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Title The way west : true stories of the American frontier / edited by James A. Crutchfield ; with an introduction by Paul Andrew Hutton.

Imprint New York : Forge, 2005.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Eureka Non-Fiction  978.02 Way    ---  Available
Description 304 p. ; 24 cm.
Note "A Tom Doherty Associates book."
An anthology of nonfiction from members of the Western Writers of America.
Contents Introduction / Paul Andrew Hutton -- Survival of the cowboy / Darrell Arnold -- Medical necessity / Allen P. Bristow -- Did Lambe lead Mary to slaughter / Larry K. Brown -- Muggins Taylor : the man and the myth / Robert Casemore -- "Is not this the Red River?" : the search for the far southwest / James A. Crutchfield -- Western trails / David Dary -- Toughest town in Texas / Riley Froh -- Dancing in the eye of the storm / Carmen Goldthwaite -- Last war cry : Battle Butte, January 8, 1877 / Janet E. Graebner -- Alamo / William Groneman III -- Pacific Northwest steamboat days / Bill Gulick -- Spreading the news : California's gold messengers of 1848 / Abraham Hoffman -- Second Declaration of Independence / Elmer Kelton -- Intrepid females of forty-nine / JoAnn Levy -- Jayhawking of Salina / Judy Magnuson Lilly -- Maud, kidnapped by Pancho Villa / Douglas V. Meed -- Fast guns and dead men : the story of John Wesley Hardin / Leon Claire Metz -- Bill Cody gets buffaloed / Rod Miller -- Fourth Company / Candy Moulton -- Idaho gold dust murders / Pat Decker Nipper -- From the heart of chaos : finding Zitkala-Sa / Nancy M. Peterson -- Ranald Mackenzie : the forgotten hero / Troy D. Smith -- Murder most foul : a New Mexico cause celebre / Karen Holliday Tanner and John D. Tanner, Jr. -- Images of the Texas Rangers / Robert M. Utley -- "More than a locomotive to separate us" / Lori Van Pelt -- R.I.P. : the whereabouts of forty celebrated westerners / Dale L. Walker -- Thou shlt not, or "How to tame a Texi-Kan" / Sandy Whiting.
Subject Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Anecdotes.
West (U.S.) -- History -- Anecdotes.
West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs -- Anecdotes.
West (U.S.) -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
Added Author Crutchfield, James Andrew, 1938-
Western Writers of America.
ISBN 9780765304520 (pbk.)
076530452X (pbk.)

 
    
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