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Gilded Girls: Women Entertainers of the Old West by Chris Enss & JoAnn Chartier

The curtain rises and authors JoAnn Chartier and Chris Enss shine the spotlight on 14 entertaining women who sang, danced, acted in plays, performed equestrienne feats, and captured the hearts of the miners and homesteaders of the Frontier West. These "gilded girls" who performed in... more

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Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840 - 1849 by Kenn...

The women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner party; Patty Sessions, the Mormon midwife who delivered five babies on the trail between Omaha and... more

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Under the Texas Sun: Adventures of a Texas Cowpuncher by Anna Manns Dana

If Mark Twain had written about Texas, this might have been his book. A young boy, thrown into his mother's family when his father dies of Civil War wounds, early grows to be a young man herding cows on Texas' frontier ranges. But it is not Mark Twain's story; it is Malcolm Graham... more

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The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner

The Frontier in American History By Frederick Jackson Turner

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Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family by Claudio Saun...

Deceit, compromise, and betrayal were the painful costs of becoming American for many families. For people of Indian, African, and European descent living in the newly formed United States, the most personal and emotional choices--to honor a friendship or pursue an intimate relationship--were... more

Deceit, compromise, and betrayal were the painful costs of becoming American for many families. For people of Indian, African, and European descent living in the newly formed United States, the most personal and emotional choices--to honor a friendship or pursue an intimate relationship--were often necessarily guided by the harsh economic realities imposed by the country's racial hierarchy. Few families in American history embody this struggle to survive the pervasive onslaught of racism more than the Graysons. Like many other residents of the eighteenth-century Native American South, where Black-Indian relations bore little social stigma, Katy Grayson and her brother William--both Creek Indians--had children with partners of African descent. As the plantation economy began to spread across their native land soon after the birth of the American republic, however, Katy abandoned her black partner and children to marry a Scottish-Creek man. She herself became a slaveholder, embracing slavery as a public display of her elevated place in America's racial hierarchy. William, by contrast, refused to leave his black wife and their several children and even legally emancipated them. Traveling separate paths, the Graysons survived the invasion of the Creek Nation by U.S. troops in 1813 and again in 1836 and endured the Trail of Tears, only to confront each other on the battlefield during the Civil War. Afterwards, they refused to recognize each other's existence. In 1907, when Creek Indians became U.S. citizens, Oklahoma gave force of law to the family schism by defining some Graysons as white, others as black. Tracking a full five generations of the Grayson family and basing his account in part on unprecedented access to the forty-four volume diary of G. W. Grayson, the one-time principal chief of the Creek Nation, Claudio Saunt tells not only of America's past, but of its present, shedding light on one of the most contentious issues in Indian politics, the role of "blood" in the construction of identity. Overwhelmed by the racial hierarchy in the United States and compelled to adopt the very ideology that oppressed them, the Graysons denied their kin, enslaved their relatives, married their masters, and went to war against each other. Claudio Saunt gives us not only a remarkable saga in its own right but one that illustrates the centrality of race in the American experience.

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African Creeks: Estelvste and the Creek Nation (Race and Culture in the American West...

Among the Creeks, they were known as Estelvste--black people--and they had lived among them since the days of the first Spanish entradas. They spoke the same language as the Creeks, ate the same foods, and shared kinship ties. Their only difference was the color of their skin. This book tells... more

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Confederate Privateers (Classics in Maritime History) by William Morrison Robinson

The exploits of the Confederacy's "gentlemen adventurers".

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Pioneer Jews: A New Life in the Far West by Harriet Rochlin & Fred Rochlin

When people think of the Jewish immigrant experience, it's usually the Lower East Side of New York that comes to mind. But, in fact, thousands of Jews lived in western mining towns and on ranches and trading posts in the late nineteenth century. In this "colorful history of Jewish settlers in... more

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Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879: The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Tex...

"Lehmann's memoir is quite fantastic-sounding at times, but is regarded as one of the best of that rare breed of book, the first-person 'captivity story' . . . One of the values of Lehmann's book is its no-holds-barred, unapologetic tone." Rocky Mountain News As a young child, Herman Lehmann... more

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The Comanche Barrier to South Plains Settlement by Rupert N. Richardson (Author) &...

When as a young academic in 1933 Rupert Richardson wrote the definitive work on Comanche Indians in the Texas South Plains, his primary sources included Comanche Indians themselves, their champions (few) and victims (many).

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Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Fremont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and...

Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Frémont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America's first great political couple John C. Frémont, one of the United... more

Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Frémont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America's first great political couple John C. Frémont, one of the United States’s leading explorers of the nineteenth century, was relatively unknown in 1842, when he commanded the first of his expeditions to the uncharted West. But in only a few years, he was one of the most acclaimed people of the age – known as a wilderness explorer, bestselling writer, gallant army officer, and latter-day conquistador, who in 1846 began the United States’s takeover of California from Mexico. He was not even 40 years old when Americans began naming mountains and towns after him. He had perfect timing, exploring the West just as it captured the nation’s attention. But the most important factor in his fame may have been the person who made it all possible: his wife, Jessie Benton Frémont. Jessie, the daughter of a United States senator who was deeply involved in the West, provided her husband with entrée to the highest levels of government and media, and his career reached new heights only a few months after their elopement. During a time when women were allowed to make few choices for themselves, Jessie – who herself aspired to roles in exploration and politics – threw her skill and passion into promoting her husband. She worked to carefully edit and publicize his accounts of his travels, attracted talented young men to his circle, and lashed out at his enemies. She became her husband’s political adviser, as well as a power player in her own right. In 1856, the famous couple strategized as John became the first-ever presidential nominee of the newly established Republican Party. With rare detail and in consummate style, Steve Inskeep tells the story of a couple whose joint ambitions and talents intertwined with those of the nascent United States itself. Taking advantage of expanding news media, aided by an increasingly literate public, the two linked their names to the three great national movements of the time—westward settlement, women’s rights, and opposition to slavery. Together, John and Jessie Frémont took parts in events that defined the country and gave rise to a new, more global America. Theirs is a surprisingly modern tale of ambition and fame; they lived in a time of social and technological disruption and divisive politics that foreshadowed our own. In Imperfect Union, as Inskeep navigates these deeply transformative years through Jessie and John’s own union, he reveals how the Frémonts’ adventures amount to nothing less than a tour of the early American soul.

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Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America (Bill O'Reilly's Killing Se...

The latest installment of the multimillion-selling Killing series is a gripping journey through the American West and the historic clashes between Native Americans and settlers. The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the beginning. It's 1811 and President James Madison has ordered the... more

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Outlaw Tales of the Old West: Fifty True Stories of Desperados, Crooks, Criminals, an...

This collection of fifty outlaw tales includes well-knowns such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Frank and Jesse James, Belle Starr (and her dad), and Pancho Villa, along with a fair smattering of women, organized crime bosses, smugglers, and of course the usual suspects: highwaymen, bank... more

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Frontier Grit: The Unlikely True Stories of Daring Pioneer Women by Marianne Monson

Discover the stories of twelve women who heard the call to settle the west and who came from all points of the globe to begin their journey. As a slave, Clara watched helpless as her husband and children were sold, only to be reunited with her youngest daughter, as a free woman, six decades... more

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The Ladder of Rivers The Story of I. P. (Print) Olive by Harry E. Chrisman

Paperback,laminated pictoral cvr,1995 Cr Dawson Historicial Society,Revised ed,range cattle industry depected thru story of I. P. (Print)Olive,460 numbered pgs w/fold out map inside back cvr, Bibliography, Biography,Dawson County Historical Society Publishers,

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Covered Wagon Days: From the Private Journals of Albert Jerome Dickson by Albert Jero...

Albert Jerome Dickson was fourteen years old in 1864 when he left LaCrosse, Wisconsin, in a small caravan of covered wagons headed for Montana Territory. Thousands of emigrants had preceded him on the Oregon Trail, but none ever described the journey in sharper detail. Covered Wagon Days... more

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The Adventures of the Mountain Men: True Tales of Hunting, Trapping, Fighting, Advent...

Incredible stories from those who thrived in the Wild West. The �mountain men? were the hunters and trappers who fiercely strode the Rocky Mountains in the early to mid-1800s. They braved the elements in search of the skins of beavers and other wild animals, to sell or barter for goods. The... more

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Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman by Martha Sum...

"Vanished Arizona: Recollections of My Army Life" is the story of Martha Summerhayes, a Nantucket woman who married a cavalry officer and moved with him to various Army forts in the late 19th century. It is a very personal story of Army life in Indian country, raising children under trying... more

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Mr. Penrose: The Journal of Penrose, Seaman by William Williams

Long neglected as the first American novel, Mr. Penrose narrates the adventures of a British youth who flees an unhappy home life to seek his fortune on the high seas. Having learned the sailor?s trade, Penrose survives a series of nautical mishaps, only to be cast adrift on the Mosquito Coast.... more

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Wyatt Earp : The Life Behind the Legend by Casey Tefertiller

"Quite impressive. I doubt if there has been or will be a more deeply researched and convincing account." —Evan Connell, author Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn "The book to end all Earp books—the most complete, and most meticulously researched." —Jack... more

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When the Heavens Frowned by Joseph Leander Cline

In 1892, Joseph L. Cline, the brother of Dr. Isaac Monroe Cline, joined his sibling in the service of the Weather Bureau in Galveston. Eight years later, he became one of the town's heroes.Working in conjunction with his brother, Cline was responsible for sending out the last message to... more

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Gunfighter: An Autobiography by John Wesley Hardin & John Wesley Hardin

The imprisonment of outlaw John Wesley Hardin in Texas marked the end of his journal, which remains the only authentic autobiography of a Cowboy. After his first murder at age 15, Hardin proceeded to live a life on the run, the archetypal wanted man, pursued by lynch mobs, bounty hunters and... more

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David Crockett: The Lion of the West by Michael Wallis

"Vivid, Comprehensible . . . cuts through decades of mythmaking." ?Texas Monthly Popular culture transformed his memory into ?Davy Crockett,? and Hollywood gave him a raccoon hat he hardly ever wore. In this surprising New York Times bestseller, historian Michael Wallis has cast a fresh look at... more

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Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier b...

An extraordinary story of faith and violence in nineteenth-century America, based on previously confidential documents from the Mormon Church.Compared to the Puritans, Mormons have rarely gotten their due, often treated as fringe cultists or marginalized polygamists unworthy of serious... more

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American Character : Curious Life of Charles Fletcher Lummis and the Rediscovery of t...

Charles Fletcher Lummis began his spectacular career in 1884 by walking from Ohio to start a new job at the three-year old Los Angeles Times. By the time of his death in 1928, the 3,500 mile "tramp across the continent" was just a footnote in his astonishingly varied career: crusading... more

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Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir by Deborah A. Miranda

This beautiful and devastating book--part tribal history, part lyric and intimate memoir--should be required reading for anyone seeking to learn about California Indian history, past and present. Deborah A. Miranda tells stories of her Ohlone Costanoan Esselen family as well as the experience of... more

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Father Forgive Them: The Rachel Plummer Story by Garlyn Webb Wilburn

On a warm, clear day in the spring of 1836 seventeen-year-old Rachel Parker Plummer and her eighteen-month-old baby boy were abducted from their home in central Texas by a raiding party of Comanche and Kiowa Indians. She was, at that time, three months pregnant. Separated from her son and three... more

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Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Weal...

In the tradition of The Lost City of Z and Skeleton in the Zahara, Astoria is the thrilling, true-adventure tale of the 1810 Astor Expedition, an epic, now forgotten, three-year journey to forge an American empire on the Pacific Coast. Peter Stark offers a harrowing saga in which a band of... more

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The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman (Women in the West) by Margot Mifflin

In 1851 Olive Oatman was a thirteen-year-old pioneer traveling west toward Zion with her Mormon family. Within a decade, she was a white Indian with a chin tattoo, caught between cultures. The Blue Tattoo tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroine of frontier America. Orphaned when her... more

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Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell by Tom Cl...

On the afternoon of October 26, 1881, eight men clashed in what would be known as the most famous shootout in American frontier history. Thirty bullets were exchanged in thirty seconds, killing three men and wounding three others. The fight sprang forth from a tense, hot summer. Cattle... more

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Lord Grizzly by Frederick Manfred

True-life adventurer Hugh Glass, a 19th century explorer of the Old West, was deserted by his party after being mauled by a bear. Manfred tells of the ten missing years in Glass's life, his superhuman struggle to survive, and his all-too-human quest for revenge.

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Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West...

Praise for Blood and Thunder“Kit Carson’s role in the conquest of the Navajo during and after the Civil War remains one of the most dramatic and significant episodes in the history of the American West. Hampton Sides portrays Carson in the larger context of the conquest of the... more

Praise for Blood and Thunder“Kit Carson’s role in the conquest of the Navajo during and after the Civil War remains one of the most dramatic and significant episodes in the history of the American West. Hampton Sides portrays Carson in the larger context of the conquest of the entire West, including his frequent and often lethal encounters with hostile Native Americans. Unusually, Sides gives full voice to Indian leaders themselves about their trials and tribulations in their dealings with the whites. Here is a national hero on the level of Daniel Boone, presented with all of his flaws and virtues, in the context of American people’s belief that it was their Manifest Destiny to occupy the entire West.”—Howard Lamar, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, Yale University and editor of The New Encyclopedia of the American West“The story of the American West has seldom been told with such intimacy and immediacy. Legendary figures like Kit Carson leap to life and history moves at a pulse-pounding pace—sweeping the reader along with it. Hampton Sides is a terrific storyteller.”—Candice Millard, author of The River of Doubt“Hampton Sides doesn't just write a book, he transports the reader to another time and place. With his keen sense of drama and his crackling writing style, this master storyteller has bequeathed us a majestic history of the Old West.”—James Bradley, author of Flags of Our Fathers and Flyboys“Blood and Thunder is a big-hearted book whose subject is as expansive as they come. Hampton Sides tackles it with naked pleasure and narrative cunning: In his telling, the vast saga of America’s westward push has a logical center. The dusty town of Santa Fe becomes the nexus around which swirl the fortunes and strategies of a mixed set of serious overachievers, from Kit Carson, the original mountain man, to James K. Polk, the enigmatic president whose achievements, in the dreaded name of Manifest Destiny, were almost biblical in scope. Sides is alive to the exuberance and alert to the tragedy of the taking of the West.” —Russell Shorto, author of Island at the Center of the World“For a huge percentage of us immigrant Americans (those whose ancestors arrived after 1492), Hampton Sides fills a gaping hole in our knowledge of American history—a vivid account of how ‘The New Men’ swept away the thriving civilizations of the Native Americans in their conquest of the West.” —Tony HillermanA Magnificent History of How the West Was Really Won—a Sweeping Tale of Shame and GloryIn the fall of 1846 the venerable Navajo warrior Narbona, greatest of his people’s chieftains, looked down upon the small town of Santa Fe, the stronghold of the Mexican settlers he had been fighting his whole long life. He had come to see if the rumors were true—if an army of blue-suited soldiers had swept in from the East and utterly defeated his ancestral enemies. As Narbona gazed down on the battlements and cannons of a mighty fort the invaders had built, he realized his foes had been vanquished—but what did the arrival of these “New Men” portend for the Navajo?Narbona could not have known that “The Army of the West,” in the midst of the longest march in American military history, was merely the vanguard of an inexorable tide fueled by a self-righteous ideology now known as “Manifest Destiny.” For twenty years the Navajo, elusive lords of a huge swath of mountainous desert and pasturelands, would ferociously resist the flood of soldiers and settlers who wished to change their ancient way of life or destroy them.Hampton Sides’s extraordinary book brings the history of the American conquest of the West to ringing life. It is a tale with many heroes and villains, but as is found in the best history, the same person might be both. At the center of it all stands the remarkable figure of Kit Carson—the legendary trapper, scout, and soldier who embodies all the contradictions and ambiguities of the American experience in the West. Brave and clever, beloved by his contemporaries, Carson was an illiterate mountain man who twice married Indian women and understood and respected the tribes better than any other American alive. Yet he was also a cold-blooded killer who willingly followed orders tantamount to massacre. Carson’s almost unimaginable exploits made him a household name when they were written up in pulp novels known as “blood-and-thunders,” but now that name is a bitter curse for contemporary Navajo, who cannot forget his role in the travails of their ancestors.

