More than cowboys : travels through the history of the American west / Tim Slessor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Slessor, Tim.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

West (U.S.)--History.

West (U.S.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Signal Books Ltd., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

So many books about the American West leave out the more intriguing details:When, in 1803, the young USA doubled its size with the purchase from France of an unexplored vastness called La Louisiane, it was a British bank which lent the Americans most of the 15 million that they didn't have. So the financial papers for the biggest real-estate deal in history are, to this day, held in a London vault. Not many people know that... If his ranching uncle-by-marriage had had his way, the t...

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Publisher Information; Preface; More Than Cowboys; First Things First; La Vente De La Louisiane; Lewis And Clark; Mountain Men; The Overland Trail; The Hostiles And The Military; No Survivors; The Railroad; Custer And Little Big Horn; Towards Wounded Knee; Cowboys And Cow-Towns; Cattle Barons; Range War; Butch Cassidy And All That; The Sod-House Frontier; Back Matter; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Reference Listing

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-908493-95-X