Ten Tall Tales of the Old West
Author: Kevin Thorsheim
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 1999-09-20
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 1462811663
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTen short stories of a fictional and hilarious, Old West.
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Tall Tales of the Wild West
Author: Eric Ode
Publisher: Meadowbrook
Published: 2007-06-26
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781416936770
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of funny tall tales featuring cowboys, cowgirls, and other characters from the Wild West.
Legends and Tales of the American West
Author: Richard Erdoes
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: 2011-07-20
Total Pages: 467
ISBN-13: 0307801616
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Davy Crockett, Wild Bill Hickok, and Calamity Jane to Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, and Frank and Jesse James, here are more than 130 colorful stories of the pioneers, cowboys, outlaws, gamblers, prospectors, and lawmen who settled the wild west, creating a uniquely American hero and an enduringly fascinating folk mythology. In this wonderfully boisterous treasury of tall tales, everyone and everything is larger than life and bragging is elevated into an art form. Many of these stories are of real people and real events; more than a few, however, grew taller and funnier as they made their rounds from wagon train to campfire to rodeo to miners' quarters. But even if it is far from established that Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett were able to kill three men with one bullet or subdue ferocious grizzly bears with their fists, they come vividly to life here as beloved characters who have become part of the fabric of the American imagination. With black-and white illustrations throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
True Tales and Amazing Legends of the Old West
Author: Editors of True West
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2005-08-16
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0307236382
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMuch has been written about the west—most of it clouded by exaggeration and fabrication. Since 1953, True West magazine has been devoted to celebrating the West’s true colors, giving the men and women who settled there accurate voices, exploring every triumph and tragedy of their time—and exposing every vice and virtue. True Tales and Amazing Legends of the Old West commemorates these unforgettable cowboys, Indians, and city slickers through a mix of classic histories and brand-new narratives, all illustrated with photographs—many reproduced here for the first time—of the people and places that gave rise to America’s Western mythology. With twenty-six stories that blend fact with folklore, this collection abounds with accounts of the famous and the infamous, including Sacagawea, Wild Bill Hickok, Pancho Villa, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Davy Crockett, and Wyatt Earp. Also here are lesser-known figures whose stories were pivotal to shaping the culture of the era, such as European conquistador Francisco Coronado, rancher “Black Billy” Hill, and fearless lawman Orlando “Rube” Robbins. Other tales recount the wide open plains, lawlessness, drama, mayhem, and promise embodied in the Old West. Whether you’re a history buff, an Old West devotee, or simply someone who is fascinated by the characters of America’s early years, these timeless tales and photographs epitomize the legendary spirit of what it meant to settle the West.
If You Were a Kid in the Wild West
Author: Tracey Baptiste
Publisher: Children's Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780531232156
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"During the 1800s, many settlers moved westward across North America to seek their fortunes as farmers, ranchers, and miners. In the Wild West, there were few towns and few people paid much attention to laws. Readers will take a trip through this thrilling period of American history as they join Louise and Nat for a tale of cowboys in a frontier town. They will find out how people lived, worked, and traveled in the Wild West, and much more."--Publisher's description.
Trails Plowed Under
Author: Charles M. Russell
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1996-06-01
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780803289611
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Russell writes easily, and in the vernacular. He tells of Indians and Indian fighters, buffalo hunts, bad men, wolves, wild horses, tough hotels, drinking customs, and hard-riding cowboys. . . . [He] lived long enough in the West to acquire a vast amount of information and lore, and he has left enough from his brush to prove his place as a sound interpreter of a stirring period and a fascinating country".-New York Times. "Russell was the greatest painter who ever painted a range man, a range cow, a range horse, or a Plains Indian. He savvied the cow, the grass, the blizzard, the drought, the wolf, the young puncher in love with his own shadow, the old waddie remembering rides and thirsts of far away and long ago. He was a wonderful storyteller. . . . His subjects were warm with life, whether awake or asleep, at a particular instant, under particular conditions. Trails Plowed Under, prodigally illustrated, is a collection of yarns and ancedotes saturated with humor and humanity".-J. Frank Dobie, Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest. Brian W. Dippie is a professor of history at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and the author of Catlin and His Contemporaries: The Politics of Patronage (Nebraska 1990).
True Tales of the Wild West
Author: Paul Robert Walker
Publisher: National Geographic Children's Books
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780792282181
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShares ten stories featuring legendary places, events, and characters from the era of westward expansion.
Stories of the Wild West Gang
Author: Joy Cowley
Publisher: Gecko Press
Published: 2013-10-21
Total Pages: 78
ISBN-13: 187757970X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA bumper volume of stories about the hilarious West family. Michael's cousins, the West family, are everything he's not allowed to be at home -- noisy, crazy, and very, very messy. Michael's cousins, the West family, are everything he's not allowed to be at home - noisy, crazy and very, very messy. Wherever the Wild West Gang goes, adventure is not far behind - and it's the sort of adventure you don't want your parents to know about.
Frontier Teachers
Author: Chris Enss
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2023-08-01
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1493064789
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf countless books and movies are to be believed, America's Wild West was, at heart, a world of cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and gunslingers, scruffy settlers and mountain men—a man's world. Here, Chris Enss, in the latest of her popular books to take on this stereotype, tells the stories of twelve courageous women who faced down schoolrooms full of children on the open prairies and in the mining towns of the Old West. Now with five new teachers covered and a new chapter, the second edition of Frontier Teachers brings these important stories to light. Between 1847 and 1858, more than 600 women teachers traveled across the untamed frontier to provide youngsters with an education, and the numbers grew rapidly in the decades to come, as women took advantage of one of the few career opportunities for respectable work for ladies of the era. Enduring hardship, the dozen women whose stories are movingly told in the pages of Frontier Teachers demonstrated the utmost dedication and sacrifice necessary to bring formal education to the Wild West. As immortalized in works of art and literature, for many students their women teachers were heroic figures who introduced them to a world of possibilities—and changed America forever.
Short Stories of the Old West
Author: Walter Abbott
Publisher:
Published: 2022-04-30
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe stories span the 1800s of the Old West, along with true life experiences of those times. This was a time where only the strong survived and the weak became victims to lawlessness and greed. The stories encompass the human factor of love and tragedy experienced in the personal strife and the influence of the Civil War. It was when families made heart-breaking decisions to go west to take up new lives and promises of a better future. The path along the ways was strewn with greatness and heartaches as well as strong commitments, knowing that anything is possible.
