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Tough times in rough places : personal narratives of adventure, death, and survival on the Western frontier / edited by Neil B. Carmony and David E. Brown.

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Tough times in rough places : personal narratives of adventure, death, and survival on the Western frontier / edited by Neil B. Carmony and David E. Brown.
Publication
Salt Lake City, Utah : University of Utah Press, c2001.

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Additional Authors
  • Carmony, Neil B.
  • Brown, David E. (David Earl), 1938-
Description
296 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
Summary
A collection of true stories about mountainmen, soldiers, frontier women, immigrants, Mormon pioneers, and lawmen who faced danger and adventure in the Old West.
Subject
  • 1800-1899
  • Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.)
  • Pioneers > West (U.S.)
  • Adventure and adventurers > West (U.S.)
  • West (U.S.) > Description and travel
  • West (U.S.) > History > 19th century > Sources
  • West (U.S.) > Biography
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • History
  • Sources
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-296).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
East of the Alamo : massacre at Goliad (1835-36) / John C. Duval -- To the Sierra Nevada with the Donner Party (1846-47) / Virginia Reed Murphy -- Frémont's disastrous Colorado expedition (1848) / Micajah McGehee -- Captivity of the Oatman girls (1851-56) / Lorenzo and Olive Oatman -- Crabb filibustering expedition to Sonora (1857) / Charles Edward Evans -- Lee's confession : the Mountain Meadows massacre (1857) / John D. Lee -- Passage through the Great Cañon of the Colorado (1867) / James White -- Camp Grant Massacre (1871) / William S. Oury -- Custer's Last Battle (1876) / Edward S. Godfrey -- How I routed a gang of Arizona outlaws (1879-81) / Wyatt Earp -- Last days of Billy the Kid (1881) / Pat Garrett -- Chasing Geronimo through the Sierra Madre (1885-86) / Marion P. Maus -- Grizzly strikes back (1892) / George C. Naegle -- Disaster on the desert (1905) / J.E. (Jack) Hoffman -- Pancho Villa raids Columbus, New Mexico (1916) / Frank Tompkins.
ISBN
087480700X (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2001273806
OCLC
  • 47857686
  • SCSB-10948787
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library