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1) Buffalo Bill
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Physical Desc
47 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm.
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English
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Presents a biography of Buffalo Bill Cody, and chronicles his early days as a Pony Express rider, buffalo hunter for the railroad, and scout for the army, as well as his legendary Wild West shows.
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xii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"This, the first significant biography of Buffalo Bill Cody for younger readers in many years, explains it all. With copious archival illustrations and a handsome design, "Presenting Buffalo Bill "makes the great showman come alive for new generations. Extensive back matter, bibliography, and source notes complete the package."--
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M.K. Brown range life volume no. 21
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xx, 480 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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English
Description
In this dual biography, McMurtry explores the lives, the legends, and above all the truth about two larger-than-life American figures. With his Wild West show, Buffalo Bill Cody helped invent the image of the West that still exists today--cowboys and Indians, rodeo, rough rides, sheriffs and outlaws, trick shooting, Stetsons, and buck-skin. His most celebrated protégée, the short, slight Annie Oakley--born Phoebe Ann Moses in Ohio--spent sixteen...
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xvii, 286 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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Documents the unlikely friendship between Buffalo Bill Cody and Sitting Bull, tracing the events of their brief but important collaboration during Cody's 1880s Wild West Show, the impact of Little Big Horn, and Sitting Bull's assassination in 1890.
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273 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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Annie Oakley has always suspected there is something "uncanny" about herself, but has never been able to put a name to it. But when Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show goes on tour through Germany, Bill temporarily hires a new sharpshooter to be part of his "World Wide Congress of Rough Riders." As they travel and perform, Annie must use her newfound knowledge and rare skill to combat creatures of the night scattered across the countryside, who threaten...
14) My Calamity Jane
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Lady Janies volume 3
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xi, 520 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
Description
Hold on to your hats: The authors who brought you the New York Times bestseller My Plain Jane, which Booklist praised as delightfully deadpan (starred review) and Publishers Weekly called a clever, romantic farce (starred review), are back with another irreverent historical adventure. Welcome to 1876 America, a place bursting with gunslingers, outlaws, and garou -- better known as werewolves. And where there are garou, there are hunters: the one and...
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viii, 357 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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In the spring of 1860 on the eve of a civil war that threatened to tear the country apart, two Americans conceived of an audacious plan for linking the nation's two coasts, thereby joining its present with its future. This book traces the development of the Pony Express and follows it from its start in St. Joseph, Missouri 1,500 miles west to Sacramento.
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English
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A lone man wanders from swamp to swamp searching for himself; a wolf-girl visits Wales and eats the sheep; Lakota men re-enact the Wounded Knee Massacre in Cardiff; mountain women practise Appalachian hoodoo, native healing and Welsh witchcraft. These stories are true tales and talk tales. They tell of the lives of migrants who left Wales and settled in America, of the native and enslaved people who had long been living there and those curious travellers...
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xi, 396 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"Embodying the classic American traits of resourcefulness and rugged independence, the hunter looms larger than life in our national mythology, occupying a unique -- and uniquely fraught -- place in the American psyche. Popularized in the nineteenth century as a way to reconnect "soft" urban Americans with nature, for many years sport hunting was the national pastime of Americans from all walks of life, while it became a common theme in literature,...
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xiii, 320 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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In July 1865, "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, MO -- the first quick-draw duel on the frontier. Thus began the reputation that made him a marked man to every gunslinger in the Wild West. James Butler Hickock was known across the frontier as a soldier, Union spy, scout, lawman, gunfighter, gambler, showman, and actor. Wild Bill became a legend, crossing paths with General Custer and Buffalo Bill Cody, as well as Ben Thompson...
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