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No Hollywood flim-flam or arty photographic re-creation here. Lindmier and Mount demonstrate through the use of historic photographs what actual working cowboys of the Northern Plains wore and what equipment they used from the 1870s until 1928. These cowboys may not look like the ones in the movies, but you can bet your boots they are the real thing. The authors researched chaps, spurs, boots, and even underwear. Chapters cover saddles and horse gear...
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"More than a century ago the Gold Rush opened the American West. Now, with the same explosive effects, oil is changing the face of the frontier, populating it with a new generation of settlers as tough and as violent as the cowboys and miners of the past....Williamson takes us to Kemmerer, Wyoming, a small town at the heart of this new migration...where the Gold Rush is occurring in its twentieth-centry form, with "roughnecks" -- the oil-field workers...
9) Wind River Indian Reservation interpretive plan for the Eastern Shoshone and the Northern Arapaho
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This interpretive planning project was initiated through the desire of many to hear, sometimes for the first time, the history of the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho people of the Wind River Indian Reservation. This plan attempts to share an important history in order to gain a broader understanding of the past and present of the state. With this more comprehensive understanding, those who contributed to this project hope that a greater historical...