Bøger af Dan L. Thrapp

Apacheria ran from the Colorado to the Rio Grande and beyond, from the great canyons of the North for a thousand miles into Mexico. Here, where the elusive, phantomlike Apache bands roamed, life was as harsh, cruel, and pitiless as the country itself. The Conquest of Apacheria is an epic of heroism, mixed with chicanery, misunderstanding, and trag

General George Crook planned and organized the principal Apache campaign in Arizona, and General Nelson Miles took credit for its successful conclusion, but the men who really won it were frontiersmen such as Al Sieber. In this carefully researched biography, Dan L. Thrapp gives extensive evidence for Sieber's expertise.

Offers information about persons who lived on the frontier, whether that was the trans-Appalachian frontier, the 'wide Missouri' frontier, the mining regions of the Rockies, or the gold-mining/ranching frontiers of California, Oregon, or Arizona'. This book includes Billy the Kid, Daniel Boone, Calamity Jane, George Custer, and Buffalo Bill.

Contains information about persons who lived on the frontier, whether that was the trans-Appalachian frontier, the 'wide Missouri' frontier, the mining regions of the Rockies, or the gold-mining/ranching frontiers of California, Oregon, or Arizona. This encyclopedia profiles approximately 4,500 frontier figures.

Offers information about persons who lived on the frontier, whether that was the trans-Appalachian frontier, the 'wide Missouri' frontier, the mining regions of the Rockies, or the gold-mining/ranching frontiers of California, Oregon, or Arizona'. This book includes Billy the Kid, Daniel Boone, Calamity Jane, George Custer, and Buffalo Bill.