The Real Wild West The 101 Ranch and the Creation of the American West,9780312192860

The Real Wild West The 101 Ranch and the Creation of the American West

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ISBN13: 9780312192860
ISBN10: 031219286X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-03-15
Publisher(s): St. Martin's Press
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Summary

Founded in 1893, the 101 Ranch in Oklahoma embodied the spirit of the frontier for the entire nation. The ranch's troupe of cowboys and cowgirls performed before packed audiences across the country, and 101 ranchhands starred in many of the first silent Westerns ever made.

Table of Contents

Prologue 1(2)
Introduction: The Hundred and One 3(4)
Part One: The Dark and Bloody Ground 7(32)
Kentucky Home
9(6)
Portrait: Daniel Boone: America's First ``Cowboy''
13(2)
Rebel Child
15(8)
Portrait: P. T. Barnum Invents the Wild West
20(3)
Hear the Wind Blow
23(7)
Portrait: Under the Black Flag
27(3)
Kentucky Farewell
30(9)
Portrait: The South's Avenging Angel
35(4)
Part Two: Go West, Young Man 39(58)
California Bound
41(7)
Portrait: Ned Buntline
45(3)
Home on the Range
48(6)
Portrait: ``Wild Bill''
52(2)
Prairie City
54(8)
Portrait: The Bandit Queen
59(3)
Gone to Texas
62(8)
Portrait: Jesse Chisholm's Trail
67(3)
Trails South
70(9)
Portrait: The Hanging Judge, Frontier Vigilantes, and Stone-cold Killers
76(3)
San Saba Country
79(9)
Portrait: Cowboys
85(3)
The Cowboy's Dream
88(9)
Portrait: Standing Bear: Chief of the Poncas
93(4)
Part Three: The Cattleman's Last Frontier 97(80)
The First Cow Town in Kansas
99(10)
Portrait: Miss Molly: The Kentucky Connection
106(3)
The Salt Fork of the Arkansas
109(9)
Portrait: Boomer Sooner
115(3)
``101''
118(12)
Portrait: Devil's Rope
126(4)
Where the Coyotes Howl
130(10)
Portrait: Ride 'em, Cowboy
136(4)
Riding the Home Range
140(15)
Portrait: The Big Die-Up
150(5)
Land of the Fair God
155(11)
Portrait: Shanghai Pierce
163(3)
The Run of '93
166(11)
Portrait: The Great White City
172(5)
Part Four: The Real Thing 177(156)
Shades of Gray
179(11)
Portrait: ``56''
186(4)
Lords of the Prairie
190(15)
Portrait: Buffalo Man
199(6)
Full Circle
205(9)
Portrait: The Yaller Dog
211(3)
The Miller Brothers
214(13)
Portrait: The World's First Cowgirl Meets the Cherokee Kid
221(6)
A State of Mind
227(13)
Portrait: King of the Cowboys
235(5)
Oklahoma's Gala Day
240(17)
Portrait: Bill Pickett: The Dusky Demon
253(4)
Show Time
257(14)
Portrait: Pawnee Bill
266(5)
``Going Up''
271(15)
Portrait: Jane Woodend: Fence Rider
278(8)
Spinning Wheels
286(15)
Portrait: The Band Played On
296(5)
Hard Knocks
301(16)
Portrait: Princess Wenona: The California Girl
309(8)
South of the Border
317(16)
Portrait: Willie-Cries-for-War
327(6)
Part Five: Galloping Ghosts 333(186)
Creating the West
335(14)
Portrait: Coney Island
345(4)
California Dreaming
349(18)
Bison 101
362(5)
Inceville
367(19)
Portrait: Hollywood-on-the-Arkansas
377(9)
A Vanishing Breed
386(25)
Portrait: Hollywood Buckaroos and the Gower Gulch Gang
402(9)
Where the West Commences
411(41)
Portrait: Saturday's Heroes and Heroines
434(18)
Trail's End
452(67)
Final Portrait: Nothing But Cowboys, Cowgirls, and Indians
479(40)
Epilogue 519(8)
Endnotes 527(84)
Bibliography 611(14)
Acknowledgments 625(8)
Index 633(20)
About the Author 653

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