Entrepreneurs of the Old West - Softcover

Dary, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0700608273 ISBN 13: 9780700608270

Publisher: University Press of Kansas, 1997

Synopsis

"A fascinating array of information on everything from how to prepare a buffalo robe to what one could expect to find in a small trading post on the south Platte River in the 1830s. Portrays the coming together of a great nation". -- Philadelphia Inquirer.

"The scope of this book is as wide as the region itself and thorough as a wagon master's supply list". -- Denver Post.

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
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About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0700608273
• ISBN 13: 9780700608270
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 380