| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 430 pages, [32] pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-410) and index. |
| Contents |
Show your hand -- Moving west -- Partners in a new land -- Stampedes -- Ties to the nation -- Brothers apart -- An opportunity with cattle -- Home on a contested range -- Stranglers -- A harsh business -- Second life -- outliving the frontier -- Epilogue: A room full of diaries. |
| Summary |
Granville Stuart (1834-1918) is a quintessential Western figure, a man whose adventures rival those of Wyatt Earp, Buffalo Bill, or Sitting Bull, and who embodied many of the contradictions of America's westward expansion. Stuart collected guns, herded cattle, mined for gold, and killed men he thought outlaws. But he also taught himself Shoshone, French, and Spanish, denounced formal religion, married a Shoshone woman, and eventually became a United States diplomat. In this fascinating biography, Clyde A. Milner II and Carol A. O'Connor, co-editors of the acclaimed Oxford History of the Americ. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Stuart, Granville, 1834-1918.
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Stuart, Granville, 1834-1918. |
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Stuart, Granville, 1834-1918. |
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Pioneers -- Montana -- Biography.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Montana.
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Ranchers -- Montana -- Biography.
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Ranch life -- Montana -- History.
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Gold miners -- Montana -- Biography.
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Politicians -- Montana -- Biography.
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Montana -- Gold discoveries.
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Montana -- History.
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Montana -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Biography.
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History.
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| Added Author |
O'Connor, Carol A., 1946-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Milner, Clyde A., 1948- As big as the West. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009 (DLC) 2008011980 |
| ISBN |
0195127099 (alk. paper) |
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9780195127096 (alk. paper) |
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9780199722921 (electronic bk.) |
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0199722927 (electronic bk.) |
| Standard No. |
9786611868215 |
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