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3) The rivermen
Series
Old West volume no. 12
Description
Traces the history of transportation on the Missouri River in the nineteenth century and its impact on the development of the West.
Author
Description
An encyclopedia of authentic Western minutiae - the little things about how the people, animals, and things of the Old West looked and acted. Uniforms, guns, costumes, wagons, horses, houses, farm implements - the details you look for in many books - are gathered together in a volume as much fun to read as it is beautiful to look at.
Author
Pub. Date
19uu
Description
Richens Lacy "Uncle Dick" Wootton* (1816-1893) - American frontiersman, mountain man, trapper, and guide, Wootton was born in Mecklenberg County, Virginia on May 6, 1816. At the age of 7, the family moved to Kentucky, where Richens stayed until he was 17. He then moved to Mississippi where he worked on his uncles cotton plantation for two years before making his way to Independence, Missouri in 1836. He soon took a job working on a wagon train run...
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