Wondrous Times on the Frontier

Brown, Dee

ISBN 10: 0874831377 / ISBN 13: 9780874831375

Published by August House Publishers, Inc., Little Rock, Arkansas, 1991

About this Item

Stated First Edition - first printing. America during the 1800s - brought to life by a master frontier storyteller. Book is clean and tight. Dust Jacket in protective cover. 324 pages with index.

Seller Inventory # 007181

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Wondrous Times on the Frontier
• Publisher: August House Publishers, Inc., Little Rock, Arkansas
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0874831377
• ISBN 13: 9780874831375
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Western Americana
  • United States History

About this title

Synopsis

In his first work of nonfiction in twelve years, celebrated historian Dee Brown draws on more than fifty years of research in this good-humored social history of the American frontier. In a work rich in anecdotes about pioneers, women, lawmen, outlaws, newspapermen, schoolteachers, cowboys, tenderfeet, preachers, and native Americans, Brown portrays the diversity of the frontier experience.

Reviews

In his first nonfiction work since Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee , Brown turns his attention to the social and cultural history of the 19th-century West. Observing certain similarities between the emigrants and Chaucer's pilgrims, he notes that their rates of progress were about the same and that each group had representatives from the trades and professions. Brown describes some famous visitors to the West: grand duke Alexis Romanoff, on a buffalo hunt; Oscar Wilde, wearing a sunflower in his lapel; Horace Greeley. He examines the tall tale and practical jokes played on greenhorns and tenderfeet, noting that the young Teddy Roosevelt, recuperating from respiratory ailments, was the butt of many. Brown writes about frontier lawyers and courtroom theatrics, ministers, schoolteachers, doctors, newspapermen, gold seekers, women, soldiers, actors, cowboys in this vivid portrait of the diverse elements comprising the westward movement. Paperback rights to HarperCollins.
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