Download or read book Wyoming Range War written by John W. Davis and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wyoming attorney John W. Davis retells the story of the West’s most notorious range war. Having delved more deeply than previous writers into land and census records, newspapers, and trial transcripts, Davis has produced an all-new interpretation. He looks at the conflict from the perspective of Johnson County residents—those whose home territory was invaded and many of whom the invaders targeted for murder—and finds that, contrary to the received explanation, these people were not thieves and rustlers but legitimate citizens. The broad outlines of the conflict are familiar: some of Wyoming’s biggest cattlemen, under the guise of eliminating livestock rustling on the open range, hire two-dozen Texas cowboys and, with range detectives and prominent members of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association, “invade” north-central Wyoming to clean out rustlers and other undesirables. While the invaders kill two suspected rustlers, citizens mobilize and eventually turn the tables, surrounding the intruders at a ranch where they intend to capture them by force. An appeal for help convinces President Benjamin Harrison to call out the army from nearby Fort McKinley, and after an all-night ride the soldiers arrive just in time to stave off the invaders’ annihilation. Though taken prisoner, they later avoid prosecution. The cattle barons’ powers of persuasion in justifying their deeds have colored accounts of the war for more than a century. Wyoming Range War tells a compelling story that redraws the lines between heroes and villains.
Download or read book Violence in the West written by Marilynn S. Johnson and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generations of Americans have developed an image of violence in the “Wild West” through books and films. But what conditions really resulted in violence on the American frontier between the 1880s and 1910s? How frequently did violence occur, and what forms did it take? Johnson explores these questions through the lens of the mining and range wars that plagued the region during this period. The author opens with an introductory essay that situates violence within social, political, and economic circumstances of the time, considering smaller cases of interpersonal violence and larger conflicts. Documents are then presented to illuminate two case studies of collective violence—the Johnson County range war in northern Wyoming and the 1913–1914 coal strike in southern Colorado resulting in the Ludlow Massacre. The closing epilogue examines the role both incidents played in shaping the collective memory and cultural history of the American West. The book’s format provides readers with both a general understanding of the history of western violence and the context of specific historical cases that allow for more in-depth study and comparison.
Download or read book The Range War written by Johanna Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-03 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a clean, standalone short story with HEA ending. On the Oklahoma plains in the late nineteenth century, a farmer’s daughter has done the unthinkable. She has fallen in love with a Cowboy. At a time when Farmers and Cattle ranchers are constantly squabbling over rights to land and water, Emily Porter and Gideon Elison have managed to set aside their differences and form a strong bond. Emily’s father has even come to approve of the match, despite the protests of Ben Johnson, a neighboring farmer who believes Elison to be unworthy of Emily’s hand. But, when the Porter’s farm is ravaged by a cattle herd, Emily’s father is convinced that Gideon is behind it. He withdraws his consent from their courtship. Emily, still desperately in love with Gideon, is determined to prove his innocence. But, she has no evidence and no way to convince her father that someone else was behind the crime. What’s more, with a hearing drawing closer, Emily is running out of time. Can she save her fiance from her father’s wrath? Can she save her father’s farm from sure destruction? Or, will she discover that both have fallen beyond repair. ---- KEYWORDS: western romance, cowboy romance, historical western romance, western love stories, second chance romance, feel good romance, sweet romance, historical romance, inspirational romance, true event romance, sweet and clean novel, love story, clean romance, college romance, college, coming of age, coming of age romance, young adult fiction, young adult, young adult romance, novel, novella, fictions, ebooks
Download or read book The War on Powder River written by Helena Huntington Smith and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1966-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Account of the Wyoming range war of the Johnson County Stock Growers Association against homesteading cowboys and small ranchers.
