UID:
edocfu_9959870456502883
Format:
1 online resource (lv, 356 pages $billusrations.)
ISBN:
1-4962-2078-1
,
1-4962-2080-3
Series Statement:
The papers of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody
Content:
"Beckoning Frontiers is a new perspective on the overall history of economic development of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American West through the personal insight of Buffalo Bill's business partner and friend, George W. T. Beck"--
Note:
Family and boyhood in Kentucky and Washington DC, 1856-1865 -- Post Civil War, 1865-1874 -- A student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1874-1876 -- Prospecting in Colorado, 1877-1879 -- Working on the Northern Pacific Railroad, 1879-1880 -- Homesteading in Wyoming, 1880-1886 -- Sheepherding and Crow Indians -- Return to the East -- Trips to the South and to Cuba -- Wyoming territorial legislator, 1889-1890 -- Another trip back East and to California -- Beckton, Wyoming -- The Johnson County War, 1892 -- Wyoming politics -- The Shoshone Irrigation Company and Cody, Wyoming -- Developing the Town of Cody and hunting trips -- Finishing the Cody Canal, marriage, and family life in Cody -- The Leiter Ball, the Frederic Remington visit, and a bank robbery -- Another Ute uprising and famous guests -- The Shoshone Reclamation Project and the Cody Power Plant.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8032-8846-8
Language:
English
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