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The Way west : true stories of the American frontier
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- Creator
- edited by James A. Crutchfield ; with an introduction by Paul Andrew Hutton
- Other Title
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- Western Writers of America present The way west
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- 1st trade pbk. ed
- New York : Forge, 2006
- Physical Details
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- 304 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 076530452X, 9780765304520
- OCLC
- ocm69647870
- "A Tom Doherty Associates book."
- An anthology of nonfiction from members of the Western Writers of America.
- Introduction / Paul Andrew Hutton -- Survival of the cowboy / Darrell Arnold -- A medical necessity / Allen P. Bristow -- Did Lambe lead Mary to slaughter? / Larry K. Brown -- Muggins Taylor: the man and the myth / Robert Casemore -- "Is not this the Red River?": Zebulon Pike, James Wilkinson, and the search for the far Southwest / James A. Crutchfield -- Western trails / David Dary -- The toughest town in Texas / Riley Froh -- Dancing in the eye of the storm / Carmen Goldthwaite -- The last war cry: Battle Butte, January 8, 1877 / Janet E. Graebner -- The Alamo / William Groneman III -- Pacific Northwest steamboat days / Bill Gulick -- Spreading the news : California's gold messengers of 1848 / Abraham Hoffman -- The second Declaration of Independence / Elmer Kelton -- The intrepid females of forty-nine / JoAnn Levy -- The jayhawking of Salina / Judy Magnuson Lilly -- Maud-- kidnapped by Pancho Villa / Douglas V. Meed -- Fast guns and dead men: the story of John Wesley Hardin / Leon Claire Metz -- Bill Cody gets buffaloed / Rod Miller -- The Fourth Company / Candy Moulton -- Idaho gold dust murders / Pat Decker Nipper -- From the heart of chaos: finding Zitkala-Sa / Nancy M. Peterson -- Ranald Mackenzie: the forgotten hero / Troy D. Smith -- Murder most foul: a New Mexico cause ce*le*bre / Karen Holliday Tanner and John D. Tanner, Jr. -- Images of the Texas Rangers / Robert M. Utley -- "More than a locomotive to separate us" / Lori Van Pelt -- R.I.P. : the whereabouts of forty celebrated westerners / Dale L. Walker -- Thou shalt not, or "How to tame a Texi-Kan" / Sandy Whiting -- Notes on the contributors