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A Tenderfoot In Colorado
Tenderfoot In Colorado
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- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- 1: Enter the Tenderfoot
- 2: Exit the Tenderfoot
- 3: Three Per Cent
- 4: Tiger Bill
- 5: Wild Bill of Colorado
- 6: Our Red Brothers
- 7: Wild Justice
- 8: Our Lost Paradise
- 9: The Expanding Bean
- 10: My Running Fight
- 11: Wolves and Crows
- 12: On My Own
- 13: The Battle of the Bulls
- 14: A Texas Nursery
- 15: Hide and Seek with Dog-Soldiers
- 16: A Bull in a Barn
- 17: The Fate of the Maverick
- 18: The King of the Prairie
- 19: The Big Yellow Stag
Now back in print, A Tenderfoot in Colorado is R. B. Townshend's classic account of his time in the wild frontier territory known as Colorado. Townshend arrived in the Rockies in 1869, fresh from Cambridge, England, with $300 in his pockets. He found friends among some of Colorado's more colorful characters, people who taught him much about life on the frontier. Jake Chisolm taught him how to shoot after rescuing him from two men preparing to skin him at poker. Wild Bill of Colorado taught him the meaning of "the drop" and warned him against wearing a gun in town unless he wanted trouble. Capturing the Western vernacular more accurately than any other writer, Townshend includes vivid details of life in the West, where he killed a buffalo, prospected for gold, and was present for the official government conference with the Ute Indians after gold was discovered on their lands.
Book Details
Authors
Richard Townshend Richard Townshend
Categories
History > United States > 19th Century
Publishers
Publication year : 2011
License: All rights reserved ©
Times read: 0

