Tough Times in Rough Places: Personal Narratives of Adventure, Death, and Survival on the Western Frontier

Carmony, Neil B. And David E. Brown

ISBN 10: 0944383157 / ISBN 13: 9780944383155

Published by High Lonesome Books, Silver City NM, 1995

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Pictorial paper covers as new. 297 pp. biblio. illus.

Seller Inventory # 21-9667

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tough Times in Rough Places: Personal Narratives of Adventure, Death, and Survival on the Western Frontier
• Publisher: High Lonesome Books, Silver City NM
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0944383157
• ISBN 13: 9780944383155
• Binding: Paper Covers
• Illustrator: Remington, Frederic
• Edition: Second printing.
• Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • nmx26

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Synopsis

Western lore is replete with romanticized, revisionist, second-hand accounts of the notable events of the Old West, but how were these events experienced and recorded by those who were there? In this anthology the editors focus on fifteen of the most captivating incidents in Western history, each offering an authenticity and immediacy that only a participant can bring to a story. In "Custer's Last Battle," Captain Edward S. Godfrey renders the most complete and even-handed account by a soldier of what happened on June 25, 1876, along the Little Bighorn River in Montana. Further south, in New Mexico, Pancho Villa's raid on the border town of Columbus is recounted by Colonel Frank Tompkins, one of the cavalry officers who pursued Villa into Mexico. From Arizona, two stories are herein presented in book form for the first time: Wyatt Earp's own version of what happened at the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral; and William S. Oury's unapologetic account of the vicious slaug! hter of Apaches at the Camp Grant Massacre.

From a woman's perspective, Virginia Reed Murphy's gripping, bitter-sweet account of the Donner Party tragedy reveals humanity even in the worst of times. And from Mexico come two of the lesser known but most horrifying events in Western history: George Naegle's eye-witness account of a grizzly hunter killed by a bear; and Jack Hoffman's incredible story of endurance, death and survival on the Sonoran desert. For these and eight other narratives the editors provide succinct, incisive introductions, illuminating but never changing the stories, which stand as they were written. The sum is a unique, first-hand look at the frontier, 1835-1916, an era when men and women were lured west by romance and adventure, only to find "tough times in rough places."