UID:
almafu_9959237395002883
Format:
1 online resource (447 p.)
ISBN:
0-19-992370-1
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1-281-86821-3
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9786611868215
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0-19-972292-7
Content:
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 American
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-512709-9
Language:
English
