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American endurance : the Great Cowboy Race and the vanishing Wild West / by Richard A. Serrano.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Washington, DC : Smithsonian Books, 2016Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : [Publisher not identified], 2016Description: pages cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • General
ISBN:
  • 9781588345752
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 798.40978 23
LOC classification:
  • SF296.E5 S47 2016
Contents:
The West of our imagination -- The harsh land -- The vanishing cowboy West -- Buffalo Bill goes to the fair -- A cowboy race -- American endurance -- Race day -- "The time is upon us" -- So long, Nebraska -- In God's country -- Across the river and into Illinois -- Chicago -- Finish line -- The agony is over.
Scope and content: "American Endurance : The Great Cowboy Race and the Vanishing Wild West depicts nine cowboys as they race thousands of miles across the American prairie to the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. At the finish line was Buffalo Bill Cody, who had set up his Wild West Show next to the fair"--Provided by publisher.
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Books Idaho Springs Public Library ANF 798.4 SER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 30404100172939

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The West of our imagination -- The harsh land -- The vanishing cowboy West -- Buffalo Bill goes to the fair -- A cowboy race -- American endurance -- Race day -- "The time is upon us" -- So long, Nebraska -- In God's country -- Across the river and into Illinois -- Chicago -- Finish line -- The agony is over.

"American Endurance : The Great Cowboy Race and the Vanishing Wild West depicts nine cowboys as they race thousands of miles across the American prairie to the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. At the finish line was Buffalo Bill Cody, who had set up his Wild West Show next to the fair"--Provided by publisher.

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