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Charlie Siringo's West

An Interpretive Biography

By: Howard R. Lamar

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Charlie Siringo's West

An Interpretive Biography

By: Howard R. Lamar

Charlie Siringo (1855-1928) lived the quintessential life of adventure on the American frontier as a cowboy, Pinkerton detective, writer, and later as a consultant for early western films. Siringo was one of the most attractive, bold, and original characters to live and flourish in the final decades of the Wild West. His love of the cattle business and of cowboy life were so great that in 1885 he published A Texas Cowboy, or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony--Taken From Real Life, which Will Rogers dubbed the "Cowboy's Bible." Howard R. Lamar's biography deftly shares Siringo's story within seventy-five pivotal years of western history. Siringo was not a mere observer but a participant in major historical events including the Coeur d'Alene mining strikes of the 1890s and Big Bill Haywood's trial in 1907. Lamar focuses on Siringo's youthful struggles to employ his abundant athleticism and ambitions and how Siringo's varied experiences helped develop the compelling national myth of the cowboy.

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University of New Mexico Press

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0826336701

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9780826336705

Texas Crossings

The Lone Star State and the American Far West, 1836–1986

By: Howard R. Lamar

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Texas Crossings

The Lone Star State and the American Far West, 1836–1986

By: Howard R. Lamar

“Texas is not a place, it is a commotion!” exclaimed one early visitor to the state, underscoring the mobility and “get-ahead” spirit that have always characterized Texas and its people. In these thought-provoking essays, Howard R. Lamar looks specifically at the “crossings” that have characterized Texas history to see what effect these migrations to and through Texas have had on Texas, the Southwest, and links between Texas and California. Originally presented in 1986 at the University of Texas at Austin as the first George W. Littlefield Lectures in American History, these essays explore a previously neglected aspect of the western story: the influence of Texans—and other Southerners—on the character and history of the southwestern states. Lamar discusses the many efforts to establish overland trails, and later railroads, to California and how those efforts were fueled by the gold rush era of 1849–1850. He traces the influence of immigrant Texans and the flourishing southern community in California, particularly during the Civil War years. He follows the twentieth-century migration of “Okies,” whose desire to settle and resume their agricultural lifeways clashed with Californians’ preference for migrant workers. And he reveals how the discovery of oil, not only in Texas but also in California, western Canada, and Alaska, continues to link these regions. Texas has always been a place that people pass through, going either east-west or north-south. Texas Crossings explains what brought the people to Texas and what they carried away with them to California and the West.

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University of Texas Press

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1477304444

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9781477304440

Robots in Space

Technology, Evolution, and Interplanetary Travel

By: Roger D. Launius,Howard E. McCurdy

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Robots in Space

Technology, Evolution, and Interplanetary Travel

By: Roger D. Launius,Howard E. McCurdy

2008 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine Given the near incomprehensible enormity of the universe, it appears almost inevitable that humankind will one day find a planet that appears to be much like the Earth. This discovery will no doubt reignite the lure of interplanetary travel. Will we be up to the task? And, given our limited resources, biological constraints, and the general hostility of space, what shape should we expect such expeditions to take? In Robots in Space, Roger Launius and Howard McCurdy tackle these seemingly fanciful questions with rigorous scholarship and disciplined imagination, jumping comfortably among the worlds of rocketry, engineering, public policy, and science fantasy to expound upon the possibilities and improbabilities involved in trekking across the Milky Way and beyond. They survey the literature—fictional as well as academic studies; outline the progress of space programs in the United States and other nations; and assess the current state of affairs to offer a conclusion startling only to those who haven't spent time with Asimov, Heinlein, and Clarke: to traverse the cosmos, humans must embrace and entwine themselves with advanced robotic technologies. Their discussion is as entertaining as it is edifying and their assertions are as sound as they are fantastical. Rather than asking us to suspend disbelief, Robots in Space demands that we accept facts as they evolve.

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JHU Press

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0801887089

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9780801887086

The Far Southwest, 1846-1912

A Territorial History

By: Howard Roberts Lamar

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The Far Southwest, 1846-1912

A Territorial History

By: Howard Roberts Lamar

A history of the Four Corners states during their formative territorial years. Newly revised edition.

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UNM Press

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0826322484

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Charlie Siringo's West

An Interpretive Biography

By: Howard R. Lamar

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Charlie Siringo's West

An Interpretive Biography

By: Howard R. Lamar

Charlie Siringo (1855–1928) lived the quintessential life of adventure on the American frontier as a cowboy, Pinkerton detective, writer, and later as a consultant for early western films. Siringo was one of the most attractive, bold, and original characters to live and flourish in the final decades of the Wild West. His love of the cattle business and of cowboy life was so great that in 1885 he published A Texas Cowboy, or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony—Taken From Real Life, which Will Rogers dubbed the “Cowboy’s Bible.” Howard R. Lamar’s biography deftly shares Siringo’s story within seventy-five pivotal years of western history. Siringo was not a mere observer but a participant in major historical events including the Coeur d’Alene mining strikes of the 1890s and Big Bill Haywood’s trial in 1907. Lamar focuses on Siringo’s youthful struggles to employ his abundant athleticism and ambitions and how Siringo’s varied experiences helped develop the compelling national myth of the cowboy.

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University of New Mexico Press

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0826361668

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9780826361660

The Far Southwest, 1846-1912

A Territorial History

By: Howard Roberts Lamar

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The Far Southwest, 1846-1912

A Territorial History

By: Howard Roberts Lamar

A history of the Four Corners states during their formative territorial years. Newly revised edition.

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Texas Crossings

The Lone Star State and the American Far West, 1836–1986

By: Howard R. Lamar

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Texas Crossings

The Lone Star State and the American Far West, 1836–1986

By: Howard R. Lamar

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Charlie Siringo's West

Charlie Siringo's West

Texas Crossings

Texas Crossings

Robots in Space

Robots in Space

The Far Southwest, 1846-1912

The Far Southwest, 1846-1912

Charlie Siringo's West

Charlie Siringo's West

The Far Southwest, 1846-1912

The Far Southwest, 1846-1912

Texas Crossings

Texas Crossings

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