Cattle Kate

Author : Jana Bommersbach
Publisher : Sourcebooks + ORM
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781615954780

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Cattle Kate by Jana Bommersbach Pdf

"A fascinating and disturbing look at a very dark chapter in the annals of the American West."—C.J. BOX, New York Times bestselling author Cattle Kate is the only woman ever lynched as a cattle rustler. History called it "range land justice" when she was strung up in Wyoming Territory on July 20, 1889, tarring her as a dirty thief and a filthy whore. But history was wrong. It was all a lie. Her real name was Ella Watson. She wasn't a rustler. She wasn't a whore. And she'd never been called Cattle Kate until she was dead and they needed an excuse. She was really a 29-year-old immigrant homesteader, lynched with her husband by her rich and powerful cattle-baron neighbors who wanted her land and its precious water rights. Some people knew the truth from the start. Their voices were drowned out by the all-powerful Wyoming Stock Growers Association. And those who dared speak out—including the eyewitnesses to the hangings—either disappeared or mysteriously died. There was no one left to testify against the vigilantes when the case eventually came to trial. Her six killers walked away scot-free. But the legend was stronger than the truth. For over a century, newspapers, magazines, books—movies, too—spread her ugly legacy. Now, on the 125th anniversary of her murder, the real Ella comes alive in Cattle Kate to tell her heartbreaking story. Jana Bommersbach's debut novel bares a legend central to the western experience.

Author : George W. Hufsmith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000039055011

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The Wyoming Lynching of Cattle Kate, 1889 by George W. Hufsmith Pdf

The Lynching of Cattle Kate (Ellen Watson) and Jim Averell by six prominent cattlemen filled the pages of Wyoming newspapers in 1889. The popular myth of the West was that Watson was a prostitute who galloped across the prairies and bartered sex for calves. For years residents of the Sweetwater Valley knew that these stories were not true. They knew that Ellen Watson's biggest crime was legally claiming a homestead on a piece of ground being used as a hay meadow by cattleman Albert Bothwell. Now, for the first time, an author has searched through the layers of fabrication and uncovered the true story.

Author : Alton Pryor
Publisher : Stagecoach Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0974755125

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Cowboys by Alton Pryor Pdf

Author : Richard W. Etulain
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 1555912958

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Wild Women Of The Old West by Richard W. Etulain Pdf

Author : Howard R. Lamar
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780826336705

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Charlie Siringo's West by Howard R. Lamar Pdf

Charlie Siringo (1855-1928) lived the quintessential life of adventure on the American frontier as a cowboy, Pinkerton detective, writer, and later as a consultant for early western films. Siringo was one of the most attractive, bold, and original characters to live and flourish in the final decades of the Wild West. His love of the cattle business and of cowboy life were so great that in 1885 he published A Texas Cowboy, or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony--Taken From Real Life, which Will Rogers dubbed the "Cowboy's Bible." Howard R. Lamar's biography deftly shares Siringo's story within seventy-five pivotal years of western history. Siringo was not a mere observer but a participant in major historical events including the Coeur d'Alene mining strikes of the 1890s and Big Bill Haywood's trial in 1907. Lamar focuses on Siringo's youthful struggles to employ his abundant athleticism and ambitions and how Siringo's varied experiences helped develop the compelling national myth of the cowboy.

Author : Michael Rutter
Publisher : Farcountry Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781560375357

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Bedside Book of Bad Girls by Michael Rutter Pdf

Meet Kate Bender, who brutally murdered as many as thirty people in Kansas, including children, and buried them in her family's orchard; Laura Bullion, the only woman to participate in a Wild Bunch train robbery; and Madam Vestal, a one-time Confederate spy who organized the famous Deadwood stagecoach robberies. Witness the execution of Elizabeth Potts and Ellen Watson, the first women hanged in Nevada and Wyoming. Drawing on fact and folklore, author and historian Michael Rutter brings 21 gun-slinging "bad girls" to life, and explores their motives, hopes, and dreams. He dispels many of the myths about these female outlaws, for sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction. Featuring forty-two historical images, Bedside Book of Bad Girls sheds light on figures and events often shrouded in fabrication and fantasy. Meet these fascinating characters, complete with their pistols and petticoats, their knives and knaves, their vices and victims.

