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Gateway to Yellowstone : The Raucous Town of Cinnabar on the Montana Frontier.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Globe Pequot Press, The, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (337 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781493016662
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Gateway to YellowstoneDDC classification:
  • 978.6/661
LOC classification:
  • F739.C53W47 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Before Cinnabar -- 2 Cinnabar -- 3 Dreams of Striking It Rich -- 4 "What a Bonanza for a Freighter!" -- 5 Freighting, Farming, and Politics -- 6 A Dream Realized -- 7 The Town Itself -- 8 "The Only Little Girl in Cinnabar" -- 9 Hoppe Plats the Townsite, Reorganizes His Company, and Dies, but Cinnabar Lives On (1895-1903) -- 10 "Wail of a Cinnabarite" -- 11 Old Cinnabar -- 12 Tussles over the Triangle -- 13 Conclusions -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author.
Summary: The town of Cinnabar, Montana, no longer exists, but when it did, it served as the immediate railroad gateway for a generation of visitors to Yellowstone National Park. Visitors passed through its streets from September 1, 1883, through June 15, 1903, on their way to "Wonderland" when Cinnabar was a raucous Wild-West town, and this book tells the story of its place in the West.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Before Cinnabar -- 2 Cinnabar -- 3 Dreams of Striking It Rich -- 4 "What a Bonanza for a Freighter!" -- 5 Freighting, Farming, and Politics -- 6 A Dream Realized -- 7 The Town Itself -- 8 "The Only Little Girl in Cinnabar" -- 9 Hoppe Plats the Townsite, Reorganizes His Company, and Dies, but Cinnabar Lives On (1895-1903) -- 10 "Wail of a Cinnabarite" -- 11 Old Cinnabar -- 12 Tussles over the Triangle -- 13 Conclusions -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author.

The town of Cinnabar, Montana, no longer exists, but when it did, it served as the immediate railroad gateway for a generation of visitors to Yellowstone National Park. Visitors passed through its streets from September 1, 1883, through June 15, 1903, on their way to "Wonderland" when Cinnabar was a raucous Wild-West town, and this book tells the story of its place in the West.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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