Richard W. Etulain
Author
Series
Oklahoma western biographies volume 29
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane. This concise, and exhaustively researched biography traces the real person from the Missouri farm where she was born in 1856 through the development of her notorious persona as a Wild West heroine.
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Series
Description
Where others saw only sage, a salt lake, and a great desert, the Mormons saw their "lovely Deseret," a land of lilacs, honeycombs, poplars, and fruit trees. Unwelcome in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois, they migrated to the dry lands between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada to establish Mormon country, a wasteland made green. Like the land the Mormons settled, their habits stood in stark contrast to the frenzied recklessness of the American West. Opposed...
Series
Studio classic volume 13
Description
An angry mob kills a man after a popular rancher is murdered.