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Out West : travels through the American West-- past and present / Tim Slessor.

by Slessor, Tim.

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Interlink books, 2016.

West (U.S.) -- Anecdotes.

West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.

9781566560641 (pbk.)

First American edition.

x, 346 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.

"A revised and expanded version of More than Cowboys, first published in 2012"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pagds 332-337) and index.

First things first -- La vente de la Louisiane -- Lewis and Clark --Mountain men --The overland trail -- The Gold Rush -- The hostiles and the military -- No survivors -- The railroad -- Custer and Little Big Horn -- Towards Wounded Knee -- Cowboys and cow-towns -- Cattle barons -- Range war-- Butch Cassidy and all that -- The sod-house frontier -- Last things last.

"Was Butch Cassidy really killed in a Bolivian shoot-out? It seems that he probably returned, under a false name, to live out his days in the West. In 1935 he even submitted an autobiographical script to Hollywood only to have it rejected as being too preposterous to be believable. He died two years later, penniless. Tim Slessor has traveled out West for over forty years. He presents a series of beguiling stories that range from the mountain men and their fur trade to the pioneers of the overland trail, from Custer and the disaster at the Little Big Horn to the last stand of the Sioux at Wounded Knee, from the early cow-towns and the railroads to the cattle barons and the emigrant sod-busters, casting new and entertaining light on the history and personalities of the American West" -- Provided by publisher.

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