The Colorful Story Of The American West

ROYAL B HASSRICK

Publication: Octopus Books Limited, 1975, London

First edition. 11 1/4" x 8 1/2" in bright colorful pictorial dust jacket. 128 pp., illustrations, contents, index, acknowledgements. Endpapers and paste-down sheets have a U.S. map detailing the American West. Chapters include: The Explorers & Colonists, The Fur Traders, The Indians, The Opportunists, The Cowboys, The Empire Builders, and The West that Was. Chapters includes information on Abilene, the Alamo, the American Fur Company, John Astor, Black Bart, Judge Roy Bean, Blackfeet Indians, Daniel Boone Billy the Kid, Calamity Jane, the California gold rush, cattle drives, the Concord Stagecoach, Dodge City, Geronimo, homesteaders, Johnson County War, railroads, Frederic Remington, Wells Fargo, Brigham Young, scalping, the Sioux Indians, San Francisco, the Mormons, Lincoln County War, etc. Profusely illustrated throughout with many pictures in color. Light rubbing to corners and spine ends in lightly soiled dust jacket with light wear to top of spine and to the extremities. A very nice collection of tales of the west.