Bull Trains To Deadwood

Author : Chuck Cecil
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467144223

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Pandemonium wafted up out of Deadwood Gulch whenever bellowing, muddy oxen teams led wagons rattling into town. For a decade, thousands of bull trains hauled all that miners, settlers and ne'er-do-wells needed to survive in that isolated prairie oasis. The bulls, thousands of them in mile-long, meandering trains, had last known civilization in Fort Pierre, two hundred miles to the east. After weeks on the harsh prairie of the Sioux, the exhausted convoys appeared out of the prairie dust, each team of twenty or more oxen pulling sturdy, white-bonneted wagons filled with provisions. Author Chuck Cecil restores the glory of the near-forgotten yet indispensable symbols of the West that made life possible on the frontier's western fringe.

Author : Chuck Cecil
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-10
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781439668986

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Bull Trains to Deadwood by Chuck Cecil Pdf

Pandemonium wafted up out of Deadwood Gulch whenever bellowing, muddy oxen teams led wagons rattling into town. For a decade, thousands of bull trains hauled all that miners, settlers and ne'er-do-wells needed to survive in that isolated prairie oasis. The bulls, thousands of them in mile-long, meandering trains, had last known civilization in Fort Pierre, two hundred miles to the east. After weeks on the harsh prairie of the Sioux, the exhausted convoys appeared out of the prairie dust, each team of twenty or more oxen pulling sturdy, white-bonneted wagons filled with provisions. Author Chuck Cecil restores the glory of the near-forgotten yet indispensable symbols of the West that made life possible on the frontier's western fringe.

Author : Linda Jucovy
Publisher : Linda Jucovy
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780985300302

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Searching for Calamity by Linda Jucovy Pdf

“Who in the world would think that Calamity Jane would get to be such a famous person?” one of the pallbearers at her funeral asked an interviewer many years later. It seemed like a reasonable question. Who else has accomplished so little by conventional standards and yet achieved such enduring fame? But conventional standards do not apply. Calamity was poor, uneducated, and an alcoholic. For decades, she wandered through the small towns and empty spaces of the Dakotas, Wyoming, and Montana. But she also had a natural talent for self-invention. She created a story about herself and promoted it tirelessly for much of her life. The story emphasized her love of adventure and the heroic role she played in key events in the early history of the American west. She became that story to people around the country who read about her. And she became that story to herself. The details about her exploits were rarely accurate, but a larger truth lay beneath them. In an era when there were few options for women, Calamity had the audacity to be herself. She lived as she pleased, which is to say that she allowed herself the same freedoms her male contemporaries assumed as their birthright. She spoke her mind. She flouted the rules. She dressed as a man when it was illegal for women to wear pants; hung out in saloons although that was unheard of for any woman who was not a prostitute; did men’s work; cursed, hollered, and smoked cigars. Although Calamity’s name is imprinted in history, most people know little about her. This highly readable biography brings Calamity to life against the backdrop of the American west and of women’s determination to break free from their historical constraints.

Author : Barbara C. Fifer
Publisher : Farcountry Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781560375487

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Bad Boys of the Black Hills: And Some Wild Women, Too by Barbara C. Fifer Pdf

The lively romp details some of the Wild West's most engaging stories, specifically in the Black Hills and Deadwood, home to prostitutes and poets, desperados and dancehall girls, fortune tellers and fugitives. Readers will meet a host of rowdies ranging from madams to stagecoach robbers, from tall-tale tellers to killers.

