How the Irish won the West
By: by Myles Dungan
Publisher: Skyhorse Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781616081003
Notes: Originally published: Dublin : New Island, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Opening credits: a nineteenth-century western timeline; title: Reel one: introduction: How the Irish really won the West; title: Reel two: mountain men: Irish pioneers of the fur trade; title: Reel three: the Donner party: Cannibalism on the western trail; title: Reel four: Indian agent: The later career of Thomas Fitzpatrick; title: Reel five: toffs: Irish aristocrats west of the Mississippi; title: Reel six: not so gentle tamers: Irish women stake their claim; title: Reel seven: heroes and villains: The Irish good, bad and distinctly ugly; title: Reel eight: the Lincoln County War:; title: Murphy, Dolan, Riley, Brady and Billy the Kid; title: Reel nine: cameos: Pioneers, plutocrats, popinjays and populists.