Encyclopedia of frontier biography : in three volumes

"The three volumes of this work comprise a wealth of information about persons who lived on the frontier, whether that was the trans-Appalachian frontier, the 'wide Missouri' frontier, the mining regions of the Rockies, or the gold-mining/ranching frontiers of California, Oregon, or Ari-zona."--Booklist. "The index ...adds to the reference value of the book...Highly recommended."--American Reference Books Annual. Stretching from "Aaron, Sam, Arizona pioneer" to "Zutacapan, Acomo pueblo chief," the three-volume Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography profiles approxi-mately 4,500 frontier figures. In volume III (P-Z) George Parker (Butch Cassidy), Pocahontas, Red Cloud, Belle Starr, Sacajawea, Sitting Bull, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, and others are on the roll call of the famous. Biographies for worthies fully as interesting are included: Alferd Packer, Charlotte Parkhurst, Rufus Sage, and Sally Skull, to cite a few. Even John Wayne and other actors who portrayed westerners are sketched in. The Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography is the product of a lifetime of study by Dan L. Thrapp, whose previous books include The Conquest of Apacheria (1967) and Victorio and the Mimbres Apaches (1980).