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“john r cook”

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  • The Border and the Buffalo: An Untold Story of the Southwest Plains

    by John R. Cook ...
    I was born in Mount Gilead, Ohio, on the 19th of December, 1844. Father moved his family to Lawrence, Kansas, in the spring of 1857. That summer we occupied the historical log cabin that J. H. Lane and Gaius Jenkins had trouble over,—resulting in the tragic death of the latter. Shortly prior to the killing of Jenkins, we moved to Peru, Indiana, where we remained until the latter part of March, ... Read more

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  • The Border and the Buffalo (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Firsthand Plains Memoir of Buffalo Hunting, Borderlands, Scouts, Soldiers, and the Nineteenth-Century American West

    by John R. Cook, Verity Eastmere ...
    The Border and the Buffalo is a vivid frontier memoir that reconstructs the violent, transitional world of the Southern Plains in the years of buffalo hunting, military campaigning, and settlement expansion. Written in a plain, anecdotal, and often eyewitness style, the book blends personal recollection with regional history, offering portraits of hunters, scouts, soldiers, Native peoples, and ... Read more

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  • The Border and the Buffalo

    by John R. Cook ...
    In presenting these Reminiscences to the reader the author wishes to say that they were written and compiled by an uneducated man, who is now 63 years of age, with no pretensions to literary attainments, having a very meager knowledge of the common-school branches. In placing these recollections in book form there is an endeavor all along the line to state the facts as they occurred to me. The ... Read more

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  • The Border and the Buffalo

    Enriched edition. Unveiling the Wild Frontier: Settlers, Cowboys, and Native American Conflict

    by John R. Cook, Adrian Weaver ...
    In "The Border and the Buffalo," John R. Cook delves into the complex interplay between human expansion and the natural world in the American West. This historical narrative employs a rich tapestry of storytelling, combining first-person accounts with meticulous historical analysis to illuminate the environmental and cultural transformations wrought by human presence. Cook situates his work within ... Read more

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  • Death by Technology

    The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Inventions

    by John R. Cook ...
    This book refutes the 21st-century notion that advancing technology is an unambiguous social good, and examines the effects of this uncritical acceptance and dependence. The author argues that technology has become the new religion for the digital age, and that elevating technology to nearly the status of a deity allows for the denial of problems created by reliance upon machines.From the release ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • On The Border With Crook

    by John Gregory Bourke ...
    On the Border with Crook is considered one of the best firsthand accounts of frontier army life, as the author of the book gives equal time to both the soldier and the Native American. John Bourke, the author of this book was a captain in the United States Army. He served as an aide to General George Crook in the Apache Wars from 1872 to 1883. As Crook's aide, Bourke had the opportunity to witness ... Read more

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  • Death Valley in '49

    An Autobiography of a Pioneer Who Survived the California Desert

    by William Lewis Manly ...
    A survivor’s true account of death, despair, and heroism in Death Valley in the heat of the California Gold Rush.At the height of the California gold rush in 1849, a wagon train of men, women, children, and their animals stumbled into a 130-mile-long valley in the Mojave Desert while they were looking for a shortcut to the California coast. What ensued was an ordeal that divided the camp into ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Twenty-Five Years among the Indians and Buffalo

    A Frontier Memoir

    by William D. Street ...
    A Kansas Notable BookNearing 60, William D. Street (1851–1911) sat down to write his memoir of frontier life. Street’s early years on the plains of western Kansas were both ordinary and extraordinary; ordinary in what they reveal about the everyday life of so many who went out to the western frontier, extraordinary in their breadth and depth of historical event and impact. His tales of life as a ... Read more

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  • Frontier Stories

    by Cy Warman ...
    Series Book 104 - Western Cowboy Classics
    Frontier Stories presents 18 short-stories about the Old West. Almost all of them involve deadly encounters between cowboys, miners, cavalry, and settlers with outlaws and Indians—Utes, Paiutes, Sioux, Cheyenne, Pawnee, and Crow. The narrators of his stories are interested observers. Warman’s West is almost bereft of females. But in one story, a white woman, who keeps a boarding house in Cripple ... Read more

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  • Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters

    Enriched edition. Brave Pioneers and Legendary Frontiersmen: Tales of the American Wild West

    by Edwin L. Sabin, Julian Elliott ...
    In "Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters," Edwin L. Sabin weaves a gripping narrative that immerses readers in the valor and adventures of the American frontier. Richly detailed, this work is structured around thrilling tales of historical figures who embodied the spirit of bravery and resilience during the era of westward expansion. The literary style is characterized by a vivid, almost cinematic ... Read more

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  • Thirty Years on the Frontier

    Tales of Pioneer Life and Wild West Adventures

    by Robert McReynolds ...
    In "Thirty Years on the Frontier," Robert McReynolds vividly chronicles the rich tapestry of life in the American West during the latter part of the 19th century. Combining meticulous historical research with engaging narrative prose, McReynolds offers insights into the socio-political landscape that shaped frontier life. His storytelling encapsulates the struggles, triumphs, and everyday ... Read more

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  • My Arizona Adventures

    The Recollections of Thomas Dudley Sanders: Miner, Freighter and Rancher in Arizona Territory

    by Al Bates ...
    My Arizona Adventures is the true first-person account of an authentic American pioneer. When Tom Sanders came to Arizonas central highlands there was nothing there; there were no roads, no towns, no law, and no protection from marauding Indians. There was nothing there but opportunities for the strong, resolute and lucky.The year was 1863, Arizona had just become a separate Territory and its vast ... Read more

    $8.99 USD