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    Posted: 29 January 2004 at 07:59

Entrepreneurs, western artists and writers, gold miners, military men, and pioneers, all sought the opportunities of the west.  Thriving on dreams, west they came.  Promoted by western artists, writers and wild west shows of the time, the west continues to be glamorized by Western Artists work and  in western movies even today

     Seldom were mentioned the hardships of the climate, the isolation or the lack of conveniences seen in the populated states back East.  The West tested the courage and strength of every man, woman and child with only the strong surviving

 

     Western Artists Painting Drawing Sculpture :

Charles M. Russell  Famous  Western Artist 

 

    Western Artists of Entertainment :

Annie Oakley   Cowgirl was a Western performer with a Six Gun in Wild West Shows

Gene Autry   His Western Artist Talent was  The Phantom Empire and The Singing Cowboy

Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show  Authentic Cowboys, Indians, Buffaloes, Horses, Sharpshooters and Melodramas done by Western Artists

Phoebe Moses  Cowgirl Western Artist known as Little Miss Sure Shot Performed in Wild West Shows

Roy Rogers   Movie Star Western Artist with Dale Evans, Trigger and Gabby Hayes

 

     Western Writers :

Samuel Langhorne Clemens   Western Artist and Writer Lecturer and Story Teller

Horace Greeley   Western Newspaper Writer Editor

Mark Twain   Western Artist and Writer of Roughing It Primarily About the Western Life

Zane Grey   Writer of Epic Novels of The Western Frontier

Washington Irving  Western Writer of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A

 

    Western  Entrepreneurs :

Santa Anna

Martha Jane Canary

Elisha Ferry

Nathan Meeker

Isaac Stevens

Calamity Jane

John Sutter

Horace Tabor

 

     Occupations :

Army Scouts

Cattle Rustlers

General Store owner

Horse Thieves

Mule Skinners

Stagecoach Drivers

Train Robbers

     

     Transportation :

Concord Stagecoach

Riverboats

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 January 2004 at 09:18
www.linecamp.com, great website!!! Now I know where you work, but maybe, just maybe, you forgot onewestern artist. Frederic Remington??
Anyone ever has the opportunity, the Will Rogers museum in Ft.Worth is definitely worth a look! Not far from the stockyards and Billy Bobs. I used to live about 15 min. from there so consequently was able to go and enjoy fairly frequently.
How about the Prairie Schooner for Transport? At least in the move west?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 January 2004 at 11:05

good ideas -

frederic remington museum -

http://www.fredericremington.org/

will rogers museum in fort worth doesn't seem to have a website!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 02 February 2004 at 16:01

Tas,

 Being somewhat over the hill, and a tall hill it was too, I find it possible, even mandatory, to read actual books. Books were quite popular some years ago. People read them all the time. Then an insane man invented television and the world started sliding down hill fast. Anyway, I just happened to finish 'An Overland Journey" by Mr. Greeley of course. I really enjoyed his accounts of travelling thru the places of my boyhood. I noticed the title of this thread and thought I would say 'thanks for the effort to introduce a bit of culture. Go Tas

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03 February 2004 at 06:08
try CENTENNIAL, by james michener - one of the best books i have ever read, and it covers the west very well.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03 February 2004 at 08:12

This might bother Max, but Tas you omitted a great Westerner.  Philo T. Farnsworth was born in a log cabin, in Indian Creek, Utah and is responable for more entertainment than all of the others combined.

Now most of you wouldn't know Mr. Farnsworth, from Gabby Hayes.  But because I'm addicted to reading those old fashion paper books, like Max, I can tell you he invented TV in 1930.

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If you are speaking of  El Presidente Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna, he was no western entrepreneur. He DID introduce chicle to the U.S., but he did it in New York City.
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