Beckoning frontiers : the memoir of a Wyoming entrepreneur /

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"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"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Beck, George T. (George Thornton), 1856-1943 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Houze, Lynn Johnson (Editor ), Johnston, Jeremy M. (Editor ), Simpson, Alan K. (writer of foreword.), Simpson, Peter K., 1930- (writer of foreword.), Gerber, Betty Jane (writer of afterword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
Colección:Papers of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody.
Temas:
Beck, George T. > (George Thornton), > 1856-1943.
Buffalo Bill, > 1846-1917 > Friends and associates.
Buffalo Bill, > 1846-1917.
Politicians > Wyoming > Biography.
Businessmen > Wyoming > Biography.
Hommes politiques > Wyoming > Biographies.
Hommes d'affaires > Wyoming > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs.
Businessmen.
Friendship.
Politicians.
Politics and government.
Wyoming > History.
Wyoming > Politics and government.
Wyoming > Biography.
Wyoming > Biographies.
Wyoming.
Autobiography
Biography
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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