Entrepreneurs of the Old West - Hardcover

Dary, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394524055 ISBN 13: 9780394524054

Publisher: Knopf, 1986

Synopsis

Drawing on a variety of original sources--diaries, letters, newspapers, reminiscences, and official documents, this study profiles the traders, trappers, merchants, goldrushers, land promoters, cattlemen, and settlers who brought capitalism to the ninetee

About this title

About the Author:

David Dary is head of the School of Journalism at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of several books on the West, including Red Blood and Black Ink: Journalism in the Old West, Seeking Pleasure in the Old West, True Tales of Old-Time Kansas, More True Tales of Old-Time Kansas, and the classic Cowboy Culture, and is the recipient of many awards, including the Cowboy Hall of Fame Wrangler Award, the Western Writers of America's Spur Award, and the Westerners International Award.

From Library Journal:

Dary uses entrepreneur in its widest sense: one who undertakes a project requiring boldness or energy. By this standard, all of the activities discussed in this survey of economic development in the Westfrom the early 19th-century traders and trappers to the merchants and farmers who closed the frontierare appropriately included. As with most surveys, depth must be sacrificed for breadth, but Dary does so in an uneven manner. He gives a quite detailed account of freighting, but just skims the surface on townsites. Also, he emphasizes the pre-Civil War period, whereas most development took place after the Civil War. In his bibliography Dary fails to list important relevant works by Faulk, Dale, Osgood, Reps, Winther, et al. Nonetheless, this is still a useful anecdotal account suitable for most libraries.Stephen H. Peters, Northern Michigan Univ. Lib., Marquette
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0394524055
• ISBN 13: 9780394524054
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368