Wild, Woolly and Wicked
Author | : Harry Sinclair Drago |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Harry Sinclair Drago |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Harry Sinclair Drago |
Publisher | : New York : C.N. Potter |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Cattle trade |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Dykstra |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 459 |
Release | : 2013-07-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307830853 |
The mountain-top volleys from any scholarly set-to among social historians concerning the elusive roots of American democracy do reach our ears from time to time, and this rather formidable cannonade just may strike off some sparks, although it is hardly leisure reading. The author's efforts seem to have been spurred on by academics past and present (including historians Elkins and McKitrick) who have examined frontier communities and others more current and have concluded that democracy is a process of peaceful decision-making in a self-contained, homogeneous community. Dr. Dykstra, taking umbrage, has moved through the years 1867-1885 in five ""frankly ambitious frontier settlements,"" and has plowed up enough evidence in the social, political, economic, etc. areas to state with confidence that instead of the traditional view of conflict hindering progress, one should brace conflict with cooperation on an equal basis. Conflict, Dykstra insists was ""normal . . . inevitable . . . a format for community decision . . . change."" A shift in focus that just might--in an undoubtedly popular interpretation--cheer our chaotic days. A thorny, difficult book but worthy.
Author | : Harry Sinclair Drago |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2016-04-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781354722930 |
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Author | : Nancy Capace |
Publisher | : North American Book Dist LLC |
Total Pages | : 1101 |
Release | : 2001-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0403095999 |
Author | : Robert K. DeArment |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 613 |
Release | : 2012-03-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0806184728 |
For every Wild Bill Hickok or Billy the Kid, there was another western gunfighter just as deadly but not as well known. Robert K. DeArment has earned a reputation as the premier researcher of unknown gunfighters, and here he offers twelve more portraits of men who weren’t glorified in legend but were just as notorious in their day. Those who think they already know all about Old West gunfighters will be amazed at this new collection. Here are men like Porter Stockton, the Texas terror who bragged that he had killed eighteen men, and Jim Levy, who killed a man for disparaging his Irish blood, though he was also the only known Jewish gunfighter. These stories span eight decades, from the gold rushes of the 1850s to the 1920s. Telling of gunmen such as Jim Masterson, the brother of Bat Masterson, or the real Whispering Smith—the man behind the fictionalized persona—whose career spanned four decades, DeArment conscientiously separates fact from fiction to reconstruct lives all the more amazing for having remained unknown for so long. The product of iron-clad research, this newest Deadly Dozen delivers the goods for gunfighter buffs in search of something different. Together the Deadly Dozen volumes constitute a Who’s Who of western outlaws and prove that there’s more to the Wild West than Jesse James.
Author | : Mark Lause |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2018-01-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1786631989 |
Although later made an icon of "rugged individualism," the American cowboy was a grossly exploited and underpaid seasonal worker, who waged a series of militant strikes in the generally isolated and neglected corners of the Old West. Mark Lause examines those neglected labour conflicts, couching them in the context of the bitter and violent "range wars" that broke out periodically across the region, and locating both among the political insurgencies endemic to the American West in the so-called Gilded Age.