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...t novel in the series and introduces sixteen year old William Dean Ritter, aka "Montana." Two separate adventures take him from his Montana farm to a Wyoming cattle ranch, Dodge City, Kansas and Texas in his pursuit of the dream to become a cowboy. Along the way something unexpected happens - he becomes a man. The book also introduces Montana's famous horse "Spirit." The c...

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...rm two years earlier to become a cowboy. Having learned his craft on a large Wyoming ranch, he was about to head out again. This time on an even mo... ... and I was bored. I planned to work my way south to the Wind River country of Wyoming, where I heard a good cowboy could get a job. Now, truth is, ... ...old…and more danger- ous. Contrary to what you might read, most folks in the Wyoming territory in 1885 weren’t gun- fighters. Most didn’t even carry... ...life. It all seemed to point to this moment and to this spot on this lonesome Wyoming trail, so far from home. I wondered how it would end. I said ... ... father figure to me, Whitey was fast becoming my brother. But this was the Wyoming territory in the year 1885 and there were a lot of places Indi... ... of your trip and my old bones wouldn’t have to put up with another of these Wyoming winters. What do you think?” I didn’t need to think about that... ...ehind us were something. I was used to the sudden rise of the Tetons off the Wyoming flatland, but this was different. The Colorado Rockies were bi... ...like a giant wall, with snow on top. The wall started well north, around the Wyoming border. As we rode south, it got bigger, even as we moved furt... ...ow clear to me why the wagon trains mostly took the Oregon Trail through the Wyoming country. A few days into our second week on the trail, we we...

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... three years earlier to become a cowboy. Having learned his craft on a large Wyoming ranch, he was now out to seek his fortune in Texas. This sec... ...somethin’ I couldn’t be on our farm. My first real job was at a big ranch in Wyoming. That job was important to me for two reasons. First, it was w... ... loan but when I finally did, Spirit was all mine. Not long after that I left Wyoming for Kansas and got a job with one of the big cattle drives. Mo... ...s was supposed to be keeping my mind off the pain! When I was on my way from Wyoming to Kansas I met up with an Indian tracker named Whiteplume, w... ... now. He was just a colt when I bought him from my boss at a big ranch up in Wyoming’s Wind River country. Dan’s horse was Spirit’s father and Dan ... ...hrough there on my way into town. It sounds like the ranch I worked at up in Wyoming. I’d like to see it sometime,” I said. “I’d like to see you to... ...l Dust Dawn 19 “I think I’ve heard of those,” I replied. “When I worked in Wyoming my boss used to talk about the ‘Steel Dust’ horses in Texas. I... ...ildings. I was struck with how big the ranch was. Until now, the Circle R in Wyoming was the biggest ranch I’d ever seen. The Circle of Fire looked... ...ds like it almost happened today. He tells me you used to work on a ranch in Wyoming. What brings you to Texas?” “Nice meeting you too, sir,” I a...

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...leasing to private companies of oil-containing tracts owned by the Navy, mainly in Wyoming and California. "Domes" are natural reservoirs of crude... ...pot Dome" - named after a rock resembling the kitchen implement - was near Casper, Wyoming. It was "reserved" in 1920 for the future energy needs o... ...ree states short of adoption. The first woman governor – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming - was elected in 1924, upon the death of the previous go...

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...NIA 69 RHODE ISLAND 72 SOUTH CAROLINA 73 TENNESSEE 75 TEXAS 77 UTAH 80 VERMONT 81 VIRGINIA 82 WASHINGTON 83 WASHINGTON, DC 87 WISCONSIN 89 WYOMING 90 ADDITIONAL TRAVEL SOURCES 92 NATIONAL PARKS AND GOLDEN ACCESS PASS 96 SHARE YOUR OWN STORY OF DISCOVERING 97 DEDICATION 98 WHEEL:LIFE BOOK SERIES 99 ...

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...Lin McLean is an unaffected, attractive young cowboy in the Wyoming territory before statehood. This book is various stories in his life. (Summary by David Wales)...

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The book is a breezy, first-person account of a 2 month summer tour of the U.S. states of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas when Parkman was 23.

