How the wild West was won
By: Bruce Wexler
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9781628736540
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: History; Frontier and pioneer life; Cowboys; Indians of North America; Women; African Americans; United States. Army. Cavalry, 9th; United States; United States. Army. Cavalry, 10th; United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 24th (1869-1951); United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 25th
Other titles: Celebration of cowboys, gunfighters, buffalo soldiers, sodbusters, moonshiners, and the American frontier
Description: Through its portrayal in movies, literature, television, fashion, and art, the West has become a familiar concept. Wexler sheds light on this much-romanticized period of history by acknowledging its gritty realities and providing an answer as to why, even now, such an allure persists in surrounding it.
Table of contents: title: Native Americans in the West; title: Cavalry regiments of the Indian wars; title: Buffalo soldiers; title: The taming of Texas; title: The wagon train; title: Boomers, sooners, and moonshiners; title: Sodbusters; title: Western towns; title: Pony Express riders; title: The transcontinental railway; title: Wells Fargo; title: Introduction to the gunfighters; title: Robert Clay Allison, 'The shootist'; title: Billy the Kid; title: Black Bart; title: Butch Cassidy; title: The Dalton Gang; title: The Dodge City Peace Commission; title: The Doolin-Dalton Gang; title: Wyatt Earp; title: Robert Ford; title: Patrick 'Pat' Garrett; title: John Wesley Hardin; title: Wild Bill Hickok; title: Doc Holliday; title: Jesse James; title: Bat Masterson; title: Texas Jack Omohundro; title: Commodore Perry Owens; title: William Clarke Quantrill; title: Belle Starr; title: Bill Tilghman; title: Dave Tutt; title: Gunfighter filmography; title: Introduction to the cowboys; title: The history of the cowboy; title: The cattle towns of the West; title: The great cattle trails; title: Charles Goodnight; title: The end of the trails; title: The end of the open range; title: Cowboy kit; title: Cowboy working conditions; title: Cowbow [sic] lingo; title: Ethnicity of the cowboy; title: Cowboy code and culture; title: The wild West shows; title: The rodeo; title: Cowboys in the movies; title: Cowboys on the small screen.