As big as the West : the pioneer life of Granville Stuart / Clyde A. Milner II and Carol A. O'Connor.
Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 430 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, mapsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 0195127099
- 9780195127096
- 9780199722921
- 0199722927
- Stuart, Granville, 1834-1918
- Stuart, Granville, 1834-1918
- Pioneers -- Montana -- Biography
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Montana
- Ranchers -- Montana -- Biography
- Ranch life -- Montana -- History
- Gold miners -- Montana -- Biography
- Politicians -- Montana -- Biography
- Montana -- Gold discoveries
- Montana -- History
- Montana -- Biography
- Pionniers -- Montana -- Biographies
- Ranchers -- Montana -- Biographies
- Vie au ranch -- Montana -- Histoire
- Hommes politiques -- Montana -- Biographies
- Montana -- Découvertes d'or
- Montana -- Biographies
- HISTORY -- State & Local
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Gold miners
- Gold mines and mining
- Pioneers
- Politicians
- Ranch life
- Ranchers
- Montana
- 978.6/031092 B 22
- F731.S916 M55 2009eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-410) and index.
Show your hand -- Moving west -- Partners in a new land -- Stampedes -- Ties to the nation -- Brothers apart -- An opportunity with cattle -- Home on a contested range -- Stranglers -- A harsh business -- Second life -- outliving the frontier -- Epilogue: A room full of diaries.
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Granville Stuart (1834-1918) is a quintessential Western figure, a man whose adventures rival those of Wyatt Earp, Buffalo Bill, or Sitting Bull, and who embodied many of the contradictions of America's westward expansion. Stuart collected guns, herded cattle, mined for gold, and killed men he thought outlaws. But he also taught himself Shoshone, French, and Spanish, denounced formal religion, married a Shoshone woman, and eventually became a United States diplomat. In this fascinating biography, Clyde A. Milner II and Carol A. O'Connor, co-editors of the acclaimed Oxford History of the Americ.
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