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Eyewitness to the Old West
Firsthand Accounts of Exploration, Adventure, and Peril
Edited by Richard Scott
Published by Roberts Rinehart
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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About The Book
A collection of over 150 vignettes from the journals and diaries of people who lived or traveled in the Old West, these accounts begin with the sixteenth-century collisions between the Spaniards and the Indians and conclude with Black Elk's mournful description of the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1890. Storytellers include explorers, missionaries, Indian leaders, a poet, an artist, and a future president.
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- Publisher: Roberts Rinehart (February 7, 2004)
- Length: 432 pages
- ISBN13: 9781570984266
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This is the paperback version of Scott's collection of Western stories dating as far back as an account of Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca in the 1500s, through the writings of Grand Canyon explorer John Wesley Powell, George Custer, Black Elk, and others.
– Reno Gazette-Journal
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