Wildest lives of the frontier [electronic resource] : through the eyes of Jesse James, George Armstrong Custer, and other famous Westerners / edited by John Richard Stephens.
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| Language: | English |
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Guilford, Connecticut :
TwoDot,
[2017]
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Wildest Lives of the Frontier : America Through the Words of Jesse James, George Armstrong Custer, and Other Famous Westerners [Cover title]
Wildest Lives of the Frontier: America Through the Words of Jesse James, George Armstrong Custer, and Other Famous Westerners |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- A note about the text
- John Richard Stephens - Going west (introduction)
- Daniel Boone - Claiming the Kentucky wilderness
- Lewis and Clark - Sacagawea
- Sacagawea - Red Hair and Long Knife
- Davy Crockett - Brushes with death
- Black Hawk - The Black Hawk War
- John C. Fremont - Indians, buffalo, and Kit Carson
- John C. Fremont - Kit Carson pursues horse thieves
- Kit Carson - Chasing horse thieves
- Kit Carson - Indian conflicts and the war in California
- John Sutter - Discovering gold
- Buffalo Bill - Riding for the Pony Express
- Mark Twain - A black speck against the sky
- Mark Twain - Smitten with the silver fever
- Jesse James - Rebel guerrillas and bank robbers
- Cole Younger - The disastrous Northfield Bank robbery
- Frank James - Breaking off from my bohemian life
- George Armstrong Custer - The massacre of some of Custer's men
- Buffalo Bill - Custer and Little Bighorn
- Crazy Horse - Crazy Horse's deathbed statement
- Sitting Bull - Little Bighorn and Custer's death.