Download or read book The Old West in the Old World written by Bret Harte and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the plays "The Luck of Roaring Camp," by Bret Harte, and "The Prince of Timbuctoo," by Sam Davis.
Download or read book The Old West written by Edward Countryman and published by Cavendish Square. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[This resource] includes a comprehensive look at the historical American West and its neighboring territories to the north and south. It also recognizes that when the frontier West of history ended in the early 1900s, the West of myth and legend was already born. In examining the ongoing social and cultural impact of the West--the ways in which memory and myth cooperate and quarrel--and in including the region's lore alongside its history, The Old West takes a distinctive and imaginative approach to a period and a place unlike any other"--Publisher's Web site
Download or read book The Chronicles of the Old West 4 Historical Books Exploring the Wild Past of the American West written by Emerson Hough and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-15 with total page 977 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Way to the West" tells the story of the opening of the west, including the accounts of three early Americans Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett and Kit Carson. "The Story of the Cowboy" is a historical book about the cowboy in the American West close to the end of 19th century. "The Story of the Outlaw" is a study of the western desperado, with historical narratives of famous outlaws, the stories of noted border wars, vigilante movements, and armed conflicts on the frontier, including the profiles of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett. "The Passing of the Frontier" explains the part of the frontier in history and what Lewis and Clark came up against when they passed it on their great expedition across the continent. 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 The Old West written by Mike Flanagan and published by . This book was released on 1995-01 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an elaborately documented, day-by-day format, The Old West meticulously records every incident that shaped the frontier from the years 1848 to 1890. Whether it's a gold discovery, an advance in transcontinental travel, or a series of racial skirmishes, each chronological entry furnishes the reader with a quick, fascinating summary.This extraordinary reference condenses and organizes decades of history and lore that must otherwise be laboriously hunted down in newspaper records and secondary sources.
Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to the Old West written by Mike Flanagan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little known lore about pioneers, easy to understand explanations of land agreements, fascinating adventures of Native Americans, and photos the people of the ole West.
Download or read book The World of the American West 2 volumes written by Gordon Morris Bakken and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing everything from the details of everyday life to recreation and warfare, this two-volume work examines the social, political, intellectual, and material culture of the American "Old West," from the California Gold Rush of 1849 to the end of the 19th century. What was life really like for ordinary people in the Old West? What did they eat, wear, and think? How did they raise their children? How did they interact with government? What did they do for fun? This encyclopedia provides readers with an engaging and detailed portrayal of the Old West through the examination of social, cultural, and material history. Supported by the most current research, the multivolume set explores various aspects of social history—family, politics, religion, economics, and recreation—to illuminate aspects of a society's emotional life, interactions, opinions, views, beliefs, intimate relationships, and connections between the individual and the greater world. Readers will be exposed to both objective reality and subjective views of a particular culture; as a result, they can create a cohesive, accurate impression of life in the Old West during the second half of the 1800s.
Download or read book The Fifth Western Novel MEGAPACK 4 Novels of the Old West written by Walter A. Tompkins and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2015-08-14 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Western Novel MEGAPACKTM series returns with its fifth rip-roaring installment! Here are four more great western novels: MANHUNT WEST, by Walker A. Tompkins ... Fleeing a posse, Cleve Logan boards a riverboat loaded with outlaws. Hands are dealt in a desperate game -- and Death will take the last trick! THE RENEGADE HILLS, by Allan K. Echols ... Saddle up -- and ride hell-bent-for-leather down the trail to a hidden valley -- but keep your guns loose in your holsters, 'cause you're riding to an outlaw showdown in the Renegade Hills! LAST-CHANCE RANGE, by Dean Owen ... Byrd Elkhart called the Territory his private range. He strung his barbed wire across forty miles of it, and the other ranchers just stood by with their tails between their legs. But then a different breed of man showed up in the person of Clay Janner, of Texas -- and he was going to drive his scrawny herd over the range even if he had to turn the whole Territory into a six-gun shambles! POWDER SMOKE, by Jackson Gregory ... "Double pay," Bart Warbuck told his gunmen, "and give hundred more to the one who gets Jeff Cody!" -- It was as simple as that if you were Warbuck, had 30 killers on your payroll, and made the law whatever you wanted it to be. But it was hard to take if you were young Cody, and if the only gun you could rely on was the one in your belt. And if you alone could stop Bart Warbuck! If you enjoy this volume of classic Westerns, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see the 220+ other entries in this series, including not just historical fiction, but mysteries, adventure, science fiction, fantasy, horror -- and much, much more!
