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Author Beck, George T. (George Thornton), 1856-1943, author.

Title Beckoning frontiers : the memoir of a Wyoming entrepreneur / George W.T. Beck ; edited and with an introduction by Lynn J. Houze and Jeremy M. Johnston ; foreword by Alan K. Simpson and Peter K. Simpson ; afterword by Betty Jane Gerber, George Beck's granddaughter.

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series The papers of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody
Papers of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody.
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.
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Subject Beck, George T. (George Thornton), 1856-1943.
Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917 -- Friends and associates.
Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.
Friends and associates.
Politicians -- Wyoming -- Biography.
Politicians.
Wyoming.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Businessmen -- Wyoming -- Biography.
Businessmen.
Wyoming -- History.
History.
Wyoming -- Politics and government.
Politics and government.
Wyoming -- Biography.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Added Author Houze, Lynn Johnson, editor.
Johnston, Jeremy M., editor.
Simpson, Alan K., writer of foreword.
Simpson, Peter K., 1930- writer of foreword.
Gerber, Betty Jane, writer of afterword.
Other Form: Print version: 0803288468 9780803288461 (OCoLC)1124357942
ISBN 9781496220806 electronic book
1496220803 electronic book
9781496220783 electronic book
1496220781 electronic book
0803288468
9780803288461
9781496220455 (paperback)
1496220455
9781496220790 (mobi)