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Legends of Navajo Country: Experience the stories that have come legends in the mysterious lands deep in Navajo country. Filmed in bautiful Monumnet Valley, this western documentary brings the history and lore of this region to life. -- Ron Clayton's Grand Canyon: See the Grand Canyon through the eyes of the legendary trail boss. Ron Clayton and his crew of muleskinners that oversee the mule rides on the South Rim. Learn about the connection that...
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℗♭2010
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"In memoir, poetry, and prose, describes the adventures of Frank Maynard, an open range cowboy whose ten-year career coincided with the peak of the Great Plains trail-drive era. Folklore scholars credit Maynard with adapting Irish ballad 'The Unfortunate Rake' from its American version to the well known 'The Cowboy's Lament'"--Provided by publisher.
6) A wild West history of frontier Colorado: pioneers, gunslingers & cattle kings on the eastern plains
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2011.
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From the Gold Rush to the coming of the railroad, the mid-1800s saw prospectors, desperados and opportunists flock to Colorado. The peaceful frontier quickly transformed into dangerous, lawless territory, where Coloradoans settled their own matters, usually with pistols.
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2016.
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By and about the greatest celebrities of the Wild West, these are the stories of their adventures told in their own words through excerpts from autobiographies, articles they wrote, newspaper interviews, private journals, personal letters, and court testimony. These glimpses into the worlds of these legendary figures as they describe their own personal experiences, impressions, what life in the Wild West was like, reveal the roles they played in notable...
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Clay Evans can't quite put his finger on exactly what made him decide to become a cowboy -- after all, growing up in Boulder, Colorado, he'd been keener on Batman than Roy Rogers -- but, at the age when other young men were off to college, he was clearly bitten by the cowboy bug. Attracted by the stern Marlboro Man resolve, the cowboy's rigid independence, the oft-ignored connection to the earth, Evans eventually found work on ranches in Montana,...
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"The popular image of the settling of the American West has primarily been of cowboys, soldiers, miners, and trappers--the white men. In Homesteading Women: An Oral History of Colorado, 1890-1950 Julie Jones-Eddy brings to light the reality of the frontier through the oral testimonies of some of the women whose strength and perseverance were essential to the establishment of families, farms, and communities in the West." "Homesteading Women is a compilation...
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c2009
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"Dianna Kouris grew up in a tough family, pioneers in a remote valley touching Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado, along the Green River....with photographs leading the reader through the stories, showing the high expectations and love that created responsible adults, the people, livestock, and land depended on one another, trusted one another, and reinforced one another"--Linda M Hassletrom (author).
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c2013
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"Hanna Ranch is a feature documentary about visionary cattleman Kirk Hanna and his personal struggle to protect a once prominent way of life in Colorado. Born into a life on the family ranch, Hanna became a leader in the environmental ranching movement that set out to protect the West from the relentless encroachment of development and misuse. Featured in the book Fast Food Nation and dubbed the "eco-cowboy," he was an early adopter of Holistic Resource...
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[2021]
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"For more than four decades, between 1969 and 2010, the remote former mining town of Trinidad, Colorado was the unlikely crossroads for approximately six thousand medical pilgrims who came looking for relief from the pain of gender dysphoria. The surgical skill and nonjudgmental compassion of surgeons Stanley Biber and his transgender protege Marci Bowers not only made the phrase “Going to Trinidad” a euphemism for gender confirmation surgery...
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