An edition of Was there really a gunfight at the O.K. Corral?
(2011)
Was there really a gunfight at the O.K. Corral?
and other questions about the Wild West
by Ann Kerns
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Discusses the facts and myths about life in the nineteenth century American West, including if cowboys wore large hats, if stagecoaches were robbed, and if Calamity Jane was a real person.
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Was there really a gunfight at the O.K. Corral?: and other questions about the Wild West
2011, Lerner Publiction Co.
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0761361006 9780761361008
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Did villains in the Wild West really tie their victims to railroad tracks?
Was there really a gunfight at the OK Corral?
Did thousands of people rush to California when gold was discovered there?
Did most pioneers live on farms miles away from their neighbors?
Did kids really go to school in one-room schoolhouses?
Were horses the most common animal used in the settlement of the West?
Did cowboys really wear big hats, chaps, and boots?
Did Native American chiefs wear feather headdresses?
Did swarms of grasshoppers attack pioneer farms?
Did stagecoaches really get robbed and attacked on their way West?
Did workers really drive in a golden spike to finish the transcontinental railroad?
Were most railroad workers in the West Chinese?
Was Calamity Jane a real person?
Did people called buffalo soldiers really fight on the Western Frontier (and if so, who were they)?
Did Native Americans use every part of the buffalo they hunted?
Were there really haunted ghost towns in the West?
Did people really shout "Remember the Alamo" at a famous battle in the West?
Glossary
Selected bibliography
Further reading
Index.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 39) and index.
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