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Ride the Devil's Herd: Wyatt Earp's Epic Battle Against the West's Biggest Outlaw Gan...

Wyatt Earp is regarded as the most famous lawman of the Old West, best known for his role in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. But the story of his two-year war with a band of outlaws known as the Cowboys has never been told in full. The Cowboys were the largest outlaw gang... more

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An Ordinary Woman : A Dramatized Biography of Nancy Kelsey by Cecelia Holland

In the spring of 1841, a courageous young woman named Nancy Kelsey set out her husband, Ben, and infant daughter, Martha Ann, from their Missouri homestead on a harrowing track that would lead her into the pages of history. With a small band of pioneers, Nancy and Ben blazed a trail across a... more

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Crazy Horse and Custer : The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors by Stephen E. Am...

On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States 7th Cavalry rode toward the banks of the Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where 3,000 Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great warriors would soon... more

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Murder and Mayhem in Scott County, Iowa (Murder & Mayhem) by John Brassard Jr.

Scott County is one of the oldest counties in Iowa. It is where the Blackhawk Treaty was signed and where the first railroad bridge across the Mississippi River was built. But Scott County has also been witness to many shameful deeds. Travel down Utica Ridge Road, where young Grace Reed paid the... more

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Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride by Michael Wallis

"Countless books have been written about the infamous outlaw...this is surely one of the best."—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewIn this revisionist biography, award-winning historian Michael Wallis re-creates the rich anecdotal saga of Billy the Kid (1859-1881), a young man who became a... more

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My Life as an Indian: The Story of a Red Woman and a White Man in the Lodges of the B...

A fascinating memoir of a white man who gained access to the private lives of the Blackfeet Indians. First published in 1907, My Life as an Indian is the memoir of J. W. Schultz?s life as a young white man among the Piegan Blackfeet in the Montana Territory. Inspired by the journals of Lewis... more

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The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight f...

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Soldiers Falling Into Camp: The Battles at the Rosebud and the Little Big Horn by Rob...

Joseph Marshall III, an Ogala/Sicangu Lakota Sioux, details the oral tradition of how his tribal ancestors fought the 7th Cavalry at the Battles of the Rosebud and the Little Big Horn. Two of Mr. Marshall's great-uncles were there on that fateful June day in 1876. Professor Frederick... more

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Ben Thompson: Portrait of a Gunfighter (A.C. Greene Series) by Thomas C Bicknell &...

Ben Thompson was a remarkable man, and few Texans can claim to have crowded more excitement, danger, drama, and tragedy into their lives than he did. He was an Indian fighter, Texas Ranger, Confederate cavalryman, mercenary for a foreign emperor, hired gun for a railroad, an elected lawman,... more

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Custer by Larry McMurtry

In this lavishly illustrated volume, Pulitzer Prize winner Larry McMurtry, the American West?s greatest chronicler, delivers a defining portrait of the life and legacy of the West?s most legendary figure, George Armstrong Custer. On June 25, 1876, George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry... more

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Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy b...

Hidden in the shadow cast by the great western expeditions of Lewis and Clark and the westward moving pioneers lies another journey, every bit as poignant, every bit as dramatic, and every bit as essential to an understanding of who we are as a nation––the 1800–mile journey of... more

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Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy b...

Hidden in the shadow cast by the great western expeditions of Lewis and Clark lies another journey every bit as poignant, every bit as dramatic, and every bit as essential to an understanding of who we are as a nation -- the 1,800-mile journey made by Chief Joseph and eight hundred Nez Perce... more

Hidden in the shadow cast by the great western expeditions of Lewis and Clark lies another journey every bit as poignant, every bit as dramatic, and every bit as essential to an understanding of who we are as a nation -- the 1,800-mile journey made by Chief Joseph and eight hundred Nez Perce men, women, and children from their homelands in what is now eastern Oregon through the most difficult, mountainous country in western America to the high, wintry plains of Montana. There, only forty miles from the Canadian border and freedom, Chief Joseph, convinced that the wounded and elders could go no farther, walked across the snowy battlefield, handed his rifle to the U.S. military commander who had been pursuing them, and spoke his now-famous words, "From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever." The story has been told many times, but never before in its entirety or with such narrative richness. Drawing on four years of research, interviews, and 20,000 miles of travel, Nerburn takes us beyond the surrender to the captives' unlikely welcome in Bismarck, North Dakota, their tragic eight-year exile in Indian Territory, and their ultimate return to the Northwest. Nerburn reveals the true, complex character of Joseph, showing how the man was transformed into a myth by a public hungry for an image of the noble Indian and how Joseph exploited the myth in order to achieve his single goal of returning his people to their homeland. Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce is far more than the story of a man and a people. It is a grand saga of a pivotal time in our nation's history. Its pages are alive with the presence of Lewis and Clark, General William Tecumseh Sherman, General George Armstrong Custer, and Sitting Bull. Its events brush against the California Gold Rush, the Civil War, the great western pioneer migration, and the building of the telegraph and the transcontinental railroad. Once you have read this groundbreaking work, you will never look at Chief Joseph, the American Indian, or our nation's westward journey in the same way again.

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Toward the Setting Sun: Pioneer Girls Traveling the Overland Trails by Mary O'Brien B...

Driven by the promise of prosperity, thousands of men and women traveled west in the mid-1800s. Accompanying them were their children, wide-eyed and excited about the adventures that awaited as they headed toward the setting sun. Little did they know how treacherous and grueling the trip would... more

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A Texas Ranger by N. A. Jennings

Eighteen-year-old Napoleon Augustus Jennings came to Texas in 1874 and joined a special force of Texas ranger charged with border patrol under the command of L.H. McNelly. At this time the South Texas region was home to hundreds of outlaws and riffraff, and some three thousand Mexican guerrillas... more

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The World of the American West [2 volumes]: A Daily Life Encyclopedia (Daily Life Enc...

What was life really like for ordinary people in the Old West? What did they eat, wear, and think? How did they raise their children? How did they interact with government? What did they do for fun? This encyclopedia provides readers with an engaging and detailed portrayal of the Old West... more

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To California by Sea: A Maritime History of the California Gold Rush by James P. Delg...

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The Mountain Men: The Dramatic History and Lore of the First Frontiersmen by George L...

To know how the West was really won, start with the exploits of these unsung buckskin survivalists.

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Indians, Fire, and the Land in the Pacific Northwest by Unknown Author

Early explorers to the Pacific Northwest expected to encounter a land of dense forests. Instead, their writings reveal that they were often surprised to discover spacious meadows, prairies, and open spaces. Far from a pristine wilderness, much of the Northwest landscape was actively managed and... more

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A Glorious Defeat: Mexico and Its War with the United States by Timothy J. Henderson

Why Mexico Went To War With The United States The war that was fought between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 was a major event in the history of both countries: it cost Mexico half of its national territory, opened western North America to U.S. expansion, and brought to the... more

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A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk and the Conquest of the American Continent b...

When James K. Polk was elected president in 1844, the United States was locked in a bitter diplomatic struggle with Britain over the rich lands of the Oregon Territory, which included what is now Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Texas, not yet part of the Union, was threatened by a more powerful... more

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Forging a President: How the Wild West Created Teddy Roosevelt by William Hazelgrove

"There are few sensations I prefer to that of galloping over these rolling limitless prairies, with rifle in hand, or winding my way among the barren, fantastic and grimly picturesque deserts of the so-called Bad Lands." ?Theodore Roosevelt He was born a city boy in Manhattan; but it wasn't... more

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Cannibalism, Headhunting and Human Sacrifice in North America: A History Forgotten by...

This riveting volume dispels the sanitized history surrounding Native American practices toward their enemies that preceded the European exploration and colonization of North America. We abandon truth when we gloss over the clashes between Native Americans and Europeans, encounters of parties... more

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THE HAND GUN STORY by John Walter

The Handgun Story traces the fascinating history of the 'one hand gun' from its crude fourteenth-century origins to the sophisticated products of today. As technology has progressed, handguns have got smaller and deadlier, to be carried in holsters, pockets and even lady's mufflers. Today they... more

The Handgun Story traces the fascinating history of the 'one hand gun' from its crude fourteenth-century origins to the sophisticated products of today. As technology has progressed, handguns have got smaller and deadlier, to be carried in holsters, pockets and even lady's mufflers. Today they are the weapons of choice for undercover agents and would - be assassins; ideally suited for both attack and self-defense. The earliest pistols had a tendency to misfire, but this was cured by the cap-lock. Cap-lock revolvers proved a massive success in the American Civil War with hundreds of thousands used on each side. Self-contained metal-case cartridges were to bring a fundamental change to handgun design: not only by allowing the introduction of revolvers that ejected automatically or were easily reloaded, but also by paving the way for the automatic pistol. World War I provided the handgun with a proving ground. At the end of the hostilities, with so much surplus weaponry, work on the handgun could have ceased; instead, a new developmental phase was begun by the nations that had emerged from the crumbling Imperial empires. During World War II the efficiency of well-established designs was confirmed and new designs, such as the Walther P. 38, showed their potential. The emergence of the submachine-gun in 1945 reduced the status of the handgun - but only temporarily. The need for efficient self-defense shows no signs of lessening; and the rise in shooting for sport, particularly with the revolver, has sharpened the quest for efficiency. The never ending search for advanced production techniques shows that the handgun has as much a future in the twenty-first century as it had in the heyday of the Wild West, or in the trenches of Passchendaele. REVIEWS "...packed with diagrams, history and black and white photos; a key guide for anyone interested in handguns."The Midwest Book Review, 03/2009 "...takes readers on a tour of the history of the development, adaptation, and uses of handguns...provides numerous renderings of the mechanisms of a variety of guns... will interests both gun and history enthusiasts". Book News, 04/2009

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Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West by H. W. Brands

From a New York Times-bestselling author, a sweeping history of the American West In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes us from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas Revolution, from the... more

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Brave Hearts: Indian Women of the Plains by Joseph Agonito

Brave Hearts: Indian Women of the Plains tells the story of Plains Indian women through a series of fascinating vignettes. They are a remarkable group of women ? some famous, some obscure. Some were hunters, some were warriors and, in a rare case, one was a chief; some lived extraordinary lives,... more

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Lady at the OK Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp by Ann Kirschner

Lady at the O.K. Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp by Ann Kirschner is the definitive biography of a Jewish girl from New York who won the heart of Wyatt Earp. For nearly fifty years, she was the common-law wife of Wyatt Earp: hero of the O.K. Corral and the most famous lawman... more

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Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglala by Mari Sandoz

For the American Indians the 19th century was a disaster. It started promisingly enough; there seemed to be land for everyone. But the trickle of immigrants flowing westward increased to a flood, and the two cultures glowered at each other with hatred. Crazy Horse was one of the last Indian... more

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Captivity of the Oatman Girls: Being an Interesting Narrative of Life Among the Apach...

The story of the Oatman girls, Olive and Mary Ann, is one of the most famous accounts of the abduction of white women by indigenous Indians in the annals of the history of the American western frontier. The Oatman's, led by their patriarch Royce, were a family of nine. Members of the Mormon... more

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Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains by Charles A. Eastman

INDIAN HEROES AND GREAT CHIEFTAINS presents intriguing biographical sketches of 15 great Native American leaders, mostly Sioux, including portraits of Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Spotted Tail. Charles Eastman traces their historical importance to both the white man and Native people. ... more

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Spotted Tail's Folk: A History of the Brule Sioux (Civilization of the American India...

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Bighorse the Warrior by Tiana Bighorse

"I want to talk about my tragic story, because if I don't, it will get into my mind and get into my dream and make me crazy." When the Navajos were taken from their land by the federal government in the 1860s, thousands lost their lives on the infamous Long Walk, while those who... more

"I want to talk about my tragic story, because if I don't, it will get into my mind and get into my dream and make me crazy." When the Navajos were taken from their land by the federal government in the 1860s, thousands lost their lives on the infamous Long Walk, while those who eluded capture lived in constant fear. These men and women are now dead, but their story lives on in the collective memory of their tribe. Gus Bighorse lived through that period of his people's history, and his account of it -- recalled by his daughter Tiana and retold in her father's voice -- provides authentic glimpses into Navajo life and values of a century ago. Born around 1846, Gus was orphaned at sixteen when his parents were killed by soldiers, and he went into hiding with other Navajos banded together under chiefs like Manuelito. Over the coming years, he was to see members of his tribe take refuge in Canyon de Chelly, endure the Long Walk from Fort Defiance to Bosque Redondo in 1864, and go into hiding at Navajo Mountain. Gus himself was the leader of one of Manuelito's bands who fought against Kit Carson's troops. After the Navajos were allowed to return to their land, Gus took up the life of a horseman, only to see his beloved animals decimated in a government stock reduction program. "I know some people died of their tragic story," says Gus. "They think about it and think about how many relatives they lost. Their parents got shot. They get into shock. That is what kills them. That is why we warriors have to talk to each other. We wake ourselves up, get out of the shock. And that is why I tell my kids what happened, so it won't be forgot." Throughout his narrative, he makes clear those human qualities that for the Navajos define what it is to be a warrior: vision, compassion, courage, and endurance. Befitting the oral tradition of her people, Tiana Bighorse draws on her memory to tell her father's story. In doing so, she ensures that a new generation of Navajos will know how the courage of their ancestors enabled their people to have their reservation today: "They paid for our land with their lives." Following the text is a chronology of Navajo history, with highlights of Gus Bighorse's life placed in the context of historical events.

