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050 4 _aF596.W553 2017
082 0 _a978.020922
100 1 _aStephens, John Richard.
245 1 0 _aWildest Lives of the Frontier :
_bAmerica Through the Words of Jesse James, George Armstrong Custer, and Other Famous Westerners.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aBlue Ridge Summit :
_bGlobe Pequot Press, The,
_c2016.
264 4 _c©2016.
300 _a1 online resource (385 pages)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 _aIntro -- Acknowledgments -- A Note About the Text -- Going West John Richard Stephens -- Claiming the Kentucky Wilderness Daniel Boone -- Sacagawea Lewis and Clark -- Red Hair and Long Knife Sacagawea -- Brushes with Death Davy Crockett -- The Black Hawk War Black Hawk -- Indians, Buffalo, and Kit Carson John C. Frémont -- Kit Carson Pursues Horse Thieves John C. Frémont -- Chasing Horse Thieves Kit Carson -- Indian Conflicts and the War in California Kit Carson -- Discovering Gold John Sutter -- Riding for the Pony Express Buffalo Bill Cody -- A Black Speck Against the Sky Mark Twain -- Smitten with the Silver Fever Mark Twain -- Rebel Guerrillas and Bank Robbers Jesse James -- The Disastrous Northfield Bank Robbery Cole Younger -- Breaking Off from My Bohemian Life Frank James -- The Massacre of Some of Custer's Men George Armstrong Custer -- Custer and Little Bighorn Buffalo Bill Cody -- Crazy Horse's Deathbed Statement Crazy Horse -- Little Bighorn and Custer's Death Sitting Bull -- Recommended Reading Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author/Editor.
520 _aBy and about the greatest celebrities of frontier America, these are the stories of their adventures told in their own words through excerpts from autobiographies, articles they wrote, newspaper interviews, private journals, personal letters, and court testimony. These glimpses into the worlds of these legendary figures as they describe their own personal experiences, impressions, what life in the frontier West was like, reveal the roles they played in notable events in American history.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aWest (U.S.) - History.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aStephens, John Richard
_tWildest Lives of the Frontier
_dBlue Ridge Summit : Globe Pequot Press, The,c2016
_z9781493024414
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4711773
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