The Wild West On 5 Bits a Day Paperback by Joan Tapper
The Wild West On 5 Bits a Day Paperback by Joan Tapper
Product Details
- Publisher: Thames and Hudson (2010-06-01)
- Language: English
- Paperback: 152 pages
- ISBN-13: 9780500288726
- Item Weight: 303.91 grams
- Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm
Board a stagecoach, meet Wyatt Earp, and raise the roof in a cow-town saloon—your guide to traveling, eating, drinking, and surviving in frontier America.
Enjoy time-travel through the Old West . . . and enter a world of cowboys, Indians, and cavalry officers, legendary lawmen and gunslingers, gamblers, working girls with hearts of gold, and pioneers building a life on the frontier.
The time is 1880. Railroad travel to California is relatively easy, and you can ride a spur line to towns like Santa Fe, but getting to many places in the mountains and plains calls for a sense of adventure. Cowboys drive huge herds of cattle from Texas ranches to raucous Kansas railheads. The Earps and Doc Holliday are in Tombstone; Jesse James and Billy the Kid are still at large. Booming Leadville has just opened its famous opera house, while Virginia City reigns as Queen of the Comstock.
This rollicking guide to the Wild West draws on contemporary newspapers, memoirs, diaries, dime novels, and guidebooks as it invites you to . . .
- explore on horseback, by stagecoach, and in locomotives;
- visit Dodge City, Deadwood, Fort Laramie, and other “must-see” locales;
- witness gunfights and cattle roundups;
- don a special “Yosemite suit” and ride out to marvel at the giant redwoods and dazzling rock formations.
About the Author
Joan Tapper was the founding editor of National Geographic Traveler and editor of Islands Magazine and the author of The Most Beautiful Villages and Towns of California, The Most Beautiful Villages and Towns of the Southwest, The Most Beautiful Villages and Towns of the Pacific Northwest, and The Wild West on 5 Bits a Day. She lives in California.
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