Buffalo Wagons

Buffalo Wagons
Author: Elmer Kelton
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1997-11-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0812551206

For Gage Jameson, the summer of 1873 has been a poor hunt. A year ago he felled sixty-two buffalo in one stand, but now the great Arkansas River herd is gone, like the Republican herd before it. In Dodge City, old hide hunters speak is awe of a last great heard to the south--but no hunter who values his scalp dares ride south of the Cimarron and into Comanche territory. None but Gage Jameson....

Buffalo Wagons and Cloudy in the West

Buffalo Wagons and Cloudy in the West
Author: Elmer Kelton
Publisher: Forge Books
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2015-06-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466889330

Two complete novels from the Western author Elmer Kelton in one low-priced edition: Buffalo Wagons and Cloudy in the West Buffalo Wagons For Gage Jameson, the summer of 1873 has been a poor hunt. A year ago he felled sixty-two buffalo in one stand, but now the great Arkansas River herd is gone, like the Republican herd before it. In Dodge City, old hide hunters speak in awe of a last great heard to the south-but no hunter who values his scalp dares ride south of the Cimarron and into Comanche territory. None but Gage Jameson.... Cloudy in the West In the Texas backlands in 1885, twelve-year-old Joey Shipman's father dies under mysterious circumstances, and the boy is forced to live with his stepmother and Blair Meacham, a hanger-on at the farm. After the death of a black farmhand and friend, and another "accident" that almost takes Joey's life, the boy runs away and joins forces with his only kin-Beau Shipman, a drunk and a jailbird. Beau, along with an outlaw, a San Antonio prostitute, and a sheepman become Joey's unlikely partners as he is trailed by their murderous Meacham, in league with Joey's stepmother in their scheme to inherit the Shipman farm. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Wagons West

Wagons West
Author: Frank McLynn
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Total Pages: 543
Release: 2007-12-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0802199143

An acclaimed historian’s “compellingly told” year-by-year account of the pioneering efforts to conquer the American West in the mid-nineteenth century (The Guardian). In all the sagas of human migration, few can top the drama of the journey by Midwestern farmers to Oregon and California from 1840 to 1849—between the era of the fur trappers and the beginning of the gold rush. Even with mountain men as guides, these pioneers literally plunged into the unknown, braving all manner of danger, including hunger, thirst, disease, and drowning. Employing numerous illustrations and extensive primary sources, including original diaries and memoirs, McLynn underscores the incredible heroism and dangerous folly on the overland trails. His authoritative narrative investigates the events leading up to the opening of the trails, the wagons and animals used, the roles of women, relations with Native Americans, and much else. The climax arrives in McLynn’s expertly re-created tale of the dreadful Donner party, and he closes with Brigham Young and the Mormons beginning communities of their own. Full of high drama, tragedy, and triumph, “rarely has a book so wonderfully brought to life the riveting tales of Americans’ trek to the Pacific” (Publishers Weekly).

Wagons, Gold and Conflict

Wagons, Gold and Conflict
Author: John G. Wilder
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2022-01-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1669806154

Alfred Davenport—parents gone, elder siblings married with families—followed a dream to see Oregon in May 1844. Visiting California in 1846, Davenport dropped into the conflict between settlers and the Mexican government. Joining California settlers, Davenport fought in the Bear Flag Revolt and with John Charles Fremont’s California Mounted Battalion. Year 1849 found Alfred caught up in California’s gold rush. His mining career ended with Davenport resigning as manager of Fremont’s famous Pine Tree Mine to join General Fremont in Missouri as a cavalry captain in the Body Guard. Year 1862 found Captain Davenport serving as a special messenger carrying orders from General Fremont to field generals in western Virginia. The army’s Quartermaster Department assigned Davenport as supervisor of military hospital construction in the Civil War’s Mississippi valleys and for duty in the customhouse in Union-occupied New Orleans. Postwar, Davenport became a land speculator in a newly opened land in Kansas.

Covered Wagons, Bumpy Trails

Covered Wagons, Bumpy Trails
Author: Verla Kay
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN: 9780399229282

Illustrations and simple rhyming text follow a family as they make the difficult journey by wagon to a new home across the Rocky Mountains. Full-color illustrations.

Wagons Westward

Wagons Westward
Author:
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2000
Genre: Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN: 9781567921281

In 1846, fifteen-year-old Jonathan Starbuck sets out from Independence, Missouri, on a journey along the Sante Fe trail.

The Sanitary Review

The Sanitary Review
Author: Benjamin W. Richardson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 530
Release: 2023-10-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3375163444

Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.