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Geronimo and the End of the Apache Wars by Unknown Author

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Blood on the Saddle: The Life of Doc Scurlock by David Garrett & Mica Pharris

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The American Railroad Network, 1861-1890 by George Rogers Taylor & Irene D. Neu

Rapid population growth in the Great Plains and the American West after the Civil War was the result not only of railroad expansion but of a collaboration among competing railroads to adopt a uniform width for track. The American Railroad Network, 1861-1890 shows how the consolidation of smaller... more

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Country and Western Songbook by Robert Dolezal (Editor)

The book is a compendium of country and western songs from the turn of the century to the present. You will find the parlor songs of the 1900's, the first commercial favorites of the 1920's, the railroading and prison songs so popular in the '30s, the lost love and cheating songs of... more

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My People The Sioux by Luther Standing Bear

?one of the most engaging and veracious accounts we have ever had.? - Van Wyck Brooks Born in the 1860s, the son of a Lakota chief, Standing Bear was in the first class at Carlisle Indian School, witnessed the Ghost Dance uprising from the Pine Ridge Reservation, toured Europe with Buffalo... more

?one of the most engaging and veracious accounts we have ever had.? - Van Wyck Brooks Born in the 1860s, the son of a Lakota chief, Standing Bear was in the first class at Carlisle Indian School, witnessed the Ghost Dance uprising from the Pine Ridge Reservation, toured Europe with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, and devoted his later years to the Indian rights movement of the 1920s and 1930s. My People The Sioux remains a landmark in Native American literature, among the first books about Native Americans written from the Native American point of view. Luther Standing Bear (December 1868 ? February 20, 1939) (�ta Kt� or "Plenty Kill" also known as Mat?� N�?i? or "Standing Bear") was an Oglala Lakota chief notable in American history as a Native American author, educator, philosopher, and actor of the twentieth century. Standing Bear fought to preserve Lakota heritage and sovereignty and was at the forefront of a Progressive movement to change government policy toward Native Americans. Standing Bear was one of a small group of Lakota leaders of his generation, such as Gertrude Bonnin, and Charles Eastman, who were born and raised in the oral traditions of their culture, educated in white culture, and wrote significant historical accounts of their people and history in English. Luther?s experiences in early life, the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Wild Westing with Buffalo Bill, and life on government reservations present a unique view of a Native American during the Progressive Era in American history. Standing Bear?s commentaries on Native American culture and wisdom educated the American public, deepened public awareness, and created popular support to change government policies toward Native American peoples. Luther Standing Bear helped create the popular twentieth-century image that Native American culture is holistic and respectful of nature; his classic commentaries appear in college-level reading lists in anthropology, literature, history, and philosophy, and constitute a legacy and treasury of Native American wisdom. My People The Sioux was first published in 1928.

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American Indian Food and Lore by Carolyn Niethammer

This books is about American Indian Food and lore. It contains 150 authentic recipes. The book shows how daily meals are still being prepared according to traditional methods. Included are more than fifty plants most frequently used by the Indians.

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Calamity Jane by Roberta Sollid

Stories about Calamity Jane have fascinated readers for generations. This book, one of the first authoritative factual sources, separates the mythical, romanticized Calamity depicted in dime novels and Hollywood films from the real, flesh-and-blood woman. After thirty-five years, it is... more

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War on the Run: The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First F...

Often hailed as the godfather of today?s elite special forces, Robert Rogers trained and led an unorthodox unit of green provincials, raw woodsmen, farmers, and Indian scouts on ?impossible? missions in colonial America that are still the stuff of soldiers? legend. The child of marginalized... more

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Lincoln's Bishop by Gustav Niebuhr

In the tradition of Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals comes Gustav Niebuhr's compelling history of Abraham Lincoln's decision in 1862 to spare the lives of 265 condemned Sioux men, and the Episcopal bishop who was his moral compass, helping guide the president's conscience.More than a... more

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Revolver: Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter That Changed America by Jim Rasenberger

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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride (P.S.) by Dan...

In April of 1846, Sarah Graves was twenty-one and in love with a young man who played the violin. But she was torn. Her mother, father, and eight siblings were about to disappear over the western horizon forever, bound for California. Sarah could not bear to see them go out of her life, and so... more

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A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West: The Reminiscences of Mary Hallock Foote by M...

Starting with her nostalgically remembered childhood on a Quaker farm on the Hudson River, Mary Hallock Foote tells the story of her training as an artist in the 1860s and of her marriage to a mining engineer whose jobs took the young couple west in the closing days of the frontier. She left... more

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El llano estacado: Exploration and Imagination on the High Plains of Texas and New Me...

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Wagons West: The Epic Story of America's Overland Trails by F.J. MCLYNN

Wagons West The Epic Story of America's Overland Trails by McLynn, F.J. ( Author ) ON Mar-06-2003, Paperback - McLynn, F.J. - Vintage

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Wagons West: The Epic Story of America's Overland Trails by Frank McLynn

In all the sagas of human migration, few can top the drama of the journey by midwestern farmers to Oregon and California in the years 1840-49. Seeking the promised land, these travelers trekked two thousand miles by covered wagon from Missouri to their destinations on the Pacific coast. Although... more

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Wagons West: The Epic Story of America's Overland Trails by Frank McLynn

Frank McLynn has penned a year-by-year account of the pioneering efforts to conquer and settle the American West. Wagons West is a stirring history of the years from 1840 to 1849 - between the era of the fur trappers and the beginning of the gold rush. In all the sagas of human migration, few... more

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An Ordinary Woman: A Dramatized Biography of Nancy Kelsey by Cecelia Holland

With her stunningly realistic and exhaustively researched novels, Cecelia Holland has earned unanimous acclaim as one of the finest historical novelists of our time. Her subjects range from the dawn of prehistory and the turbulent middle ages to the rough-and-tumble pioneer days of her own... more

With her stunningly realistic and exhaustively researched novels, Cecelia Holland has earned unanimous acclaim as one of the finest historical novelists of our time. Her subjects range from the dawn of prehistory and the turbulent middle ages to the rough-and-tumble pioneer days of her own native California, chronicled in such sweeping epics as The Bear Flag, Pacific Street, and her most recent novel, Railroad Schemes. Now, in An Ordinary Woman, Holland gives us an intimate portrait of a remarkable woman who played a crucial role in the settlement of the West--Nancy Kelsey, the courageous young pioneer who was the first American woman to set foot in California. Drawing upon Nancy's own accounts of her harrowing journey, as well as the writings of those who traveled with her, Cecelia Holland has crafted a stunning biography of this amazing woman that is filled with all of the action, passion, danger, and determination that have made her historical novels bestsellers around the world. Married at the age of fifteen to Ben Kelsey, a restless young Scotch-Irish pioneer who eked out a meager living on the Missouri frontier, Nancy Roberts Kelsey was a strong and capable woman who could milk a cow, skin a deer, make hew own clothes, plant a field, drive a team of oxen, and shoot a rifle. The child pioneers, bred to courage and risk, she had grown up in the wilderness only a few miles from the great Missouri River that was, in 1838, the border of the settled United States. But when the lure of a new life on the farthest edge of the frontier beckoned to Ben Kelsey, Nancy was determined to be at his side. Together they embarked on an arduous odyssey across thousands of miles of uncharted wilderness, crossing the Great Plains, the Rockies, and the High Sierra to reach their promised land. Braving hunger, disaster, illness, betrayal, and death, Nancy Kelsey and her family would play a crucial role in American history, becoming the first wave of a great tide that would transform a nation.

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Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver by Frances Backhouse

Beavers, those icons of industriousness, have been gnawing down trees, building dams, shaping the land, and creating critical habitat in North America for at least a million years. Once one of the continent?s most ubiquitous mammals, they ranged from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Rio... more

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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the ...

In the tradition of "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee", a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all, "Empire of the Summer Moon" spans two... more

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Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush by Susan Lee Johnson

Historical insight is the alchemy that transforms the familiar story of the Gold Rush into something sparkling and new. The world of the Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film--of unshaven men named Stumpy and Kentuck raising hell and panning for gold--is one of half-truths. In... more

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Across the Great Divide: Cultures of Manhood in the American West by Unknown Author

From Custer and Geronimo to John Wayne and the Marlboro Man, American notions of masculinity have been deeply interwoven with our ideas about the West. But there's more to the relationship between manhood and the frontier than a simple tale of cowboys and Indians, ruggedness and civilization.... more

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I Am the Grand Canyon: The Story of the Havasupai People by Stephen Hirst

I Am the Grand Canyon is the story of the Havasupai people. From their origins among the first group of Indians to arrive in North America some 20,000 years ago to their epic struggle to regain traditional lands taken from them in the nineteenth century, the Havasupai have a long and colorful... more

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Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers by Doug J. Swanson

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Texas Women on the Cattle Trails (Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life) by Unknown Author

Texas Women on the Cattle Trails tells the stories of sixteen women who drove cattle up the trail from Texas during the last half of the nineteenth century. Some were young; some were old (over thirty). Some took to the trails by choice; others, out of necessity. Some went along to look at the... more

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The Last Conquistador: Juan De Onate and the Settling of the Far Southwest (Oklahoma ...

This book chronicles the life and frontier career of Don Juan de Oñate, the first colonizer of the old Spanish Borderlands. Born in Zacatecas, Mexico, in the mid-sixteenth century, Don Juan was the prominent son of an aristocratic silver-mining family. In 1598, in his late forties,... more

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The Life and Adventures of Nat Love by Nat Love

We witness Nat s days in slavery, his attachment to his mother and family which yields to the temptation of the West. We are carried through his introduction to the range where he becomes an expert cowboy and marksman. After winning a shooting contest in Deadwood, South Dakota in 1876, his... more

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Across the wide Missouri by Bernard DeVoto

About the Rocky Mountain fur trade during the years of its climax 1833 through 1838 with special focus on the expedition headed by a Scottish sportsman, William Drummond Stewart, accompanied by a talented artist, Alfred Jacob Miller--includes his pictorial history of the early west.

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And Prairie Dogs Weren't Kosher: Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest Since 1855 by Lind...

Linking the personal and the historical, Schloff integrates oral accounts, diaries, letters, and autobiographies with original research and interpretation to shed vital new light on the Jewish experience in America's heartland. The book uses the voices of four generations of Jewish women who... more

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Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails 1853-1854 (Covered W...

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Heart of the Trail: Stories of Covered Wagon Women by Mary Barmeyer O'Brien

Updated and expanded for its twentieth anniversary?the beloved book that tells the stories of the women who traveled West. In Heart of the Trail Mary Barmeyer O'Brien beautifully captures the triumphs and tribulations of women who crossed the American frontier by wagon during the great Western... more

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Lost Bird of Wounded Knee: Spirit of the Lakota by Renee sansom Flood

In December 1890 the U.S. Seventh Cavalry massacred a band of Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. Miraculously, after a four-day blizzard, an infant was found alive under the frozen body of her dead mother. The dashing brigadier general (and future Assistant Attorney... more

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Calamity Jane and Her Siblings by Jan Cerney

The mere mention of Calamity Jane conjures up images of buckskins, bull whips and dance halls, but there?s more to the woman than the storied legend she became. Born Martha Canary, she was orphaned as a child and assumed the responsibility of caring for her siblings. Much too young and ambitious... more

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The Other Custers: Tom, Boston, Nevin, and Maggie in the Shadow of George Armstrong C...

Not one, not two, but three Custer brothers died at the Little Bighorn?and so did their only sister's husband. Most do not realize that not one, not two, but three Custer brothers died with the 7th Cavalry at the hands of the Sioux and Cheyenne at Little Bighorn in 1876. So too did their... more

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Wild Bunch Women by Michael Rutter

Explore the lives of the pistol-packing, hell-raising, high-spirited gals who hung out with Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch outlaw gang.

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Crazy Horse by William B. Matson

The Lakota warrior's life & legacy : the Edward Clown family The Edward Clown (Crazy Horse) family, nearest living relatives to the Oglala Lakota war leader, presents the family tales and memories told to them about their famous grandfather. In many ways the oral history differs from... more

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West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War by Heather Co...

The story of Reconstruction is not simply about the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War. Instead, the late nineteenth century defined modern America, as Southerners, Northerners, and Westerners gradually hammered out a national identity that united three regions into a country that... more

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Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend by Gary L. Roberts

He was a study in contrasts: the legendary gunslinger who made his living as a dentist; the emaciated consumptive whose very name struck fear in the hearts of his enemies; the degenerate gambler and alcoholic whose fierce loyalty to his friends compelled him, more than once, to risk his own... more

He was a study in contrasts: the legendary gunslinger who made his living as a dentist; the emaciated consumptive whose very name struck fear in the hearts of his enemies; the degenerate gambler and alcoholic whose fierce loyalty to his friends compelled him, more than once, to risk his own life; the sidekick whose near-mythic status has come to rival that of the West's greatest heroes. More than 100 years after he died of tuberculosis at the age of thirty-six, Doc Holliday remains an enigma, a legend in the shadows, a brooding metaphor for the moral contradictions of life on the late-nineteenth-century frontier. In Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend, the historian Gary Roberts takes aim at the most complex, perplexing, and paradoxical gunfighter of the Old West. Drawing on more than twenty years of research on his enigmatic subject, Roberts discovered numerous new primary sources in his quest to understand both what John Henry Holliday did and didn't do, and what these exploits meant to the elusive man behind the now-legendary deeds. Roberts explores Holliday's idyllic, antebellum childhood in Georgia, where he was schooled in the manly virtues of independence, loyalty, proficiency with weapons of every kind, and above all, honor. He considers numerous explanations behind John Henry's sudden and drastic decision to abandon his large extended family and a promising career to move to Texas, where, in the parlance of the day, he "slipped from the path of rectitude" even as he clung to his profession and the ideals he had learned as a child. Roberts tracks Holliday's western ramblings from Dallas to Denver to Cheyenne to Dodge City to Tombstone, always in pursuit of the next game of chance and another shot of whiskey, his health on a deep, downward spiral, his gunfighter skills on the rise. Along the way he befriended (or made enemies of) such Western icons as Bat Masterson, Kate Elder, Curly Bill Brocius, and Wyatt Earp. As you'll discover, there were as many conflicting opinions about Doc Holliday as there were people who knew him, or knew of him: To Earp, he was a "mad, merry scamp with a heart of gold and nerves of steel." According to Masterson, he "had a mean disposition and an ungovernable temper, and under the influence of liquor was a dangerous man." Newspapers called him everything from "a very mild-mannered man...genial and companionable" to a "shiftless bagged-legged character- a killer and a professional cut-throat." In this fascinating probe into the real life near-mythic figure, you'll meet the man who lived up to every one of these statements and more.