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...Cowboy Lin McLean rides into frontier Cheyenne, Wyoming, at Christmastime and learns a powerful meaning of Christmas. Author Owen Wister is well known for his western writings, famously the novel The Virginian. Illustrations are by the western artist Frederic Remington. (S...

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...e Texas for Montana this late in November, but here I was. Spirit and I made Wyoming yesterday and were starting to work our way into the Wind Rive... ... of Army life and her father offered me a job in his business up in Gillette, Wyoming, near the Montana border. Her family owns a logging business ... ...in, and trails through some pretty rough hill country as it moves south into Wyoming. To see it there, you’d think it never had flat land around it... ...lly, it’s not. We have another problem. One of the deputies had to go back to Wyoming for some family business. We’re runnin’ awful thin if you exp... ...tell, most the other deputies are just hired guns that Burns brought in from Wyoming. They’re as bad as he is. I’m thinking about goin’ back home.”... ...home.” John E. Richman 66 “Where is it you come from?” “Oh, I’m from Wyoming, too, but I’m no hired gun. I’m from Laramie, where my father ... ...itter, sir, but most folks just call me Montana.” “Well, Montana, you’re in Wyoming now and on private land. Who’s that comin’ up the hill?” “No... ...t in Hillsboro. Shoot, we’re not even in Montana! You crossed the border into Wyoming about five miles back. You have no jurisdiction here, so drop...

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...now been established at the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University... ...ied col- lection held by the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, which also includes an archive of Bartlett’s literary work, fine ...

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...folk, Sullivan, Tioga, Tompkins, Ulster, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Westchester, Wyoming, Yates Lillian R. Villanova 122 North Carolina: Tax De... ...an, Susquehanna, Tioga, Union, Venango, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Westmoreland, Wyoming, York Rhode Island: Tax Lien Certificate State 5 Countie... ...ne, Summers, Taylor, Tucker, Tyler, Upshur, Wayne, Webster, Wetzel, Wirt, Wood, Wyoming Wisconsin: Tax Lien Certificate State 72 Counties Adams... ...ton, Waukesha, Waupaca, Waushara, Winnebago, Wood Lillian R. Villanova 128 Wyoming: Tax Lien Certificate State 23 Counties Albany, Big Horn, ...

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...now been established at the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University... ...ied col- lection held by the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, which also includes an archive of Bartlett’s literary work, fine ...

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...st eruption of the currently active volcano at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming might make a dent. Its last eruption, two million years ago, rel...

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...ed. "Checkmate," Pierce said, congratulating himself. Johnathan Cross IDAHO, WYOMING, MONTANA OPERATION RETRIEVAL MJOR KrLLION HUNG up the phone... ...rst, a team of helicopters would fly directly to the designated areas in Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana. Once there, it would take the teams less than ... ...ake. He would rendezvous with the helicopters at a remote Army training base in Wyoming and transfer the cargo to a military transport, and proceed ... ...nd out." Major Killion arrived at Rendezvous Fox, a deserted Army air­ strip in Wyoming, and waited for a communique from each of the retrieval team...

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... . ., but: "There are several states in the Union-for instance, Kansas and Wyoming-which . . . . 9, 120. Put a colon after the salutatory phrase at...

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... editor al ziarului rural “Bridger Valley Pioneer”, în zona Lyman din Statul Wyoming – autor al unei rubrici satirice şi de ştiri locale. Mergea s ...

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... FROM THE PAST xiv the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University... ...ied col- lection held by the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, which also includes an archive of Bartlett’s literary work, fine ...

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...ea: 244,280 km 2 (including West Berlin) Comparative area: about the size of Wyoming Land boundaries: 4,232 km total Coastline: 1,488 km Maritime clai... ...: 255,800 km 2 ; land area: 255,400 km 2 Comparative area: about the size of Wyoming Land boundaries: 3,001 km total Coastline: 3,935 km (including 2,...

