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A tenderfoot in Colorado
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Now back in print, A Tenderfoot in Colorado is R.B. Townshend's classic account of his time in the wild frontier territory known as Colorado. Townshend arrived in the Rockies in 1869, fresh from Ca...
Now back in print, A Tenderfoot in Colorado is R.B. Townshend's classic account of his time in the wild frontier territory known as Colorado. Townshend arrived in the Rockies in 1869, fresh from Cambridge, England, with 300 in his pockets. He found friends among some of Colorado's more colorful characters, people who taught him much about life on the frontier. Jake Chisolm taught him how to shoot after rescuing him from two men preparing to skin him at poker. Wild Bill of Colorado taught him the meaning of ""the drop"" and warned him against wearing a gun in town unless he wanted trouble. C.
Details
- Creator
- R.B. Townshend ; foreword by Thomas J. Noel
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Boulder : University Press of Colorado, c2008
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (301 p.)
- ISBNs
- 1457109387, 0870819380, 9781457110467, 9780870819896, 9781457109386, 9780870819384, 1457110466, 0870819895
- OCLC
- ocn775301684, ocn506069262, ocn994452223
- Originally published: [New ed.] Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [1968].
- English
- Copyright; Contents; Foreword; 1: Enter the Tenderfoot; 2: Exit the Tenderfoot; 3: Three Per Cent; 4: Tiger Bill; 5: Wild Bill of Colorado; 6: Our Red Brothers; 7: Wild Justice; 8: Our Lost Paradise; 9: The Expanding Bean; 10: My Running Fight; 11: Wolves and Crows; 12: On My Own; 13: The Battle of the Bulls; 14: A Texas Nursery; 15: Hide and Seek with Dog-Soldiers; 16: A Bull in a Barn; 17: The Fate of the Maverick; 18: The King of the Prairie; 19: The Big Yellow Stag