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Gatewood and Geronimo by Louis Kraft

The two pre-eminent warriors of the Apache Wars between 1878 and 1886, Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood of the Sixth United States Cavalry and Chiricahua leader Geronimo, respected one another in peace and feared one another in war. Within two years of his posting to Arizona in 1878, Gatewood... more

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The Custer Myth by W. A. Graham

Introduction by Brian C. Pohanka, 65 b/w photos 22 drawings 10 maps 7 x 10 "The Custer Myth is truly a source book. Students of the Indian Wars will be forever indebted to Colonel Graham for his compilation and to Fred Dustin for his comprehensive bibliography." -The New York Times... more

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Basin and Range by John McPhee

The first of John McPhee’s works in his series on geology and geologists, Basin and Range is a book of journeys through ancient terrains, always in juxtaposition with travels in the modern world—a history of vanished landscapes, enhanced by the histories of people who bring them to... more

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Native Americans of California and Nevada by Jack D. Forbes

Ethnographic study of Indian culture from the prehistoric to present day times, covering an area that today includes California and Nevada. A fascinating history of Indian-white relations with a section on the multicultural approach to Indian education.

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How the West Was Drawn: Mapping, Indians, and the Construction of the Trans-Mississip...

How the West Was Drawn explores the geographic and historical experiences of the Pawnees, the Iowas, and the Lakotas during the European and American contest for imperial control of the Great Plains during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. David Bernstein argues that the American West was... more

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The Fights on the Little Horn: Unveiling the Mysteries of Custer's Last Stand by Gord...

Winner of the 2014 John Carroll Award, presented annually by The Little Big Horn Associates, as their Literary Award for the best book/monograph during the preceding year. Winner 2014 G. Joseph Sills Jr. Book Award This remarkable book synthesizes a lifetime of in-depth research into one of... more

Winner of the 2014 John Carroll Award, presented annually by The Little Big Horn Associates, as their Literary Award for the best book/monograph during the preceding year. Winner 2014 G. Joseph Sills Jr. Book Award This remarkable book synthesizes a lifetime of in-depth research into one of America?s most storied disasters, the defeat of Custer?s 7th Cavalry at the hands of the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, as well as the complete annihilation of that part of the cavalry led by Custer himself. The author, Gordon Harper, spent countless hours on the battlefield itself as well as researching every iota of evidence of the fight from both sides, white and Indian. He was thus able to recreate every step of the battle as authoritatively as anyone could, dispelling myths and falsehoods along the way. Harper himself passed away in 2009, leaving behind nearly two million words of original research and writing. In this book his work has been condensed for the general public to observe his key findings and the crux of his narrative on the exact course of the battle. One of his first observations is that the fight took place along the Little Horn River?its junction with the Big Horn was several miles away so that the term for the battle, ?Little Big Horn? has always been a misnomer. He precisely traces the mysterious activities of Benteen?s battalion on that fateful day, and why it could never come to Custer?s reinforcement. He describes Reno?s desperate fight in unprecedented depth, as well as how that unnerved officer benefited from the unexpected heroism of many of his men. Indian accounts, ever-present throughout this book, come to the fore especially during Custer?s part of the fight, because no white soldier survived it. However, analysis of the forensic evidence?tracking cartridges, bullets, etc., discovered on the battlefield?plus the locations of bodies assist in drawing an accurate scenario of how the final scene unfolded. It may indeed be clearer now than it was to the doomed 7th Cavalrymen at the time, who through the dust and smoke and Indians seeming to rise by hundreds from the ground, only gradually realized the extent of the disaster. Of additional interest is the narrative of the battlefield after the fight, when successive burial teams had to be dispatched for the gruesome task, because prior ones invariably did a poor job. Though author Gordon Harper is no longer with us, his daughter Tori Harper, along with author/historians Gordon Richard and Monte Akers, have done yeoman?s work in preserving his valuable research for the public. Table of Contents Foreword by Tori Harper Prologue 1 The Approach to the Little Horn: Benteen?s March 2 The Approach to the Little Horn: Reno?s and Custer?s March 3 The Approach to the Little Horn: Custer?s March to Medicine Tail Coulee 4 The Approach to the Little Horn: The Pack Train and Messengers 5 The Opening Shots: Reno?s Fight in the Valley 6 Across the Little Horn and Up a Hill: Reno?s Retreat from the Timber 7 Strange Interlude: Chaos on Reno Hill and the Weir Advance 8 Under Siege on Reno Hill 9 Introduction to Custer?s Fight 10 Death of the Valiant by Gordon Richard ANALYSES 1 A Question of Disobedience 2 How the Indian Bands Came Together at the Little Horn 3 The Number of Warriors Facing the 7th Cavalry 4 Two Controversies: Recruits at the Little Horn and the Indian-Fighting Record of the 7th Cavalry 5 The Location of Bodies and the Initial Burials of the 7th Cavalry?s Dead 6 Burials, Markers and Survivors 7 Reconstructing the Death Sites on Custer?s Field using Marker Locations 8 The Enlisted Men?s Petition Epilogue by Gordon Richard Maps Bibliography Index

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My Life on the Plains by George Armstrong Custer & Milo Milton Quaife (Editor)

A personal narrative of the most famous cavalry leader America ever produced. A vivid picture of the American West, the rigors of life for the settlers, and the horrors of Indian warfare.

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Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West by H. W. Brands

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Webb Garrison's Civil War Dictionary: An Illustrated Guide to the Everyday Language o...

In the 140-plus years since the American Civil War, the American language has changed dramatically. As the meanings of many words have become obscure or lost, links with the vibrant language of the Civil War era have dissolved, and much of that which had meaning to our forefathers no longer... more

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Entertaining Women: Actresses, Dancers, and Singers in the Old West by Chris Enss

The Gold Rush West was dotted with mining boomtowns and bustling new cities that sprang up overnight around strikes. Fortunes were made and lost daily, lawlessness was commonplace, and gambling dens, saloons, brothels, and dance halls thrived, but after a while the miners and merchants began to... more

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German Pioneers on the American Frontier: The Wagners in Texas and Illinois by Andrea...

German Pioneers on the American Frontier is a case study of two brothers, Julius and Wilhelm Wagner, who immigrated to the United States from Baden, Germany. Julius immigrated as part of an early communist group, the "Darmstadters" or "Forty", who established the utopian settlement of Bettina in... more

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Maria von Blucher's Corpus Christi: Letters from the South Texas Frontier, 1849-1879 ...

In 1849, a young German bride and her husband stepped off a ship in Corpus Christi Bay to establish their home in the new frontier settlement. For the next three decades Maria von Bl�cher wrote letters home describing the hardships of droughts and Indian and bandit raids, the chaos of the... more

In 1849, a young German bride and her husband stepped off a ship in Corpus Christi Bay to establish their home in the new frontier settlement. For the next three decades Maria von Bl�cher wrote letters home describing the hardships of droughts and Indian and bandit raids, the chaos of the American Civil War, the discomforts of pioneer living, the joys and heartbreaks of family life, and the development of a town that her descendants would help to build into a thriving city. Her letters record above all the woman's side of pioneer life. Although they offer insight into political events and economic developments in Germany, the United States, and South Texas, their greater value lies in the picture they paint of the deprivations, cruel hardships, sacrifice, and dangers faced in everyday life. Maria's letters stand as a personal account of the pioneer experience and an elegant testimony to the role played by Germans in the settlement of South Texas. They provide an intimate look inside the homes and ranches, the schools and farmyards, the stores and churches of early Corpus Christi. They examine families and friendships, communities, congregations, and social unions. In Maria von Bl�cher's Corpus Christi Bruce S. Cheeseman has edited and annotated more than two hundred of the nine hundred letters that are held in the von Bl�cher family's papers on deposit at the Special Collections and Archives of the Mary and Jeff Bell Library at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. In her life and in her letters, Maria von Bl�cher joined all of the courageous pioneer women who helped to lay the foundations of Texas communities. These letters unerringly draw a Texas landscape that is gone forever. BRUCE S. CHEESEMAN is former director of the Museum of the Gulf Coast in Port Arthur. What Readers Are Saying: "Maria is made of stern stuff. There are enough twists, turns and reversals of fortune to make an epic. It isn't too often that nonfiction stories are made into films, but this one ought to be."--The Dallas Morning News "A touching, personal narrative that takes the reader deep into the joys, frustrations, tribulations, and triumphs of pioneer life, Maria von Blucher's Corpus Christi is a superbly presented and highly recommended contribution to Pioneer Studies and Texas History supplemental reading lists and reference collections." --The Midwest Book Review "With this book, Canales said, Cheeseman has given readers' a timely, rare glimpse of Corpus Christi's rough-and-tumble beginnings."--Corpus Christi Caller Times "This is a fascinating book. Maria von Blucher's letters are highly informative reading for anyone who is interested in learning about the daily life of a woman and her family in nineteenth-century Texas, particularly from a German perspective. Maria von Blucher's correspondence can also be viewed as one of the earliest examples of writing produced by a women who wrote in the German language in Texas. Maria von Blucher's edited correspondence is a book well worth reading and rereading, and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the story of the German experience in Texas."--German-Texan Heritage Society "Maria's letters add a new voice to story of German Texas immigrants. In addition to being valuable sources of social history, the letters also document the process of language loss and acculturation on the frontier. Letters. . .is a well-organized, beautifully illustrated resource. Bruce Cheeseman selected passages that create a compelling psychological drama in a rich historical setting in an eventful era."--East Texas State Historical Association

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Wanderers Between Two Worlds: German Rebels In The American West, 1830-1860 by Dougla...

Wanderers Between Two Worlds: German Rebels in the American West, 1830-1860 by Douglas Hale In the 1830s a small band of visionary university students launched an audacious, but abortive, rebellion against the German Confederation in an effort to achieve unity and freedom for their country.... more

Wanderers Between Two Worlds: German Rebels in the American West, 1830-1860 by Douglas Hale In the 1830s a small band of visionary university students launched an audacious, but abortive, rebellion against the German Confederation in an effort to achieve unity and freedom for their country. Their bungled revolt was quickly crushed, and the idealistic youth found themselves branded as traitors and pursued as outlaws. "Wanderers Between Two Worlds" traces the extraordinary intertwined lives of seven of the German student revolutionaries who escaped imprisonment only by flight to the American West. Leaving behind a legacy in Germany's quest for freedom that would not be fulfilled for another 150 years, these urbane and educated exiles arrived in the United States in time to share in the most dramatic episodes of the age: wilderness adventures on the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails; the Texas Revolution against Mexico; the Mexican War; the California Gold Rush; the mounting conflict over slavery; and the inexorable thrust of American power to the Pacific. The United States offered these young men a broad and uncrowded stage upon which to display their talents. Gustav Koerner became a leading Illinois politician while Georg Engelmann emerged as the premier botanist of the American West. Ferdinand Lindheimer was an influential spokesman among the German settlers in Texas. Adolph Wislizenus explored the Rockies and northern Mexico and led in the establishment of the St. Louis scientific community. Gustav Bunsen perished in the Texas Revolution, while his brother Georg achieved considerable influence as a pioneer educator. Theodor Engelmann published the first German newspaper in Illinois. Historian Douglas Hale captures the drama and adventure of their lives in both the Old Country and the New. "Wanders Between Two Worlds" is an engaging and accessible saga that acquaints readers with a long-neglected chapter in the history of German democracy and the impact of German-Americans in the development of Illinois, Missouri, and Texas. Hale combines scrupulous attention to accuracy with a lucid and readable style that ventures beyond historical narrative to engage the reader in the personalities and experiences of the individuals involved.

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Die Kettner Briefe: The Kettner Lettners: A Firsthand Account of a German Immigrant ...

?Die Kettner Briefe? consists of 39 letters exchanged between Franz Kettner and his family in Germany from 1850 to 1875. The letters, printed in German with their English translations, read like a good adventure novel with each letter providing a much anticipated new chapter. The story is... more

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Eagle in the New World: German Immigration to Texas and America by Theodore Gish (Edi...

Discusses the German emigration from the homeland to the settlement in the Texas Hill country.

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The European Texans (Texans All) by Allan O. Kownslar

"The European Texans highlights the contributions of those who immigrated to Texas from Europe. Allan O. Kownslar introduces readers to the life and culture of French, English, Scottish, Irish, Dutch, Belgian, Swiss, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, German, Wend, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Italian,... more

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An Immigrant Miller Picks Texas: The Letters of Carl Hilmar Guenther by Carl Hilmar G...

After Carl Hilmar Guenther, 22, sailed from Germany in 1848 to seek his fortune, he began an odyssey of more than two years through the new United States. He tried construction and factory work in New York, did farming and milling in Wisconsin and Ohio, was a carpenter on a plantation in... more

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Friedrichsburg: Colony of the German Furstenverein (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in...

Founded in 1846, Fredericksburg, Texas, was established by German noblemen who enticed thousands of their compatriots to flee their overcrowded homeland with the prospect of free land in a place that was portrayed as a new Garden of Eden. Few of the settlers, however, were prepared for the harsh... more

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German Seed in Texas Soil: Immigrant Farmers in Nineteenth-Century Texas by Terry G. ...

Terry Jordan explores how German immigrants in the nineteenth century influenced and were influenced by the agricultural life in the areas of Texas where they settled. His findings both support the notion of ethnic distinctiveness and reveal the extent to which German Texans adopted the farming... more

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New World View: Letters from a German Immigrant Family in Texas (1854-1885) by Unknow...

