Out of the West (eBook)

Rufus Rockwell Wilson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
576 Seiten
Jazzybee Verlag
978-3-8496-6360-5 (ISBN)

Infos

The epic of American expansion has had many chroniclers. Romance is wedded to heroism and rich achievement crowned high endeavor. In this present volume is woven the golden thread of that romantic and heroic era. Here, on these pages, live again the mighty men of those epoch-making days when the forces of manhood were matched against the forces of nature, valor against villainy, and life itself was ventured on a single hazard of fortune. Nurtured, many of them, in the calm and quiet of the more settled East, they dreamed as youths of those plains and mountains "out where the West begins." They matched their wits against the crafty red man and their strength against the perils and privations of a trackless wilderness. With the might to conquer they triumphed over heat and cold, over foe and famine, over storm and starvation, and made Death Valley a highway to the shores of the Pacific - where the West ends. The record which these pages unfold could be written only by a man who knows the West, and who, though himself an Easterner, feels akin with the spirit of the pioneer. Countless pages have been scanned for an accurate record of those men and times and for verification of the stirring incidents recited here. Numerous interviews and prolonged research have enabled the author to present a stirring, vivid picture of glamorous years and of valorous men who undeterred by danger and unafraid of death wrought mighty deeds and opened vast areas to commerce and civilization.

Inhalt

The Mountain Men
Trader and Buffalo Hunter
The Way to Oregon
Guardians of the Trail
The Rush to California
Gold Days and Ways
Pony Express and Mail Coach
When the Comstock Made History
Flush Days in Virginia City
Pike's Peak and Leadville
Northern Camps and Vigilantes
Turbulent Tombstone
The Luck of the Gold Hunter
The End of the Rainbow
The Passing of the Prospector
Up the Trail from Texas
On the Northern Ranges
Frontier Peace Officers

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.7.2023
• Verlagsort: Altenmünster
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: american expansion • American History • Colonial history • Kit Carson • Mountain Men • Pony Express • Wild West
• ISBN-10: 3-8496-6360-4 / 3849663604
• ISBN-13: 978-3-8496-6360-5 / 9783849663605