A tenderfoot in Colorado
Date
2008
Authors
Townshend, R. B., author
University Press of Colorado, publisher
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Abstract
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.
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Access is limited to the Adams State University, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, Community College of Denver, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University Denver, Regis University, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, University of Denver, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University and Western Colorado University communities only.
Subject
Pioneers -- Colorado -- Biography
English -- Colorado -- Biography
Frontier and pioneer life -- Colorado
Colorado -- Description and travel
Rocky Mountains -- Description and travel
Colorado -- History -- To 1876
Townshend, R. B. (Richard Baxter), 1846-1923 -- Travel -- Colorado