Dreamers & Schemers: Profiles from Carbon County, Wyoming's Past

Lori Van Pelt

ISBN 10: 0931271509 / ISBN 13: 9780931271502

Published by High Plains Press, Glendo, WY, 1999

About this Item

Fine/none, hc, used but looks like new, green cloth with copper colored text to spine and upper, vi-x, 251 pages. Interior clean except for authors inscription and signature on the title page. No wear to exterior. #180 of 249 copies printed in hard cover.

Seller Inventory # 005837

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dreamers & Schemers: Profiles from Carbon County, Wyoming's Past
• Publisher: High Plains Press, Glendo, WY
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0931271509
• ISBN 13: 9780931271502
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: None
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Americana
  • Western History
  • Wyoming History

About this title

Synopsis

Carbon County's history contains many fascinating people, some who are well-known for reasons good and bad, and some who never laid a claim to fame.

This book features historical biographies of thirty-one people who left a mark on Carbon Country, including mountain man Jim Baker; pioneer Margaret Savage, Dr. Lillian Heath who used outlaw Big Nose George's skull for a doorstop; Bill Carlisle, the gentleman bandit; and John Osborne, the governor who wore shoes made of an outlaw's skin.

Some attained success. Others harbored darker dreams, weaving their schemes in that wide-open time and place. Some became legends still cloaked in controversy. Others faded from the limelight, quickly. Their occupations ran the gamut from ranchers to ruffians, from lawmen to outlaws, and from doctors to artists.