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Inventing Wyatt Earp: his life and many legends
Par Allen Barra. 1998
The author contends that much popular material on Wyatt Earp is dubious. Drawing on his own research and that of…
several historians, Barra portrays Earp's life and adventures. He discusses the fight at the O.K. Corral and shows how this complex man became a symbol of the Old WestOld fences, new neighbors
Par Peter Decker. 1998
Explores the conflicts between the new and old west using the author's adopted county of Ouray, Colorado. Complex land-use issues…
driven by population explosion are forcing many long-term ranchers out of business. Discusses the history and the changes in the small agricultural town of Ridgway, which characterize the entire region. 1998Face au dieu vivant (Collection Témoins de vie)
Par Ruth Burrows. 2021
Ruth Burrows (Soeur Rachel Gregory), carmélite anglaise du monastère de Quidenham, Norfolk depuis 1948, est l'auteur d'une dizaine d'ouvrages sur…
la prière et la vie spirituelle, elle a déjà acquis une grande notoriété en Angleterre et aux Etats-Unis. Elle est "à notre époque, l'une des figures les plus stimulantes et les plus profondes de la tradition carmélitaine" (R. Williams)In a Festschrift to Yale historian Howard Lamar, other historians have contributed essays on topics such as the need to…
expand the traditional definition of "western art"; Native American writings such as nineteenth-century Cherokee periodicals; the often-ignored imperial role in the West; and the politics of the twentieth-century West. Other essayists explore the role of women and of religion in the WestGarry has spent a dozen years gathering and telling tales of the American West. His stories are a mixture of…
fact and fiction, extending from pioneer days to modern times, and they come from sources ranging from his Texas ancestors to the Wyoming ranchers he happens upon in diners. Humor permeates all of the adventures in these stories--from bank robbing, to cowboying, to practical jokesCow people
Par J. Dobie. 1964
The late historian has written a chronicle of the old-time Texas ranchers and their customs. Written in the natural rhythm…
of spoken language, it is an affectionate and nostalgic remembrance of the life he lived and those who lived with himSeven western writers who are eighty years old or more share what it was like growing up on the prairies…
or in the mountains during the early part of the century. An introduction about the writer precedes each reminiscenceThe half known life: In search of paradise
Par Pico Iyer. 2023
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Masterful…A book of inner journeys told through extraordinary exteriors…One of his very best." —Washington Post "Dazzling." —Time…
Magazine, Best Books of 2023 From "one of the most soulful and perceptive writers of our time" (Brain Pickings): a journey through competing ideas of paradise to see how we can live more peacefully in an ever more divided and distracted world. Paradise: that elusive place where the anxieties, struggles, and burdens of life fall away. Most of us dream of it, but each of us has very different ideas about where it is to be found. For some it can be enjoyed only after death; for others, it’s in our midst—or just across the ocean—if only we can find eyes to see it. Traveling from Iran to North Korea, from the Dalai Lama’s Himalayas to the ghostly temples of Japan, Pico Iyer brings together a lifetime of explorations to upend our ideas of utopia and ask how we might find peace in the midst of difficulty and suffering. Does religion lead us back to Eden or only into constant contention? Why do so many seeming paradises turn into warzones? And does paradise exist only in the afterworld – or can it be found in the here and now? For almost fifty years Iyer has been roaming the world, mixing a global soul’s delight in observing cultures with a pilgrim’s readiness to be transformed. In this culminating work, he brings together the outer world and the inner to offer us a surprising, original, often beautiful exploration of how we might come upon paradise in the midst of our very real livesThe enemy never came: the Civil War in the Pacific Northwest
Par Scott McArthur. 2012
Although the Pacific Northwest was the area furthest removed from the actual battles of the Civil War, it was nonetheless…
profoundly affected by the war. The Enemy Never Came examines the everyday lives of the volunteer soldiers who battled Native American renegades of the region and of the settlers who were deeply affected by the war yet unable to do much about it. Pacific Northwest pioneers soon chose sides, most allying with the North, others supporting the southern states' right to withdraw from the union. Still others attempted to ignore the entire issue of the War between the States, leaving "that problem" to the folks back east. Because communication with the rest of the nation was slow and tenuous during the early years of the war, the early settlers of what are now Oregon, Washington, and Idaho concentrated on controlling the restive Native Americans whose land and society had been overwhelmed by white settlers. These same settlers, however, nonetheless vigorously argued politics and worried about invaders from the south, from the British colonies to the north, and from the sea-none of whom ever materialized. AdultFor more than thirty years Elton Miles, a past President of the Texas Folklore Society, has been collecting the stories…
and legends that spring from the unique Big Bend lifestyle. This volume includes never-before-published tales, variations on familiar legends, local border corridos, folk poems and other regional lore. AdultGhosts and legends of Nevada's highway 50 (Haunted America Ser.)
