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Author: Charles Leland Sonnichsen
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780826305619
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of the Tularosa Basin--which includes White Sands Missile Range--from pioneer days through the atomic age.
Author: George Lee McNew
Publisher:
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 764
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA historical novel based on one family's struggle to conquer the Tularosa Basin of south-central New Mexico in 1885-1915, and the price they had to pay in human suffering and political abuse for their efforts and eventual success. As interpreted one century later from the published records, reports to the Governor, New Mexico State Archives, and family lore by one of their first generation descendants.
Author: Howard Fast
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-05-20
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1317455967
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1941, The Last Frontier is the story of the Cheyenne Indians in the 1870s, and their bitter struggle to flee from the Indian Territory in Oklahoma back to their home in Wyoming and Montana. Some 300 Indians, led by Little Wolf, fought against General Crook and 10,000 troops, with only 60 finally making it through to freedom. Fast extensively researched this book in the late 1930s, visiting and speaking with Cheyenne experts in Norman, Oklahoma. This was the first of Fast's many books to gain a wide popular audience; it was eventually made by John Ford into the classic film Cheyenne Autumn (1964).
Author: James C. Bonner
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2010-04-01
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 0820335258
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished in 1971, Georgia's Last Frontier presents the history of one of the state's least developed regions. During the 1830s, Carroll County was a large part of Georgia's most rugged frontier. James C. Bonner examines how life in this isolated region was complicated by the presence of Native Americans, cattle rustlers, and horse thieves. He details how the discovery of gold in the Villa Rica area resulted in drunkenness and violence, but also laid the foundations of mining technology that were later used in Colorado and California. The region remained isolated until after the Civil War, when a rail line was constructed to stimulate cotton cultivation. With the development of the railway, Carroll County's frontier traditions waned in the early twentieth century.
Author: George Lee McNew
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Published: 1983*
Total Pages: 82
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joseph G. Masters
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Published: 1935
Total Pages: 320
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Clayton W. Williams
Publisher:
Published: 2000-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781585440719
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor almost three hundred miles, the Pecos River cuts across far West Texas. It is an arid land, a land that in the last century offered danger and hardship to those who crossed it and those who settled it. Yet they came--army posts like Fort Stockton to challenge the Apaches' claim to the rugged land, settlers to supply the posts, cattlemen to eke out a living from the vast but sparse grazing ranges. They came and they stayed because the land held one overriding appeal: it was Texas' last frontier. The newcomers--cattlemen and sheepmen, individuals and corporations--included sturdy, law-abiding, industrious citizens, such as O.W. Williams, a renowned surveyor, jurist, and historian with a law degree from Harvard; Mexicans, both poor laborers and well-to-do entrepreneurs; kindly German merchants; fighting Irishmen; and fearless Anglo cowboys. There were also the gunslingers, including Sheriff A.J. Royal, who terrorized the citizenry, even after Texas Rangers had arrived, until he was mysteriously shot to death one afternoon, possibly by one of the town's leading men. The most detailed and thorough account available of the history of far West Texas, this tale is colored with human interest and drama. It will prove invaluable to scholars and richly rewarding to all those interested in the history of Texas and of the West.
Author: Alaska Magazine
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2023-12-12
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 149308268X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince 1935, Alaska magazine has charted the development of our biggest, most mysterious state. With compelling stories on such events as earthquakes, tidal waves, grizzly and polar bear attacks, the Russian influence, the Gold Rush, the Japanese invasion of the Aleutians during World War II, hunting and fishing, the lives of sourdoughs, village life, and much more, The Last Frontier truly captures the essence of our largest state. Other chapters include the tale of the Eskimo commercial pilot, flying villagers across the Arctic. Or the one about the young woman who conducted the 1940 census in the Interior by dog team. Or the story about the family who placed their automobile on a raft, hooked paddles to the axles, and steered their home-built paddle-wheeler down the Yukon River to the first road-whereupon they removed the car from the barge, and drove home to Nebraska.Other stories you won't want to miss in this book include: Don Sheldon's floatplane rescue of eight men from white water; the mystery of Klutuk, the beast of the tundra; how Julie Collins's sled dog saved her life; the trials and tribulations of a nurse running a hospital on the arctic coast in 1921; an Athabascan writer interviews her grandmother, a medicine woman; newsworthy events across the state and much, much more.
Author: Page Stegner
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 406
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKChronicles the history of the American frontier from 1800 to 1899, discussing how the expansion into the lands west of the Mississippi influenced the nation's formation.
Author: Melissa L. Cook
Publisher:
Published: 2021-11-22
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781956413052
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMelissa Cook shares her Alaska adventures, joys, struggles, and daily life in the Last Frontier with heart-pounding excitement and humor.
