Wind River Adventures: My Life in Frontier Wyoming

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The West and Ed Farlow grew up together.
Farlow was just sixteen years old in 1876 when, after hearing exciting tales of western adventures, he and a friend hopped a freight train for Laramie.He recounts versions of famous events — the Custer Battle, a buffalo hunt with Indians, the Wilcox train robbery, the Battle of Crowheart Butte, a wolf roundup.
And he recalls famous people — Sacajawea, the Hole-in-the-Wall gang, Colonel Tim McCoy, Joan Crawford, Chief Washakie, Cattle Kate, and more.his remarkable rapport with the Indians who were his neighbors on the Wind River Reservation led to his acting as a theatrical agent for the tribes and traveling with them for their appearances in exhibitions and early motion pictures to far away places including Paris, London, and Hollywood.Wind River Adventures is the first publication of the memoirs of Edward J.
Farlow.
He wrote these accounts in the late 1930s and early 1940s when he was between seventy-five and eighty-five years old.
He lived to be ninety and was active and vigorous until near the end of his life.
And what a life it was!