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From where the sun now stands : addresses by a posse of famous Western speakers /

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A collection of frontier speeches dating from 1775 to 1908.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Grisso, W. D. (Walker Dixon) (Compiler), Cisneros, José, 1910-2009 (Illustrator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Santa Fe, N.M. : Stagecoach Press, 1963.
Edition:First regular edition.
Subjects:
Speeches, addresses, etc., American > West (U.S.)
Speeches, addresses, etc., Indian > West (U.S.)
Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.)
Speeches, addresses, etc., American.
Speeches, addresses, etc., Indian.
West United States.
Speeches.
Table of Contents:
  • José Maria Martinez! Stand up! / Judge Kirby Benedict
  • In the shadows of the mountains / Judge Kirby Benedict
  • This, Sir, is my stand / Anonymous
  • A tribute to the hound, Old Drum / Senator George Graham Vest
  • Tell her to go in peace / Temple Houston
  • Change the name of Arkansas! Hell, no! / Anonymous
  • He died in rawhide / William H. Knickerbocker
  • The Indians speak
  • The pathetic prophecy / Oconostota, the Cherokee
  • Attention, my good red warriors! / Pushmataha, the Choctaw
  • Do not ask us to give up the buffalo for the sheep / Ten Bears, the Comanche
  • From where the sun now stands / Chief Joseph, the Nez Percé
  • Armijo is no longer your governor / General Stephen Watts Kearny and Acting Governor Bautista Vigil
  • The speech that was never made / Walter Prescott Webb
  • Of the making of laws there is no end / Luther Harrison
  • Ah! Them was the days, Lad! / Will Rogers
  • The pioneer woman / General Patrick J. Hurley.