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Beckoning frontiers : the memoir of a Wyoming entrepreneur / George W. T. Beck ; edited and with an introduction by Lynn J. Houze and Jeremy M. Johnston ; foreword by Alan K. Simpson and Peter K. Simpson ; afterword by Betty Jane Gerber, George Beck's granddaughter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beck, George T. (George Thornton), 1856-1943, author.
- Series:
- Papers of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody.
- The papers of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Politicians--Wyoming--Biography.
- Politicians.
- Businessmen--Wyoming--Biography.
- Businessmen.
- Wyoming--History.
- Wyoming.
- Wyoming--Politics and government.
- Wyoming--Biography.
- Beck, George T. (George Thornton), 1856-1943.
- Beck, George T.
- Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917--Friends and associates.
- Buffalo Bill.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (lv, 356 pages $billusrations.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781496220783
- 1496220781
- 9781496220806
- 1496220803
- OCLC:
- 1152135397
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