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... go office, from which he covers the territory as far west as Colorado and Wyoming. fiNE ATHLETIC GOODS Tennis Golf Baseball Jerseys Sweaters TheWRIGH... ...s company of New Jersey. His territory extends as far west as Colorado and Wyoming. A. D.BAST IEN PHOPRIKTOR or THB Williams Hair DresslngParlors Up t...

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...Members of the Family is a collection of eight short stories about people in the Wyoming Territory in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (Summary by David Wales)...

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...Quote: Ostensibly a love story, the novel really revolves around a highly mythologized version of the Johnson County War in 1890's Wyoming ... The novel takes the side of the large ranchers, and depicts the lynchings as frontier justice, meted out by the protagonist, who is a member of a natural aristocracy among men. (from Wikipedia)...

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...ng to better herself, she accepted employment as a housekeeper for a well-to-do Scotch cattle-man, Mr. Stewart, who had taken up a quarter-section in Wyoming. The letters, written through several years to a former employer in Denver, tell the story of her new life in the new country. They are genuine letters, and are printed as written, except for occasional omissions and ...

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...From the cold and mountainous regions of Wyoming to the bright lights of the big city, The Branding Iron is the story of a remarkable woman, Joan Carver. Born of poor means, at a fairly young age Joan decides to leave her father and strike out on her own, but she is...

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... 1869 he set out to explore the Colorado and the Grand Canyon. He gathered nine men, four boats and food for ten months and set out from Green River, Wyoming, on May 24. Passing through dangerous rapids, the group passed down the Green River to its confluence with the Colorado River (then also known as the Grand River upriver from the junction), near present-day Moab, Utah...

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...st Point Army officer, whose career took them both to frontier garrisons in what are now the states of Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Utah, Montana, and Wyoming. Her letters home to her family in upstate New York, written between 1871 and 1888, and published in book form in 1909, are a fascinating chronicle of life on the frontier. Despite the grittiness of keeping house in t...

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... and most romantic vocables: Delaware, Ohio, Indiana, Florida, Dakota, Iowa, Wyoming, Minnesota, and the Carolinas; there are few po- ems with a noble... ...et with one of his own kidney; and that perhaps both may fall. THE DESERT OF WYOMING TO CROSS SUCH A PLAIN is to grow homesick for the moun- tains. I ... ...AIN is to grow homesick for the moun- tains. I longed for the Black Hills of Wyoming, which I knew we were soon to enter, like an ice-bound whaler for... ...as always much applauded for his high spirits. When I was ill coming through Wyoming, I was astonished – fresh from the eager humanity on board ship –... ...iling chorus, to “come back.” On the plains of Nebraska, in the mountains of Wyoming, it was still the same cry, and dismal to my heart, “Come back!” ...

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...he train stopped at Fort Bridger station, and twenty minutes later entered Wyoming Terri- tory, following the valley of Bitter Creek throughout. The n... ...an parallel with the road, marking the boundary between the territories of Wyoming and Colorado. They entered Nebraska at eleven, passed near Sedgwick...

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...rceived, after the tedious prairies of Nebraska and across the vast and dismal moorlands of Wyoming, a few snowy mountain summits alone, the southern ...

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...olph, Mason, Putnam, Kanawha, Clay, Nicholas, Cabell, Wayne, Boone, Logan, Wyoming, Webster, Fayette, and Raleigh-are now in insurrection and rebellio...

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... may not stain with grief The death-song of my father’s son.” —Gertrude of Wyoming. IT WAS YET EARLY on the following morning, when Elizabeth and Loui... ...om the land of shadows, now My father’s awful ghost appears.” —Gertrude of Wyoming. For an hour after Louisa Grant was left by Miss T emple, in the si...

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...n, bitter, infested with curiosity. In France or Tibet quite as much as in Wyoming or Indiana these timidities are inherent in isolation. But a villag...

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...nce as to the status of women in America; but has he not himself forgotten Wyoming? The name Yankee, of which he is so tenacious, is used over the mos...

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...e nothing of the longer poems, except the striking opening of Gertrude of Wyoming , which long kept its place in my feelings as the perfection of pat...

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...the dispute between Connecticut and Pennsylva- nia, respecting the land at Wyoming, admonish us not to be sanguine in expecting an easy accommodation ...