Par Janice Oberding. 2018
The 287-mile stretch of highway that runs east to west across Nevada's desert is billed as the "Loneliest Road in…
America." But those who explore it find there is plenty to discover along the way in the towns of Austin, Eureka, Ely, Fallon and Fernley. Every one of these places has its own unique history, ghosts and stories to tell. From the sordid lynching of Richard Jennings to the humorous legend about a famous sack of flour, author Janice Oberding treks across Highway 50 seeking spirits and uncovering the tales of Singing Sand Mountain, the Red-Headed Giants, the Giroux Mine Disaster and many more. AdultHistoric tales of Utah (American chronicles)
Par Eileen Hallet Stone. 2016
Atop the windmill I could see forever: a memoir of cuentos
Par María Dolores Gonzales. 2020
In a series of vignettes, this creative memoir narrated by a female voice draws on childhood memories of Dolores, the…
fourth-born daughter in a family of five girls, growing up in rural northeastern New Mexico. AdultOr perish in the attempt: the hardship and medicine of the Lewis & Clark Expedition
Par David J Peck. 2011
An in-depth examination of the health problems faced by the Lewis and Clark expedition, the common medicinal practices of the…
time, and the types of medical treatments used on the expedition. Adult. Some violence and strong languageUtah: the struggle for statehood
Par Ken Verdoia. 1996
Twelve Mormon homes: visited in succession on a journey through Utah to Arizona (Utah, the Mormons, and the West #04)
Par Elizabeth Wood Kane. 1974
Represents a valuable historical picture of home and community life in several Utah towns visited by Elizabeth and Thomas Kane…
in the course of a trip with Brigham Young from Salt Lake City to St. George in 1872. It also gives important insights into the character and personality of Brigham Young in his declining years, and a view of polygamy through the eyes of a cultured Easterner. LDS nonfiction. AdultHow to cuss in western: and other missives from the high desert
Par Michael P Branch. 2018
Edward Abbey encouraged his readers to "be loyal to what you love, be true to the Earth, and fight your…
enemies with passion and laughter." Here is Michael Branch's response. Full of clear-eyed explorations of the natural world, witty cultural observations, and heart-warming family connections, How to Cuss in Western is a cranky and hilarious love letter of sorts to the western Great Basin Desert of NevadaSuzanne Egera Bransford Emery Holmes Delitch Engalitcheff gained an H.R.H. before her name via her fourth marriage, to a genuine,…
if somewhat disreputable, Russian prince. By then she had long been known as the Silver Queen, a reference to the origins of her wealth in the mines of Park City, Utah, that attached to her as she climbed the social ladder of turn-of-the-century high societyColorado and the silver crash: the panic of 1893
Par John Steinle. 2021
A catastrophic depression engulfed Colorado in 1893. The government's decision to adopt the gold standard and stop buying silver hit…
the mining industry like a cave-in. Unemployment reached 90 percent in Leadville, a city built on silver. Strikes by union miners in Cripple Creek and Leadville led to destruction and death. Political parties split along battle lines of gold versus silver. By 1898, the country had begun to recover, but silver mining was never the same. Using firsthand commentary, John Steinle commemorates the story of Coloradans trapped in the unprecedented social, economic, and political conflict of America's first great depression. 2021. Adult