My sixty years on the frontier

Description:

This book is the first person account of a man who was born around 1850. He was too late to be be in the California gold rush, although his father got in on the silver rush in Colorado. When Mr. Shute was about 40, he got to shoot the gun that set off the Oklahoma Land Rush. Around the same time he married Mabel Abbott and began a family of four daughters. But that did not stop William Shute from his life as an adventurer. While Mabel and the girls held down the fort wherever they lived, William carried on meeting and adventuring with Annie Oakley, Wild Bill, Pancho Villa, and other well known people of the last best Wild West. The reader will learn nothing of Shute's family, but there is plenty of history about his silver mining adventure in Baja California.

subjects: Biography,  Frontier and pioneer life,  Pioneers,  silver mine,  land rush

People: William E. Shute (1860-1944),  Annie Oakley,  Wild Bill,  Pancho Villa

Places: Colorado,  Leadville,  Leadville (Colo.),  West (U.S.) Baja California,  Oklahoma

Times: Roughly 1880-1940; many details and events are footnoted by persons who helped get the book to print.