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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...
