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 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 Tour Guide to the Old West written by Alice Cromie and published by Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Company. This book was released on 1977 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tour Guide to Old Western Forts written by Herbert M. Hart and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to over one thousand forts, camps, and posts in the western United States; includes detailed historical background accompanied by more than 250 photos and drawings.
Download or read book A Tour Guide to the Old West written by Alice Cromie and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes museums, historic sites, national parks, battlefields, ghost towns, forts, and other points of interest in the West
Download or read book Your Travel Guide to America s Old West written by Rita J. Markel and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes readers on a journey back in time in order to experience life in the American West in the 1800s, describing clothing, accommodations, foods, local customs, transportation, a few notable personalities, and more.
Download or read book The Wild West written by Michael McCoy and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hit the trails in search of the legendary American West Z99 this guide to all the rip-roarin foot-stompin things to see and do in eighteen states west of the Mississippi
Download or read book True West Ultimate Historic Travel Guide written by Ken Amorosano and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 65 years, True West magazine has inspired travelers to take the road less traveled and explore the historic sites and towns of the American West. Now, in honor of its 65th anniversary, the publishers of True West have compiled the essential Old West guidebook, which takes the traveler to where Old West history happened in 22 Western states. True West¿s Ultimate Historic Travel Guide: Your Guide to History in the Old West is a fact-filled handbook that will prove an essential guidebook to experience first-hand its most important historic sites, towns, parks, museums, battlefields and monuments.
Download or read book Ranching and the American West A History in Documents written by Susan Nance and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2021-09-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transformation of the American West is one of the key topics in the study of both US history and global environmental history. The role of ranching in the West is also central to the growing field of animal history. This volume covers the periods between the early Indigenous acquisition of horses in the eighteenth century, to the introduction of Hispanic horsemanship techniques and market cattle in the “Old West,” and finally to the work of twentieth- and twenty-first-century ranching families sustaining their ways of life. The documents in this volume reveal not simply the human past but also the distinct histories of cattle, horses, and the land. Readers will explore intersecting themes of capitalism and beef, environmental change, rural labor, and gender and racial politics as debated by westerners themselves, as well as the meaning and power of the cowboy myth in American life. The introduction incorporates recent scholarship and provides a fresh look at this key topic in American history, while informative headnotes and rich annotations help orient the reader within the historical sources.
Download or read book The Look of the Old West written by William Foster-Harris and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, containing hundreds of illustrations, brings to life the American of the mid-to-late 1800s. Contained inside are line drawings and description of weaponry of the time, military and civilian clothing styles, steamboats and other forms of transportation, equestrian styles, household items and much more.
Download or read book True West 2019 Ultimate Historic Travel Guide written by True West Magazine and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 65 years, True West magazine has inspired travelers to take the road less traveled and explore the historic sites and towns of the American West. Now, in honor of its 65th anniversary, the publishers of True West have compiled the essential Old West guidebook, which takes the traveler to where Old West history happened in 22 Western states.
Download or read book Haunted Old West written by Matthew P. Mayo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-07-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Things that go bump in the night, disembodied voices, footsteps in an empty stairwell, an icy hand on your shoulder ... let your imagination run wild as you read about the Old West's most extraordinary apparitions, sinister spooks, and bizarre beasts. You may know of the famous and well-documented Alamo, but perhaps you haven't heard about: The Mamie R. Mine, plagued by Tommyknockers who beckon miners into danger by mimicking the screams of children; The Mizpah Hotel, where a murdered seductress whispers in the ears of male patrons and leaves pearls to those she visits; and Yuma Territorial Prison, one of the most inhospitable prisons in US history where over a hundred inmates had perished—some by their own hand.
