Full Description
Now back in print, A Tenderfoot in Colorado is R. B. Townshend's classic account of his time in the wild frontier territory known as Colorado. Townshend arrived in the Rockies in 1869, fresh from Cambridge, England, with $300 in his pockets.He found friends among some of Colorado's more colorful characters, people who taught him much about life on the frontier. Jake Chisolm taught him how to shoot after rescuing him from two men preparing to skin him at poker. Wild Bill of Colorado taught him the meaning of "the drop" and warned him against wearing a gun in town unless he wanted trouble. Capturing the Western vernacular more accurately than any other writer, Townshend includes vivid details of life in the West, where he killed a buffalo, prospected for gold, and was present for the official government conference with the Ute Indians after gold was discovered on their lands.
Contents
; Contents; INTRODUCTION by Jay Monaghan vii; I Enter the Tenderfoot 1; II Exit the Tenderfoot 15; III Three Per Cent 34; IV Tiger Bill 53; V Wild Bill of Colorado 67; VI Our Red Brothers 87; VII Wild Justice 105; VIII Our Lost Paradise 131; IX The Expanding Bean 153; X My Running Fight 164; XI Wolves and Crows 178; XII On My Own 185; XIII The Battle of the Bulls 194; XIV A Texas Nursery 202; XV Hide and Seek with Dog-Soldiers 214; XVI A Bull in a Barn 225; XVII The Fate of the Maverick 235; XVIII The King of the Prairie 250; XIX The Big Yellow Stag 265
