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The old Santa Fe Trail
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ISBN: 0585258406 9780585258409 0803296150 Year: 1996 Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press,

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The Santa Fe Trail was one of the two great overland highways originating in Missouri in the nineteenth century. Several decades before settlers streamed over the Oregon Trail, traders were heading southwest. The caravans carried the wares of Yankee commerce; they returned loaded with buffalo robes and beaver pelts and the rich metals of Mexican mines. The thousand-mile journey "was a perilous cruise across a boundless sea of grass, over forbidding mountains, among wild. Beasts and wilder men, ending in an exotic city offering quick riches, friendly foreign women, and a moral holiday," writes Stanley Vestal. Vestal begins where the trail does. He describes outfitting for the trip, the society formed for survival, the hunt for meat, landmarks, and the dangers. He evokes the history and legends surrounding the trail at every point, including figures like Kit Carson, Jedediah Smith, the Bent brothers, and Uncle Dick Wooton.

Warpath : the true story of the fighting Sioux told in a biography of Chief White Bull
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ISBN: 0585335478 9780585335476 0803246536 9780803246539 0803296010 9780803296015 Year: 1984 Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press,


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The book lover's southwest : a guide to good reading
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Year: 1955 Publisher: Norman (Okla.): University of Oklahoma press,

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The old Santa Fe trail
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Year: 1957 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Bantam

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Sitting Bull, champion of the Sioux : a biography
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ISBN: 0806103639 Year: 1980 Volume: 46 Publisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press,

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Sitting Bull, champion of the Sioux : a biography.
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Year: 1932 Publisher: Boston Houghton Mifflin

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Queen of cowtowns : Dodge City : the wickedest little city in America 1872 - 1886
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ISBN: 0803257589 Year: 1972 Publisher: Lincoln University of Nebraska press

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Joe Meek
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ISBN: 080325315X 9780803253155 Year: 2013 Publisher: Lincoln UNP - Bison Books

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""A tall man, with long black hair, smooth face, dark eyes (inclining to turn his head a little to one side, as much as to say, 'I can tell you about it'), a harum-scarum, don't-care sort of man, full of life and fun. That's how a contemporary described Joe Meek.""Born in Virginia, Joe Meek became a trapper, Indian fighter, pioneer, peace officer, frontier politician, and lover of practical jokes and Jacksonian democracy. He was a boon companion to two other larger-than-life mountain men, Kit Carson and Jim Bridger, and just as important in frontier history.In 1829, our n


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Early days among the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians
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Year: 1956 Publisher: Norman University of Oklahoma Press

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