Uncle Dick Wootton : the Pioneer Frontiersman of the Rocky Mountain Region.

In this unsurpassed tale of adventure on the American frontier, "Uncle Dick" Wootton relates with steely calm dozens of escapades that a less daring man would not have survived. He remembers his life in incredible detail, and where his memory fails his talent for storytelling takes over. E...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wootton, Richens (As told to.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Crabtree : Narrative Press, the, Sept. 2004.
Temas:
Wootton, Dick, > 1816-1893.
Wootton, Dick, > 1816-1893
Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.)
Indians of North America > West (U.S.)
Pioneers > West (U.S.) > Biography.
Peuples autochtones > États-Unis (Ouest)
Frontier and pioneer life
Indians of North America
Pioneers
West (U.S.) > History.
États-Unis (Ouest) > Histoire.
West United States
Biographies
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Table of contents
  • introduction
  • preface
  • a famous mountaineer
  • uncle dick talks
  • hunting and trapping
  • five thousand miles on horseback
  • buffalo farming
  • among the utes and apaches
  • indian tribes of the far west
  • indian customs and superstitions
  • perils of the pioneers
  • a convention of grizzlies
  • the taos massacre
  • a trip to old mexico
  • a stage coach massacre
  • a campaign against the navahoes
  • dull times on the frontier
  • overland to california
  • hobnobbing with brigham young
  • old fashioned justice
  • Penned up by the utescolorado's oldest farmer
  • ox teams and prairie schooners
  • mutinous teamsters
  • freighting for uncle sam
  • an infant city
  • the haunted fort
  • plains indians on the war path
  • pathfinder and builder
  • stage coach stories
  • farewell visits of the red men

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