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Author : Harry Sinclair Drago
Release : 1970
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Great Range Wars by : Harry Sinclair Drago
Download or read book The Great Range Wars written by Harry Sinclair Drago. This book was released on 1970. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the Lincoln County War, Pleasant Valley Feud, Johnson County War, Conflict on the Clear Fork of Texas and Fence-Cutting War in the Texas Panhandle, etc.
Author : John W. Davis
Release : 2012-09-05
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Wyoming Range War by : John W. Davis
Download or read book Wyoming Range War written by John W. Davis. This book was released on 2012-09-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wyoming attorney John W. Davis retells the story of the West’s most notorious range war. Having delved more deeply than previous writers into land and census records, newspapers, and trial transcripts, Davis has produced an all-new interpretation. He looks at the conflict from the perspective of Johnson County residents—those whose home territory was invaded and many of whom the invaders targeted for murder—and finds that, contrary to the received explanation, these people were not thieves and rustlers but legitimate citizens. The broad outlines of the conflict are familiar: some of Wyoming’s biggest cattlemen, under the guise of eliminating livestock rustling on the open range, hire two-dozen Texas cowboys and, with range detectives and prominent members of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association, “invade” north-central Wyoming to clean out rustlers and other undesirables. While the invaders kill two suspected rustlers, citizens mobilize and eventually turn the tables, surrounding the intruders at a ranch where they intend to capture them by force. An appeal for help convinces President Benjamin Harrison to call out the army from nearby Fort McKinley, and after an all-night ride the soldiers arrive just in time to stave off the invaders’ annihilation. Though taken prisoner, they later avoid prosecution. The cattle barons’ powers of persuasion in justifying their deeds have colored accounts of the war for more than a century. Wyoming Range War tells a compelling story that redraws the lines between heroes and villains.
Author : Marilynn S. Johnson
Release : 2014-06-05
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 047/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Violence in the West by : Marilynn S. Johnson
Download or read book Violence in the West written by Marilynn S. Johnson. This book was released on 2014-06-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generations of Americans have developed an image of violence in the “Wild West” through books and films. But what conditions really resulted in violence on the American frontier between the 1880s and 1910s? How frequently did violence occur, and what forms did it take? Johnson explores these questions through the lens of the mining and range wars that plagued the region during this period. The author opens with an introductory essay that situates violence within social, political, and economic circumstances of the time, considering smaller cases of interpersonal violence and larger conflicts. Documents are then presented to illuminate two case studies of collective violence—the Johnson County range war in northern Wyoming and the 1913–1914 coal strike in southern Colorado resulting in the Ludlow Massacre. The closing epilogue examines the role both incidents played in shaping the collective memory and cultural history of the American West. The book’s format provides readers with both a general understanding of the history of western violence and the context of specific historical cases that allow for more in-depth study and comparison.
Author : United States. Forest Service
Release : 1926
Genre : Public lands
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Book Synopsis The Story of the Range by : United States. Forest Service
Download or read book The Story of the Range written by United States. Forest Service. This book was released on 1926. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert M. Coates
Release : 1986-01-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Outlaw Years by : Robert M. Coates
Download or read book The Outlaw Years written by Robert M. Coates. This book was released on 1986-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Natchez Trace is remarkable in American history for the legends and tales surrounding it. During the first half of the nineteenth century, travelers--traders, settlers, andøthe occasional war party or fugitive from justice--followed its course from the Appalachians to the lower Mississippi, from Knoxville to Natchez. In this vibrant and energetic account, the author has mined both history and legend for startling tales of the near-mythical thieves, cutthroats, and confidence men once reported to have stalked their unsuspecting victims along this frontier trail--the terrible Harpe brothers, who came to a satisfactorily bad end; Samuel Mason, a thief done in by other thieves; and John Murrell, whose reputed schemes threw the South into a paroxysm of fear. Robert M. Coates retells the stories of these and other "land pirates" in chilling and ominous detail, preserving for us the tales once whispered on the edges of the dark southern woods nearly two centuries ago.
