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1 comments about The look of the old West.

1. It was in reading this book out of my public library, when I was about 12 years old, that I got thoroughly and irrevocably hooked on 19th-Century social history and the study of the material artifacts our ancestors used on a daily basis. When I found it in the secondhand bookstore where I was working 10 years later, I snatched it so fast I'm surprised my boss didn't hear a sonic boom! Foster-Harris covers everything from the uniforms of the Civil War veterans who rushed westward after Appomattox in search of a new life, through the weapons they carried, the transportation they made use of, the trails they followed, the homes they built--almost anything you might want to know about--and provides simple but clear illustrations to help you visualize what he's talking about. Some of his "facts," as I've come to learn by checking other sources, aren't quite accurate: he claims, for example, that Western women "never" wore pants or rode astride, but my research has shown that even Eastern females admitted that "these pioneer Western women are of a different breed," and saw no scandal in their riding "Indian-style" (as straddle was delicately called at the time); Mark Twain in his letters tells of at least one maverick lady he knew in the Comstock, and many women who dressed and lived in masculine style, Calamity Jane and "Mountain Charley" Pankhurst not the least, are historically substantiated. But for sheer material detail, his book is hard to beat, and it should be found on the shelf of everyone who writes about, or is curious about, the way Westerners lived in the heyday of the free range.

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