The Bullwhacker: Adventures of a Frontier Freighter

By William Francis Hooker

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803272383
• ISBN13: 9780803272385
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr
• Length: 167 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.8" x 5.5"

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The Bullwacker

Rough as a cob, the bullwacker has never been romanticized, but his work was as essential as the cowboy's, and perhaps more hazardous. Young William Hooker, who came west from Wisconsin to Wyoming Territory in the early 1870's, would not be disappointed in his search for exhilarating open-air adventure. Soon he was driving a team of oxen hauling supplies for army posts and Indian reservations far from the railroad. He cracked a bullwhip and kept a rifle ready as he delivered sugar, bacon, blankets, and sacks of shelled corn to Fort Fetterman, Red Cloud Agency, and other destinations along the old Cheyenne, Medicine Bow, and Sidney trails. And the thrilling stories he lived to tell! All true. About outlaws, rum runners, and collisions with Indians. About the feuding between bullwhackers and military officers. About exposure to every kind of varmint and to the fury of the elements. About the daily perils and pleasures of rumbling down some pretty primitive trails in the Old West. This Bison Book reprints the 19245 original edition of The Bullwhacker: Adventures of a Frontier Freighter. In the Introduction, David Dary, the author of Entrepreneurs of the Old West (also a Bison Book). elaborates on William Hooker's life and times. --- from book's back cover