Download or read book Wyoming Range War written by John W. Davis and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2011-11-19 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wyoming attorney John W. Davis retells the story of the West’s most notorious range war. Having delved more deeply than previous writers into land and census records, newspapers, and trial transcripts, Davis has produced an all-new interpretation. He looks at the conflict from the perspective of Johnson County residents—those whose home territory was invaded and many of whom the invaders targeted for murder—and finds that, contrary to the received explanation, these people were not thieves and rustlers but legitimate citizens. The broad outlines of the conflict are familiar: some of Wyoming’s biggest cattlemen, under the guise of eliminating livestock rustling on the open range, hire two-dozen Texas cowboys and, with range detectives and prominent members of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association, “invade” north-central Wyoming to clean out rustlers and other undesirables. While the invaders kill two suspected rustlers, citizens mobilize and eventually turn the tables, surrounding the intruders at a ranch where they intend to capture them by force. An appeal for help convinces President Benjamin Harrison to call out the army from nearby Fort McKinley, and after an all-night ride the soldiers arrive just in time to stave off the invaders’ annihilation. Though taken prisoner, they later avoid prosecution. The cattle barons’ powers of persuasion in justifying their deeds have colored accounts of the war for more than a century. Wyoming Range War tells a compelling story that redraws the lines between heroes and villains.
Download or read book Range War written by Fouad Sabry and published by One Billion Knowledgeable. This book was released on 2024-05-26 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Range War A range war, also known as range conflict or cattle war, is a type of usually violent conflict, most commonly in the 19th and early 20th centuries in the American West. The subject of these conflicts was control of "open range", or range land freely used for cattle grazing, or conflicting sheep pasture, which gave these conflicts its name. Typically they were disputes over water rights, grazing rights, or cattle ownership. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Range war Chapter 2: Johnson County War Chapter 3: Tom Horn Chapter 4: Castaic Chapter 5: John Chisum Chapter 6: To the Last Man (Grey novel) Chapter 7: Frank M. Canton Chapter 8: Pleasant Valley War Chapter 9: Wyoming Stock Growers Association Chapter 10: Ranch (II) Answering the public top questions about range war. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of Range War.
Download or read book Army of None Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War written by Paul Scharre and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2019 William E. Colby Award "The book I had been waiting for. I can't recommend it highly enough." —Bill Gates The era of autonomous weapons has arrived. Today around the globe, at least thirty nations have weapons that can search for and destroy enemy targets all on their own. Paul Scharre, a leading expert in next-generation warfare, describes these and other high tech weapons systems—from Israel’s Harpy drone to the American submarine-hunting robot ship Sea Hunter—and examines the legal and ethical issues surrounding their use. “A smart primer to what’s to come in warfare” (Bruce Schneier), Army of None engages military history, global policy, and cutting-edge science to explore the implications of giving weapons the freedom to make life and death decisions. A former soldier himself, Scharre argues that we must embrace technology where it can make war more precise and humane, but when the choice is life or death, there is no replacement for the human heart.
Download or read book War from the Ground Up written by Emile Simpson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a philosophical treatise on war written by an Oxford grad who served in Afghanistan.
Download or read book On War written by Carl von Clausewitz and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book War written by Jose Jorge Letria and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book An award-winning, stunningly illustrated, sober depiction of war. A recipient of the prestigious Nami Concours prize, this remarkable book of striking, often surreal illustrations and sparse prose reveals the many sides of war: where it comes from, how it creeps up on us, and how it destroys everything in its wake. This evocative and bold work is an excellent resource for educators in facilitating difficult yet necessary discussions about wars that continue to be fought around the world. As Deborah Ellis, author of the Breadwinner series, says: “If children are tough enough to be bombed and starved, they’re tough enough to read about it.” An Aldana Libros Book, Greystone Kids
Download or read book The Great Range Wars written by Harry Sinclair Drago and published by Dodd Mead. This book was released on 1970 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the Lincoln County War, Pleasant Valley Feud, Johnson County War, Conflict on the Clear Fork of Texas and Fence-Cutting War in the Texas Panhandle, etc.
Download or read book The Long War written by John Morrissey and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morrissey explores CENTCOM's Cold War origins and evolution, before addressing key elements of the command's grand strategy, including its interventionary rationales and use of the law in war. Engaging a wide range of scholarship, he then looks in-depth at the military interventions CENTCOM has spearheaded.
