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Uncle Dick Wootton: The Pioneer Frontiersman of the Rocky Montain Region [Secure Microsoft Reader]
eBook by Richens Wootton
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eBook Category: History
eBook Description:  "Uncle Dick" Wootton's unsurpassed adventure tale spans a broad chunk of the history of the American frontier. As Uncle Dick himself states in the first paragraph of his autobiography, "The man who has been fifty years in active life in any part of the world must necessarily have had some interesting experiences, but the man who has lived for half a century along the border line of civilization which we call in this country the frontier has had fifty years of adventure." In his eyes, the frontier was a wild land inhabited by wild people, and, while he had many battles with Indians, he also had friendships and trading partnerships with them. The changes he saw were dramatic: "There were millions of [buffalo] on the plains at that time. I say millions at a venture, although the fact is it was impossible to make even an approximate estimate of the number we could sometimes see at one time. You might as well have tried to make an estimate of the number of ants in a big Colorado anthill. As far as the eye could reach I have seen the Plains black with them, and it would actually look as if the prairies themselves were on the move ... it never occurred to me that I would live long enough to see all the buffaloes killed off." Yet he does live long enough; towards the end of his life the buffalo are almost gone. Uncle Dick himself contributed to this decimation, killing sometimes thirty buffalo in a single day. In fact he was quick to kill just about anything or anybody; he always slept with a loaded gun within arm's reach. If anything stirred in the night, he would shoot first and ask questions later. Nighttime sounds variably turned out to be Indians, deer, grizzlies, wolves, or his own horses, and they all met the same fate. Through Uncle Dick, we learn what it was like to be a white man in the Wild West, whether mountain man, scout, hunter, trapper, trader, freighter, rancher or soldier. He was all of those things, and he had quite a sense of humor to boot.
eBook Publisher: The Narrative Press
Fictionwise Release Date: January 2004
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Available eBook Formats [Secure Microsoft Reader - What's this?]: SECURE MICROSOFT READER FORMAT [581 KB] - Requires Microsoft Reader 2.1.1 for PCs, or Microsoft Reader 2.2.2 on Pocket PC 2002 handheld devices. Some older Pocket PCs can be upgraded. Learn More.
All formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
Microsoft Reader ISBN: 9781589761056
Adobe Reader ISBN: 1589761812
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