Download or read book Ghost Town Spooky Stories of the Old West written by Richard Brent Reed and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-05 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book The Old West has intrigued the imaginations of many over the years, drawing people in with the mystery and wonders of the wilderness, gun fights, and stories of heroes and villains. But there is more than meets the eye to the Old West: there is a wild magic that lives within the bones that make up the land. Ghost Town: Spooky Stories of the Old West takes the supernatural and places it into the heart of the Western. With tales of ghost towns, spells, mysterious and mystical women, and everything in between, the genre of the Supernatural Western is born. About the Author Richard Brent Reed has been a teacher and attorney with experience in acting, directing, and writing for the stage. He enjoys music, geology, history, horticulture, natural history, and paleontology.
Download or read book How to Read the American West written by William Wyckoff and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From deserts to ghost towns, from national forests to California bungalows, many of the features of the western American landscape are well known to residents and travelers alike. But in How to Read the American West, William Wyckoff introduces readers anew to these familiar landscapes. A geographer and an accomplished photographer, Wyckoff offers a fresh perspective on the natural and human history of the American West and encourages readers to discover that history has shaped the places where people live, work, and visit. This innovative field guide includes stories, photographs, maps, and diagrams on a hundred landscape features across the American West. Features are grouped according to type, such as natural landscapes, farms and ranches, places of special cultural identity, and cities and suburbs. Unlike the geographic organization of a traditional guidebook, Wyckoff's field guide draws attention to the connections and the differences between and among places. Emphasizing features that recur from one part of the region to another, the guide takes readers on an exploration of the eleven western states with trips into their natural and cultural character. How to Read the American West is an ideal traveling companion on the main roads and byways in the West, providing unexpected insights into the landscapes you see out your car window. It is also a wonderful source for armchair travelers and people who live in the West who want to learn more about the modern West, how it came to be, and how it may change in the years to come. Showcasing the everyday alongside the exceptional, Wyckoff demonstrates how asking new questions about the landscapes of the West can let us see our surroundings more clearly, helping us make informed and thoughtful decisions about their stewardship in the twenty-first century. Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYSmp5gZ4-I
Download or read book Haunted Old West written by Matthew P. Mayo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howling hauntings from the raw mountain passes and wind-stripped plains of the Old West The Old West is filled with enough phenomenal happenings, curious mysteries, and ghastly ghosts to send chills up and down any spine. Haunted Old West is the petrifyingly perfect collection for campfire gatherings and makes an eerily ideal guide for a ghost-hunting trip to the Old West. In these pages explore horror-filled mine shafts and outrun herds of stampeding spectral cattle. Stumble upon a supernatural saloon, investigate ghost towns teeming with residents of the afterlife, and feel phantom freight trains pass through your body. Haunted Old West provides the inside story on some of the most actively haunted spots in the great American West, including: Ghostly Garnet: In summer, visitors frequent this best-preserved ghost town in Montana, but it is winter when Garnet truly comes alive. Raucous music can be heard within the Kelly Saloon, and the blacksmith’s ringing anvil punctuates the sounds of a busy 1880s street scene. Yes indeed, Garnet puts the “ghost” in ghost town. Bandit Ghoul of Six Mile Canyon: Respected businessman by day, bandit gang leader by night, Big Jack Davis amasses a fortune robbing trains, stagecoaches, and bullion wagons in 1860s Nevada. Shot in the back while robbing a stagecoach, Big Jack is now a shrieking white demon, flapping wings sprouted from his wounds and driving off anyone who gets too close to his buried loot.
Download or read book Black Charlotte From A Tour Guide s Perspective written by Juan D. "Jay" Whipple and published by CBP Publishing Company . This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unforgettable tour/journey into Charlotte's "rich" Black heritage to include the good, the bad, and surprising nuggets of Queen City History dating back to the 18th Century until 2018. This book unfolds in the same fashion as the QCT Charlotte Black/African-American Heritage Tour created in 1992 and may cause you to laugh, cry, rejoice, reflect, wonder, disagree, or get angry.
Download or read book The Wild West written by Captivating History and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the most well-known lawmen of the American Wild West had multiple criminal charges to their name. There is so much about the Wild West that we don't know from popular culture.
