Men to match my mountains : the opening of the Far West 1840-1900 /
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| Author / Creator: | Stone, Irving, 1903-1989, author. |
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Imprint: | Garden City, New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1956. |
| Description: | [12], 459, [9] pages ; 25 cm |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Mainstream of America series / edited by Lewis Gannett Mainstream of America series. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1965431 |
Table of Contents:
- Book 1. Revolt in Paradise
- I. The Time, the Place, the Cast
- II. One Man Wants a Wilderness ...
- III. A Good Soldier Is Embarrassed
- IV. Heroic Frauds, or None at All
- V. An Honest Scoundrel Thickens the Plot
- VI. The Time of Action Begins
- Book 2. The Opening of a Land
- I. John Sutter Takes the Big Plunge
- II. "The state of society is exceedingly loose"
- III. "The difficulty of coming here is imaginary"
- IV. Schoolteacher Bidwell Lands in Jail
- V. A Fort Plays Host
- VI. The Scene Shifts to Colorado, "a Legal Fiction"
- VII. "There is no man to whom I owe as much as Fremont"
- VIII. Commodore Jones Goes out on a Yardarm
- IX. [pound]1,000,000 to Drive out the Americans
- X. Wagons? Impossible!
- XI. The Men Match the Mountains
- XII. Larkin Becomes Consul with a Gold-headed Cane
- XIII. Seed Wheat of the Western Migration
- XIV. A Democratic Army, Out for No Good
- XV. The Rugged Individualist Train
- XVI. "Why is Captain Fremont here?"
- XVII. Confidential Agent
- XVIII. Paradise Grows a Trifle Ugly
- XIX. "There's that damned flag again!"
- XX. Armed Conflict
- XXI. The Furies Pour Their Pent-up Vengeance
- XXII. "It is enough. This is the right place."
- XXIII. A Curse Is Removed, San Francisco Is Born
- XXIV. "It's GOLD!"
- Book 3. Color in a Country
- I. "A frenzy seized my soul"
- II. It's as Easy to Find Gold as Steal It
- III. What Gambler Ever Refused to Play?
- IV. Dedicated Saints
- V. Give Colorado Back to the Indians
- VI. The Men Do Not Match the Mountains
- VII. "How do we get to the gold?"
- VIII. New States for the Union
- IX. Death Valley Earns Its Name
- X. Nevada and Colorado Show Their Color
- XI. Gold and Mormonism Settle a Land
- XII. Rise of the Vigilantes
- XIII. The Glory of Polygamy
- XIV. Enterprising and Excitable Young Men
- XV. For Los Angeles, Neither Boom Nor Bust
- XVI. "Don't shoot, I am unarmed!"
- XVII. "You have struck it, boys!"
- XVIII. The Mountain Meadows Massacre
- XIX. "There is gold in Colorado. We saw it ourselves!"
- Book 4. The Building of a Civilization
- I. Pike's Peak or Bust!
- II. "Crazy" Judah and the Big Four
- III. The Civil War Makes Its Way West
- IV. The Comstock Has as Many Troubles as It Has Prospectors
- V. You Have to Get Up Early to Beat Brigham Young
- VI. Inside the "Twin Relic of Barbarism"
- VII. ... With Presses Ready at the Drop of a Frontier
- VIII. "They built the Great Wall of China, didn't they?"
- IX. The Saturnalia of Virginia City
- X. Billy Ralston's "crackling, pleasure-loving town"
- XI. Manana Land Gets Itself Subdivided
- XII. The Sweatbox of Ralston's Ring
- XIII. The Saints War with the Gentile Merchants
- XIV. It Is Hard for a Land to Be Born
- XV. A Polished Laurel Tie, and a Solid Gold Spike
- Book 5. Giants Stalk the Land
- I. The Tiger and the Octopus
- II. Four Miles to the Mineral Belt
- III. Four Irishmen Become Silver Kings
- IV. A Run on the Bank
- V. Nevada Cycle of Life and Death
- VI. "Only force can settle the Mormon problem"
- VII. For Brigham Young, Time Runs Out
- VIII. Colorado Is a Character
- IX. "Come provided with a pair of navy revolvers"
- X. Baby Doe Finds H.A.W. Tabor
- XI. The Climate Is Perfection ...
- XII. They suffered; they wept; sometimes they died ...
- Book 6. An Era Ends, a New Story Begins
- I. Southern California Has Its Eighty-Seveners
- II. The Southern Pacific Loses Its Fence
- III. "This sure is some Cripple Creek!"
- IV. H.A.W. Tabor Completes His Cycle
- V. The Saints Come to Judgment Day
- VI. Utah, Forty-fifth State
- VII. The Rose of Sharon
- VIII. The Far West Sits for Its Portrait
- IX. The Time, the Place, the Cast
- Acknowledgments and Bibliography
- Source of Quotations
- Index