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As a young widow with a small child, Elinore Pruitt left Denver in 1909 and set out for Wyoming, where she hoped to buy a ranch. Determined to prove that a lone woman could survive the hardships of homesteading, she initially worked as a housekeeper and hired hand for a neighbor, a kind but taciturn Scottish bachelor whom she eventually married. Spring and summers were hard, she concedes, and were taken up with branding, farming, doctoring cattle,...
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The lynching of Ellen Watson and Jim Averell by six prominent and politically powerful Wyoming cattlemen rocked the nation in July 1889. Newspapers immediately proclaimed that Ellen Watson (erroneously called Cattle Kate) and Jim Averell were rustlers, that Watson was a prostitute and Averell was a pimp. After over twenty years of research, George Hufsmith has challenged those assumptions with documented historic accounts and with newly-unearthed...
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"The people and events that you will meet as you journey through this book are real people and real events of an era long since past. I was raised on a Wyoming trapline and spent my youth trailing after my trapper father and it was here that I met, or heard about, the people in this book. The characters are drawn from those I knew. My father, uncles, sheepherders, cowboys, bootleggers, cowgirls, coal miners, trappers and Indians were my friends. This...
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An account of the experience of Charles Arthur Guernsey, in which he tells in his own way of the early territorial cattle days and political strifes, and deals with many of the state's and nation's famous characters. The author releases information heretofore unpublished and in great measure unknown except to himself, and tells of discoveries of paleontological value, made during his residence in the territory and state, covering a period of over...