The Lost Frontier

The Lost Frontier
Author: Rod Miller
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2015-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1493015206

This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West goes beyond the tales everyone knows of the OK Corral and the Dead Man’s Hand to focus on the gunfights, massacres, and daring deeds that are the stars of local historians but not featured in general histories of the old west. These events, while less well known, offer new territory for the Wild West buff to explore. Each chapter in this book tells a story that deserves to be remembered—either because of its importance, its intrigue, or just because it’s interesting. From cowboys and Indians to explorers and electricity to warfare and gunfights to royalty and rogues, the stories here cover a frontier West your education may have missed.

The Lost Frontier

The Lost Frontier
Author: Mark Asquith
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2014-06-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1623568196

"The success of The Shipping News and the film of Brokeback Mountain brought Proulx international recognition, but their success merely confirms what literary critics have known for some time: Proulx is one of the most provocative and stylistically innovative writers in America today. She is at her best in the short story format, and the best of these are to be found in her Wyoming trilogy, in which she turns her eye on America's West-both past and present. Yet despite the vast amount of print expended reviewing her books, there has been nothing published on the Wyoming Stories. There is appetite for such a work; the plethora of critical work on McCarthy''s Border Trilogy indicates that the reinvention of the West is a subject for serious academic study."--Provided by publisher.

The Last Frontier

The Last Frontier
Author: Howard Fast
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2015-05-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317455967

Originally published in 1941, The Last Frontier is the story of the Cheyenne Indians in the 1870s, and their bitter struggle to flee from the Indian Territory in Oklahoma back to their home in Wyoming and Montana. Some 300 Indians, led by Little Wolf, fought against General Crook and 10,000 troops, with only 60 finally making it through to freedom. Fast extensively researched this book in the late 1930s, visiting and speaking with Cheyenne experts in Norman, Oklahoma. This was the first of Fast's many books to gain a wide popular audience; it was eventually made by John Ford into the classic film Cheyenne Autumn (1964).

A Lost Frontier Revealed

A Lost Frontier Revealed
Author: Alan Fox
Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2010-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1907396365

A traveller through the length and breadth of England is soon aware of cultural differences, some of which are clearly visible in the landscape. The eminent English historian Charles Phythian-Adams has put forth that England, through much of the last millennium, could be divided into regional societies, which broadly coincided with groups of pre-1974 counties. These shire assemblages in turn lay largely within the major river drainage systems of the country. In this unusual study Alan Fox tests for, and establishes, the presence of an informal frontier between two of the proposed societies astride the Leicestershire-Lincolnshire border, which lies on the watershed between the Trent and Witham drainage basins. The evidence presented suggests a strong case for a cultural frontier zone, which is announced by a largely empty landscape astride the border between the contrasting settlement patterns of these neighbouring counties.

The Last Frontier

The Last Frontier
Author: Alistair MacLean
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 10
Release: 2010-07-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0007289456

An undercover mission beyond the Iron Curtain to recover a defected scientist goes disastrously wrong – a classic early Cold War thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.

The Lost Frontier

The Lost Frontier
Author: Gerry Spence
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Total Pages: 479
Release: 2013-09-04
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1423632915

A visual autobiography and portfolio of one of the West’s famous trial attorneys. The Lost Frontier features a generous and dazzling collection of the author’s own paintings and photographs, vividly embellishing his story of growing up in the Depression and his evolution as an attorney and advocate for the disenfranchised. Most importantly, it uniquely documents his life in and relationship with his beloved state of Wyoming. With an unabashedly iconoclastic view of how things are and how they should be, these images and words could only have been created by Gerry Spence. Gerry Spence is a well-known trial attorney who has tried and won many nationally known cases, including the Karen Silkwood case and the defense of Imelda Marcos. He also founded the Trial Lawyers College, which established a revolutionary method for training lawyers for the people. He is the author of sixteen books, including the best-seller How to Argue and Win Every Time, and has been a frequent commentator on television, including serving as legal consultant for NBC covering the O. J. Simpson trial. He lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, with his wife of forty years, Imaging.

Bears of the Last Frontier

Bears of the Last Frontier
Author: Chris Morgan
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-04-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9781584799313

"Companion to the PBS series NATURE: bears of the last frontier"--Dustjacket.

The Last Frontier

The Last Frontier
Author: Howard Fast
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1997
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781563245930

North Castle Books are designed to bring the global variety of knowledge to a broader audience. Primarily aimed at the general reader through bookstore distribution, North Castle Books makes available, in handsomely bound paper editions, titles of literary and cultural significance that our editors have found to be of lasting importance. Spanning the range of fields from Asian Studies to American Studies, from short stories to scholarly treatises, from myth to memoirs, from Economics to Government, from Russian Politics to Recent History, North Castle Books will occupy an important place on bookshelves. Each edition will be reasonably priced, affording students, scholars, and serious readers the means to expand their horizons and broaden their aesthetic understanding.The story of the Cheyenne Indians in the 1870s, and their bitter struggle to flee from the Indian Territory in Oklahoma back to their home in Wyoming and Montana."Mr. Fast's novel will stand or fall upon its value as a dramatic, finely presented story. It is all of that: a model, which may easily become a classic example, of what to put in and what to leave out in the writing of a historical novel. ... I do not believe it is saying too much to suggest that in the person of Mr. Fast we may have the next really important American historical novelist". -- Joseph Henry Jackson, New York Herald Tribune Books"Fast's writing, austerely polished and austerely poetic, is admirably suited to this epic tale of a desperate effort for dignified survival. ... Fast has gotten to the core of this incident and made it into a rich American novel". -- New York Times Book Review"An amazing restoration and reconstruction. Thecharacters breathe, the landscape is solid ground and sky, and the story runs flexibly along the zigzag trail of a people driven by a deep instinct to their ancient home. I do not know any other episode in Western history that has been so truly and subtly perpetuated as this one. A great story lost has been found again, and as here told promises to live for generations". -- Carl Van Doren

Tularosa, Last of the Frontier West

Tularosa, Last of the Frontier West
Author: Charles Leland Sonnichsen
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1980
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780826305619

The history of the Tularosa Basin--which includes White Sands Missile Range--from pioneer days through the atomic age.