"The Death Valley Jayhawkers were a group of young gold seekers who blundered into Death Valley at Christmas 1849. They were an uncongealed group when they left western Illinois, although many had been friends at school in Galesburg, but while traveling along the Platte River Ro…
"The Death Valley Jayhawkers were a group of young gold seekers who blundered into Death Valley at Christmas 1849. They were an uncongealed group when they left western Illinois, although many had been friends at school in Galesburg, but while traveling along the Platte River Ro…
In the 1870s in Ontario's Muskoka, teenager Thomas Osborne endured starvation, freezing, accidents with axes and boats, and narrow escapes from wolves and bears. Decades later, after moving to the United States, Osborne wrote down all his adventures in a graphic memoir four year…
An autobiography of Thomas Osborne who spent time in Ontario's Muskoka during the 1870's.
This is the story of the Highland Scots who sailed to Pictou, Nova Scotia, in 1773 aboard the brig Hector. These intrepid emigrants came for many reasons: the famine of the previous spring, pressures of population growth, intolerable rent increases, trouble with the law, the hun…
In Metis Pioneers, Doris Jeanne MacKinnon compares the survival strategies of two Metis women born during the fur trade-one from the French-speaking free trade tradition and one from the English-speaking Hudson's Bay Company tradition-who settled in southern Alberta as the fur t…
by Christianson, Frank, Buffalo Bill
fromPapers of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody
by Christianson, Frank, Buffalo Bill
fromPapers of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody
by Christianson, Frank, Buffalo Bill
fromPapers of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody
Cody describes his Wild West Show in England, sharing performances for British nobility and royalty, press coverage, and his role as an ambassador of American culture.
by Christianson, Frank, Buffalo Bill
fromPapers of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody
