| Description |
xvii, 366 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The Early Frontier -- The Pirates of the Ohio -- The Great Adventure -- Intrigue on the Natchez Trace -- The Trail of Tears -- Spoils and Scandal -- Along the Santa Fe Trail -- Brides by the Boatland -- The Belknap Scandal -- Heroes, Heroines, and Outlaws -- Jim Bridger -- A Girl with the Donner Pass Party -- Ely S. Parker: "One Real American" -- The Ordeal of Surgeon Tappan -- How Standing Bear Became a Person -- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid -- Seeds of Change -- Story of the Plains Indians -- The Day of the Buffalo -- Day of the Longhorns -- The Pony Express -- The Settlement of the Great Plains -- Final Battles -- In Pursuit of Revenge: The Sioux Uprising of 1862 -- Galvanized Yankees -- Beecher's Island -- Geronimo -- The Ghost Dance and the Battle of Wounded Knee. |
| Subject |
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
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Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) -- History.
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| Local Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- West (U.S.) -- History.
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| Subject |
West (U.S.) -- History.
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| Added Author |
Banash, Stan, 1940-
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| ISBN |
0940666766 cloth |
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0940666774 paperback |
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