The Resource How the Irish won the West, Myles Dungan, (electronic resource)
How the Irish won the West, Myles Dungan, (electronic resource)
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Resource Information
The item How the Irish won the West, Myles Dungan, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Lane Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Here is the full story of the Irish immigrants and their decedents whose hard work helped make the West what it is today. Learn about the Irish members of the Donner party, forced to consume human flesh to survive the winter; mountain men like Thomas Fitzpatrick, who discovered the South Pass through the Rockies; Ellen Nellie Cashman, who ran boarding houses and bought and sold claims in Alaska, Arizona, and Nevada; and Maggie Hall, who became known as the whore with a heart of gold. A fascinating and entertaining look at the history of the American West, this book will surprise many and make every Irish American proud
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Note
- Originally published: Dublin : New Island, 2006
- Contents
-
- Opening credits. A nineteenth-century Western timeline
- Reel one. Introduction. How the Irish really won the West
- Reel two. Mountain men : Irish pioneers of the fur trade
- Reel three. The Donner party : cannibalism on the Western trail
- Reel four. Indian agent : the later career of Thomas Fitzpatrick
- Reel five. Toffs : Irish aristocrats west of the Mississippi
- Reel six. Not so gentle tamers : Irish women stake their claim
- Reel seven. Heroes and villains : the Irish good, bad and distinctly ugly
- Reel eight. The Lincoln County War : Murphy, Dolan, Riley, Brady and Billy the Kid
- Reel nine. Cameos : pioneers, plutocrats, popinjays and populists
- Isbn
- 9781616081003
- Label
- How the Irish won the West
- Title
- How the Irish won the West
- Statement of responsibility
- Myles Dungan
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Here is the full story of the Irish immigrants and their decedents whose hard work helped make the West what it is today. Learn about the Irish members of the Donner party, forced to consume human flesh to survive the winter; mountain men like Thomas Fitzpatrick, who discovered the South Pass through the Rockies; Ellen Nellie Cashman, who ran boarding houses and bought and sold claims in Alaska, Arizona, and Nevada; and Maggie Hall, who became known as the whore with a heart of gold. A fascinating and entertaining look at the history of the American West, this book will surprise many and make every Irish American proud
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- TEFOD
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Dungan, Myles
- Dewey number
-
- 978/.0049/162
- 978/.0049/162
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- F596.3.I6
- LC item number
- D86 2011eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Irish Americans
- Irish
- Immigrants
- HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
- West (U.S.)
- Label
- How the Irish won the West, Myles Dungan, (electronic resource)
- Note
- Originally published: Dublin : New Island, 2006
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Color
- multicolored
- Contents
- Opening credits. A nineteenth-century Western timeline -- Reel one. Introduction. How the Irish really won the West -- Reel two. Mountain men : Irish pioneers of the fur trade -- Reel three. The Donner party : cannibalism on the Western trail -- Reel four. Indian agent : the later career of Thomas Fitzpatrick -- Reel five. Toffs : Irish aristocrats west of the Mississippi -- Reel six. Not so gentle tamers : Irish women stake their claim -- Reel seven. Heroes and villains : the Irish good, bad and distinctly ugly -- Reel eight. The Lincoln County War : Murphy, Dolan, Riley, Brady and Billy the Kid -- Reel nine. Cameos : pioneers, plutocrats, popinjays and populists
- Control code
- frd825000547
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781616081003
- Isbn Type
- (electronic bk.)
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9781616081003
- (Sirsi) b1407179
- Label
- How the Irish won the West, Myles Dungan, (electronic resource)
- Note
- Originally published: Dublin : New Island, 2006
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Color
- multicolored
- Contents
- Opening credits. A nineteenth-century Western timeline -- Reel one. Introduction. How the Irish really won the West -- Reel two. Mountain men : Irish pioneers of the fur trade -- Reel three. The Donner party : cannibalism on the Western trail -- Reel four. Indian agent : the later career of Thomas Fitzpatrick -- Reel five. Toffs : Irish aristocrats west of the Mississippi -- Reel six. Not so gentle tamers : Irish women stake their claim -- Reel seven. Heroes and villains : the Irish good, bad and distinctly ugly -- Reel eight. The Lincoln County War : Murphy, Dolan, Riley, Brady and Billy the Kid -- Reel nine. Cameos : pioneers, plutocrats, popinjays and populists
- Control code
- frd825000547
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781616081003
- Isbn Type
- (electronic bk.)
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9781616081003
- (Sirsi) b1407179
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