Cowtown Abilene
Author: Stewart P. Verckler
Publisher:
Published: 2011-07-01
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9781258066222
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ABILENE
Author: Stephanie Bearce
Publisher: Arcadia Library Editions
Published: 2012-01
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9781531660949
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first settler to make permanent residence in the Abilene area arrived in 1856. From the humble beginnings of a prairie dugout, Abilene grew to be the first "cowtown" of the West. Joseph G. McCoyset up his stockyards in Abilene, and millions of cattle were driven up from Texas via the Chisholm Trail and shipped out on Union Pacific railcars. Abilene exploded into one of the wildest towns in the West. Several sheriffs tried to tame it, including Wild Bill Hickok, but gentrification came in the form of bankers and businessmen. During World War II, hometown hero Dwight D. Eisenhower led the Allies to victory and eventually became the 34th president of the United States. Today, Abilene plays host to thousands of visitors from around the world and celebrates its rich western heritage with the Chisholm Trail Day festival.
The Cattle Kings
Author: Lewis Atherton
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1972-01-01
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780803257597
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the role of the ranchers in shaping the American West and probes their contributions to the nation's cultural development
Eisenhower
Author: Carlo D'Este
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2015-11-24
Total Pages: 1272
ISBN-13: 1627799613
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"An excellent book . . . D'Este's masterly account comes into its own." —The Washington Post Book World Born into hardscrabble poverty in rural Kansas, the son of stern pacifists, Dwight David Eisenhower graduated from high school more likely to teach history than to make it. Casting new light on this profound evolution, Eisenhower chronicles the unlikely, dramatic rise of the supreme Allied commander. With full access to private papers and letters, Carlo D'Este has exposed for the first time the untold myths that have surrounded Eisenhower and his family for over fifty years, and identified the complex and contradictory character behind Ike's famous grin and air of calm self-assurance. Unlike other biographies of the general, Eisenhower captures the true Ike, from his youth to the pinnacle of his career and afterward.
Lost Abilene
Author: Jack E. North
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 0738596930
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1881, the Texas & Pacific Railroad described Abilene as the "Future Great City of the West." While the train line was laying rails west out of Fort Worth, a group of ranchers, wanting the new town to become a prominent cattle-shipping point, selected the name Abilene after Abilene, Kansas, which was a main cattle-shipping town in the 1870s. With the arrival of the railroad to Abilene, this part of Texas opened up for settlement. Families rushed to establish the town and set up new businesses, but it was the military coming to Abilene that really made the city's population explode. Lost Abilene documents the early homes, businesses, schools, and entertainment that helped shape the city.
The Fifth Street Kid Relives Abilene - Memories of a Kansas Cowtown
Author: Jim Vance
Publisher:
Published: 2012-09-24
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9780615679921
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollow the Fifth Street Kid through Abilene, a Kansas cowtown walking the dusty Chisholm Trailhead during the 1950's. Reminise back to the days of the Texas Longhorns stiring so much dust, you could hardly breathe - a real test for a bandana! Great adventures in a small rural Kansas town.
They Called Him Wild Bill
Author: Joseph G. Rosa
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2012-11-28
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 0806188626
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHis contemporaries called him Wild Bill, and newspapermen and others made him a legend in his own time. Among western characters only General George Armstrong Custer and Buffalo Bill Cody are as readily recognized by the general public. In writing this biography, Joseph G. Rosa has expressed the hope that "Hickok emerges as a man and not a legend." For this comprehensive revision of his earlier biography of Wild Bill the author was allowed to work from newly available materials in the possession of the Hickok family. He also discovered new material pertaining to Wild Bill’s Civil War exploits and his service as a marshal and found the pardon file of his murderer, John McCall. Additional, rare photographs of Wild Bill are published here for the first time. The results of Rosa’s additional research make this second edition the best biography of Wild Bill likely to be written for years to come.
Abilene
Author: George L. Cushman
Publisher:
Published: 1940
Total Pages: 19
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Gunfighter
Author: Joseph G. Rosa
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1979-10-01
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780806115610
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduces some of the gunfighting legends of the West, both criminals and law officials, and attempts to explore the realism of accounts of their feats
Fort Worth
Author: Julia Kathryn Garrett
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2013-05-31
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 0875655262
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the 1950s, history teacher Julia Kathryn Garrett of Fort Worth began collecting stories from old-timers and pioneers whose memory or knowledge reached back to the early days of the city. For fifteen summer vacations she worked from morning to night on her book, creating an anecdotal chronicle of the early years of the city that began as a fort on the Trinity River in 1849. She closed her history with events a quarter of a century later, when Fort Worth was poised on the edge of growth, ready to become a modern city with the 1876 arrival of the railroad. First published in 1972 and reprinted by TCU Press in 1996.