Download or read book What Every Person Should Know About War written by Chris Hedges and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed New York Times journalist and author Chris Hedges offers a critical -- and fascinating -- lesson in the dangerous realities of our age: a stark look at the effects of war on combatants. Utterly lacking in rhetoric or dogma, this manual relies instead on bare fact, frank description, and a spare question-and-answer format. Hedges allows U.S. military documentation of the brutalizing physical and psychological consequences of combat to speak for itself. Hedges poses dozens of questions that young soldiers might ask about combat, and then answers them by quoting from medical and psychological studies. • What are my chances of being wounded or killed if we go to war? • What does it feel like to get shot? • What do artillery shells do to you? • What is the most painful way to get wounded? • Will I be afraid? • What could happen to me in a nuclear attack? • What does it feel like to kill someone? • Can I withstand torture? • What are the long-term consequences of combat stress? • What will happen to my body after I die? This profound and devastating portrayal of the horrors to which we subject our armed forces stands as a ringing indictment of the glorification of war and the concealment of its barbarity.
Download or read book Navigating Terrains of War written by Henrik Vigh and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the concept of "social navigation," this book sheds light on the mobilization of urban youth in West Africa. Social navigation offers a perspective on praxis in situations of conflict and turmoil. It provides insights into the interplay between objective structures and subjective agency, thus enabling us to make sense of the opportunistic, sometimes fatalistic and tactical ways in which young people struggle to expand the horizons of possibility in a world of conflict, turmoil and diminishing resources.
Download or read book The Range Wars written by Joyce Moon and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dangerous, wild, and lawless country where men and women had to learn the law of survival Range wars over grazing lands and water rights were a real test on a persons strength Yet one woman had the courage to fight for the better; from a lonely girl to a faith-filled lady, she had the strength Julliannyia Hamperston went wild with excitement when her boyfriend called her out west She couldnt be more surprised than disappointed when she became involved in a range war after finding out that her parents left her some land; very valuable land. When she meets Keith Petershire, she is torn between her desire to be her own woman and a woman in love. Julli wonders if her strength is enough to endure the savage land and win her the war. Will her newly acquired faith win her the heart of the man she loves?
Download or read book Range War written by J.L. Crafts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will Toal had been told his entire family had been killed at the close of the Civil War. Here he finds out that was not entirely true. He has a sister that not only survived but has moved to Nevada not far from his ranch. But his sister has traveled with a beau who is determined to start ranching in the middle of Nevada’s open range. Across the west, large ranch owners had long standing permits to graze cattle on the same open stretches of public land available for homesteads. Those ranch owners let their cattle roam. Unbranded new calves, called mavericks, were collected only during spring roundups. However, homesteaders also collected these new foundlings viewed legally as “public property” in some states, yet the automatic property of stock growers associations in others. The combination of these competing legal and economic interests spanned the entire industry stoking the fires of anger, greed, politics, and the law. When his newly found sister finds herself threatened with the worst kind of violence, Will gets involved only to become a target himself. Wealthy ranch owners and hundreds of local townspeople square off. It takes the U.S. Military by order of the country’s President to separate the combatants. After the legal system could not provide a resolution, Will is forced to re-establish the simple principles of right and wrong and end the Range War himself.
Download or read book War How Conflict Shaped Us written by Margaret MacMillan and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is peace an aberration? The New York Times bestselling author of Paris 1919 offers a provocative view of war as an essential component of humanity. NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW “Margaret MacMillan has produced another seminal work. . . . She is right that we must, more than ever, think about war. And she has shown us how in this brilliant, elegantly written book.”—H.R. McMaster, author of Dereliction of Duty and Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World The instinct to fight may be innate in human nature, but war—organized violence—comes with organized society. War has shaped humanity’s history, its social and political institutions, its values and ideas. Our very language, our public spaces, our private memories, and some of our greatest cultural treasures reflect the glory and the misery of war. War is an uncomfortable and challenging subject not least because it brings out both the vilest and the noblest aspects of humanity. Margaret MacMillan looks at the ways in which war has influenced human society and how, in turn, changes in political organization, technology, or ideologies have affected how and why we fight. War: How Conflict Shaped Us explores such much-debated and controversial questions as: When did war first start? Does human nature doom us to fight one another? Why has war been described as the most organized of all human activities? Why are warriors almost always men? Is war ever within our control? Drawing on lessons from wars throughout the past, from classical history to the present day, MacMillan reveals the many faces of war—the way it has determined our past, our future, our views of the world, and our very conception of ourselves.
