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Author Milner, Clyde A., II, 1948-

Title As big as the West : the pioneer life of Granville Stuart / Clyde A. Milner II and Carol A. O'Connor
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 430 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
Contents Show your hand -- Moving west -- Partners in a new land -- Stampedes -- Ties to the nation -- Brothers apart -- An opportunity with cattle -- Home on a contested range -- Stranglers -- A harsh business -- Second life -- outliving the frontier -- Epilogue: A room full of diaries
Summary Granville Stuart (1834-1918) is a quintessential Western figure, a man whose adventures rival those of Wyatt Earp, Buffalo Bill, or Sitting Bull, and who embodied many of the contradictions of America's westward expansion. Stuart collected guns, herded cattle, mined for gold, and killed men he thought outlaws. But he also taught himself Shoshone, French, and Spanish, denounced formal religion, married a Shoshone woman, and eventually became a United States diplomat. In this fascinating biography, Clyde A. Milner II and Carol A. O'Connor, co-editors of the acclaimed Oxford History of the Americ
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-410) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Stuart, Granville, 1834-1918.
SUBJECT Stuart, Granville, 1834-1918 fast
Subject Pioneers -- Montana -- Biography
Frontier and pioneer life -- Montana
Ranchers -- Montana -- Biography
Ranch life -- Montana -- History
Gold miners -- Montana -- Biography
Politicians -- Montana -- Biography
HISTORY -- State & Local.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
Frontier and pioneer life
Gold miners
Gold mines and mining
Pioneers
Politicians
Ranch life
Ranchers
SUBJECT Montana -- Gold discoveries
Montana -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96007850
Montana -- Biography
Subject Montana
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
Author O'Connor, Carol A., 1946-
ISBN 0195127099
9780195127096
9780199722921
0199722927