Author : Jan Cerney
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-26
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781439632796

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Pierre and Fort Pierre by Jan Cerney Pdf

From prairie to river’s edge, the Pierre and Fort Pierre area resounds with historical adventure. Visited in 1743 by French explorers–the Verendrye brothers–and by Lewis and Clark in 1804, Fort Pierre was established as a significant fur trading post in 1817 and served briefly as a military fort in 1855. The decaying port settlement was revived during the Black Hills gold rush of 1875, outfitting bull trains. For over a decade, it bustled with freighting activity and stagecoach travel on the Fort Pierre-Deadwood gold trail. When the Chicago, Northwestern Railroad reached the Missouri River in 1880, Fort Pierre’s sister city, Pierre, emerged as an important river town. During the days of the open range, Fort Pierre served as a holding place for the millions of cattle to be ferried across the Missouri to the trains at Pierre. In 1889, Pierre was named capital of the state and became the political heart of South Dakota. When nearby reservations opened for settlement, the cattle range began to fill with settlers, changing the scene once again. In these pages, a pictorial history unfolds, the drama of men and women who lived out their dreams near the Missouri.

Author : Martha Ferguson McKeown
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1950-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803251319

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Them was the Days by Martha Ferguson McKeown Pdf

"This is real Americana. What Mrs. McKeown has written is out and out history but a whacking good narrative as well. . . . Some of the finest adventure yarns you ever came across. . . A fascinating account."--Joseph Henry Jackson, San Francisco Chronicle. "It is America itself Mrs. McKeown writes about, the shaping of our country and the forging of our social conscience. . . . As readable as a novel, making effective use, indeed, of a novelist's devices, her book is also history of the first water and should have lasting value."--Dale L. Morgan, Saturday Review. "Mont Hawthorne embodies the spirit of America. . . . You feel as though you'd been a pioneer yourself."--Paul Jordan-Smith, Los Angeles Times. "When the reader picks up this book it is exactly like pulling up an armchair and settling down to hear for the first time a prime story-teller spin pioneer adventures in his own unvarnished way."--Seattle Times. "This true-life story of a family and a country at the beginning of an epoch contains life and death, hunger and cold, courage and endurance. It also contains humor and humanity. I don't see how it could disappoint any reader."--Walter Havighurst, Chicago Sunday Tribune Magazine of Books.

Author : Joseph L. Gavett
Publisher : Watchmaker Publishing, Ltd
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 1603863427

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North Dakota by Joseph L. Gavett Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025727459

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North Dakota Historical Quarterly by Anonim Pdf

Author : David M. Quinn
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781452049342

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It May Be Forever by David M. Quinn Pdf

It May Be Forever is a nineteenth century tale of adventure and tragedy, based upon the real-life story of Michael Quinn. To escape the grinding poverty of Irelands Great Famine, Michael and his family flee to England, where at age eight, Michael becomes a child laborer in a textile mill. As he grows older and more aware of British prejudice and discrimination, he is motivated to enlist with the Fenian rebels, a group determined to free Ireland from British colonial rule. Chronic unemployment, however, drives him to America, and defeat on the battlefield lands him on the untamed plains of the Wild West. Faced with unaccustomed opportunity, Michael quickly abandons the fight against oppression and turns away from family and friends. Dreams of achieving a great fortune lead him to support the dispossession of Native Americans of their lands and livelihood. But after the massacre at Wounded Knee, demons of conscience rise up in terrible nightmares, and only a Lakota holy man offers the hope of redemption. It May Be Forever is a cautionary tale, which shows how the many small decisions of life can create the most unintended consequences, and how easily a man of strong convictions may become that which he hates. Visit David Quinns website: www.davidquinnbooks.com.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : SDSHS Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780984504107

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Gold Rush by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wayne C. Lee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036094303

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Scotty Philip, the Man who Saved the Buffalo by Wayne C. Lee Pdf

James (Scotty) Philip was born in 1858 in Dallas, Morayshire, Scoltand. He emigrated in 1874 and settled first in Kansas and later in South Dakota. He married Sarah Larribee in 1879.

Author : Ann Yokley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : MINN:31951001963505X

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Grass and Water by Ann Yokley Pdf

The life stories and biograhpies of the pioneers of South Dakota.

Author : Westerners. Denver Posse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : West (U.S.)
ISBN : WISC:89067602474

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Brand Book, Denver Posse of the Westerners by Westerners. Denver Posse Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015035831729

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The Westerners Brand Book by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : UCSD:31822035095272

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Brand Book by Anonim Pdf