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Motavalli, Jim, author.

Title The real dirt on America's frontier legends / Jim Motavalli.

Publication Info.	Layton, Utah : Gibbs Smith, [2019]
	©2019

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Location	Call No.	Status
Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction	910.922 MOTAVALLI	Check Shelf
Manchester, Whiton Branch - Non Fiction	910.92 MONTAVALLI	Check Shelf
Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department	910.92 MOTAVALLI	Check Shelf

Edition	First edition.
Description	240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-234) and index.
Contents	Preface : we were misinformed : myths in America's frontier lore -- Daniel Boone : a legend is born (in Pennsylvania) -- Davy Crockett : not even born on a mountaintop -- Lewis and Clark : discovering what was already there -- Mike Fink : more tall tale than man -- John "Liver-Eating" Johnston : out for vengeance -- Hugh Glass : the elusive revenant -- John "Grizzly" Adams : a way with animals -- Pierre Louis and Benito Vasquez : the Spanish traders -- Kit Carson : famous for all the wrong reasons -- Wild Bill : theatrical life mixed fact and fiction -- Cathay Williams : first black woman in the army -- James Beckwourth : a lot of it was actually true -- Black Beaver : an honorable scout -- Calamity Jane : reflected glory -- Joe Knowles : nature man or fabulous fake?
Subject	West (U.S.) -- Biography.
	Explorers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.
	Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
	Explorers. (OCoLC)fst00918556
	Frontier and pioneer life. (OCoLC)fst00935370
	West United States. (OCoLC)fst01243255
Genre/Form	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
	Legends. (OCoLC)fst01423803
	Biographies.
	Legends.
ISBN	9781423652601 (hardcover)
	1423652606 (hardcover)

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