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1) The rivermen
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Traces the history of transportation on the Missouri River in the nineteenth century and its impact on the development of the West.
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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...
13) Railroaders
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It's all here! The whole bawdy history of the Western saloon from the time the first whiskey peddler raised a tent over his barrels of home brew until Carrie Nation and Prohibition changed things. The saloon was often a town's first public building and the town's only club - a refuge from frontier hardship that served almost every human need, from hotel to theater, courtroom to barbershop - and then some!
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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.
20) Indians
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Traces the battles waged by various North American Indian tribes and leaders to defend their land and way of life from encroaching white settlers, soldiers, and hunters.
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