Western Fever: The Life and Times of Gideon Truesdell

by Richard C. Fritz

Newspapers of the day described young men with a burning desire to get rich on the frontier as having a bad case of "western fever," and by 1836 Gideon Truesdell had surely caught it. He struggled with life on the frontier until he amassed a million-dollar ($68 million today) fortune in the lumber, agricultural, cattle, and mining businesses. Late in life the Chicago Fire nearly wiped him out, and at the age of sixty-three he started over in Silver...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 163293535X
• ISBN13: 9781632935359
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Sunstone Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"