Cowboys, mountain men, and grizzly bears : fifty of the grittiest moments in the history of the Wild West
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Introduction

Head-Smashed-In buffalo jump. Curiosity kills the Blackfoot boy. (900 B.C

A.D. 1800)

Grisly expedition. Lewis and Clark's men challenge a grizzly to a foot race. (1805)

Run, man! run! John Colter finds escaping naked and weaponless from the Blackfeet isn't easy. (1809)

A brutal end. Master woodsman George Drouillard wagers it all on a stack of beaver plews. (1809)

The trials of Marie Dorian. She survives a 2,000-mile starvation trek ... then things grow worse. (1813)

Unstoppable man. Hugh Glass drags his ravaged body 350 miles

for revenge. (1823)

The toughest of men. Mountain man Jedediah Smith wrestles an angry grizzly. (1824)

Who wants to be Chief? The Mandan coming-of-age ceremony involves skewers, skulls, and hatchets. (1830)

Rabid at the rendezvous. A hydrophobic wolf savages a dozen mountain men. (1833)

Enormous jaws. Osborne Russell finds that it pays to leave a wounded bear alone (1834)

Cargo of death. A riverboat carries something far more lasting than trade goods. (1837)

Wagon train woes. The Sager family's string of unfortunate events ... never gets better. (1844)

Cannibalism in the mountains. High Sierra blizzards force the Donner Party to commit unspeakable acts. (1846)

Missionary massacre. The Whitmans pay dearly for a measles epidemic among the Cayuse. (1847)

Don't make him angry. They don't call him "Liver Eater" for nothing. (1847)

Abandoned in the wilderness. Winter in the Rockies finds Janette Riker alone

except for the cougars and wolves. (1849)

Fisticuffs with a Ute Chief! Nine-thousand head of sheep, a surly shepherd, and angry Indians mix it up. (1852)

Massacre at Mountain Meadows. The Fancher emigrant party makes history

but not California (1857)

Reap what you sow. Jack Slade deals hard justice, but can he take it? (1858)

Leave well enough alone. Texas Rangers steal Cynthia Ann Parker back from her Comanche husband and sons. (1860)

Back from the dead. A grouse hunter proves he's one tough old bird

but is the grizzly tougher? (1860)

The long walk. Kit Carson lays waste to their homeland, then the Navajo are forced to walk 300 miles (1863)

Against all odds. Young Robert McGee is clubbed, shot, scalped, and left for dead. (1864)

Chivington's legacy. A white flag is ignored and a band of peaceful Cheyenne are no more. (1864)

Fetterman's last mistake. Eighty cavalrymen are surrounded by thousands of Lakota Sioux warriors. (1866)

Friends to the end. Oliver Loving's friendships endure far beyond the grave. (1867)

Natural born killer. John Wesley Hardin develops a taste for violence. (1868)

Grand Canyon hell ride. Provisions run low, spirits sink, and the rapids grow worse for Powell's expedition. (1869)

Colorado cannibal. Alferd Packer emerges alone from the San Juans, well fed and loaded with cash. (1874)

Aces and eights. Wild Bill Hickok ignores his inner voice ... and is dealt a losing hand. (1876)

Custer's comeuppance. Arrogance, disorganization, and bad decisions are the order of the day. (1876)

No more forever. Chief Joseph leads his people 1,700 miles toward freedom

and nearly makes it. (1877)

Father agains son. U.S. Deputy Marshal Bass Reeves must hunt his own son for murder. (1880)

Like a freight train. Philetus W. Norris learns that some grizzlies just won't die. (1880)

Tombstone gundown. Thirty shots are fired in thirty seconds. And then the fight really begins. (1881)

Stampede! It doesn't take much to set a herd moving

getting them to stop is another story (1882)

Mass hanging. Justice can be blind, angry, brutal ... and quick. (1883)

Stuart's stranglers. Fed up with rustlers, Granville Stuart and his fellow ranchers won't wait for the law. (1884)

Frisco fusillade. A teenager with two pistols fends off eighty cowboys for thirty-three hours (1884)

Winterkill. Never was a streak of bad weather more aptly named than the Great Die-Up. (1887)

Helpless. How long does it take a pack of wolves to devour two living people? (1888)

Bad end of the Bandit Queen. Belle Starr's habit of irritating others catches up with her one night on a dark road. (1889)

Cattle Kate lynched. Ruthless land barons don't get that way by playing nice. (1889)

High plains slaughter. Within a few decades, a species once millions strong gasps its last. (1890)

Carnage at Wounded Knee. For Chief Big Foot's band of Lakota Sioux, an hour changes everything. (1890)

Vetter's bitter end. One grizzly is bad, two is worse, three is ... (1892)

Deadline law. "Diamondfield" Jack must mount the gallows for someone else's crime. (1897)

Steady, Teddy! The Rough Rider matches wits with a wild she-cat. (1901)

Botched hanging. "Black Jack" Ketchum is set to swing, but it all goes wrong. (1901)

Wronged detective. Tom Horn is guilty of killing ... but not this time. (1903)

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Index

About the author.

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LC Subjects

Anecdotes.
Animal attacks -- West (U.S.)
Biographies.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Anecdotes.
Violent deaths -- West (U.S.) -- Anecdotes.
West (U.S.) -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
West (U.S.) -- Folklore.
West (U.S.) -- History -- Anecdotes.

OCLC Fast Subjects

Anecdotes.
Animal attacks.
Biographies.
Folklore.
Frontier and pioneer life.
History.
Violent deaths.
West United States.

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xvi, 246 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-241) and index.

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From the first bloody battles between mountain men and Indians to shootouts between famous gunslingers, this collection cuts to the chase of what draws people to the history and literature of the Wild West. Matthew Mayo, author of Western novels, takes the fifty wildest episodes in the region's history -- including John Colter's harrowing escape from the Blackfeet, Hugh Glass's six-week crawl to civilisation after a grizzly attack, Custer's final moments and John Wesley Powell's treacherous run through the rapids of the Grand Canyon -- and presents them in one action-packed volume.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Mayo, M. P. (2009). Cowboys, mountain men, and grizzly bears: fifty of the grittiest moments in the history of the Wild West . TwoDot.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Mayo, Matthew P. 2009. Cowboys, Mountain Men, and Grizzly Bears: Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of the Wild West. TwoDot.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Mayo, Matthew P. Cowboys, Mountain Men, and Grizzly Bears: Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of the Wild West TwoDot, 2009.

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Mayo, Matthew P. Cowboys, Mountain Men, and Grizzly Bears: Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of the Wild West TwoDot, 2009.

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