New World View: Letters from a German Immigrant Family in Texas, 1854-1885 is a bilingual and annotated edition of a collection of letters written by a 19th century German immigrant family in Texas. Christian Friedrich Bergmann and his family belonged to the large wave of German immigrants that... more

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Texas, with Particular Reference to German Immigration & the Flora, Fauna, Land and I...

Written during an expedition to the German settlements of the Republic of Texas in the 1840s, this travelogue of bygone Texas was penned by the Father of Texas Geology. Roemer wrote about the geology and the land, as well as the habits and customs of the people of Texas...and he wrote it well.... more

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Helen J. Stewart: First Lady of Las Vegas by Sally Zanjani & Carrie Townley Porte...

Known as the mistress of the Mormon Trail, Helen J. Stewart not only paved the way for women in the west, but also was instrumental in laying the groundwork for the future of Las Vegas.Born in the Midwest in the mid-1800s, uprooted and transplanted as a young girl into the frenzied gold rush... more

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Lost in the Yellowstone: "Thirty-Seven Days of Peril" and a Handwritten Account of Be...

In 1870, Truman Everts visited what would two years later become Yellowstone National Park, traveling with an exploration party intent on mapping and investigating that mysterious region. Scattered reports of a mostly unexplored wilderness filled with natural wonders had caught the public?s... more

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Lost In the Yellowstone: Truman Everts's Thirty Seven Days of Peril by Lee H. Whittle...

The incredible true adventure of the only person known to have survived so long while lost in Yellowstone wilderness. When Truman Evert visited the Yellowstone area in 1870, the Yellowstone belonged to myth. Scattered reports of a mostly unexplored wilderness filled with natural wonders... more

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The Journey Of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History by Joseph M. Marshall

Most of the world remembers Crazy Horse as a peerless warrior who brought the U.S. Army to its knees at the Battle of Little Bighorn. But to his fellow Lakota Indians, he was a dutiful son and humble fighting man who—with valor, spirit, respect, and unparalleled leadership—fought... more

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Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade by Barton H. Barbour

In this book, Barton Barbour presents the first comprehensive history of Fort Union, the nineteenth century's most important and longest-lived Upper Missouri River fur trading post. Barbour explores the economic, social, legal, cultural, and political significance of the fort that was the... more

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Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America by Michael H...

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Rising From The Plains by John McPhee

Bestselling author McPhee takes us on another exciting geological excursion with this engaging account of life--past and present--in the high plains of Wyoming.

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Leaders of the Sioux: The Lives and Legacies of Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and Red Clo...

*Includes pictures of Sitting Bull and Red Cloud, depictions of Crazy Horse, and important people and places in their lives. *Explains several Lakota oral legends, including the origins of the names Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. *Explains the Battle of the Little Bighorn and their roles in it.... more

*Includes pictures of Sitting Bull and Red Cloud, depictions of Crazy Horse, and important people and places in their lives. *Explains several Lakota oral legends, including the origins of the names Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. *Explains the Battle of the Little Bighorn and their roles in it. "When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them? Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?? ? Sitting Bull "Upon suffering beyond suffering: the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world. A world filled with broken promises, selfishness and separations. A world longing for light again. I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole Earth will become one circle again.? ? Crazy Horse Like Geronimo in the Southwest during the same era, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse were warriors and leaders of different groups of Lakota (Sioux) who fought in several skirmishes against settlers and U.S. forces across the Plains during the 1860s and 1870s. Admired by their own people for their kindness and strong leadership, reviled by their enemies for their defiance, when The Great Sioux War of 1876 began, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse were two of the most important leaders among all Native American tribes on the Plains, and they were the ones to turn to for those who intended to keep fighting whites. Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse were hardly the only Native Americans fighting the U.S. Army at the time, but they became legends at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, during which an estimated 2,000 Lakota and Cheyenne warriors led by Crazy Horse and inspired by one of Sitting Bull's visions routed and then annihilated the 7th U.S. Cavalry led by George Custer. That disaster led the American government to double down on its efforts to ?pacify? the Sioux, and by the end of the decade many of them had surrendered and been moved onto a reservation. Crazy Horse kept fighting for a year before surrendering, and Sitting Bull defiantly refused to surrender, instead heading with a smaller band into Canada and remaining exiled. When they finally did surrender, and the threat they posed eliminated, Americans viewed the two Native Americans as celebrities. Sitting Bull even went on to appear in Buffalo Bill Cody?s Wild West Show during the 1880s. However, the two Lakota leaders would be connected in one more way: death. The deaths of both Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse took place on reservations and remain controversial to this day. Though he has not been remembered as vividly as another member of the Oglala Lakota, Crazy Horse, Red Cloud led the group for 40 years, in war, in peace, and on a reservation, becoming so esteemed and influential that Americans began to mistakenly take him for the leader of the entire Sioux tribe. In the 1860s, Red Cloud was at the forefront of skirmishing among whites and Native Americans along the frontier in Wyoming and Montana, which came to be known as Red Cloud?s War. After that, however, Red Cloud continued to lead his people to reservations first near the Black Hills and later westward after the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Leaders of the Sioux looks at the most famous leaders of the Lakota and the victors at Little Bighorn, but it also humanizes the men who became some of the most famous symbols of defiance in American history. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and Red Cloud like you never have before.

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We Need to Dream All This Again: An Account of Crazy Horse, Custer and the Battle of ...

In this "dramatic narrative in both prose and poetry," Chief Crazy Horse and his tribe battle Colonel Custer for control of the Black Hills. Pomerance adds modern touches and shifts between Washington and Little Bighorn in what PW called a "stunning evocation of Indian-white... more

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"Boots and Saddles"; or, Life in Dakota with General Custer (Dodo Press) by Elizabeth...

Elizabeth Custer, n�e Bacon (1842-1933) was the wife of General George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876). After his death, she became an outspoken advocate for her husband?s legacy. In 1876, Lieutenant Colonel Custer campaigned against the Sioux. From Fort Abraham Lincoln in what is now North Dakota,... more

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Shotguns and Stagecoaches: The Brave Men Who Rode for Wells Fargo in the Wild West by...

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Soiled Doves: Prostitution in the Early West (Women of the West) by Anne Seagraves

Soiled Doves tells of the grey world of prostitution and the women who participated in the oldest profession. Colorful, if not socially acceptable, these ladies of easy virtue were a definite part of the early West. Wearing ruffled petticoats with fancy bows, they were glamorous and plain, good... more

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One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark (History of th...

A Selection of the History Book Club, Military Book Club, and Reader's Subscription Book ClubOne of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2003This magnificent, sweeping work traces the histories of the Native peoples of the American West from their arrival thousands of years ago to the early years... more

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Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West by Chris E...

This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West?s most egregiously badly behaved female outlaws, gamblers, soiled doves, and other wicked women by award-winning Western history author Chris Enss offers a glimpse into Western Women?s experience that's less sunbonnets and more... more

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Lions of the West by Robert Morgan

From Thomas Jefferson?s birth in 1743 to the California Gold rush in 1849, America?s Manifest destiny comes to life in Robert Morgan?s skilled hands. Jefferson, a naturalist and visionary, dreamed that the United States would stretch across the continent from ocean to ocean. The account of how... more

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Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion by Robert Morgan

From Thomas Jefferson?s birth in 1743 to the California Gold Rush in 1849, America?s westward expansion comes to life in the hands of a writer fascinated by the way individual lives link up, illuminate one another, and collectively impact history. Jefferson, a naturalist and visionary,... more

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The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War by Peter Guardino

By focusing on the experiences of ordinary Mexicans and Americans, The Dead March offers a clearer historical picture than we have ever had of the brief, bloody war that redrew the map of North America.Peter Guardino invites skepticism about the received view that the United States emerged... more

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Big Bear: Mistahimusqua by J. R. Miller

Big Bear, chief of a Plains Cree community in western Canada in the late 19th century, was a transitional figure between the height of Plains Indian culture and the modern era. During the 1870s and early 1880s, Big Bear became the focal point of opposition for Cree and Saulteaux bands that did... more

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According to Kate: The Legendary Life of Big Nose Kate, Love of Doc Holliday by Chris...

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'Horses Worn to Mere Shadows': The Victorio Campaign 1880 by Robert N. Watt

This study, following on from the author's acclaimed book 'I Will Not Surrender a Hair of a Horse's Tail', commences with Victorio?s return to New Mexico in January 1880. The US army?s January to February campaign illustrates the operational decoy strategy employed by Victorio to protect his own... more

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Mochi's War: The Tragedy of Sand Creek by Chris Enss & Howard Kazanjian

Colorado Territory in 1864 wasn't merely the wild west, it was a land in limbo while the Civil War raged in the east and politics swirled around its potential admission to the union. The territorial governor, John Evans, had ambitions on the national stage should statehood occur--and he was... more

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Albert Bierstadt: Witness to a Changing West (The Charles M. Russell Center Series on...

As one of America?s most prominent nineteenth-century painters, Albert Bierstadt (1830?1902) is justly renowned for his majestic paintings of the western landscape. Yet Bierstadt was also a painter of history, and his figural works, replete with images of Plains Indians and the American bison,... more

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The Poker Bride: The First Chinese in the Wild West by Christopher Corbett

When gold rush fever gripped the globe in 1849, thousands of Chinese immigrants came through San Francisco on their way to seek their fortunes. They were called sojourners, for they never intended to stay. In The Poker Bride, Christopher Corbett uses a little-known legend from Idaho lore as a... more

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Journal Of A Trapper: Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains, 1834-1843 by Osborne Russell

?Perhaps the best account of the fur trapper in the Rocky Mountains when the trade there was at its peak.? Aubrey L. Haines In 1834, Osborne Russell joined an expedition from Boston, under the direction of Nathaniel J. Wyeth, which proceeded to the Rocky Mountains to capitalise on the... more

?Perhaps the best account of the fur trapper in the Rocky Mountains when the trade there was at its peak.? Aubrey L. Haines In 1834, Osborne Russell joined an expedition from Boston, under the direction of Nathaniel J. Wyeth, which proceeded to the Rocky Mountains to capitalise on the salmon and fur trade. He would remain there, hunting, trapping, and living off the land, for the next nine years. Journal of a Trapper is his remarkable account of that time as he developed into a seasoned veteran of the mountains and experienced trapper. In Russell?s own words he explains to the reader ?if you are in search of the travels of a classical and scientific tourist, please lay this volume down, and pass on, for this simply informs you what a trapper has seen and experienced. But if you wish to peruse a hunter?s rambles among the wild regions of the Rocky Mountains, please read this?. Russell encounters grizzly bears, hunts buffalos, trades with Native Americans and suffers from the extreme conditions of his mountainous environment. His account is written in vivid prose that transports the reader to nineteenth century Northwest America. Of particular note are his descriptions of the landscapes in which he lived. Although it had not been designated a national park during Russell?s time, his portrayal of Yellowstone is truly breath-taking. This is the perfect book for anyone wishing to find out more about the lives of the mountain men, what they ate, how they hunted, what shelters they used and how they survived in some of the most inhospitable conditions. After this book was written Osborne Russell became a politician who helped form the government of the state of Oregon. He was born in 1814 in Maine. He ran away from home as a young man for a life at sea, but eventually found employment as a trapper. In 1844, he was elected to the second Executive Committee of the Provisional Government of Oregon, but after he was not re-elected he eventually went and lived in California. He died in 1892. This edition was published in 1921.

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Journal of a Trapper: Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains, 1834-1843 by Osborne Russell

An accurate, firsthand description of the life led by a trapper in the Rocky Mountains.Ever wonder how everyone made it west? They used trails beaten by such men as Osborne Russell. In 1830, sixteen-year-old Russell left his farm in Maine and ran away to the sea. He didn?t like it. He ended up... more

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Adventures of the Woman Homesteader: The Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart (...

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The Portable North American Indian Reader by Frederick W. Turner

The Portable North American Indian Reader compiles myths, tales, poetry, and oratory from the Iroquois, Cherokee, Winnebago, Sioux, Blackfeet, Hopi, and many other tribes. In addition, Frederick Turner includes a number of "culture contact" selections -- explorers' accounts,... more

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Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865, The Diary of Sarah Raymond Herndon by ...

Sarah Raymond was an unmarried woman of twenty-four who, in May 1865--barely a month after the end of the Civil War -- mounted her beloved pony and headed west alongside the wagon carrying her mother and two younger brothers. They traveled by wagon train over the Great Plains toward the Rocky... more

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Devil's Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy by David Roberts

The Mormon handcart tragedy of 1856 is the worst disaster in the history of the Western migrations, and yet it remains virtually unknown today outside Mormon circles.Following the death of Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon church, its second Prophet and new leader, Brigham Young, determined to... more

The Mormon handcart tragedy of 1856 is the worst disaster in the history of the Western migrations, and yet it remains virtually unknown today outside Mormon circles.Following the death of Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon church, its second Prophet and new leader, Brigham Young, determined to move the faithful out of the Midwest, where they had been constantly persecuted by their neighbors, to found a new Zion in the wilderness. In 1846-47, the Mormons made their way west, generally following the Oregon Trail, arriving in July 1847 in what is today Utah, where they established Salt Lake City. Nine years later, fearing a federal invasion, Young and other Mormon leaders wrestled with the question of how to bring thousands of impoverished European converts, mostly British and Scandinavian, from the Old World to Zion. Young conceived of a plan in which the European Mormons would travel by ship to New York City and by train to Iowa City. From there, instead of crossing the plains by covered wagon, they would push and pull wooden handcarts all the way to Salt Lake.But the handcart plan was badly flawed. The carts, made of green wood, constantly broke down; the baggage allowance of seventeen pounds per adult was far too small; and the food provisions were woefully inadequate, especially considering the demanding physical labor of pushing and pulling the handcarts 1,300 miles across plains and mountains. Five companies of handcart pioneers left Iowa for Zion that spring and summer, but the last two of them left late. As a consequence, some 900 Mormons in these two companies were caught in early snowstorms in Wyoming. When the church leadership in Salt Lake became aware of the dire circumstances of these pioneers, Younglaunched a heroic rescue effort. But for more than 200 of the immigrants, the rescue came too late.The story of the Mormon handcart tragedy has never before been told in full despite its stunning human drama: At least five times as many people died in the Mormon tragedy as died in the more famous Donner Party disaster.David Roberts has researched this story in Mormon archives and elsewhere, and has traveled along the route where the handcart pioneers came to grief. Based on his research, he concludes that the tragedy was entirely preventable. Brigham Young and others in the Mormon leadership failed to heed the abundant signs of impending catastrophe, including warnings from other Mormon elders in the East and Midwest, where the journey began. Devil's Gate is a powerful indictment of the Mormon leadership and a gripping story of survival and suffering that is superbly told by one of our finest writers of Western history.

