x, 346 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 23 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-337) and index.
Contents
First Things First; La Vente De La Louisiane; Lewis And Clark; Mountain Men; The Overland Trail; The Hostiles And The Military; No Survivors; The Railroad; Custer And Little Big Horn; Towards Wounded Knee; Cowboys And Cow-Towns; Cattle Barons; Range War; Butch Cassidy And All That; The Sod-House Frontier; Back Matter; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Reference Listing ; Index.
Summary
British writer Tim Slessor has filmed and traveled "out West" for over forty years. In this book he selects a series of beguiling stories that range from the mountain men and their fur trade to the pioneers of the overland trail, from Custer and the disaster at Little Big Horn to the last stand of the Sioux at Wounded Knee, from the early cow-towns and the railroads to the cattle barons and the emigrant sod-busters.