Wondrous Times on the FrontierIn his first work of nonfiction in twelve years, celebrated historian Dee Brown draws on more than fifty years of research in this good-humored social history of the American frontier. In a work rich in anecdotes about pioneers, women, lawmen, outlaws, newspapermen, schoolteachers, cowboys, tenderfeet, preachers, and native Americans, Brown portrays the diversity of the frontier experience. |
Contents
What This Book is About | 9 |
Gambling Violence and Merriment 1 The Chaucerian Way West | 17 |
Bigwig and Littlewig Sojourners | 39 |
Theres a OneEyed Man in the Game | 66 |
Making the Calico Crack | 76 |
Stringing the Greeners | 86 |
Having Fun with the Phenomena | 106 |
Violence and Cruelty beneath the Laughter | 114 |
Servants of the Lord in a Turbulent Land | 174 |
Sawbones and Pill Rollers | 185 |
Greasepaint in the Wilderness | 197 |
Cowboys at Play | 217 |
Soldier High Jinks | 235 |
The Profane Sentimentalists | 250 |
Misunderstood Minorities 17 Sage Hens Fillies and Calico Queens | 268 |
The Bawdy Natives | 282 |
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