Author : Dorothy Gray
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803270739

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Women of the West by Dorothy Gray Pdf

The independent-minded western woman was often eclipsed in popular literature by sensations like Calamity Jane and Belle Starr. Starting with Sacajawea, the Shoshone guide for Lewis and Clark, WOMEN OF THE WEST gives a historical overview of various pioneer women who made their own way out west. 8 photos.

Author : Duncan Aikman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803259115

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Calamity Jane and the Lady Wildcats by Duncan Aikman Pdf

Traces the life of Calamity Jane and describes the experiences of pioneer women in the American West

Author : David William Cohen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1994-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226112787

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The Combing of History by David William Cohen Pdf

How is historical knowledge produced? And how do silence and forgetting figure in the knowledge we call history? Taking us through time and across the globe, David William Cohen's exploration of these questions exposes the circumstantial nature of history. His investigation uncovers the conventions and paradigms that govern historical knowledge and historical texts and reveals the economic, social, and political forces at play in the production of history. Drawing from a wide range of examples, including African legal proceedings, German and American museum exhibits, Native American commemorations, public and academic debates, and scholarly research, David William Cohen explores the "walls and passageways" between academic and non-academic productions of history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : US History Publishers
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781603540490

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Wyoming: A Guide to Its History, Highways and People by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard W. Slatta
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001-11-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781576075883

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The Mythical West by Richard W. Slatta Pdf

This cultural journey down memory lane showcases how major Western figures, events, and places have been portrayed in folk legends, art, literature, and popular culture. Ever since the days of the 49ers and George Armstrong Custer, the Old West has been America's most potent source of legend. But it is sometimes hard to separate fact from fiction. Did you know, for example, that Annie Oakley was a talented marksman who shot an estimated 40,000 rounds per year while practicing and performing for Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show in the late l800s? Or that many interpreters believe that The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is not just a fairy tale, but also a Populist allegory? These are just two of the folk legends dissected and examined in this veritable cultural geography. The volume covers everything from billionaire Howard Hughes and composer Aaron Copeland to Aztlan (the legendary first city of the Aztecs) and Area 51, the top-secret U.S. Air Force base at Groom Lake, Nevada, that has fascinated UFO and conspiracy buffs.

Author : Federal Writers' Project
Publisher : US History Publishers
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Oregon National Historic Trail
ISBN : 9781603540650

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Oregon Trail: The Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean by Federal Writers' Project Pdf

Author : Jana Bommersbach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1464203024

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Cattle Kate by Jana Bommersbach Pdf

Presents a fictionalized account of the life of Ella Watson, also known as Cattle Kate, and her husband James Averell, who were lynched by vigilantes in 1889 for allegedly stealing cattle.

Author : A. S. Mercer
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806187143

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The Banditti of the Plains by A. S. Mercer Pdf

In 1894, when A. S. Mercer published this angry eyewitness account of the cattlemen’s invasion of Wyoming, the book was so thoroughly and ruthlessly suppressed that few copies of that edition remain today. Although historians have since questioned some of Mercer’s conclusions about the Johnson County range war, they have never controverted the facts of the cattlemen-homesteader struggle as he grimly reported them. With the intention of "executing" alleged rustlers and terrorizing the homesteaders, a band of fifty-two cattlemen and hired gunmen invaded Johnson Country, Wyoming, in April 1892. After besieging and killing "the bravest man in Johnson County," the raiders in turn found themselves besieged by the homesteaders and finally in the protective custody of the Untied States cavalry. Further legal and illegal maneuvering permitted the invaders to go unpunished, but the cattlemen never again attempted to retain their hold over the range with organized mob violence. In this new edition of The Banditti of the Plains the original text has been followed with the utmost fidelity, even including the illustrations. An informed and interesting foreword by William H. Kittrell has been added to the book.

Author : Jeff Savage
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766048034

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Pioneering Women by Jeff Savage Pdf

A six shooter makes all men and women equal. Agnes Morley not only coined this phrase, but also backed it up by carrying a gun. While many women in the Wild West did not carry a gun, Morley's quote represented the brave spirit of all pioneering women. Early expeditions to the unexplored West included women, such as Sacagawea, who helped Lewis and Clark reach the Pacific. As Americans settled the West, women took on important roles as ranchers, teachers, homesteaders, miners, outlaws, and reformers. From Calamity Jane to Carry Nation, author Jeff Savage examines the amazing women pioneers of the Wild West.