Recollections of Frontier Life (Classic Reprint)
Recollections of Frontier Life (Classic Reprint)

Author: Elizabeth Ann Roe

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-20

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780331535068

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Excerpt from Recollections of Frontier Life When I can first recollect (through the'perseverance and enterprise of a Yankee Colony that settled there in 17 99) it was dotted all over with neat dwellings and good gardens, producing every variety of vegetables and flowers that the mind could well conceive, yielding not only plenty but an abundance to the diligent hand. While these bluffs were covered with a variety of timber, wild fruit and flowers. The timber consisted of elm, ash, hickory, walnut and sugar-maple, from which the early settlers made a great quantity of sugar and molasses, a great luxury I assure you, at that time. The fruit consisted of grapes, blackberries, crab-apples, 'paupaus, dewberries, and many others. There was a great variety of wild flowers, from the gorgeous white and purple flower of the dog wood and the pink flush of the red-bud tree, to the tiny violet, arrayed in its modest robe of blue and white. (how beautiful is this tiny flower in its simplicity and humility, sending forth its rich perfume through the air, while growing so humbly at our feet.) Here I was allowed to ramble at pleasure through these scenes of romance and beauty, constantly attended by my brother, who was two years older than myself, and sometimes a number of boys and girls would join us in our rambles over the bluffs and through the lovely valley. We have often Spent half a day at a time in one of these rambles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Frontier Lady
A Frontier Lady

Author: Sarah Royce

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1977-01-01

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9780803258563

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Since it was first published in 1932, A Frontier Lady has held a high and special place in the literature of Americas westward migration. Written in the 1880s at the request of her son, the philosopher and educator Josiah Royce, Sarah Royce's narrative of the family odyssey across the continent and of their early years in California is also the portrait of a remarkable woman. In the words of her daughter-in-law, "Wherever she was, she made civilization, even when it seemed that she had little indeed from which to make it."

Reminiscences of Frontier Life (Classic Reprint)
Reminiscences of Frontier Life (Classic Reprint)

Author: Isaac B. Hammond

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-15

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9781331455233

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Excerpt from Reminiscences of Frontier Life At the request of my friends I have endeavored to relate a few of the incidents connected with my life in the West. In the following pages will be found some of my actual experiences as far as I can write them from memory. I have made twenty-five trips to Alaska, been many times through Mexico, British Columbia and England, and during the last thirty-three years' travel have seen many things that would make interesting reading were it in the hands of a writer. I hope my short-comings will be overlooked, as these pages are only as reminiscences for my friends. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Under Cover for Wells Fargo
Under Cover for Wells Fargo

Author: Fred Dodge

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1998-12-31

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9780806131061

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These are the remarkable memoirs of Fred Dodge (1854-1938), Wells Fargo secret agent for fifty years, friend of Wyatt Earp, and fast man with a gun. Here are dozens of his cases--stage robberies, train holdups, long pursuits through the badlands, even suits against Wells Fargo for "delay to a corpse" and the bite of a vicious horse. In Under Cover for Wells Fargo his "unvarnished recollections" are preserved and carefully edited by Carolyn Lake, who discovered Dodge’s journals among Stuart N. Lake’s papers, awaiting a biography that was never written. Fred Dodge was a dead ringer for Morgan Earp, and this led to his early acquaintance with the famous brothers. In those days Dodge was posing as a gambler, and even Wyatt did not know that he was a Wells Fargo agent. Dodge sheds much light on the Earps in Tombstone and on how he teamed up with Heck Thomas to hunt down outlaws in Kansas and Oklahoma, including Bill Doolin’s gang and the Dalton brothers.

A sailor's log, recollections of forty years of naval life
A sailor's log, recollections of forty years of naval life

Author: Robley Dunglison Evans

Publisher:

Published: 1901

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13:

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My yarn of forty years of naval life is spun." So ends this well-told tale of life at sea by Robley D. Evans, whose naval career is legendary. Evans served in the Civil War and the Spanish-American War, and was renowned for both his seamanship and diplomatic skills. This thought-provoking memoir gives readers the insight into the life of a soldier.

Recollections of a Western Ranchman
Recollections of a Western Ranchman

Author: William French

Publisher: High Lonesome Books

Published: 2016-03-18

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9780944383087

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Since its first limited American printing in 1928, "Recollections of a Western Ranchman" has been largely unavailable and, even when found, affordable only by collectors. Herein is Captain French's original volume in a reader's edition, the story of a man who lived through the wildest years of the New Mexico/Arizona border country to leave us a frontier memoir with a human voice. In the midst of the final astonishing stand of Geronimo and his renegades, French displays a perceptive and balanced admiration for both the soldiers and the Apache tribe. At the siege of Elfego Baca, the author deftly delineates the hero from the bullies. When the outlaw Black Jack steals his horses, the Captain delightedly steals them back. And nobody has written better of Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch than French. Finally, his descriptions of ranch life and the Southwest wilderness are those of a natural raconteur who still held to the facts. Never the hero, though often heroic, French saw it all, with balance, perception, and a droll British wit.

We Pointed Them North
We Pointed Them North

Author: E.C. "Teddy Blue" Abbott

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2015-02-16

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0806186801

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E. C. Abbott was a cowboy in the great days of the 1870's and 1880's. He came up the trail to Montana from Texas with the long-horned herds which were to stock the northern ranges; he punched cows in Montana when there wasn't a fence in the territory; and he married a daughter of Granville Stuart, the famous early-day stockman and Montana pioneer. For more than fifty years he was known to cowmen from Texas to Alberta as "Teddy Blue." This is his story, as told to Helena Huntington Smith, who says that the book is "all Teddy Blue. My part was to keep out of the way and not mess it up by being literary.... Because the cowboy flourished in the middle of the Victorian age, which is certainly a funny paradox, no realistic picture of him was ever drawn in his own day. Here is a self-portrait by a cowboy which is full and honest." And Teddy Blue himself says, "Other old-timers have told all about stampedes and swimming rivers and what a terrible time we had, but they never put in any of the fun, and fun was at least half of it." So here it is—the cowboy classic, with the "terrible" times and the "fun" which have entertained readers everywhere. First published in 1939, We Pointed Them North has been brought back into print by the University of Oklahoma Press in completely new format, with drawings by Nick Eggenhofer, and with the full, original text.