The Real Wild West The 101 Ranch and the

Winner of the Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame Oklahoma Book Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book Spur Award from the Western Writers of America.

Michael Wallis the award-winning author of Route 66: The Mother Road, and several other books, and the co-author of Mankiller: A Chief and Her People. He lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Sante Fe, New Mexico.

Prologue

1

(2)

Introduction: The Hundred and One

3

(4)

Part One: The Dark and Bloody Ground

7

(32)

Kentucky Home

9

(6)

Portrait: Daniel Boone: America's First ``Cowboy''

13

(2)

Rebel Child

15

(8)

Portrait: P. T. Barnum Invents the Wild West

20

(3)

Hear the Wind Blow

23

(7)

Portrait: Under the Black Flag

27

(3)

Kentucky Farewell

30

(9)

Portrait: The South's Avenging Angel

35

(4)

Part Two: Go West, Young Man

39

(58)

California Bound

41

(7)

Portrait: Ned Buntline

45

(3)

Home on the Range

48

(6)

Portrait: ``Wild Bill''

52

(2)

Prairie City

54

(8)

Portrait: The Bandit Queen

59

(3)

Gone to Texas

62

(8)

Portrait: Jesse Chisholm's Trail

67

(3)

Trails South

70

(9)

Portrait: The Hanging Judge, Frontier Vigilantes, and Stone-cold Killers

76

(3)

San Saba Country

79

(9)

Portrait: Cowboys

85

(3)

The Cowboy's Dream

88

(9)

Portrait: Standing Bear: Chief of the Poncas

93

(4)

Part Three: The Cattleman's Last Frontier

97

(80)

The First Cow Town in Kansas

99

(10)

Portrait: Miss Molly: The Kentucky Connection

106

(3)

The Salt Fork of the Arkansas

109

(9)

Portrait: Boomer Sooner

115

(3)

``101''

118

(12)

Portrait: Devil's Rope

126

(4)

Where the Coyotes Howl

130

(10)

Portrait: Ride 'em, Cowboy

136

(4)

Riding the Home Range

140

(15)

Portrait: The Big Die-Up

150

(5)

Land of the Fair God

155

(11)

Portrait: Shanghai Pierce

163

(3)

The Run of '93

166

(11)

Portrait: The Great White City

172

(5)

Part Four: The Real Thing

177

(156)

Shades of Gray

179

(11)

Portrait: ``56''

186

(4)

Lords of the Prairie

190

(15)

Portrait: Buffalo Man

199

(6)

Full Circle

205

(9)

Portrait: The Yaller Dog

211

(3)

The Miller Brothers

214

(13)

Portrait: The World's First Cowgirl Meets the Cherokee Kid

221

(6)

A State of Mind

227

(13)

Portrait: King of the Cowboys

235

(5)

Oklahoma's Gala Day

240

(17)

Portrait: Bill Pickett: The Dusky Demon

253

(4)

Show Time

257

(14)

Portrait: Pawnee Bill

266

(5)

``Going Up''

271

(15)

Portrait: Jane Woodend: Fence Rider

278

(8)

Spinning Wheels

286

(15)

Portrait: The Band Played On

296

(5)

Hard Knocks

301

(16)

Portrait: Princess Wenona: The California Girl

309

(8)

South of the Border

317

(16)

Portrait: Willie-Cries-for-War

327

(6)

Part Five: Galloping Ghosts

333

(186)

Creating the West

335

(14)

Portrait: Coney Island

345

(4)

California Dreaming

349

(18)

Bison 101

362

(5)

Inceville

367

(19)

Portrait: Hollywood-on-the-Arkansas

377

(9)

A Vanishing Breed

386

(25)

Portrait: Hollywood Buckaroos and the Gower Gulch Gang

402

(9)

Where the West Commences

411

(41)

Portrait: Saturday's Heroes and Heroines

434

(18)

Trail's End

452

(67)

Final Portrait: Nothing But Cowboys, Cowgirls, and Indians

479

(40)

Epilogue

519

(8)

Endnotes

527

(84)

Bibliography

611

(14)

Acknowledgments

625

(8)

Index

633

(20)

About the Author

653

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The Real Wild West The 101 Ranch and the Creation of the American West

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