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The plainsmen of the Yellowstone ; a history of the Yellowstone Basin by Mark H. Brown; Siringo H. Brown is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The plainsmen of the Yellowstone ; a history of the Yellowstone Basin about?
This rich and authoritative chronicle of the Yellowstone Basin covers a span of more than a century and half, from the 1740s, when the Verendry brothers were seeking a route to the Western Sea, to the late nineteenth century and the days of the settlers who turned the prairie sod "wrong side up." Here are names that have lived in historyWilliam Clark, John Colter, Jedediah Smith, Custer, Crook, Terryand others not so Franois Antoine Larocque, who explored the Yellowstone well in advance of Clark; Woman Chief, the Gros Ventre girl who became a renowned warrior; the shadowy outlaws of the Hole-in-the-Wall country of the Big Horns. Famous and infamous, renowned and obscure, the Indians, the trappers, the military, the cowboys, the vigilantes, the settlers are portrayed not as isolated figures but in relation to, and within, the history of this dramatic region.
Who reads The plainsmen of the Yellowstone ; a history of the Yellowstone Basin?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Mark H. Brown; Siringo H. Brown
- Publisher
- Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press
- Published
- 1969
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780803250260
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.9 / 5 (15 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14