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The Old Stage Drivers
- By
Charles Carroll Goodwin, book excerpt, As I Remember
Them, 1913.
On the Underground Railroad
- By Levi Coffin, book excerpt,
Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reported President of the Underground
Railroad, 1876.
Outcasts
of Poker Flat
- By Bret Harte, book excerpt, The Luck of the Roaring Camp and other Tales,
1871.
Outlaws of the Mountains
- By Emerson Hough, book excerpt,
The Story of the
Outlaw; A Study of the Western Desperado, 1907.
The Overland Stage and Telegraph Lines
-
By Grace Raymond Hebard and Earl Alonzo
Brininstool, book excerpt,
The
Bozeman Trail: Historical Accounts of the Blazing of the Overland Routes
Into the Northwest,
1922.
The
Overland Trails of Nebraska - By Addison Erwin Sheldon, book
excerpt, History and
Stories of Nebraska, 1913.
The Passing Of Peg-Leg
- By Andy Adams, book excerpt, Cattle Brands: A Collection
of Western Camp-Fire Stories, 1906.
Pathways To the West
-
By Emerson Hough, book excerpt, The Passing of
the Frontier, A Chronicle of the Old West, 1918.
Pawnee Rock on the
Santa Fe Trail - By Colonel Henry Inman, book
excerpt,
The Old Santa Fe Trail,
1898.
Peace Officers of Arizona - By James Harvey McClintock, book excerpt, Arizona: The Youngest State,
1913.
Penetrating The
Pacific Northwest - By John Moody, book excerpt, The Railroad
Builders, A Chronicle of the Welding of the States, 1919.
Pioneers on the Nevada
Frontier
-
Historical text written in 1891 by
William
Daugherty, for the Reno
Evening Gazette. Includes a number of stories
including
Absent Minded
in Pioche,
Cactus and
Coyotes,
Death Valley
Myths,
Last Words
And Wishes,
Pioneer Justice,
Poker Against
Prayer,
Snow Bound
&
Alone,
and more.
The Phantom Train of Marshall Pass
-
By Charles M.
Skinner, book excerpt, Myths and Legends of Our Own Land,
1896.
The Plight of the Buffalo
- By Henry Inman, book excerpt, The Old Santa Fe Trail,
1897.
Populating
Boot Hill - By Robert M. Wright, book excerpt, Dodge City, The Cowboy Capital and the Great
Southwest, 1913.
Progress of the Railroad
-
By William Francis Bailey, book
excerpt, The Story of the First Trans-Continental
Railroad: Its Projectors, Construction and History, 1906.
Rain-in-the-Face - Strategic Sioux
Warrior
-
By Charles A. Eastman, book excerpt,
Indian
Heroes and Great Chieftains, 1918.
The Range of
the American West - By Emerson Hough, book excerpt, The Passing of
the Frontier, A Chronicle of the Old West, 1918.
Rangering - By
Andy Adams, book excerpt, Cattle Brands: A Collection
of Western Camp-Fire Stories, 1906.
Red Cloud - Lakota Warrior and
Statesman - By Charles A. Eastman, book excerpt,
Indian
Heroes and Great Chieftains, 1918.
The Reign Of The
Prairie Schooner
-
By
Randall Parrish, book excerpt,
The Great Plains: The Romance of Western
American Exploration, Warfare, and Settlement, 1527-1870; 1907.
Rescue of Jimmy
"Santiago" McKinn, who was kidnapped by
Apaches
in 1885, newspaper accounts.
The
River of Lost Souls -
By Charles M.
Skinner, book excerpt, Myths and Legends of Our Own Land,
1896.
Roman Nose - Cheyenne War Chief
-
By Charles A. Eastman, book excerpt,
Indian
Heroes and Great Chieftains, 1918.
The
Salt Witch -
By Charles M.
Skinner, book excerpt, Myths and Legends of Our Own Land,
1896.
