Tales Of The Old West
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Author |
: Editors of True West |
Publisher |
: National Geographic Books |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2005-08-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307236388 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307236382 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis True Tales and Amazing Legends of the Old West by : Editors of True West
Much has been written about the west—most of it clouded by exaggeration and fabrication. Since 1953, True West magazine has been devoted to celebrating the West’s true colors, giving the men and women who settled there accurate voices, exploring every triumph and tragedy of their time—and exposing every vice and virtue. True Tales and Amazing Legends of the Old West commemorates these unforgettable cowboys, Indians, and city slickers through a mix of classic histories and brand-new narratives, all illustrated with photographs—many reproduced here for the first time—of the people and places that gave rise to America’s Western mythology. With twenty-six stories that blend fact with folklore, this collection abounds with accounts of the famous and the infamous, including Sacagawea, Wild Bill Hickok, Pancho Villa, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Davy Crockett, and Wyatt Earp. Also here are lesser-known figures whose stories were pivotal to shaping the culture of the era, such as European conquistador Francisco Coronado, rancher “Black Billy” Hill, and fearless lawman Orlando “Rube” Robbins. Other tales recount the wide open plains, lawlessness, drama, mayhem, and promise embodied in the Old West. Whether you’re a history buff, an Old West devotee, or simply someone who is fascinated by the characters of America’s early years, these timeless tales and photographs epitomize the legendary spirit of what it meant to settle the West.
Author |
: Paul Robert Walker |
Publisher |
: National Geographic Children's Books |
Total Pages |
: 132 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0792282183 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780792282181 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis True Tales of the Wild West by : Paul Robert Walker
Shares ten stories featuring legendary places, events, and characters from the era of westward expansion.
Author |
: Eric Ode |
Publisher |
: Meadowbrook |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2007-06-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1416936777 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781416936770 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tall Tales of the Wild West by : Eric Ode
A collection of funny tall tales featuring cowboys, cowgirls, and other characters from the Wild West.
Author |
: Richard Erdoes |
Publisher |
: Pantheon |
Total Pages |
: 464 |
Release |
: 2011-07-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307801616 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307801616 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Legends and Tales of the American West by : Richard Erdoes
From Davy Crockett, Wild Bill Hickok, and Calamity Jane to Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, and Frank and Jesse James, here are more than 130 colorful stories of the pioneers, cowboys, outlaws, gamblers, prospectors, and lawmen who settled the wild west, creating a uniquely American hero and an enduringly fascinating folk mythology. In this wonderfully boisterous treasury of tall tales, everyone and everything is larger than life and bragging is elevated into an art form. Many of these stories are of real people and real events; more than a few, however, grew taller and funnier as they made their rounds from wagon train to campfire to rodeo to miners' quarters. But even if it is far from established that Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett were able to kill three men with one bullet or subdue ferocious grizzly bears with their fists, they come vividly to life here as beloved characters who have become part of the fabric of the American imagination. With black-and white illustrations throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
Author |
: B Diamond |
Publisher |
: Independently Published |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2023-07-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9798852810175 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis TALES Of The WEST by : B Diamond
From the imaginative mind of Master-Storyteller B. Diamond come two Great Tales of the OLD WEST! The first one takes you from Texas to Colorado, in a suspenseful Tale of revenge, "Last Cowboy Waltz" Tale two takes you from England to the Deep South, to the Wild West in "J. C. Whitlock, Last Buffalo Hunter" Stories that bring you back to a wild time in American History. Great stories of the wild west, gunfights, romance, loyalty and love. So easy to read ... So hard to put down!
Author |
: Erin H. Turner |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 409 |
Release |
: 2016-06-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781493023295 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1493023292 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Outlaw Tales of the Old West: Fifty True Stories of Desperados, Crooks, Criminals, and Bandits by : Erin H. Turner
This collection of fifty outlaw tales includes well-knowns such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Frank and Jesse James, Belle Starr (and her dad), and Pancho Villa, along with a fair smattering of women, organized crime bosses, smugglers, and of course the usual suspects: highwaymen, bank and train robbers, cattle rustlers, snake-oil salesmen, and horse thieves. Men like Henry Brown and Burt Alvord worked on both sides of the law either at different times of their lives or simultaneously. Clever shyster Soapy Smith and murderer Martin Couk survived by their wits, while the outlaw careers of the dimwitted DeAutremont brothers and bigmouthed Diamondfield Jack were severely limited by their intellect, or lack thereof. Nearly everyone in these pages was motivated by greed, revenge, or a lethal mixture of the two. The most bloodthirsty of the bunch, such as the heartless (and, some might argue, soulless) Annie Cook and trigger-happy Augustine Chacón, surely had evil written into their very DNA.
Author |
: Stephen G. Hyslop |
Publisher |
: National Geographic Books |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 2015 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781426215551 |
ISBN-13 |
: 142621555X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis National Geographic the Old West by : Stephen G. Hyslop
"From Lewis and Clark's epic 1803 expedition to the showmanship of Buffalo Bill, the story of the American West is epic in scope, full of amazing tales of tragedy and triumph ... Illustrated with ... photographs and ... maps, [this book] is [a] ... history of a time and place that forever lives in legend"--
Author |
: Robert Edelstein |
Publisher |
: Centennial Books |
Total Pages |
: 98 |
Release |
: 2020-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781951274351 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1951274350 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Legends of the Wild West by : Robert Edelstein
For several hundred years, the West had been the land of dreams, an extraordinary region of hope, expansion and opportunity where European countries—and then the young USA itself—sent their finest explorers to plant seeds in a seemingly untapped, open landscape. This spirit captured the popular imagination in the Wild West, those raucous 30 years between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of a new century. Within these pages, readers will explore true tales of rebels and heroes such as General George Custer, Buffalo Bill, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Annie Oakley, and Sitting Bull, among others. The Wild West was the American Dream on steroids. It was an age of gunfights and gold rushes, cowboys and Comanches, with the likes of Buffalo Bill, Jesse James and Billy the Kid making their names. It forged extraordinary legends and even bigger lies, with everything fueled by dime novels written back East that encouraged folks to grab their share of a promise that was difficult for this hard land to keep. This book looks at all these mythical characters, the start of the railroad across the nation, the cost it all dealt to the Native Americans whose land was lost, and the way Hollywood still keeps the dream alive. As historian Richard White says, “People could go west and no matter their failures elsewhere, they had an opportunity to remake themselves. It’s a symbol for a kind of individualism that actually doesn’t exist in the West, but mythically it does.”
Author |
: Richard Erdoes |
Publisher |
: Pantheon |
Total Pages |
: 472 |
Release |
: 1991 |
ISBN-10 |
: IND:30000021410331 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tales from the American Frontier by : Richard Erdoes
Collection of legends, fairy tales, and sagas of the American West.
Author |
: Robert Barr Smith |
Publisher |
: Two Dot Books |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0762740043 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780762740048 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tough Towns by : Robert Barr Smith
A collection of stories of the bank and train robbers of the Old West and how the local citizens fought to defend their homes and lives.