Bravos of the WestU of Nebraska Press, 01.06.1995 - 467 Seiten A work of "genuine scholarship, meticulously researched, and told in a lively and colorful style. This blend of information and entertainment is difficult to match. "-Twentieth-Century Western Writers.* "The author is at his best with the mountain men who ranged vast country, endured dire hardship, and exulted in their freedom. Writing of them, he sustains a racy style. "-Walter Havighurst, New York Times Book Review. Bravos of the West is a panoramic history of the development of the West after the Lewis and Clark expedition. Appearing, exiting, and reappearing in this history are trappers, traders, prospectors, gunslingers, missionaries, soldiers, and scientists. Here they are shown trapping beaver, confronting bears, trading, and discovering natural wonders as they advance ever farther into the wilds. John Myers Myers begins with the struggle for Texas and follows the men and women who came West: the mountain men beyond the mouth of the Yellowstone, the emigrants to Oregon, the fortune hunters to California, the Mormons to Salt Lake, the stagecoaches, express ponies, and steam-engine trains through mountain passes and open country, and the outlaws to all of it. Playing their roles on this huge historical stage are Andrew Jackson, Davy Crockett, Hugh Glass, Jim Bowie, William Ashley, Mike Fink, Jim Bridger, Kit Carson, Thomas Hart Benton, Stephen Austin, Sam Houston, Peg-leg Smith, Mountain Lamb, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, Jack Swilling, Henry Plummer, Jack Coffee Hays, Deaf Smith, John Charles Frimont, Brigham Young, John Sutter, Sitting Bull, Cynthia Ann Parker, Joaquin Murrieta, and Wild Bill Hickok. John Myers Myers, noted for his thorough research and vivid style, is also theauthor of The Alamo, Doc Holiday, Tombstone's Early Years, and The Saga of Hugh Glass: Pirate, Pawnee, and Mountain Man (all Bison Books). |
Inhalt
A Prologue | 3 |
A Pair of Western Mariners | 9 |
The Explosion at Natchez | 12 |
The Countryless Patriot | 20 |
The Camels Nose in New Mexicos Tent | 24 |
The Demise of a Legend | 29 |
The Siege That Fizzled | 37 |
Hugh Glasss Rifle | 41 |
Looking for a Home | 216 |
Incorporated Claret Takes Santa Fe | 220 |
A Grizzly on a Flag | 226 |
Sam Walkers Dime | 230 |
A Dragoon Gets a Baggage Train | 236 |
Kirker Gets Even for a Bilking | 241 |
Joe Meek Meets a Cousin | 248 |
Santa Annas Wonderful Dress Coat | 253 |
The Character of the Grizzly | 48 |
A Buckskin Squire of Dames | 57 |
A Tour of a Secret Empire | 63 |
Sought and Unsought Meetings | 67 |
Westerners on the Warpath | 71 |
In Quest of the Santa Buenaventura | 76 |
Of Bright and Shaded Red Waters | 80 |
Three Legs for Two Men | 85 |
The Jostling Beaver Skinners | 91 |
Blood in Dusty Country | 96 |
The Man of a Knife | 102 |
Comanches Met by Water | 107 |
An Unlikely Man of Destiny | 111 |
From Tom to White Hair | 115 |
The End of a Landlocked Pirate | 120 |
The Impact of Wyeths Freaks | 125 |
A Pair of Caravanserais | 130 |
Colonel Bowies Bite of Hay | 137 |
The Gathering of Blades at the Alamo | 142 |
Fighters and a Fainéant | 147 |
Gone Beaver | 152 |
Old Hickory Has His Way | 157 |
A Dreamer Reaches Oregon | 163 |
A Wandering Opportunist | 169 |
The Fracas in the Council House | 172 |
No Pretty Boy for Corpse | 179 |
Scalping for a Living | 184 |
A Trio of Bad Sendings | 190 |
Tom Benton Eyes the Pacific | 197 |
The Renegade Missionaries | 203 |
Old Hickorys Source of Content | 209 |
Prophets and Profits | 258 |
A Mulligan of Disasters | 263 |
Good Riding and Bad Planning | 268 |
The Golden Catchall | 274 |
Saints and Killers | 279 |
The City Gold Built | 284 |
The Sacking of Fort Bridger | 292 |
A Quintet of Hanged Cayuses | 299 |
Wild Cats Confederacy | 303 |
Weightman Draws His Bowie Again | 311 |
The Great American Desert | 316 |
A Pickled Head and a Stovepipe Cannon | 320 |
The Stolen City | 326 |
The Needle in the Big Haystack | 333 |
Jim Bridger Returns a Call | 340 |
The Martyrdom of Joe Stokes | 346 |
A Beheaded Dead Man | 353 |
Sam Houstons Great Scheme | 361 |
The Printed Word in the Rockies | 366 |
Pistols for the Judge and the Senator | 371 |
Slade of the Central Overland | 378 |
The Baker from Nevada City | 384 |
A Bluff at Pinos Altos | 388 |
The Grouse upon the Cadaver | 394 |
The Message of the Ditches | 403 |
The Tethered Mustang | 410 |
Recessional Along the Colorado | 416 |
An Epilogue | 425 |
Bibliography | 429 |
Tables of Leading Characters and Events | 447 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Alamo American Apaches Arikaras Arizona army Ashley Bent's Bent's Fort Benton Bexar Bill Sublette Blackfeet Bowie Brigham California Captain Carson Charles Bent chief City Colonel Colorado Comanches command east Ewing Young expedition fight Fitzpatrick Frémont frontiersmen Fur Company George gold Governor Hays Henry horses Houston Hudson's Bay Company Hugh Glass Indians Jack Coffee Jack Swilling James Jed Smith Jim Bridger Jim Clyman Joe Meek John Charles John Charles Frémont Kearny killed Kirker Kit Carson knew McGowan Mexican Mexico Milton Sublette Missouri Mormons mountain mountain men Old Bill Oregon Oury Pacific party Philip St Plummer Rangers region rendezvous rifle River Rockies Salt Lake San Francisco Santa Anna Santa Fe Trail scalps shot Snively Swilling Taos territory Terry Texas Texians took town trade trappers trapping tribes troops turned United Vigilantes wagon Walker West Western William York Young