Seeking Pleasure in the Old West

Abstract

Seeking Pleasure in the Old West follows David Dary's The Buffalo Book (1974), Entrepreneurs of the Old West (1986), and Cowboy Culture (1989) in describing the lives and times of the early explorers and the pioneers of the westward frontier in the nineteenth century. The joys and hardships of their journeys have been diligently researched and written about in the past few decades, in books such as Dee Brown's The Gentle Tamers (1958), John Unruh's The Plains Across (1979), and Glenda Riley's The Female Frontier (1988), and many original journals and