San
Francisco in 1916 - By Inez Haynes Irwin, excerpted from the article,
The Californiacs,
which appeared in Sunset, the Pacific Monthly,
in February, 1916.
Santa Fe Trail Early
Traders - By Colonel Henry Inman, book
excerpt, The Old Santa Fe Trail,
1898.
Sitting Bull - Lakota
Chief and Holy Man - By Charles A. Eastman, book
excerpt,
Indian
Heroes and Great Chieftains, 1918.
Some American Riders
- By Colonel Theodore Ayrault
Dodge, Harper's Magazine, July, 1891.
Some Freaks of Fate
- By John A. Hill and
Jasper Ewing Brady,
book excerpt, Danger Signals, first published in
1898.
Spotted Tail -
Warrior, Chief & Negotiator
- By Charles A. Eastman, book
excerpt,
Indian
Heroes and Great Chieftains, 1918.
St. Louis Area Legends &
Folklore
-
By Charles M.
Skinner, book excerpt, Myths and Legends of Our Own Land,
1896.
The Stevens County War
- By Emerson Hough, book excerpt,
The Story of the
Outlaw; A Study of the Western Desperado, 1907.
Storied Waters of Oregon -
By Charles M.
Skinner, book excerpt, Myths and Legends of Our Own Land,
1896.
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The
Story of Russian Bill - New York Times, 1883.
Struggle For Possession of the West - The
First Emigrants
-
By
Randall Parrish, book excerpt,
The Great Plains: The Romance of Western
American Exploration, Warfare, and Settlement, 1527-1870; 1907.
Tales of the Overland
Stage in Nevada - Historical text written in 1891 by
William
Daugherty, for the Reno
Evening Gazette. Includes a number of stories.
Tales of the Santa Fe
Trail - By Colonel Henry Inman, book
excerpt, The Old Santa Fe Trail,
1898.
Tombstone, Arizona Historical Accounts - From miscellaneous
newspapers, actual testimonies, letters, and book excerpts.
Tom Cypher's Phantom Engine
- By the Seattle Press-Times,
January 10, 1892.
Trading Posts and Their Stories
- By Colonel Henry Inman and
William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody,
book excerpt, The Old Santa Fe Trail,
1898.
Train
Robbers of Arizona
- By
James Harvey McClintock, book excerpt, Arizona: The Youngest State,
1913.
Triggerfingeritis
- By Edgar Beecher
Bronson, book except, The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier, 1910.
Trappers, Traders & Pathfinders
-
By
Randall Parrish, book excerpt,
The Great Plains: The Romance of Western
American Exploration, Warfare, and Settlement, 1527-1870; 1907.
The Valenzuela Gang
- By James Harvey McClintock, book excerpt, Arizona: The Youngest State,
1913.
Vigilantes and Bad Men of Arizona
- By James Harvey McClintock, book excerpt, Arizona: The Youngest State,
1913.
Vigilantes of California, Idaho, & Montana - By
John W. Clampitt, who wrote this article
for Harper's Monthly
Magazine, Volume 83, Issue 495, August, 1891
Wild
Bill - By George Ward Nichols,
Harper's Monthly
Magazine, February, 1867.
Woman As A Pioneer -
By William Worthington Fowler, book excerpt, Woman On The American Frontier: A
Valuable And Authentic History, 1877.
Women in the Army
-
By William Worthington Fowler, book excerpt, Woman On The American Frontier: A
Valuable And Authentic History, 1877.
The Yellowstone
Tragedy - By Charles M.
Skinner, book excerpt, Myths and Legends of Our Own Land,
1896.
*Note:
These historic texts are generally not verbatim, as we have taken the liberty
of correcting errors, such as misspellings, dates, incorrect names,
etc., as well as making format changes, and in some cases, replacing
archaic words, in order to make the text more readable to the modern
reader. We have also replaced a number of offensive terms. Additionally,
some articles
have been truncated.
Compiled and
edited by
Kathy Weiser/Legends
of America, updated January, 2010.
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