{"product_id":"beckoning-frontiers-9781496220455","title":"Beckoning Frontiers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2021 Publication Award in Biography from the Wyoming State Historical Society\u003cbr\u003e Westerners International Co-Founders Book Award, second place\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e George W. T. Beck, an influential rancher and entrepreneur in the American West, collaborated with William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody to establish the town of Cody, Wyoming, in the 1890s. He advanced his financial investments in Wyoming through his numerous personal and professional contacts with various eastern investors and politicians in Washington DC. Beck’s family—his father a Kentucky senator and his mother a grandniece of George Washington—and his adventures in the American West resulted in personal associates who ranged from western legends Buffalo Bill, Jesse James, and Calamity Jane to wealthy American elites such as George and Phoebe Hearst and Theodore Roosevelt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This definitive edition of Beck’s memoir provides a glimpse of early life in Wyoming, offering readers a rare pers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is a delightful armchair visit to the old American West provided by a true Wyoming entrepreneur. His varied experiences, extensive travels, vivid stories, and nonstop adventures make this great reading.\"—Ann Chambers Noble, \u003ci\u003ePacific Northwest Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Beck's memoirs from childhood to old age make good reading.\"—Sandra K. Sagala, \u003ci\u003eRoundup Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Foreword\u003cbr\u003e Alan K. Simpson and Peter K. Simpson\u003cbr\u003e Series Editors’ Preface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Lynn J. Houze and Jeremy M. Johnston\u003cbr\u003e Beckoning Frontiers: The Memoir of George Washington Thornton Beck\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e 1. Family and Boyhood in Kentucky and Washington DC, 1856–1865\u003cbr\u003e 2. Post Civil War, 1865–1874\u003cbr\u003e 3. A Student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1874–1876\u003cbr\u003e 4. Prospecting in Colorado, 1877–1879\u003cbr\u003e 5. Working on the Northern Pacific Railroad, 1879–1880\u003cbr\u003e 6. Homesteading in Wyoming, 1880–1886\u003cbr\u003e 7. Sheepherding and Crow Indians\u003cbr\u003e 8. Return to the East\u003cbr\u003e 9. Trips to the South and to Cuba\u003cbr\u003e 10. Wyoming Territorial Legislator, 1889–1890\u003cbr\u003e 11. Another Trip Back East and to California\u003cbr\u003e 12. Beckton, Wyoming\u003cbr\u003e 13. The Johnson County War, 1892\u003cbr\u003e 14. Wyoming Politics\u003cbr\u003e 15. The Shoshone Irrigation Company and Cody, Wyoming\u003cbr\u003e 16. Developing the Town of Cody and Hunting Trips\u003cbr\u003e 17. Finishing the Cody Canal, Marriage, and Family Life in Cody\u003cbr\u003e 18. The Leiter Ball, the Frederic Remington Visit, and a Bank Robbery\u003cbr\u003e 19. Another Ute Uprising and Famous Guests\u003cbr\u003e 20. The Shoshone Reclamation Project and the Cody Power Plant\u003cbr\u003e Afterword\u003cbr\u003e Betty Jane Gerber\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 1: Select Letters from William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody to George Beck regarding the Cody Canal Project\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 2: Speech by George Beck at the Laying of the Cornerstone for a New City Hall, Cody, Wyoming\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 3: Summary of a Talk Delivered by Thornton “Tee” Beck about the Beck Family\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409231225175,"sku":"9781496220455","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496220455.jpg?v=1730506060","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/beckoning-frontiers-9781496220455","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}