First published in three volumes in 1988, Dan L. Thrapp's comprehensive work has earned the praise and recurring attention of scholars, researchers, and general readers curious about the important figures of the American West. Now available on CD-ROM, the Encyclopedia has been updated and contains more than five thousand entries. The button-driven format allows quick retrieval of individual names, as well as full-text searches (with the ability to perform more advanced Boolean searches), context indexes with hypertext links, and more. Search terms found in the text are highlighted upon retrieval for fast identification. The specifically designed screen typeface is easy to read. A user-friendly interface and extensive cross-referencing make the CD-ROM a powerful tool.

Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography

Thrapp, Dan L.

Biographies & Memoirs

University Of Nebraska Press

Includes biographical information on 4,500 individuals associated with the frontier

The Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography

History

Americas

Univ of Nebraska Pr

Stretching from "Aaron, Sam, Arizona pioneer" to "Zutacapan, Acomo pueblo chief," the three-volume Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography profiles approximately 4,500 frontier pioneers and Native Americans. Dan L. Thrapp's comprehensive work will interest scholars, researchers, and general readers curious about the figures who developed, defended, decorated, and devilized the American West. All the famous ones are here: Volume I (A–F) includes Billy the Kid, Daniel Boone, Calamity Jane, George Custer, Buffalo Bill, Cochise, and John C. Fremont, among others. There are also entries for worthies less well known: Big Nose Kate, Nellie Cashman, Scott Cooley, to cite a few. Even Gary Cooper and other actors who portrayed westerners are sketched in. Thrapp’s richly detailed biographies are continued in Volumes II (G–O) and III (P–Z). Thrapp has included seventeenth- and eighteenth-century figures in both New France and New England, as well as the trans-Appalachian country, but the majority are nineteenth-century men and women who discovered, settled, fought for, or simply lived in the raw lands west of the Mississippi River.

Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography, Volume 1: A-F

Bison Books

Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography, Volume 2: G-O

Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography, Volume 3: P-Z

Historical

Dustjacket is tattered and rubbed. Stated first edition.

The Conquest of Apacheria

Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd)

GENERAL CROOK AND THE SIERRA MADRE ADVENTURE.

University of Oklahoma

Victorio and the Mimbres Apaches (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)

University of Oklahoma Press

Apacheria ran from the Colorado to the Rio Grande and beyond, from the great canyons of the North for a thousand miles into Mexico. Here, where the elusive, phantomlike Apache bands roamed, life was as harsh, cruel, and pitiless as the country itself. The conquest of Apacheria is an epic of heroism, mixed with chicanery, misunderstanding, and tragedy, on both sides. The author’s account of this important segment of Western American history includes the Walapais War, an eyewitness report on the death of the gallant lieutenant Howard B. Cushing, the famous Camp Grant Massacre, General Crook’s offensive in Apacheria and his difficulties with General Miles, and the formidable Apache leaders, including Cochise, Delshay, Big Rump, Chunz, Chan-deisi, Victorio, and Geronimo.

Victorio and the Mimbres Apaches (Civilization of the American Indian Series)

Univ of Oklahoma Pr

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Thrapp, Dan L.. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Thrapp, Dan L.