Research Catalog

Title

Wind River adventures : my life in frontier Wyoming / by Edward J. Farlow with a foreword by Sharon Kahin.

Author

Farlow, Edward J., 1861-

Publication

Glendo, Wyo. : High Plains Press, ©1998.

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Details

Description

254 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

• Farlow, Edward J., 1861-
• Pioneers > Wyoming > Wind River Region > Biography
• Frontier and pioneer life > Wyoming > Wind River Region
• Arapaho Indians > Wyoming > Wind River Region
• Shoshoni Indians > Wyoming > Wind River Region
• Arapaho Indians
• Frontier and pioneer life
• Pioneers
• Shoshoni Indians
• Dagelijks leven
• Indianen
• Wind River Region (Wyo.) > Biography
• Wind River Indian Reservation (Wyo.) > History
• Wind River Indian Reservation (Wyom.) > Histoire
• Wyoming > Wind River Indian Reservation

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

• Early life -- First trip west -- Alsop's Ranch on the Laramie Plains -- Prospecting -- My first Indians -- The Lander Valley -- Back to Iowa -- In the stock business -- The Lamoreaux Family -- Winter on Red Desert -- Winter of 1882-83 on Beaver -- Working for a squaw man -- Division of the Shoshones -- Battle of Crowheart Butte -- Harvey Morgan -- Lizzie Lamoreaux Farlow -- The President's trip -- Sacajawea -- Voting at Rongis -- Bill Jewell -- How I became a medicine man -- A buffalo hunt -- Washakie gets mad -- Powder River -- My brother needs help -- Hole-in-the-Wall Gang -- Wilcox train robbery -- Cattle Kate -- The Custer fight -- Buffalo hunt -- How a Cheyenne can die -- Trip to Denver -- The Arapahos come to the reservation -- 1904 Treaty with the Shoshones and Arapahos -- First wild west show -- Goes-in-the-Lodge -- Freight agent -- Wolf roundup -- Trip to Casper -- The Covered Wagon [motion picture] -- Trip to London -- Trip to Yellowstone [to film The Thundering Herd] -- The Three Bad Men [motion picture] and a trip to Philadelphia -- Trip to Boston -- Making War Paint [motion picture] -- Trip to Hollywood [The Winning of the Wilderness {motion picture}] -- Looking back at the American Indian -- Adopted into the Arapaho Tribe -- Conclusion -- About the author [short biography].
• Illustrations: E. J. Farlow's brother, Henry ... later Fremont County Treasurer -- E.J. Farlow, Zeke Farlow, Henry Farlow -- E.J. Farlow and Elizabeth Lamoreaux -- E.J. Farlow's brother Zeke ... in Lander -- E.J. Farlow was photographed in the 1930s by a National Park Service photographer in connection with a historical project -- On the Farlow Ranch, E.J. Farlow is shown at center dehorning cattle with the help of his sons Jule and Stub -- One of E.J. Farlow's closest friends among the Arapahos was Goes-in-the-Lodge. This is Goes-in-the-Lodge's identity card for his participation in movie prologues in London -- The Farlow Wolf Roundup [stock certificate] -- One of the first major films to feature Indians from the Wind River Reservation was the epic, The Covered Wagon, made in 1923. ... Wind River Reservation Indians on location near Milford, Utah. ... E.J. Farlow, ... Colonel Tim McCoy -- E.J. Farlow had to do considerable work to convince Wind River Reservation Indians to cross the Atlantic for movie prologue appearances in London and Paris. Here Left Hand and an unidentified Indian pose before they board the train [at the depot at Arapahoe] -- During the London trip, E.J. Farlow was photographed ... with a group of Indian women and children who made the trip... : Alberta Sitting Eagle, Judith Bell, [William] Bill Shakespeare's mother, Lambro, unknown, and Mrs. Red Pipe. The children are unidentified -- "Paris sees a new brand of American tourists: Indians from the Plains" E.J. Farlow and a group of Wind River Indians arrived in Paris to present movie prologues -- Lizzie [Lamoreaux] Farlow, E. J. Farlow, Rosalie Farlow [Jule's wife], Jule Farlow, [and unidentified children]; [a banner reads Tijuana, Mexico] -- Farlow traveled throughout the United States and Europe with Indians from the Wind River Indian Reservation to present live prologues to the films in which the Indians appeared. Farlow is seen on the stage of the Acme Theatre in Riverton with a group of Indians from the reservation -- E.J. Farlow with part of his family.

ISBN

• 0931271460
• 9780931271465
• 0931271452
• 9780931271458

LCCN

98006951

OCLC

• ocm38898014
• 38898014
• SCSB-1031950

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library