Fifty Years on the Old Frontier as Cowboy, Hunter, Guide, Scout, and Ranchman

Fifty Years on the Old Frontier as Cowboy, Hunter, Guide, Scout, and Ranchman
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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : 0806117613
ISBN-13 : 9780806117614
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Book Synopsis Fifty Years on the Old Frontier as Cowboy, Hunter, Guide, Scout, and Ranchman by : James Henry Cook

Download or read book Fifty Years on the Old Frontier as Cowboy, Hunter, Guide, Scout, and Ranchman written by James Henry Cook and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1957 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The keen-eyed, cool-headed, and fearless men (Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, Buffalo Bill Cody, Big Foot Wallace, and Captain Jim Cook, among others) who were pivotal personalities for more than half a century in the almost ceaseless task of clearing the way for and guarding the lives and properties of explorers, emigrants, and settlers in the West, are an extinct type of pioneer, Accounts of the heroic deeds of this handful of men, however, remain today as indelible records that dramatize the melting away of this country’s vast frontiers.


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