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Portrays the lighter side of American frontier history with anecdotes about such characters as Amelia Jenks Bloomer, who introduced the frontier garment bearing her name, and Joshua Norton, who declared himself emperor of the United States
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In his first work of nonfiction in twelve years, celebrated historian Dee Brown draws on more than fifty years of research in this good-humored social history of the American frontier. In a work rich in anecdotes about pioneers, women, lawmen, outlaws, newspapermen, schoolteachers, cowboys, tenderfeet, preachers, and native Americans, Brown portrays the diversity of the frontier experience.
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