Wildest of the wild West: true tales of a frontier town on the Santa Fe Trail
Etats-Unis (histoire), Colonisation (histoire)
Audio avec voix humaine
Résumé
Las Vegas, New Mexico, for decades considered the most violent community on America's western frontier, is the focal point of this narrative. Western historian Howard Bryan drew most of these tales from early newspapers and from the accounts of New… Mexico old-timers interviewed in the 1950s and 1960s. Real life in the West was wilder than fiction, as these tales of the Santa Fe Trail and Las Vegas from 1835 to 1915 vividly demonstrate. The cast of characters includes Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett, "Doc" Holliday, "Mysterious Dave" Mather, Jesse James, Bob Ford, and the beautiful and mysterious gambling woman, Monte Verde