Download or read book Global West American Frontier written by David M. Wrobel and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines how travel writers viewed the American West from the age of Manifest Destiny through the Great Depression. In the nineteenth century, the West was often presented as one developing frontier among many; in the twentieth century, travel writers often searched for American frontier distinctiveness"--Provided by publisher"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book In the Old West written by George Frederick Ruxton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: In the Old West by George Frederick Ruxton
Download or read book Masculinities in Literature of the American West written by Lydia R. Cooper and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Western genre provides the most widely recognized, iconic images of masculinity in the United States - gun-slinging, laconic white male heroes who emphasize individualism, violence, and an idiosyncratic form of justice. This idealized masculinity has been fused with ideas of national identity and character. Masculinities in Literature of the American West examines how contemporary literary Westerns push back against the coded image of the Western hero, exposing pervasive anxieties about what it means to "act like a man." Contemporary Westerns critique assumptions about innate connections between power, masculinity, and "American" character that influence public rhetoric even in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. These novels struggle with the monumental challenge of all Westerns: the challenge of being human in a place where "being a man" is so strictly coded, so unachievable, so complicit in atrocity, and so desirable that it is worth dying for, worth killing for, or perhaps worth nothing at all.
Download or read book The Necessary Earth written by Wilson O. Clough and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Necessary Earth is a study of the degree to which the long American experience with an open frontier has entered into an inherently American literature to distinguish it from that of other lands. Since literature is, in the author’s words, “a compound of time, place, and the individual projection of personal experience and reflection into objective forms,” the American compulsion to communicate their experience and their difference was a virtual guarantee that a native literature would arrive. The text falls into three major portions. The first considers the “age of wonder,” the impact of New World upon Old World comers to effect profound changes, and to set the new American on the parallel paths of idealism and pragmatism. The second part examines the effort of native-born writers to appropriate this experience for new metaphors and new literary theme. Without this effort, the frontier might have remained no more than a dwindling legend, and the transference to the theme of self-reliance might never have appeared. In the third portion the author turns to the twentieth century, examining here the degree to which the national theme of reliance on experience over tradition has persisted in the work of major authors. Ranging thus from Jamestown and Plymouth to Wallace Stevens, the book stresses, throughout, the pull of untamed nature on the human spirit, and the echoes of that experience in what is most intrinsic in American literature. Without denying frontier lawlessness or native chauvinism, Clough directs our attention primarily to the problems of the creation of a new language and a new metaphor to meet the new experience, and the persistence of a truly American note into a maturing of both manner and matter.
Download or read book Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery Complete written by Filson Young and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one can surmise from the title, the following book revolves around the life and exploits of Christopher Columbus. He was an Italian explorer and navigator who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas. His expeditions were the first known European contact with the Caribbean, Central America, and South America.
Download or read book In the Old West written by George Frederick Augustus Ruxton and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the wild and untamed West as it was lived by those who roamed it. In 'In the Old West', George Frederick Augustus Ruxton offers a gripping firsthand account of life on the western frontier in the early 19th century. Ruxton presents the brutal realities of the time, chronicling the adventures of free trappers, independent adventurers, and companies of traders who risked everything to hunt and trap fur-bearing animals in the Rocky Mountains. These fearless pioneers, accountable to no one and relying solely on their own instincts, were men picked by nature for great enterprises and great deeds.
Download or read book Touring the Old West written by Kent Ruth and published by . This book was released on 1987-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Touring the Old West is a practical guide to what is left of the western frontier and a page-turning history for those wo can't hit the trail. In this "love letter to half of America," Kent Ruth takes the reader through twenty-one states, pointing out legendary and little-known attractions on and off the main highways. Ruth directs today's explorer to famous old trails and landmarks, crumbling cemeteries, and original rail lines to Indian encampments and military forts (some of them restored and catering to history buffs). The tour is dotted with old-time fur trading posts, boom-and-bust mining camps, sleepy ghost towns, and near-ghosts with hotels still standing. Photographs and a state-by-state index identify authentic highlights for anybody's "out West" tour.
Download or read book The Old world written by Joseph Pomeroy Widney and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Problem of the West written by Frederick Jackson Turner and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eyewitness to the Old West written by Richard Scott and published by Roberts Rinehart. This book was released on 2004-02-07 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of over 150 vignettes from the journals and diaries of people who lived or traveled in the Old West, these accounts begin with the sixteenth-century collisions between the Spaniards and the Indians and conclude with Black Elk's mournful description of the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1890. Storytellers include explorers, missionaries, India leaders, a poet, an artist, and a future president.