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Mr. Jefferson's Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Pol...

Often remembered as the president who died shortly after taking office, William Henry Harrison remains misunderstood by most Americans. Before becoming the ninth president of the United States in 1841, Harrison was instrumental in shaping the early years of westward expansion. Robert M. Owens... more

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Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians by Fanny Kelly & Clark Spence (...

Fanny Kelly's story of her forced stay among the Sioux Indians is among the best of "Captivity Stories" a popular genre in the nineteenth century. It details her capture and ordeals, while at the same time painting a vivid picture of a way of life that was soon to disappear.

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African American Women of the Old West by Tricia Martineau Wagner

The brave pioneers who made a life on the frontier were not only male—and they were not only white. The story of African-American women in the Old West is one that has largely gone untold--until now. The story of ten African-American women is reconstructed from historic documents found in... more

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Horse Color by D. Phillip Sponenberg

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The Red River Trails: Oxcart Routes Between St. Paul and the Selkirk Settlement, 1820...

The many difficulties and occasional rewards of early travel and transportation in Minnesota are highlighted in this book, along with the state's relations with what became western Canada and insights into the development of business in Minnesota. The meeting of Indian and European cultures... more

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Sunshine on the Prairie: The Story of Cynthia Ann Parker by Jack C., Jr. Ramsay

SUNSHINE ON THE PRAIRIE is the story of CYNTHIA ANN PARKER, captured by a band of Comanches as a nine-year-old while living in Fort Parker with her family. It was 24 years before she was "re-captured" by her "white family". This is the intriguing story of why she did not want to be rescued from... more

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Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary by Joe Jackson

Black Elk, the Native American holy man, is known to millions from the book Black Elk Speaks, which has been read as a spiritual guide and philosophical manifesto. Meanwhile the man Black Elk has faded from view, even though his dramatic life converged with momentous events in the American West,... more

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Collected Stories by Willa Cather

The most complete collection available of Willa Cather's remarkable short fiction, Collected Stories brings together all the stories published in book form during her lifetime along with two additional volumes compiled after her death. These nineteen... more

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Tejano Empire: Life on the South Texas Ranchos (Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life Ser...

Texans of Mexican descent built a unique and highly developed ranching culture that thrived in South Texas until the 1880s. In Tejano Empire historian Andr�s Tijerina describes the major elements that gave the Tejano ranch community its identity: shared reaction to Anglo-American in-migration,... more

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The Osage: An Ethnohistorical Study of Hegemony on the Prairie-Plains by Willard H. R...

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Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America by T.J. Stiles

Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for History From the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Book Award, a brilliant biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times. In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a... more

Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for History From the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Book Award, a brilliant biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times. In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer?s legacy has been ignored. He demolishes Custer?s historical caricature, revealing a volatile, contradictory, intense person?capable yet insecure, intelligent yet bigoted, passionate yet self-destructive, a romantic individualist at odds with the institution of the military (he was court-martialed twice in six years). The key to understanding Custer, Stiles writes, is keeping in mind that he lived on a frontier in time. In the Civil War, the West, and many areas overlooked in previous biographies, Custer helped to create modern America, but he could never adapt to it. He freed countless slaves yet rejected new civil rights laws. He proved his heroism but missed the dark reality of war for so many others. A talented combat leader, he struggled as a manager in the West. He tried to make a fortune on Wall Street yet never connected with the new corporate economy. Native Americans fascinated him, but he could not see them as fully human. A popular writer, he remained apart from Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, and other rising intellectuals. During Custer?s lifetime, Americans saw their world remade. His admirers saw him as the embodiment of the nation?s gallant youth, of all that they were losing; his detractors despised him for resisting a more complex and promising future. Intimate, dramatic, and provocative, this biography captures the larger story of the changing nation in Custer?s tumultuous marriage to his highly educated wife, Libbie; their complicated relationship with Eliza Brown, the forceful black woman who ran their household; as well as his battles and expeditions. It casts surprising new light on a near-mythic American figure, a man both widely known and little understood. From the Hardcover edition.

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Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild by Lee Sandlin

A riveting look at one of the most colorful, dangerous, and peculiar places in America’s historical landscape: the strange, wonderful, and mysterious Mississippi River of the nineteenth century. Beginning in the early 1800s and climaxing with the siege of Vicksburg in 1863, Wicked River... more

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Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery by Kenneth Burns & Dayton Du...

The companion volume to Ken Burns's PBS documentary film, with more than 150 illustrations, most in full color. In the spring of 1804, at the behest of President oThomas Jefferson, a party of explorers called the Corps of oDiscovery crossed the Mississippi River and started up the... more

The companion volume to Ken Burns's PBS documentary film, with more than 150 illustrations, most in full color. In the spring of 1804, at the behest of President oThomas Jefferson, a party of explorers called the Corps of oDiscovery crossed the Mississippi River and started up the Missouri, heading west into the newly acquired Louisiana Territory. The expedition, led by two remarkable and utterly different commanders--the brilliant but troubled Meriwether Lewis and his trustworthy, gregarious friend William Clark--was to be the United States' first exploration into unknown spaces. The unlikely crew came from every corner of the young nation: soldiers from New Hampshire and Pennsylvania and Kentucky, French Canadian boatmen, several sons of white fathers and Indian mothers, a slave named York, and eventually a Shoshone Indian woman, Sacagawea, who brought along her infant son. Together they would cross the continent, searching for the fabled Northwest Passage that had been the great dream of explorers since the time of Columbus. Along the way they would face incredible hardship, disappointment, and danger; record in their journals hundreds of animals and plants previously unknown to science; encounter a dizzying diversity of Indian cultures; and, most of all, share in one of America's most enduring adventures. Their story may have passed into national mythology, but never before has their experience been rendered as vividly, in words and pictures, as in this marvelous homage by Dayton Duncan. Plentiful excerpts from the journals kept by the two captains and four enlisted men convey the raw emotions, turbulent spirits, and constant surprises of the explorers, who each day confronted the unknown with fresh eyes. An elegant preface by Ken Burns, as well as contributions from Stephen E. Ambrose, William Least Heat-Moon, and Erica Funkhouser, enlarge upon important threads in Duncan's narrative, demonstrating the continued potency of events that took place almost two centuries ago. And a wealth of paintings, photographs, journal sketches, maps, and film images from the PBS documentary lends this historic, nation-redefining milestone a vibrancy and immediacy to which no American will be immune.

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Mapping Texas: A Cartographic Journey, 1561 - 1860 by John S. Wilson

3,822 perimeter miles. 11,247 rivers and streams. 8,749 feet at its height. 268,596 square miles in total. Texas is big. Julius Caesar once quipped that all of ancient Gaul could be divided up into three parts. Texas resists such easy division. Mapping Texas, edited by John S. Wilson,... more

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The Naturalist in La Plata (Dover Books on Animals) by W. H. Hudson

Celebrated nature classic offers unusual perspective on treeless grasslands of Argentina. Detailed, accurate observations of desert pampas, wildlife, animal defense mechanisms, more.

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Pomo Indians of California and Their Neighbors by Vinson Brown & Douglas Andrews

The Pomo Indians once occupied a large part of northern California, living in this beautiful area for hundreds of years without spoiling it. Comes with a color map of their territory.

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Southwestern Indian Arts & Crafts by Mark Bahti

Illustrated with color and B&W photos of Sand Painting, Kachina Carving, Basketry and other Indian crafts and maps. Past history and present information about Indian art.

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The Diary of a Forty-Niner by Chauncey L. Canfield (Editor)

In August 1906, Chauncey Canfield committed to his publisher a found text: the diary, ostensibly verified, of one Alfred T. Jackson, a pioneer miner who joined the Gold Rush from his home in Norfolk, Connecticut, migrating to Rock Creek, Nevada County, California, where he cabined and worked.... more

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Queer Cowboys: And Other Erotic Male Friendships in Nineteenth-Century American Liter...

Brokeback Mountain exploded the myth of the American cowboy as a tough, gruff, and grizzled loner. Queer Cowboys exposes, through books by legendary Western writers such as Mark Twain, James Fenimore Cooper, and Owen Wister, how same-sex intimacy and homoerotic admiration were key aspects of... more

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Bedside Book of Bad Girls: Outlaw Women of the Midwest by Chris Enss

Take a step back in time with the Bedside Book of Bad Girls: Outlaw women of the Midwest. Join author Chris Enss as she digs up and reveals startling facts about some of the most fascinating renegade women of the Midwest. Meet Flora Mundis, the horse thief who disguised herself as a man;... more

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Love Lessons from the Old West: Wisdom from Wild Women by Chris Enss

From Calamity Jane?s relentless pursuit of Wild Bill Hickok to Emma Walters, who gave it all up for the dashing Bat Masterson?and learned to regret it, these romantic stories from the Old West are still familiar and entertaining to readers today. Meet Agnes Lake Hickok, the intrepid wife of Wild... more

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The Many Loves of Buffalo Bill: The True of Story of Life on the Wild West Show by Ch...

“What we want to do is give our women even more liberty than they have. Let them do any kind of work that they see fit, and if they do it as well as men, give them the same pay.”—William F. Cody, 1899 With rough-riding cowboys, sure shots, and fantastic reenactments of... more

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Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West by Ned Blackha...

American Indians remain familiar as icons, yet poorly understood as historical agents. In this ambitious book that ranges across Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, and eastern California (a region known as the Great Basin), Ned Blackhawk places Native peoples squarely at the center of a dynamic... more

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CUSTER by Jeffry D. Wert

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Buffalo Days: Stories From J. Wright Mooar (Texas Heritage) by James Winford Hunt &am...

"Because he has been criticized as a destroyer, a ruthless killer, and wastrel of a great game resource of a Nation, the buffalo hunter appeals to the bar of history for his vindication. . . . Within four years we opened up a vast empire to settlement, and put the Indians forever out of... more

"Because he has been criticized as a destroyer, a ruthless killer, and wastrel of a great game resource of a Nation, the buffalo hunter appeals to the bar of history for his vindication. . . . Within four years we opened up a vast empire to settlement, and put the Indians forever out of Texas." J. Wright Mooar tells the story of the buffalo hunter, from the hunter's perspective, in this first-person account published more than seventy years ago in several installments in Holland's, The Magazine of the South. Mooar was more than eighty years old when he sat down with Methodist minister/educator James Winford Hunt and recounted his years as a buffalo hunter. He describes how buffalo hunting became a huge business that thrived for less than a decade in the 1870s and makes the case that the buffalo hunter, more than anyone else, opened the way for white settlement by eradicating the Indians' source of food. "Buffalo hunting was a business and not a sport. It required capital, management, and a lot of hard work. Magazine writers and others who claim that the killing of the buffalo was a national calamity and was accomplished by vandals simply expose their ignorance, and I resent such an unjust judgment upon us. "If it had not been for the work of the buffalo hunters, the wild bison would still graze where Amarillo now is, and the red man would still reign supreme over the pampas of the Panhandle of Texas. "Any one of the families killed and homes destroyed by the Indians would have been worth more to Texas and to civilization than all the millions of buffalo that ever roamed from the Pecos River on the south to the Platte River on the north." "Here is an odyssey of hairbreadth escapes from death with wild Indians, wilder white men, and thundering herds of wild buffalo," writes J. W. Hunt, founding president of Abilene's McMurry College (now University), in his introduction. Illustrated by Texas folklore artist Granville Bruce, the stories of J. Wright Mooar make for lively reading and continuing debate.

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John B. Armstrong: Texas Ranger and Pioneer Ranchman (Canseco-Keck History) by Chuck ...

"Texas, by God!" cried notorious killer John Wesley Hardin when he saw a Colt .45 pointed at him on a train in Florida. At the other end of the pistol stood Texas Ranger John B. Armstrong. Hardin's arrest assured Armstrong a place in history, but his story is larger, fuller, and even more... more

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John Ringo, King Of The Cowboys: His Life and Times from the Hoo Doo War to Tombstone...

Few names in the lore of western gunmen are as recognizable. Few lives of the most notorious are as little known. Romanticized and made legendary, John Ringo fought and killed for what he believed was right. As a teenager, Ringo was rushed into sudden adulthood when his father was killed... more

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American Rifle: A Biography by Alexander Rose

George Washington insisted that his portrait be painted with one. Daniel Boone created a legend with one. Abraham Lincoln shot them on the White House lawn. And Teddy Roosevelt had his specially customized. Now, in this first-of-its-kind book, historian Alexander Rose delivers a colorful,... more

George Washington insisted that his portrait be painted with one. Daniel Boone created a legend with one. Abraham Lincoln shot them on the White House lawn. And Teddy Roosevelt had his specially customized. Now, in this first-of-its-kind book, historian Alexander Rose delivers a colorful, engrossing biography of an American icon: the rifle. Drawing on the words of soldiers, inventors, and presidents, based on extensive new research, and encompassing the Revolution to the present day, American Rifle is a balanced, wonderfully entertaining history of this most essential firearm and its place in American culture. In the eighteenth century American soldiers discovered that they no longer had to fight in Europe?s time-honored way. With the evolution of the famed ?Kentucky? Rifle?a weapon slow to load but devastatingly accurate in the hands of a master?a new era of warfare dawned, heralding the birth of the American individualist in battle. In this spirited narrative, Alexander Rose reveals the hidden connections between the rifle?s development and our nation?s history. We witness the high-stakes international competition to produce the most potent gunpowder . . . how the mysterious arts of metallurgy, gunsmithing, and mass production played vital roles in the creation of American economic supremacy . . . and the ways in which bitter infighting between rival arms makers shaped diplomacy and influenced the most momentous decisions in American history. And we learn why advances in rifle technology and ammunition triggered revolutions in military tactics, how ballistics tests?frequently bizarre?were secretly conducted, and which firearms determined the course of entire wars. From physics to geopolitics, from frontiersmen to the birth of the National Rifle Association, from the battles of the Revolution to the war in Iraq, American Rifle is a must read for history buffs, gun collectors, soldiers?and anyone who seeks to understand the dynamic relationship between the rifle and this nation?s history.

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The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire by Stephen Bown

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Journal of a Mountain Man (Classics of the Fur Trade) by James Clyman

A scrupulously detailed account of the development of the West through James Clyman's eyes, surviving life in the plains and mountains, then with the overland emigrants.

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The Shooters: A Gallery of Notorious Gunmen from the American West by Leon Claire Met...

