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Tough times in rough places : personal narratives of adventure, death, and survival on the Western frontier / edited by Neil B. Carmony and David E. Brown.
LIBRA F596 .T68 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.).
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- West (U.S.)--Description and travel.
- West (U.S.)--History--19th century--Sources.
- West (U.S.)--Biography.
- Adventure and adventurers--West (U.S.).
- Adventure and adventurers.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 296 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Salt Lake City, Utah : University of Utah Press, [2001]
- Contents:
- East of the Alamo: Massacre at Goliad (1835-36) / John C. Duval 5
- To the Sierra Nevada with the Donner Party (1846-47) / Virginia Reed Murphy 25
- Fremont's Disastrous Colorado Expedition (1848) / Micajah McGehee 49
- The Captivity of the Oatman Girls (1851-56) / Lorenzo, Olive Oatman 69
- The Crabb Filibustering Expedition to Sonora (1857) / Charles Edward Evans 101
- Lee's Confession: The Mountain Meadows Massacre (1857) / John D. Lee 113
- Passage Through the Great Canon of the Colorado (1867) / James White 149
- The Camp Grant Massacre (1871) / William S. Oury 163
- Custer's Last Battle (1876) / Captain Edward S. Godfrey 175
- How I Routed a Gang of Arizona Outlaws (1879-81) / Wyatt Earp 207
- The Last Days of Billy the Kid (1881) / Pat Garrett 217
- Chasing Geronimo Through the Sierra Madre (1885-86) / Captain Marion P. Maus 237
- A Grizzly Strikes Back (1892) / George C. Naegle 255
- Disaster on the Desert (1905) / J. E. (Jack) Hoffman 261
- Pancho Villa Raids Columbus, New Mexico (1916) / Colonel Frank Tompkins 277.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-296).
- ISBN:
- 087480700X
- OCLC:
- 47857686
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