Buckskin Joe
Buckskin Joe

Author: Edward Jonathan Hoyt

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1988-01-01

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780803272392

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"One of the most hilarious autobiographies that has come out in a long time, this story of Buckskin Joe will entertain readers of all ages. . . . [Glenn Shirley] has done an excellent job in arranging and editing Hoyt's war diary, penciled notes, and other materials into a readable book. It makes a bully story."—Wayne Gard, Southwest Review In his lifetime Edward Jonathan Hoyt, better known as Buckskin Joe, staged more excitement than Buffalo Bill, Fairbanks and Flynn, Karl Wallenda, and Batman put together. Born in Canada in 1840, he fought in the Civil War, homesteaded in southern Kansas, chased outlaws as a U.S. marshal in the Cherokee Outlet, prospected for gold from Nova Scotia to Central America, and served as a troubleshooter for "Haw" Tabor, the Silver King of Leadville. But essentially he was an entertainer, specializing in fêtes of music and feats of strength and agility. The master of sixteen musical instruments, he played in frontier bands. An acrobat and aerialist, he toured in circuses, once walking a tightrope two thousand feet above the Royal Gorge. His last hurrah, before pursuing his fortune in the jungles of Honduras, was a tour in Pawnee Bill's Wild West show. Glenn Shirley, who edited Joe's journals, is the author of Law West of Fort Smith (also a Bison Book) and many other works on frontier and outlaw history.

Bayou Salado
Bayou Salado

Author: Virginia McConnell Simmons

Publisher: University Press of Colorado

Published: 2011-05-18

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 1457109441

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Bayou Salado is an engaging look at the history of a high cool valley in the Rocky Mountains. Now known as South Park, Bayou Salado once attracted Ute and Arapaho hunters as well as European and American explorers and trappers. Virginia McConnell Simmons's colorful accounts of some of the valley's more notable residents - such as Father Dyer, the skiing Methodist minister-mailman, and Silver Heels, the dancer who lost her legendary beauty while tending to the ill during a small pox epidemic - bring the valley's storied past to life.

Cowboy Songs, and Other Frontier Ballads
Cowboy Songs, and Other Frontier Ballads

Author: Various

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-08-15

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Cowboy Songs, and Other Frontier Ballads" by Various. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Colorado Gold (Treasure Quest Book #1)
Colorado Gold (Treasure Quest Book #1)

Author: Marian Wells

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 1988-02-01

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 144126244X

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A dynamic new fiction series from the author of The Wedding Dress Author Marian Wells has shown remarkable ability to both capture the hearts of readers and challenge them with a strong spiritual message. Colorado Gold begins a new historical fiction series, Treasure Quest, with an intriguing story set in the West when "gold fever" was at its height. Amy Randolph, a young lady from the east, has moved to a lonely Colorado mining town with her father, an itinerant evangelist. On the threshold of womanhood and having lost her mother as a child, Amy longs for an understanding mother-figure to guide her steps. But she feels more lost than ever being now separated from the familiar comforts of the East. The Christianity she had grown up with seems unreal in their new surroundings. Her strong desire to play the piano, even if it means learning from a dance hall girl, lures her into a double standard. Her confusion is multiplied when she and her friend Daniel are misjudged and find themselves in a compromised situation. Set against the rigors of life in the West, this story's message involves forgiveness and restoration of families--a marvelous redemptive theme.

Fear Makes a Traitor
Fear Makes a Traitor

Author: Stephen Heredia

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2003-04-28

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 0595272657

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Isolated among the soaring peaks of the Rocky Mountains, an old mining town has plans to regain its former gold rush glory. Their project is threatened when environmental terrorists slip into the valley and begin plotting mayhem against the local economy. Using a network of ancient mining trails that thread the wilderness, the adversaries travel through a beautiful and dangerous landscape. Populated with colorful western characters, Gold Hill is a rural town at the intersection of history and radical environmentalism. For great photos, links, and information, visit the author at: www.smhbooks.com

Rhode Island's Civil War Hospital
Rhode Island's Civil War Hospital

Author: Frank L. Grzyb

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0786489731

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During the Civil War, thousands of wounded Union soldiers and Confederate prisoners convalesced in a general army hospital in rural Portsmouth Grove, Rhode Island. Because of its location on the periphery of the action, the hospital has remained a footnote to the dramatic sweep of Civil War literature. However, its history and the experiences of the doctors, nurses, patients and guards that gave it life provide a new perspective on the interaction between the army and society in wartime and on life in Civil War America. This in-depth account also explores the barbarities of medicine, daily routine in a general army hospital, the role of citizens in providing aid, the later adventures of former patients and staff, and the final resting places of those who died on the grounds.

Searching for Silverheels
Searching for Silverheels

Author: Jeannie Mobley

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2015-09-08

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1481400304

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In Colorado during World War I, a young, romantically minded girl and an old, bitter woman suffragist debate a local legend and examine the role of women in a time of war and prejudice.

The Road to Buckskin Joe
The Road to Buckskin Joe

Author: Tom Knebel

Publisher:

Published: 2014-06-05

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9780692229996

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Historical fiction set in Colorado Territory during the days of the Gold Rush introduces the reader to Tom Boone. Old Tom Boone is sixty-seven when he uncovers his half century old diary. He fondly remembers his youthful search for adventure and how he found it in 1861 when as a sixteen-year-old boy he walked with his best friend, Jake, from a Missouri farm to the Colorado Rockies at the height of the gold rush. Settling in the exciting boom town of Buckskin Joe as Civil War tensions were high, Tom got all he bargained for and more by interacting with real Colorado legends, Horace and Augusta Tabor, Father Dyer, the infamous Major John Chivington and a beautiful dance hall girl known only as Miss Silverheels. Young Tom, who longs for the girl he left behind, learns the value of friendship, hard work, and loyalty and comes face to face with what he dreads the most - war.

Ghost Towns of the Colorado Rockies
Ghost Towns of the Colorado Rockies

Author: Robert L. Brown

Publisher: Caxton Press

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780870043420

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Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press This book features information and travel directions for sixty of Colorado's ghost towns and mining camps. There is an informal history of each town, along with early and contemporary photographs to aid in site identification.