Description |
1 online resource. |
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text file |
Series |
The papers of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody
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Papers of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Family and boyhood in Kentucky and Washington DC, 1856-1865 -- Post Civil War, 1865-1874 -- A student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1874-1876 -- Prospecting in Colorado, 1877-1879 -- Working on the Northern Pacific Railroad, 1879-1880 -- Homesteading in Wyoming, 1880-1886 -- Sheepherding and Crow Indians -- Return to the East -- Trips to the South and to Cuba -- Wyoming territorial legislator, 1889-1890 -- Another trip back East and to California -- Beckton, Wyoming -- The Johnson County War, 1892 -- Wyoming politics -- The Shoshone Irrigation Company and Cody, Wyoming -- Developing the Town of Cody and hunting trips -- Finishing the Cody Canal, marriage, and family life in Cody -- The Leiter Ball, the Frederic Remington visit, and a bank robbery -- Another Ute uprising and famous guests -- The Shoshone Reclamation Project and the Cody Power Plant. |
Summary |
"Beckoning Frontiers is a new perspective on the overall history of economic development of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American West through the personal insight of Buffalo Bill's business partner and friend, George W. T. Beck"-- Provided by publisher. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Beck, George T. (George Thornton), 1856-1943.
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Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917 -- Friends and associates.
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Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917. |
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Friends and associates. |
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Politicians -- Wyoming -- Biography.
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Politicians. |
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Wyoming. |
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Biographies.
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Businessmen -- Wyoming -- Biography.
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Businessmen. |
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Wyoming -- History.
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History. |
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Wyoming -- Politics and government.
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Politics and government. |
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Wyoming -- Biography.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Added Author |
Houze, Lynn Johnson, editor.
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Johnston, Jeremy M., editor.
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Simpson, Alan K., writer of foreword.
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Simpson, Peter K., 1930- writer of foreword.
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Gerber, Betty Jane, writer of afterword.
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Other Form: |
Print version: 0803288468 9780803288461 (OCoLC)1124357942 |
ISBN |
9781496220806 electronic book |
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1496220803 electronic book |
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9781496220783 electronic book |
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1496220781 electronic book |
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0803288468 |
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9780803288461 |
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9781496220455 (paperback) |
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1496220455 |
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9781496220790 (mobi) |
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