As big as the West : the pioneer life of Granville Stuart / Clyde A. Milner II and Carol A. O'Connor

Englisch

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009

Online-Ressource (xvi, 430 p) : ill., maps

Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-410) and index

Print version: As Big as the West : The Pioneer Life of Granville Stuart

0-19-512709-9

978-0-19-512709-6

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-0-19-512709-6 (Druckausgabe)

Contents; List of Maps; Introduction: Show Your Hand; 1 Moving West; 2 Partners in a New Land; 3 Stampedes; 4 Ties to the Nation; 5 Brothers Apart; 6 An Opportunity with Cattle; 7 Home on a Contested Range; 8 Stranglers; 9 A Harsh Business; 10 Second Life; 11 Outliving the Frontier; Epilogue: A Room Full of Diaries; Acknowledgments; Notes; Illustration Credits; Index

*Pioneers -- Montana -- Biography ; Stuart, Granville -- 1834-1918 ; Montana -- Biography ; Gold miners -- Montana -- Biography ; Frontier and pioneer life -- Montana ; Ranchers -- Montana -- Biography ; Ranch life -- Montana -- History ; Montana -- Gold discoveries ; Politicians -- Montana -- Biography ; Montana -- History

*Frontier and pioneer life ; Montana ; Gold miners ; Montana ; Biography ; Pioneers ; Montana ; Biography ; Politicians ; Montana ; Biography ; Ranch life ; Montana ; History ; Ranchers ; Montana ; Biography ; Stuart, Granville ; 1834-1918 ; Electronic books

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: F731.S916

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 978.6031092B;

Granville Stuart (1834-1918) is a quintessential Western figure, a man whose adventures rival those of Wyatt Earp, Buffalo Bill, or Sitting Bull, and who embodied many of the contradictions of America's westward expansion. Stuart collected guns, herded cattle, mined for gold, and killed men he thought outlaws. But he also taught himself Shoshone, French, and Spanish, denounced formal religion, married a Shoshone woman, and eventually became a United States diplomat. In this fascinating biography, Clyde A. Milner II and Carol A. O'Connor, co-editors of the acclaimed Oxford History of the Americ

 

Online-Ausg.

2009

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