Seventy Years on the Frontier

Book

St. Joseph Museums

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

9999.455.13326

Description

Seventy Years on the Frontier is Alexander Majors' Memoirs of a Lifetime on the Border and is edited by Colonel Prentiss Ingraham. There is a preface by "Buffalo Bill" (General W. F. Cody). It is a thick book full of his experiences with his freighting business and the trails, the Mormons, the Pony Express, people he became acquainted with such as Kit Carson and life in early Kansas City. 325/Hardbound/Photographs

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Pony express, Transportation, Communication

Search Terms

Cody, William F., Freighting, Mormons in Jackson County, Missouri, Frontier Life, Carson, Kit, Santa Fe Trail, Diary, Biography, Mormon Conflict, Salt Lake City, Russell, Majors & Waddell, Majors, Alexander, Gold Rush, Buffalo Bill, Doniphan's Expedition, Mexican War, Mormons

Book Details

Author

Majors, Alexander

Place Published

City

Chicago

State/Province

Illinois

Date Published

1893

Call No.

PonyExpress MA

Notes

Copy No.: 3

Condition

Overall Condition

Poor

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Majors, Alexander

Person or Organization

William Russell

Person or Organization

Waddell, William

Person or Organization

Cody, William F.

Person or Organization

Kit Carson