Seeking Pleasure in the Old West
Author | : David Dary |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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110 photographs and illustrations in text.
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Author | : David Dary |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
110 photographs and illustrations in text.
Author | : Richard W. Etulain |
Publisher | : Fulcrum Publishing |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Frontier and pioneer life |
ISBN | : 9781555912956 |
Author | : Jeremy Agnew |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786486457 |
Miners, loggers, railroad men, and others flooded into the American West after the discovery of gold in 1848, and entertainers seeking to fill the demand for distraction from the workers' daily toil soon followed. Actors, actresses and traveling troupes crisscrossed the American frontier, performing in tents, saloons, fancy theaters, and the open air. This exploration of the heyday of popular theater in the Old West chronicles its emergence and growth from 1850 to the early twentieth century. Here is the story of the men and women who provided myriad types of entertainment in the Old West, and brought excitement, laughter and tears to generations of pioneers.
Author | : David Dary |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
110 photographs and illustrations in text.
Author | : Howard W. Marshall |
Publisher | : University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0826219942 |
Accompanying CD contains sound recordings of 39 tunes, by various performers.
Author | : Laurence J. Yadon |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2011-06-23 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 1455615781 |
True stories of nineteenth-century crooks, con artists, and quacks—including the man who “sold” the Brooklyn Bridge. Gunslingers and outlaws weren’t the only ones who made the West wild. The nineteenth century was the golden era of riverboat gamblers, crooked railroad contractors, and filthy-rich medical quacks. These crooks made a living deceiving people who took a stranger at face value and left their doors unlocked. Throw in some get-rich-quick schemes and a generous mixture of whiskey and there was never a shortage of suckers. Conman George Parker was able to stay in business for forty years by “selling” public structures such as Madison Square Garden and the Statue of Liberty. He even “sold” the Brooklyn Bridge as often as twice a week. For most, the Salted Gold Mine or the Magic Wallet cons were enough to satisfy their greed. However, the more ambitious grifters tried the Big Store, an illegal underground betting parlor like the one seen in the movie The Sting. With an honest-looking face and a lack of morals, these scammers played a big role in giving the frontier its lawless reputation—and this book tells their stories.
Author | : Jeremy Agnew |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2022-10-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1476688338 |
Prohibition was imposed by eager temperance movements organizers who sought to shape public behavior through alcoholic beverage control in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The success of reformers' efforts resulted in National Prohibition in America from 1920 to 1933, but it also resulted in a thriving illegal business in the manufacture and distribution of illegal liquor. The history of Prohibition and the resulting illegal drinking is frequently told through the lens of crime and violence in Chicago and other major East Coast cities. Often neglected are the effects of Prohibition on the Western part of the United States and how Westerners rose to the challenge of avoiding the consequences of illegal drinking. Illegal liquor was imported from abroad, made in stills using strange ingredients that were sometimes poisonous to the unlucky drinker. This history includes stories ranging from serious to quirky, and provides an entertaining account of how misguided efforts resulted in numerous unintended consequences.
Author | : James A. Crutchfield |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2006-05-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 076530452X |
The history of America is, at its core, the story of the American West. In this new volume from the Western Writers of America, readers are taken deep into the true stories that helped America form its identity, and the people that embodied its essence. James A. Crutchfield, a long-time WWA Secretary-Treasurer and seasoned historian, has assembled a remarkable cadre of contributors in The Way West. Included are winners of the Owen Wister Award, given for lifetime achievement in literature on the West: * David Dary explores the network of trails that lead explorers West * Bill Gulick recalls the Steamboat days of the Pacific Northwest * Leon Claire Metz goes deep into John Wesley Hardin's world * Robert M. Utley shows us the true faces of the Texas Rangers * Dale L. Walker takes us on a tour of the final resting places of forty of the West's most celebrated figures. The Way West covers many of the now obscure individuals and long-lost tales of our storied past and gives new insights into famous characters and events of this legendary era. So join the Western Writers of America on a journey back in time and lose yourself in the colorful history of the American West.
Author | : Jack Bailey |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2014-07-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 080614792X |
In this earliest known day-by-day journal of a cattle drive from Texas to Kansas, Jack Bailey, a North Texas farmer, describes what it was like to live and work as a cowboy in the southern plains just after the Civil War. We follow Bailey as the drive moves northward into Kansas and then as his party returns to Texas through eastern Kansas, southwestern Missouri, northwestern Arkansas, and Indian Territory. For readers steeped in romantic cowboy legend, the journal contains surprises. Bailey’s time on the trail was hardly lonely. We travel with him as he encounters Indians, U.S. soldiers, Mexicans, freed slaves, and cowboys working other drives. He and other crew members—including women—battle hunger, thirst, illness, discomfort, and pain. Cowboys quarrel and play practical jokes on each other and, at night, sing songs around the campfire. David Dary’s thorough introduction and footnotes place the journal in historical context.
Author | : Jacqueline M. Moore |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0814763413 |
Cowboys are an American legend, but despite ubiquity in history and popular culture, misperceptions abound. Technically, a cowboy worked with cattle, as a ranch hand, while his boss, the cattleman, owned the ranch. Jacqueline M. Moore casts aside romantic and one-dimensional images of cowboys by analyzing the class, gender, and labor histories of ranching in Texas during the second half of the nineteenth century. As working-class men, cowboys showed their masculinity through their skills at work as well as public displays in town. But what cowboys thought was manly behavior did not always match those ideas of the business-minded cattlemen, who largely absorbed middle-class masculine ideals of restraint. Real men, by these standards, had self-mastery over their impulses and didn’t fight, drink, gamble or consort with "unsavory" women. Moore explores how, in contrast to the mythic image, from the late 1870s on, as the Texas frontier became more settled and the open range disappeared, the real cowboys faced increasing demands from the people around them to rein in the very traits that Americans considered the most masculine. Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.