With a scholar's authority and a storyteller's passion, Leon Metz chronicles the lives of famous gunfighters like Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Wild Bill Hickok, as well as lesser known desperadoes who left just as many corpses and whiskey bottles in their wake. Rich in detail, and... more

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"I Am a Man": Chief Standing Bear's Journey for Justice by Joe Starita

In 1877, Chief Standing Bear?s Ponca Indian tribe was forcibly removed from their Nebraska homeland and marched to what was then known as Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), in what became the tribe?s own Trail of Tears. ?I Am a Man? chronicles what happened when Standing Bear set off on a... more

In 1877, Chief Standing Bear?s Ponca Indian tribe was forcibly removed from their Nebraska homeland and marched to what was then known as Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), in what became the tribe?s own Trail of Tears. ?I Am a Man? chronicles what happened when Standing Bear set off on a six-hundred-mile walk to return the body of his only son to their traditional burial ground. Along the way, it examines the complex relationship between the United States government and the small, peaceful tribe and the legal consequences of land swaps and broken treaties, while never losing sight of the heartbreaking journey the Ponca endured. It is a story of survival---of a people left for dead who arose from the ashes of injustice, disease, neglect, starvation, humiliation, and termination. On another level, it is a story of life and death, despair and fortitude, freedom and patriotism. A story of Christian kindness and bureaucratic evil. And it is a story of hope---of a people still among us today, painstakingly preserving a cultural identity that had sustained them for centuries before their encounter with Lewis and Clark in the fall of 1804.Before it ends, Standing Bear?s long journey home also explores fundamental issues of citizenship, constitutional protection, cultural identity, and the nature of democracy---issues that continue to resonate loudly in twenty-first-century America. It is a story that questions whether native sovereignty, tribal-based societies, and cultural survival are compatible with American democracy. Standing Bear successfully used habeas corpus, the only liberty included in the original text of the Constitution, to gain access to a federal court and ultimately his freedom. This account aptly illuminates how the nation?s delicate system of checks and balances worked almost exactly as the Founding Fathers envisioned, a system arguably out of whack and under siege today. Joe Starita?s well-researched and insightful account reads like historical fiction as his careful characterizations and vivid descriptions bring this piece of American history brilliantly to life.

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The Wagon Box Fight: An Episode of Red Cloud's War by Jerry Keenan

One of the best known Indian battles of the post Civil War West, the Wagon Box Fight has long attracted the interest of writers and students of the Indian Wars. In addition to a complete description of the engagement, this completely revised collector's edition features an introduction and much... more

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The Log Cabin: Homes of the North American Wilderness by Alex W. Bealer

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It Happened in Texas: Stories of Events and People that Shaped Lone Star State Histor...

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The Encyclopedia of Lawmen, Outlaws, and Gunfighters (Facts on File Crime Library) by...

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John Wesley Hardin: Dark Angel of Texas by Leon Metz

Thus spoke one lawman about John Wesley Hardin, easily the most feared and fearless of all the gunfighters in the West. Nobody knows the exact number of his victims-perhaps as few as twenty or as many as fifty. In his way of thinking, Hardin never shot a man who did not deserve it. Seeking to... more

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Sidesaddles and Geysers by M. MARK MILLER

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America in the Gilded Age: From Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt by Sean D. Cash...

Examines the economic, industrial, social, and political development of the United States during the period from 1865 to 1901.

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Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage by Brian Castner

?Masterful.? Disappointment River�is a historical narrative and travel memoir that at once transports readers back to the heroic age of North American exploration and places them in a still rugged but increasingly fragile Arctic wilderness in the process of profound change. Fourteen years... more

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The Survival of the Bark Canoe by John McPhee

In Greenville, New Hampshire, a small town in the southern part of the state, Henri Vaillancourt makes birch-bark canoes in the same manner and with the same tools that the Indians used. The Survival of the Bark Canoe is the story of this ancient craft and of a 150-mile trip through the Maine... more

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The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, And The Battle Of The Little Big Horn by Nathan...

Little Bighorn and Custer are names synonymous in the American imagination with unmatched bravery and spectacular defeat. Mythologized as Custer's Last Stand, the June 1876 battle has been equated with other famous last stands, from the Spartans' defeat at Thermopylae to Davy Crockett at... more

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Texas: Mapping the Lone Star State through History: Rare and Unusual Maps from the Li...

A stirring trip through the history of the Lone Star State through gloriously detailed, fascinating maps from the Library of Congress��- 50 full-color historical maps from the Library of Congress- Informative captions on each map?s origins- Essays by Texas author Don Blevins on how maps reflect... more

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Indian Boyhood by Charles Eastman

Chronicles first 15 years in life of a native Santee Sioux Indian in mid-19th century: childhood memories, training in the hunt, woodlore, religious practices, work of the medicine men, games, initiation rites, etc. 13 illustrations.

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Sacagawea's Son: The Life of Jean Baptiste Charbonneau (Lewis & Clark Expedition) by ...

When the explorers Lewis and Clark asked the Shoshone woman Sacagawea and her husband, French trapper Toussaint Charbonneau, to act as interpreters for their expedition, the couple brought along their two-month-old son, Jean Baptiste. Over the course of the two-year journey, baby Baptiste won... more

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Thomas Jefferson & the Stony Mountains: Exploring the West from Monticello by Donald ...

Although he did not travel farther inland than the slopes of the Appalachians, Thomas Jefferson must take his place alongside Zebulon Pike, Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, and Lewis and Clark -- the men who blazed the great western trails. Donald Jackson lucidly recounts Jefferson's... more

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First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History by Colin G. Calloway

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The Old Iron Road : An Epic of Rails, Roads, and the Urge to Go West by David Haward ...

In the summer of 2000, David Haward Bain and his family left their home in Vermont and headed west in search of America’s past. From Omaha to San Francisco, Bain and his family retraced the entire route of the first transcontinental railroad. Following abandoned railroad tracks and the... more

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Atlas of Indian Nations by National Geographic & Anton Treuer

Atlas of Indian Nations is a comprehensive resource for those interested in Native American history and culture. Told through maps, photos, art, and archival cartography, this is the story of American Indians that only National Geographic can tell. � In the most comprehensive atlas of Native... more

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Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes by Carl Waldman

An alphabetical encyclopedia covering the history, culture, and present status of more than 150 Indian tribes of the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

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Black Heroes of the Wild West (Contribution Series) by Ruth Pelz

This beautifully illustrated book helps correct the mistaken idea that there was no African-American presence on the frontier. Blacks settled in North America before the arrival of the Mayflower. Estevan came with Spanish explorers in 1527 and explored the southwest; Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable... more

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Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West by Unknown Author

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A Trail of Many Tales: The Discovery of the Fish Lake Cutoff Along the Old Spanish Tr...

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Marietta Wetherill: Life With the Navajos in Chaco Canyon by Marietta Wetherill

First published in 1992 and now available only from the University of New Mexico Press, this is a firsthand account of life at a famous archaeological ruin. Married to Richard Wetherill, the rancher and amateur archaeologist who ran a trading post in Chaco Canyon from 1896 until he was murdered... more

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Meriwether Lewis: The Assassination of an American Hero and the Silver Mines of Mexic...

This new full-length biography of Meriwether Lewis is presented within the context of the turbulent times of the early American Republic. The author discusses intrigues to seize the Floridas and Louisiana from Spain with the help of France or Britain, and makes the case for General James... more

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Lewis and Clark's West: William Clark's 1810 Master Map of the American West by Willi...

Collector's edition.

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The Mammoth Book of Westerns by Jon E. Lewis (Editor)

This outstanding Western collection includes stories by a wide array of contemporary and legendary writers, such as Larry McMurtry, Frederic Remington, Mari Sandoz, Christopher Tilghman, Mark Twain, and more, with a foreword by Rick Bass. Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The... more

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Life in the Far West: A True Account of Travels across America's Wilderness by George...

George Frederick Ruxton was an explorer and adventurer extraordinaire. Born in England in 1820, he followed in his family?s footsteps and entered the military at the age of thirteen. He quickly became a decorated soldier, serving in Spain, where he fought for Queen Isabella II in the Carlist... more

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Gold!: The Story of the 1848 Gold Rush and How It Shaped a Nation by Fred Rosen

On January 24, 1848, as carpenter James Marshall worked on building a sawmill at John Sutter's Fort, east of Sacramento, California, he accidentally discovered a pea-sized nugget of gold in a ditch. Just like that, the scope of the American myth changed. From 1848 to 1850, 90,000 people trekked... more

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TRAIL by Louis Charbonneau

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A Hard Won Life: A Boy on His Own on the Montana Frontier by H. Norman Hyatt

Based on the hand-written memoir of Fred Van Blaricom, this true story recounts a life of hardship and hope in the Montana Territory during the late 1800s. Told in Fred's affable voice and rich with historical detail, A Hard Won Life is a coming-of-age story packed with adventures and grounded... more

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Montana Women Homesteaders: A Field of One's Own by Sarah Carter

In Montana Women Homesteaders: A Field of One s Own, Sarah Carter introduces the voices and images of women who filed on 160- or 320-acre homestead plots in Montana. Single, widowed, divorced, or deserted, women varied in ages, educational levels, and ethnic backgrounds, but all proved up on... more

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Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America by Walter R. Borneman & ...

In Polk, Walter R. Borneman gives us the first complete and authoritative biography of a president often overshadowed in image but seldom outdone in accomplishment. James K. Polk occupied the White House for only four years, from 1845 to 1849, but he plotted and attained a formidable agenda: He... more

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The Cowboy Way - an Exploration of History and Culture by Paul H. Carlson

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Cowboy Culture : The Last Frontier of American Antiques by Michael Friedman

The American cowboy's unique life-style inspired tools, clothing, amusements, advertising, and more which are avidly sought by collectors today. They are presented here with over 1000 color photographs identified in text and captions. Each section of this beautiful new second edition is more... more

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Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie by John Mack Faragher

Follows the development of a rural Illinois community from its origins near the beginning of the nineteenth century, looks at community activity, and tells the stories of ordinary pioneers.

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Atlas of the Great Plains by Stephen J. Lavin & J. Clark Archer & Fred M. She...

The Great Plains, stretching northward from Texas into Canada, is a region that has been understudied and overlooked. The Atlas of the Great Plains, however, brings a new focus to North America’s midcontinent. With more than three hundred original full-color maps, accompanied by extended... more

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The Cheyenne Wars Atlas by Combat Studies Institute

The Cheyenne people made up one of the largest tribes in the region during the mid 19th century. Prior to the 18th century, the Cheyenne lived in the Great Lakes region until stronger tribes in that area forced them westward. Over time, the Cheyenne migrated toward the Black Hills and the Platte... more

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Murder, Morality and Madness: Women Criminals in Early Oregon by Diane L. Goeres-Gard...

Murder Morality and Madness: Women Criminals in Early Oregon takes a peek at an often overlooked part of Western history. The Victorians were quite adept at keeping immoral or bad behavior a secret. Goeres-Gardner does a wonderful job in uncovering the secret past of abuse, neglect and double... more

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Curtis (Midsize) by Hans-Christian Adam

For over thirty years, photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952) traveled the length and breadth of North America, seeking to record in words and images the traditional life of its vanishing indigenous inhabitants. Like a man possessed, he strove to realize his life's work, which culminated... more

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Singing Cowboy Stars/Book and Cd by Robert W. Phillips

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Free Land by Rose Wilder Lane

In the 1880s, when adventure lay in the conquest of the prairies, David Beaton and his bride came to Dakota to claim three hundred acres of grassland. Rose Wilder Lane tells of their struggle to survive with such force that Free Land has become a classic frontier novel. The young couple... more

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Florence Adler Swims Forever by Rachel Beanland

Atlantic City, 1934. Every summer, Esther and Joseph Adler rent their house out to vacationers escaping to “America’s Playground” and move into the small apartment above their bakery. Despite the cramped quarters, this is the apartment where they raised their two daughters,... more

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I Married Wyatt Earp: The Recollections of Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp by Josephine S...

Taken from the memoirs of Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp, this book details 47 years of her life with Wyatt Earp. Read about the famous shootout at the OK Corral, as well as Wyatt and Josie's travels through the gold camps of California and Alaska. Editor Glenn Bover provides many additional... more

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The Cowboy Girl: The Life of Caroline Lockhart (Women in the West) by John Clayton

In 1901, Philadelphia's celebrity female journalist stepped off a train in Blackfoot, Montana, and into a world of living legends. The miners and frontiersmen, Indians and trappers that Caroline Lockhart met there inspired this beautiful, single, strong-willed woman to live a life she had only... more

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Cheyenne Autumn by Mari Sandoz

In the autumn of 1878 a band of Cheyenne Indians set out from Indian Territory, where they had been sent by the U.S. government, to return to their homeland in the Yellowstone country. This saga of their heart-breaking fifteen-hundred-mile flight is by the author of "Crazy Horse: The... more

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Grass of the Earth: Immigrant Life in the Dakota Country (Borealis Books) by Aagot Ra...

This is an engaging, richly detailed biography of a family of Norwegian immigrant homesteaders in eastern North Dakota in the late 1800s. Educator and world traveler Aagot Raaen wrote this reminiscence late in her life. Like Giants in the Earth and Old Jules, Grass of the Earth deals frankly... more

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Dictionary of Native American Mythology (Oxford Paperback Reference) by Sam D. Gill &...

Passed down from generation to generation, the myths and rituals of Native Americans form a rich religious and cultural base from which all members of each society can create and maintain a sense of community, physical and emotional health, identity, family, and self. Such traditions, handed... more

Passed down from generation to generation, the myths and rituals of Native Americans form a rich religious and cultural base from which all members of each society can create and maintain a sense of community, physical and emotional health, identity, family, and self. Such traditions, handed down through stories and rites, stand as the lifeblood of every Native American culture. This thoroughly illustrated and carefully researched guide explores the amazing array of mythical beasts, heroic humans, and nurturing spirits that make up the fascinating spectrum of Native American mythology. With over one thousand alphabetically arranged entries, representing over one hundred different Native American cultures, readers can quickly explore the meaning of hundreds of elements of Native lore--from names, phrases, and symbols, to images, motifs, and themes. Accompanying essays take a closer look at other issues related to the origin, development, and perpetuation of Native American mythology, such as the Christian influence on myth, varying mythology between tribes, storytelling, and more. We learn about such mythical creatures as Apotamkin of the Maliseet-Passamaquoddy tribe of the Southeast (a bogey monster with long hair and huge teeth who, through the fear he generates, keeps small children from straying onto thin, newly frozen ice in the winter and unguarded beaches in the summer), ritual healing ceremonials such as the Southwestern Navajo's Uglyway ceremony (a ceremony to remove and protect against the forces of chaos and disorder that give rise to illness), and the Marau ceremony of the Hopi Indians of the Southeast (a complex ceremony concerned with rain, the ripening of corn, and the fertility of women, as well as rites of initiating new members into the society). This compelling volume honors the richness of the beliefs and values of the many peoples of native North America, from northern Mexico to the Artic Circle. In addition, a complete bibliography of primary sources and secondary sources points the way to further research, making this the perfect reference for anyone interested in the mythical history of America's original inhabitants.

