Author: Anne Willson WhiteheadPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
A History of Manville, Wyoming and the Manville Ranching Community
Author: Anne Willson WhiteheadPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Wyoming History News
Author: The Art and Life of Merritt Dana Houghton in the Northern Rockies, 1878-1919
Author: Michael A. AmundsonPublisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1646423666
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Between 1891 and 1915, pen-and-ink artist Merritt Dana Houghton made over 200 bird’s-eye sketches of towns, ranches, mines, businesses, historic sites, and animals in Wyoming, northern Colorado, Montana, Idaho, and Washington state. Historian Michael A. Amundson brings these many views together for the first time in these pages. This lavishly illustrated biography details Houghton’s life and work from his birth in Michigan in 1846 to his death in 1919 in Spokane through extensive genealogical records, newspaper accounts, and his illustrations—including historic ranches and bird’s-eye views of Fort Collins, Colorado; Dillon, Montana; and Spokane, Washington and the only known illustrations of long-lost places like Pearl, Colorado, and Rambler, Wyoming. Also included is reproduction of a four-foot-by-eight-foot view of Sheridan, Wyoming and a sixty-image sample portfolio of his best-preserved illustrations organized by type. Houghton’s work depicts the infrastructure of the new settler society that was remaking the West in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, and Amundson demonstrates how Houghton’s vision of the American West remains active today.
Frontier Madam
Author: June ReadPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762755555
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This is the first biography of Dell Burke, whose estate sale drew national attention when she died in 1981 at age 93. Painstakingly researched for over five years, June Willson Read’s landmark history tells the story of a broken young woman who saw opportunities in the Alaskan gold rush, the copper mines in Montana and the oil fields in Wyoming. But it wasn’t mining that made Burke’s fortune – she focused on the entertainment needs of the lonely men who poured into the uncharted west to strike it rich. In 1919, the genteel and gracious Burke opened the Yellow Hotel brothel in Lusk, Wyoming, where she reigned for six decades, until 1978. Although condemned for her profession, she was beloved for her generosity and her devotion to the community. For example, during the Depression, Burke financed Lusk’s water-power system and single-handedly saved the town from going bankrupt. Read interviewed locals, historians, and Burke descendents to present a fascinating story of a little-known entrepreneurial powerhouse.
American Book Publishing Record
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1476
Book Description
Subject Guide to Books in Print
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 3054
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Annals of Wyoming
Author: Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
January and February, 1925 volumes bound together as one.
History of Wyoming (Second Edition)
Author: T. A. LarsonPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803279361
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 679
Book Description
"The History of Wyoming" explains detailed information of territorial and state developments. This second edition also includes the post-World War II chapters containing discussion about the economy, society, culture and politics not included on the previous edition.
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