts and historical analysis as well as perspectives from filmmakers, historians, and critics, the author describes what it took to get each movie made and how close to the historical truth the movie actually got. Readers will come away with a better understanding of how movies often reflect the time in which they were made, and how Westerns can offer provocative social commentary hidden beneath old-fashioned "shoot-em-ups."
Download or read book WILD WEST ADVENTURES Boxed Set 9 Western Classics in One Volume Illustrated written by Emerson Hough and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 2443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "THE WILD WEST ADVENTURES – Boxed Set: 9 Western Classics in One Volume (Illustrated)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Girl at the Halfway House The Law of the Land Heart's Desire The Way of a Man 54-40 or Fight The Man Next Door The Magnificent Adventure The Sagebrusher The Covered Wagon Emerson Hough (1857–1923) was an American author best known for writing western stories, adventure tales and historical novels. His best known works include western novels The Mississippi Bubble and The Covered Wagon, The Young Alaskans series of adventure novels, and historical works The Way to the West and The Story of the Cowboy.
Download or read book JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD 20 Western Classics Adventure Novels Including Short Stories Historical Works Memoirs Illustrated written by James Oliver Curwood and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 4129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Oliver Curwood's collection of 20 Western classics and adventure novels, including short stories, historical works, and memoirs, showcases the author's masterful storytelling and deep exploration of the American frontier. Curwood's literary style is characterized by vivid descriptions of nature, gripping action sequences, and themes of survival and justice. His works are set against the backdrop of the rugged wilderness, where characters are tested both physically and morally, creating a rich tapestry of the human experience in the untamed landscape of the West. The collection also features illustrations that enhance the reader's immersion into Curwood's captivating world. James Oliver Curwood, a prolific writer and adventurer, drew inspiration from his own experiences exploring the Great Lakes region and the Canadian wilderness. His passion for nature and the outdoors is evident in his writings, which often reflect his deep respect for the natural world and the ways in which it shapes human lives. I highly recommend this collection to readers who enjoy thrilling adventures, rich historical settings, and powerful narratives that delve into the complexities of human nature. Curwood's work is a timeless contribution to the Western genre and a testament to the enduring allure of the frontier.
Download or read book We are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia Formerly Known as Southwest Africa From the German Sudwestafrika Between the Years 1884 1915 written by Jackie Sibblies Drury and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Impressively navigates the tricky boundaries that separate art and life, the haunted present and the haunting historical past..” New York Times A group of actors gather to tell the little-known story of the first genocide of the twentieth century. As the full force of a horrific past crashes into the good intentions of the present, what seemed a far-away place and time is suddenly all too close to home. Just whose story are they telling? Pulitzer Prize award-winning playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury collides the political with the personal in a play that is irreverently funny and seriously brave. We Are Proud To Present . . . premiered off-Broadway at Soho Rep in 2012. This new Modern Classics edition features an introduction by Leonor Faber-Jonker.
Download or read book The Business of Being Buffalo Bill written by Sarah J. Blackstone and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1988-05-17 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Business of Being Buffalo Bill provides new insight into a colorful figure in American history. William F. Cody was interested in developing the American West through irrigation, transportation, and settlement. He invested heavily in development projects such as mining, newspapers, and an entire town, Cody, Wyoming. In his correspondence, Cody discussed his various failures and successes, talked of personal problems, and spoke of his longing to end his show business career and retire to the West he loved. These candid letters present a unique view of Buffalo Bill as a man of many interests and enthusiasms. Containing previously unpublished correspondence between Cody and his business partners, relations, and friends, this volume examines Cody's business endeavors and his personal relationships.
