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Beckoning Frontiers is a new perspective on the economic development of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American West through the personal insight of Buffalo Bill’s business partner and friend, George W. T. Beck.
List of contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Alan K. Simpson and Peter K. Simpson
Series Editors’ Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Lynn J. Houze and Jeremy M. Johnston
Beckoning Frontiers: The Memoir of George Washington Thornton Beck
Preface
1. Family and Boyhood in Kentucky and Washington DC, 1856–1865
2. Post Civil War, 1865–1874
3. A Student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1874–1876
4. Prospecting in Colorado, 1877–1879
5. Working on the Northern Pacific Railroad, 1879–1880
6. Homesteading in Wyoming, 1880–1886
7. Sheepherding and Crow Indians
8. Return to the East
9. Trips to the South and to Cuba
10. Wyoming Territorial Legislator, 1889–1890
11. Another Trip Back East and to California
12. Beckton, Wyoming
13. The Johnson County War, 1892
14. Wyoming Politics
15. The Shoshone Irrigation Company and Cody, Wyoming
16. Developing the Town of Cody and Hunting Trips
17. Finishing the Cody Canal, Marriage, and Family Life in Cody
18. The Leiter Ball, the Frederic Remington Visit, and a Bank Robbery
19. Another Ute Uprising and Famous Guests
20. The Shoshone Reclamation Project and the Cody Power Plant
Afterword
Betty Jane Gerber
Appendix 1: Select Letters from William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody to George Beck regarding the Cody Canal Project
Appendix 2: Speech by George Beck at the Laying of the Cornerstone for a New City Hall, Cody, Wyoming
Appendix 3: Summary of a Talk Delivered by Thornton “Tee” Beck about the Beck Family
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
George W. T. Beck (1856–1943) was a rancher, politician, and community developer in the American West who collaborated with William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody to establish the community of Cody, Wyoming.
Lynn J. Houze is the director and curator of the Cody Heritage Museum.
Jeremy M. Johnston is the Tate Endowed Chair of American Western History at the Buffalo Bill Museum.
Alan K. Simpson served as a U.S. senator for Wyoming from 1979 to 1997.
Peter K. Simpson is a historian and a former administrator at the University of Wyoming in Laramie and also served in the Wyoming House of Representatives from 1981 to 1984.
Summary
Beckoning Frontiers is a new perspective on the economic development of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American West through the personal insight of Buffalo Bill’s business partner and friend, George W. T. Beck.
