More Than Cowboys : Travels Through the History of the American West

By (author) Slessor, Tim

So many books about the American West leave out the more intriguing details: When, in 1803, the young USA doubled its size with the purchase from France of an unexplored vastness called La Louisiane, it was a British bank which lent the Americans most of the $15 million that they didn't have. So the financial papers for the biggest real-estate deal in history are, to this day, held in a London vault. Not many people know that... If his ranching uncle-by-marriage had had his way, the teenaged Winston Churchill - a disappointing scholar - might have been sent west to Wyoming to train as a cowboy. Who knows but, in time, he himself might have become a rancher. How then would history have turned out? Another ranching Englishman played a key role in recruiting a small army of Texas gunmen to "invade" northern Wyoming and kill more than 40 small settlers, men who had too easily been accused of being rustlers. The plan went badly wrong. But the Englishman had slipped away - gone ...

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書名 More Than Cowboys : Travels Through the History of the American West
著作者等 Slessor, Tim
書名別名 Travels Through the History of the American West
出版元 Signal Books Ltd
刊行年月 2013.05.20
ページ数 376 ppp
ISBN 9781908493941
言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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