Title Beckoning frontiers : the memoir of a Wyoming entrepreneur / George W.T. Beck ; edited and with an introduction by Lynn J. Houze and Jeremy M. Johnston ; foreword by Alan K. Simpson and Peter K. Simpson ; afterword by Betty Jane Gerber, George Beck's granddaughter

Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource Series The papers of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody Papers of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody. Contents Family and boyhood in Kentucky and Washington DC, 1856-1865 -- Post Civil War, 1865-1874 -- A student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1874-1876 -- Prospecting in Colorado, 1877-1879 -- Working on the Northern Pacific Railroad, 1879-1880 -- Homesteading in Wyoming, 1880-1886 -- Sheepherding and Crow Indians -- Return to the East -- Trips to the South and to Cuba -- Wyoming territorial legislator, 1889-1890 -- Another trip back East and to California -- Beckton, Wyoming -- The Johnson County War, 1892 -- Wyoming politics -- The Shoshone Irrigation Company and Cody, Wyoming -- Developing the Town of Cody and hunting trips -- Finishing the Cody Canal, marriage, and family life in Cody -- The Leiter Ball, the Frederic Remington visit, and a bank robbery -- Another Ute uprising and famous guests -- The Shoshone Reclamation Project and the Cody Power Plant Summary "Beckoning Frontiers is a new perspective on the overall history of economic development of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American West through the personal insight of Buffalo Bill's business partner and friend, George W.T. Beck"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 29, 2020) Subject Beck, George T. (George Thornton), 1856-1943. Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917 -- Friends and associates Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917 Politicians -- Wyoming -- Biography Businessmen -- Wyoming -- Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs. Businessmen Friendship Politicians Politics and government Wyoming -- History. Wyoming -- Politics and government Wyoming -- Biography Wyoming Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works) Autobiographies Biographies History Autobiographies. Biographies. Autobiographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book Author Houze, Lynn Johnson, editor Johnston, Jeremy M., editor Simpson, Alan K., writer of foreword Simpson, Peter K., 1930- writer of foreword. Gerber, Betty Jane, writer of afterword ISBN 9781496220806 1496220803 9781496220783 1496220781 9781496220455 1496220455

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