Category: OLD WEST

The American West has long played a role in our consciousness as a place apart, a site of perpetual optimism and romanticism. In Imagining the Big Open a wide range of scholars deftly examine our projections upon and uses of the New West a projection that not only includes how we imagine the West but how we use Western places. Addressing the history, popular culture, geography, and public policy of the region the contributors unravel our collective psyche where SUVs and REI cards exist in symbiosis with the wilderness movement and Sierra Club memberships."
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PIONEER WOMEN

Price: $1.95

Seller ID: 99227

ISBN: 281BZE1006883

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

So Much to Be Done: Women Settlers on the Mining and Ranching Frontier (Women in the West)

Price: $3.95

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press : May 1990

Seller ID: 171433

ISBN-13: 9780803231344

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The genuine creative achievements of nineteenth-century western women have often been obscured by sentimental tributes to their devotion and diligence, while men are praised as pathfinders, entrepreneurs, and community builders. But the nineteen narratives in "So Much to Be Done" by women of diverse status and background reveal women's involvement in every aspect of settlement. Their part in making hard decisions, producing essential income, and developing new communities was as important as their flexibility, humor, and sense of adventure. This collection describes the experiences of pioneer ...
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The Arbor House Treasury of Great Western Stories

Price: $2.95

Publisher: Arbor House Pub Co : May 1985

Seller ID: 99208

ISBN-13: 9780877954101

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Oral Tradition of the American West: Adventure, Courtship, Family, and Place in Traditional Recitation (American Folklore Series)

Price: $2.95

Publisher: August House Publishers, Inc. : November 1990

Seller ID: 99214

ISBN-13: 9780874831245

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The stories and poems that survived the frontier

"A fine collection for modern storytellers and for those who want a peek at a once-popular form of entertainment". -- Booklist

"This is one of the most rewarding books to have come to my attention this year". -- Mid-America Folklore
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The Westerners: A Roundup of Pioneer Reminiscences

Price: $2.95

Publisher: Bison Books : June 1997

Seller ID: 99268

ISBN-13: 9780803282360

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Two dozen pioneering men and women talk about life out west on the downward slope of the nineteenth century and start of the twentieth. It was still rough and raw. Paul Gray rode the cattle trails of the Staked Plain, where "nobody asked anybody's name" because "it wasn't courtesy." Jake Goss recalls the fuss when chickens raised on Salt Creek in western Colorado were found to have gold in their craws. J. Selby Batt's father owned a general store in Wells, Nevada, where a lady could buy yards of ribbon and a gallon of whiskey. Other old-timers reminisce about characters like Bat Masterson and ...
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The Wild West

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Time Life Education : March 1993

Seller ID: 99322

ISBN-13: 9780446517614

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Wild West

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Time Life Education : March 1993

Seller ID: 181495

ISBN-13: 9780446517614

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

TRIGGERNOMETRY GALLERY OF GUNFIGHTERS

Price: $2.95

Seller ID: 99296

ISBN: 281BZE1006896

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

VOICES FROM WILDERNESS

Price: $2.95

Seller ID: 99266

ISBN: 281BZE1006891

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

WESTWARD THE BRITON

Price: $1.50

Seller ID: 136827

ISBN: 281BZE1010396

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

WILD WEST TRUE TALES AMAZING LEGENDS

Price: $2.95

Seller ID: 141883

ISBN: 281BZE1010977

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Calamity Jane and the Lady Wildcats (Bison Books)

By: Aikman, Duncan

Price: $3.50

Publisher: BISON BOOKS : September 1987

Seller ID: 99253

ISBN-13: 9780803259119

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

When Calamity Jane and the Lady Wildcats was first published in 1927, Thomas Beer, with tongue in cheek if not in check, noted the book's underlying theory: "The women of the pioneer epoch--say, from 1840 to 1890--had their feet planted on a resonant drum of man's sexual necessity. They could choose the measure of the dance and the amount of noise to be exacted from creatures in a state of animal tension. Wifehood, polyandry, and an excused rapacity were open to the shrewd." Arguments and assents to that theory aside, Aikman's book is still good fun. Our fascination with Calamity Jane has, if ...
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Category: OLD WEST