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The story of the three Sackett brothers, Tye, Orrin, and Tell, who leave Tennessee to start new lives in the West; not being a man to settle down, cowhand Conn Conagher drifts in and out of widow Evie Teale's life; career outlaw Catlow attempts to take some Confederate gold, with his friend, a U.S. marshal, and a ruthless bounty hunter on his tail.
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"Bound Away offers a new understanding of the westward movement. After Frederick Jackson Turner's thesis celebrating the frontier as the source of American freedom and democracy and the iconoclasm of the new western historians who dismissed the idea of the frontier as merely a mask for conquest and exploitation, David Hackett Fischer and James C. Kelly take a third approach to the subject. They share with Turner the idea of the westward movement as...
3323) Jubal
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Found grievously injured by rancher Shep Horgan, Jubal Troop, a man who's life has been dogged by bad luck, is offered a job as a cowhand.
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"In May 1936 Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace wrote to Caroline Henderson to praise her contributions to American "understanding of some of our farm problems." His comments reflected the national attention aroused by Henderson's articles, which had been published in Atlantic Monthly since 1931. Even today, Henderson's articles - notably "Letters from the Dust Bowl" - are frequently cited for her vivid descriptions of the dust storms that...
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"Tamsen Donner. For most the name conjures the ill-fated Donner party trapped in the snows of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1846-47. Others might know Tamsen as the stoic pioneer woman who saw her children to safety but stayed with her dying husband at the cost of her own life. For Gabrielle Burton, Tamsen's story, fascinating in its own right, had long seemed something more: the story of a woman's life writ large, one whose impossible balancing...
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When Trudy Bauer arrived at the St. Louis based Mail-Order Brides of the West agency and befriended the agency's maid, Evie Davenport, the two formed a strong and lasting friendship. Now Evie is traveling by stagecoach to Y Knot, Montana, as a mail-order bride for Chance Holcomb. But she is hiding secrets: an illegitimate child growing up with no father, she was not considered eligible to partake in the mail order process, stole a letter she felt...
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Shrouded in the lore of legendary Indians, Mt. Timpanogos beckons the urban populace of Utah. And yet, no "Indian" legend graced the mount until Mormon settlers conjured it -- once they had displaced the local Indians, the Utes, from their actual landmark, Utah Lake. On Zion's Mount tells the story of this curious shift. It is a quintessentially American story about the fraught process of making oneself "native" in a strange land. But it is also a...
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"This is a graphic biography of the green dreamer of the American Frontier, the legendary John Chapman, from Brown University scholar Paul Buhle (Red Rosa) and award-winning cartoonist Noah Van Sciver (The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln). John Chapman, aka Johnny Appleseed, made himself the stuff of legend by spreading the seeds of apple trees from Wisconsin to Indiana. Along with that, he offered the seeds of nonviolence and vegetarianism,...
3335) Johnson County war
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In the first year of Wyoming's statehood, fresh battle lines are drawn pitting cattle barons against the newly arrived homesteaders. The three Hammett brothers are divided on the issue and must work out their differences in the midst of war.
3336) Catch the bullet
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In this powerful Western, Sheriff Wilkins shows what happens when a good man is pushed too far. Britt MacMasters, a U.S. Marshal, returns from a mission to find his father wounded and his son, Chad, kidnapped by the outlaw Jed Blake. Hot on their trail, Britt forms a posse with a gun-slinging deputy and a stoic Pawnee tracker. But both Jed and Britt tread dangerously close to the Red Desert's Sioux territory, which poses a menace far greater than...
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The heart of the American West lives in Peter Dawson's stories, with characters that blaze a trail over a land of frontier dreams and nightmares and across a country coming of age. Sometimes, as in "A Tinhorn Takes a Tank Town," the conflict has to do with murder and power, as when High-Card Stevens goes up against a crooked saloon owner. Sometimes, as in "Unwanted Gold," it is brother against brother, as when Dave Sanders finds his older brother,...
3338) Daily Pioneer Life
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"Pikes Peak or Bust!" Pioneer communities like trading posts and sodhouses sprang up in western territories fo the U.S. during the 1800's. Join our players in a pioneer life adventure game to learn about the difficulties of daily life in these settlements, from cooking in a log cabin to tending animals on a cattle drive. See how geography affected the economy and the settlement patterns of this nation ranging from "Wild West" boomtowns to the founding...
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Built by the Brantner Brothers in 1959, Four Mile House is the oldest standing structure in Denver, with a long history of female entrepreneuialism. In it's early days, the house servered as a store, restaurant, tavern and boarding house, for travelers headed west along the Smokey Hill Trail. From Mary Cawker to Mille Booth, meet the pioneering women whose hard work and vision brought the stage stop to life.
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