Name/Title
Good Medicine For The BowEntry/Object ID
2015.1040.4.1Description
A paperback book, "Good Medicine For The Bow, A History of Medincine Bow, Wyoming" written by Marvin Cronberg, 2015. Prominent chapters include: The Cheyenne, the Fur Trade, the Explorers, the Bullwhackers, the Union Pacific Railroad, Early Medicine Bow, Livestock Industry, George Bird Grinnell, Dinosaurs, Fossil Cabin Museum, Owen Wister and the Virginian: 1860-1938, Virginian Hotel, Homesteaders, Lincoln Highway, Highway 30, Government for Medicine Bow, Banking for Medicine Bow, Medicine Bow Airport, Growth, Development and Change, Bill Carlisle, Roaring Twenties?, Depression Years, Post-War Medicine Bow. Appendix: Frank Cooper Trail, the Wagon, Homesteaders, Trails End Cemetery, Medicine Bow, WY, Weather Statistics.
Physical Description: Pages 1-319, 6" x 9." The front cover is a superimposed sepia toned photograph of the Virginian Hotel with a high hill immediately rising behind it. A large, gnarly tree with large branches is in the foreground with a sign nailed to the tree: "7 miles". There are four mounted horsemen on side right of the hotel in the foreground. The cover is primarily grayish tones with white print titles. Back side of the book shows a twisted tree trunk lying on its side with text printed over it. There is a Native American brave at top right, and a man dressed as a cowboy leaning on a long rifle at lower right corner.Collection
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