Reviews for South Pass, 1868: James Chisholm's Journal of the Wyoming Gold Rush

The average rating for South Pass, 1868: James Chisholm's Journal of the Wyoming Gold Rush based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-10-26 00:00:00 Jeff Riich This was a fun audiobook filled with many lesser known, yet just as interesting and colorful characters from America's wild frontier. Many of whom worked the cattle drives and gambling circuits just as the famous outlaws did. Several were hard, dangerous people living in hard times when all that stopped them was frontier justice. I think the most chilling story was about the Hill family where Alan Cash Hill and Dusky settled in Parker County Texas. They were a true family of outlaws, even having an escape tunnel under their homestead for other outlaws to stay and evade the law. Then there was Sarah Shull and David McCanles who was the first man killed by Wild Bill Hickok. There was U.S. Marshal Ed Short from Oklahoma who was said to have feared neither man nor the devil who was in a famous gunfight with Black-Faced Charley Bryant from the Dalton Gang. Also, Punch Collins from Escondida, New Mexico and Pete Loggins from Arkansas who was a man of many trades and a murderer. From Illinois there was William Ruby and his Copperhead justice along with so many other characters with colorful histories. There were a few chapters I listened to twice because I recognized the areas and I found it quite interesting listening to the history of the people and places that settled or passed through them. I would definitely recommend listening to this audiobook and I would even listen to it again while sitting around a campfire. It would remind me that the land I'm sitting on was most likely occupied by at least one or more of these folks from the old west. This was a great book by Mark Dugan. Roy Lunel did a perfect job narrating this audiobook. He spoke clearly and told the stories as one would expect to hear them. I think he has a great voice for doing westerns. He made this book completely enjoyable and I hope to hear more from him in the future. Audiobook gifted in exchange for review. © 2014 crystalzen © Teresa W.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-06-07 00:00:00 Audrone Paulauskiene There are a number of very unusual tales included in this book, but it also had some unfortunate errors, some by the editor and some perhaps by the author. When you use both "Confederate," referring to southern soldiers during the Civil War, and "confederate," referring to the sidekick of an outlaw, one might easily expect that to confuse the editor, and it did. Other errors crept in, though, including the wildly variant age of one character, stated to be 70 by the author, but only in his 50s by the dates given in the same chapter. My only other complaint is that some of the tales included are frankly trivial in nature. Okay, so Cora Hubbard was the only woman in the old west ever convicted of bank robbery, but the story is otherwise insignificant and a bit pitiful. I guess it does show just how unglamorous bank robbery could really be, but otherwise, the story was not up to the rest of the book. The more dramatic stories, ranging from the outrageous Hill Family and the real story behind a Wild Bill Hickok legend to an interesting take on Tom Horn were all more fascinating, and would lead the reader to want to find out more. Several of the stories focus on women of the west, especially ones connected to crimes, but it's not a titillating expose book. It's just one that tells the true stories behind some wild legends, and some of the true stories are themselves pretty wild.