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"The three volumes of this work comprise a wealth of information about persons who lived on the frontier, whether that was the trans-Appalachian frontier, the 'wide Missouri' frontier, the mining regions of the Rockies, or the gold-mining/ranching frontiers of California, Oregon, or Ari-zona."--Booklist. "The index ...adds to the reference value of the book...Highly recommended."--American Reference Books Annual. Stretching from "Aaron, Sam, Arizona pioneer" to "Zutacapan, Acomo pueblo chief," the three-volume Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography profiles approxi-mately 4,500 frontier figures. Volume I (A-F) includes Billy the Kid, Daniel Boone, Calamity Jane, George Custer, Buffalo Bill, Cochise, and John C. Fremont, among others. There are also entries for worthies less well known: Big Nose Kate, Nellie Cashman, Scott Cooley, to cite a few. Even Gary Cooper and other actors who portrayed westerners are sketched in. Thrapp's richly detailed biographies are continued in Volumes II (G-O) and III (P-Z). The Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography is the product of a lifetime of study by Dan L. Thrapp, whose previous books include The Conquest of Apacheria (1967) and Victorio and the Mimbres Apaches (1980).

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Book category Books in English Lifestyle, sport & leisure Travel & holiday Places & peoples: general & pictorial works

• Full title: Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography, Volume 1
• Subtitle: A-F
• Author: Dan L. Thrapp
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 524
• EAN: 9780803294189
• ISBN: 0803294182
• ID: 04924780
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Weight: 680 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 33 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. June 1991

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