More than cowboys : travels through the history of the American west / Tim Slessor.

ISBN:

9781908493958

9781908493941

9781299752757

Title:

More than cowboys : travels through the history of the American west / Tim Slessor.

Author:

Slessor, Tim.

Personal Author:

Slessor, Tim.

Publication Information:

Oxford : Signal Books, 2012.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 pages) : illustrations, maps

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Publisher Information; Preface; More Than Cowboys; First Things First; La Vente De La Louisiane; Lewis And Clark; Mountain Men; The Overland Trail; The Hostiles And The Military; No Survivors; The Railroad; Custer And Little Big Horn; Towards Wounded Knee; Cowboys And Cow-Towns; Cattle Barons; Range War; Butch Cassidy And All That; The Sod-House Frontier; Back Matter; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Reference Listing.

Local Note:

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Subject Term:

Indians of North America -- Government relations.

America -- Colonization -- Sources.

HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)

HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)

Indians of North America -- Government relations. (OCoLC)fst00969761

Geographic Term:

West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.

United States, West. (OCoLC)fst01243255

Frontier. (DE-588c)4098007-8.

USA. (DE-588c)4078704-7.

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

http://ezproxy.angliss.edu.au/login?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=597192

Publication Date:

2012

Publication Information:

Oxford : Signal Books, 2012.

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Summary

So many books about the American West leave out the more intriguing details: When, in 1803, the young USA doubled its size with the purchase from France of an unexplored vastness called La Louisiane, it was a British bank which lent the Americans most of the $15 million that they didnOCOt have. So the financial papers for the biggest real-estate deal in history are, to this day, held in a London vault. Not many people know that... If his ranching uncle-by-marriage had had his way, the t..