TY - BOOK ID - 135046962 TI - As big as the West : the pioneer life of Granville Stuart AU - Milner, Clyde A. AU - O'Connor, Carol A. PY - 2009 SN - 0199923701 1281868213 9786611868215 0199722927 0195127099 9780195127096 9780199722921 9781281868213 PB - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Pioneers KW - Frontier and pioneer life KW - Ranchers KW - Ranch life KW - Gold miners KW - Politicians KW - History. KW - Stuart, Granville, KW - Montana KW - Gold discoveries. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135046962 AB - Granville Stuart (1834-1918) is a quintessential Western figure, a man whose adventures rival those of Wyatt Earp, Buffalo Bill, or Sitting Bull, and who embodied many of the contradictions of America's westward expansion. Stuart collected guns, herded cattle, mined for gold, and killed men he thought outlaws. But he also taught himself Shoshone, French, and Spanish, denounced formal religion, married a Shoshone woman, and eventually became a United States diplomat. In this fascinating biography, Clyde A. Milner II and Carol A. O'Connor, co-editors of the acclaimed Oxford History of the American ER -