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Women's Indian Captivity Narratives by Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola (Editor)

Enthralling generations of readers, the narrative of capture by Native Americans is arguably the first American literary form dominated by the experiences of women. The ten selections in this anthology span the early history of this country (1682-1892) and range in literary style from fact-based... more

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Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War by T. J. Stiles

In this brilliant biography T. J. Stiles offers a new understanding of the legendary outlaw Jesse James. Although he has often been portrayed as a Robin Hood of the old west, in this ground-breaking work Stiles places James within the context of the bloody conflicts of the Civil War to reveal a... more

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Nauvoo Polygamy: "... but we called it celestial marriage" by George D. Smith

When Joseph and Emma Smith arrived in Ohio in 1831, several families offered them lodging, as did the Whitneys, whose five year-old daughter, Sarah Ann, and her eleven-year-old neighbor, Mary Elizabeth Rollins, would later play a role in Mormon polygamy. The Smiths soon moved in with the... more

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Mark Twain's America: A Celebration in Words and Images by Harry L. Katz & Librar...

Mark Twain is an American icon. We now know him as the author of classics, but in his day he was a controversial satirist and public figure who traveled the world and healed post-Civil War America with his tall tales, witty anecdotes, and humorous but insightful novels and stories. Twain's... more

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Hollywood's West: The American Frontier in Film, Television, and History (Film and Hi...

American historians such as Frederick Jackson Turner have argued that the West has been the region that most clearly defines American democracy and the national ethos. Throughout the twentieth century, the ?frontier thesis? influenced film and television producers who used the West as a backdrop... more

American historians such as Frederick Jackson Turner have argued that the West has been the region that most clearly defines American democracy and the national ethos. Throughout the twentieth century, the ?frontier thesis? influenced film and television producers who used the West as a backdrop for an array of dramatic explorations of America?s history and the evolution of its culture and values. The common themes found in Westerns distinguish the genre as a quintessentially American form of dramatic art.�In Hollywood?s West, Peter C. Rollins, John E. O?Connor, and the nation?s leading film scholars analyze popular conceptions of the frontier as a fundamental element of American history and culture. This volume examines classic Western films and programs that span nearly a century, from Cimarron (1931) to Turner Network Television?s recent made-for-TV movies. Many of the films discussed here are considered among the greatest cinematic landmarks of all time.�The essays highlight the ways in which Westerns have both shaped and reflected the dominant social and political concerns of their respective eras. While Cimarron challenged audiences with an innovative, complex narrative, other Westerns of the early sound era such as The Great Meadow (1931) frequently presented nostalgic visions of a simpler frontier era as a temporary diversion from the hardships of the Great Depression. Westerns of the 1950s reveal the profound uncertainty cast by the cold war, whereas later Westerns display heightened violence and cynicism, products of a society marred by wars, assassinations, riots, and political scandals.�The volume concludes with a comprehensive filmography and an informative bibliography of scholarly writings on the Western genre. This collection will prove useful to film scholars, historians, and both devoted and casual fans of the Western genre. Hollywood?s West makes a significant contribution to the understanding of both the historic American frontier and its innumerable popular representations.

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Wet Britches and Muddy Boots: A History of Travel in Victorian America (Railroads Pas...

What was travel like in the 1880s? Was it easy to get from place to place? Were the rides comfortable? How long did journeys take? Wet Britches and Muddy Boots describes all forms of public transport from canal boats to oceangoing vessels, passenger trains to the overland stage. Trips over long... more

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After Promontory: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Transcontinental Railroading by Unkn...

Celebrating the sesquicentennial anniversary of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States, After Promontory: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Transcontinental Railroading profiles the history and heritage of this historic event. Starting with the original Union... more

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Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show by Louis S. Warren

William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody was the most famous American of his age. He claimed to have worked for the Pony Express when only a boy and to have scouted for General George Custer. But what was his real story? And how did a frontiersman become a worldwide celebrity? In this... more

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James Bowie: Texas Fighting Man : A Biography by Clifford Hopewell

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Tecumseh: A Life by John Sugden

If Sitting Bull is the most famous Indian, Tecumseh is the most revered. Although Tecumseh literature exceeds that devoted to any other Native American, this is the first reliable biography--thirty years in the making--of the shadowy figure who created a loose confederacy of diverse Indian... more

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American Alchemy: The California Gold Rush and Middle-Class Culture (Cultural Studies...

California during the gold rush was a place of disputed claims, shoot-outs, gambling halls, and prostitution; a place populated by that rough and rebellious figure, the forty-niner; in short, a place that seems utterly unconnected to middle-class culture. In American Alchemy, however, Brian... more

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American Bison: A Natural History by Dale F. Lott & Harry W. Greene

American Bison combines the latest scientific information and one man's personal experience in an homage to one of the most magnificent animals to have roamed America's vast, vanished grasslands. Dale F. Lott, a distinguished behavioral ecologist who was born on the National Bison Range and has... more

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Marking the Sparrow's Fall: Wallace Stegner's American West by Wallace Stegner

Winner of three O. Henry Awards, the Commonwealth Gold Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Kirsch Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement, and recipient of both the P.E.N. Center USA West and the California Arts Council award for his body of work, Wallace Stegner is a... more

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Singing in the Saddle: The History of the Singing Cowboy by Douglas B. Green

This book, lavishly illustrated with 149 photos, is a wealth of information that comes out of decades of research. Green has unearthed never-before-published photos and rare movie posters, including one from an all-black western, Harlem on the Prairie (1938). He also traces the history of cowboy... more

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Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush by Lael Morgan

At the turn of the century, tens of thousands of American men migrated to Alaska to seek their share of millions of dollars in gold that was being mined in remote, subarctic camps. The eyes of the world turned to these voyagers who made fortunes overnight and sometimes lost them just as quickly,... more

At the turn of the century, tens of thousands of American men migrated to Alaska to seek their share of millions of dollars in gold that was being mined in remote, subarctic camps. The eyes of the world turned to these voyagers who made fortunes overnight and sometimes lost them just as quickly, but it's taken nearly 100 years later to tell another side of the story-that of the "good time girls" who kept company with these men. We're talking about the women of the gold rush demimonde, "that half world of prostitutes, dance hall girls and entertainers who lived on the outskirts of respectable society," as author Lael Morgan describes them. Overall, they were a fiercely independent lot, defying post-Victorian society to travel north and endure incredible hardship, and sometimes heartbreak, as they, too, sought their fortunes. Among the many fascinating women whose stories are meticulously told by Morgan are "Dutch Kate" Wilson, the first good time girl to blaze a trail across the Yukon; femme fatales like Rose Blumkin, Cad Wilson and "French Marie" Larose, who auctioned herself off for marriage to the highest bidder; Georgia Lee, who became one of the wealthiest women in Alaska; "Klondike" Kate Rockwell, a violet-eyed chanteuse who wowed audiences with her legendary "Flame Dance;" and the outrageous Edith Neile, a.k.a. the "Oregon Mare." It was a time and place where anything was possible, and many of these women became prominent citizens, wealthy property and business owners, and society wives, such as one former prostitute who married the mayor of Fairbanks and hosted President Warren G. Harding when he came through town. Morgan tells these stories with humor and empathy, and fully documents details of the era, especially with a wonderful collection of rare photographs. An associate professor of journalism at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, she has researched the history of the Far North for more than 30 years, and the depth of her work is reflected in this well-crafted and enormously entertaining saga of a little-known till now, but important piece of the gold rush story.

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Bat Masterson: The Man and the Legend by Robert K. Dearment

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My Captivity: A Pioneer Woman's Story of Her Life Among the Sioux by Fanny Kelly

Fanny Kelly?s memoir, first published in 1872, is an intelligent and thoughtful narrative. Kelly spent five months as a prisoner of Ogalalla Sioux in 1864 when she was nineteen years old. A woman of her time, there was no reason she should feel sympathy toward her captors, but the introduction... more

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Bird Woman: Sacagawea's Own Story (Lewis Clark Expedition) by James Willard Schultz

In the last quarter of the 19th century Montana author James Willard Schultz listened to nightly storytelling in the lodges of the Blackfoot Indians. Among the storytellers was Earth Woman, aka Mrs. James Kipp and the daughter of Four Bears, Chief of the Mandans during the time of the Lewis and... more

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The Frontiersmen: A Narrative by Allan W. Eckert

The frontiersmen were a remarkable breed of men. They were often rough and illiterate, sometimes brutal and vicious, often seeking an escape in the wilderness of mid-America from crimes committed back east. In the beautiful but deadly country which would one day come to be known as West... more

The frontiersmen were a remarkable breed of men. They were often rough and illiterate, sometimes brutal and vicious, often seeking an escape in the wilderness of mid-America from crimes committed back east. In the beautiful but deadly country which would one day come to be known as West Virginia, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, more often than not they left their bones to bleach beside forest paths or on the banks of the Ohio River, victims of Indians who claimed the vast virgin territory and strove to turn back the growing tide of whites. These frontiersmen are the subjects of Allan Eckert's dramatic history. Against the background of such names as George Rogers Clark, Daniel Boone, Arthur St. Clair, Anthony Wayne, Simon Girty and William Henry Harrison, Eckert has recreated the life of one of America's most outstanding heroes, Simon Kenton. Kenton's role in opening the Northwest Territory to settlement more than rivaled that of his friend Daniel Boone. By his eighteenth birthday, Kenton had already won frontier renown as woodsman, fighter and scout. His incredible physical strength and endurance, his great dignity and innate kindness made him the ideal prototype of the frontier hero. Yet there is another story to The Frontiersmen. It is equally the story of one of history's greatest leaders, whose misfortune was to be born to a doomed cause and a dying race. Tecumseh, the brilliant Shawnee chief, welded together by the sheer force of his intellect and charisma an incredible Indian confederacy that came desperately close to breaking the thrust of the white man's westward expansion. Like Kenton, Tecumseh was the paragon of his people's virtues, and the story of his life, in Allan Eckert's hands, reveals most profoundly the grandeur and the tragedy of the American Indian. No less importantly, The Frontiersmen is the story of wilderness America itself, its penetration and settlement, and it is Eckert's particular grace to be able to evoke life and meaning from the raw facts of this story. In The Frontiersmen not only do we care about our long-forgotten fathers, we live again with them. Researched for seven years, The Frontiersmen is the first in Mr. Eckert's "The Winning of America" series.

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Wah-To-Yah and the Taos Trail: The Classic History of the American Indians and the Ta...

The classic account and history of the Taos Revolt and the Cheyenne Indians. In the bright morning of his youth, Lewis H. Garrard traveled into the wild and free Rocky Mountain West and left us this fresh and vigorous account, which, says A. B. Guthrie Jr., contains in its pages �the genuine... more

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Nothing but Prairie and Sky: Life on the Dakota Range in the Early Days (Western Fron...

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Cowboy Lingo by Ramon F. Adams

The cowboy — that enigmatic, larger-than-life icon of our culture —has long been considered a figure of fast hands, steel nerves, and few words. But according to Ramon Adams, cowboys, once among themselves, enjoyed a vivid, often boisterous repartee. You might say that around a... more

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Cowboy Slang by Edgar R. Frosty Potter

The colorful, humorous lingo of the American West is captured here in 2000 phrases and expressions.

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Captivity Narratives: Six True Stories of Indian Captivity (American Indian Slaves & ...

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Boots and Saddles or, Life in Dakota with General Custer by Elizabeth B. Custer

The honeymoon of Elizabeth Bacon and George Armstrong Custer was interrupted in 1864 by his call to duty with the Army of the Potomac. Her entreaties to be allowed to travel along set the pattern of her future life. From that time onward, she did indeed accompany General Custer on all his major... more

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The Floor of Heaven: A True Tale of the Last Frontier and the Yukon Gold Rush by Howa...

It is the last decade of the 19th century. The Wild West has been tamed and its fierce, independent and often violent larger-than-life figures ? gun-toting wanderers, trappers, prospectors, Indian fighters, cowboys, and lawmen ?are now victims of their own success. They are heroes who?ve... more

It is the last decade of the 19th century. The Wild West has been tamed and its fierce, independent and often violent larger-than-life figures ? gun-toting wanderers, trappers, prospectors, Indian fighters, cowboys, and lawmen ?are now victims of their own success. They are heroes who?ve outlived their usefulness. But then gold is discovered in Alaska and the adjacent Canadian Klondike and a new frontier suddenly looms - an immense unexplored territory filled with frozen waterways, dark spruce forests, and towering mountains capped by glistening layers of snow and ice. ?Klondicitis,? a giddy mix of greed and lust for adventure, ignites a stampede. Fleeing the depths of a worldwide economic depression and driven by starry-eyed visions of vast wealth, tens of thousands rush northward. Joining this throng of greenhorns and grifters, whores and highwaymen, sourdoughs and seers are three unforgettable men. In a true-life tale that rivets from the first page, we meet Charlie Siringo, a top-hand sharp-shooting cowboy who, after futilely trying to settle down with his new bride, becomes one of the Pinkerton Detective Agency?s shrewdest; George Carmack, a California-born American Marine who?s adopted by an Indian tribe, raises a family with a Taglish squaw, makes the discovery that starts off the Yukon Gold Rush ? and becomes fabulously rich; and Soapy Smith, a sly and inventive predator-conman who rules a vast criminal empire. As we follow this trio?s lives, we?re led inexorably into a perplexing mystery. A fortune in gold bars has somehow been stolen from the fortress-like Treadwell Mine in Juneau, Alaska, with no clues as to how the thieves made off with such an immensely heavy cargo.� To many it appears that the crime will never be solved. �But the Pinkerton Agency has a reputation for finding the answers that elude others.� Charged with getting the job done is Charlie Siringo who discovers that, to run the thieves to ground, he must embark on a rugged cross-territory odyssey that will lead him across frigid waters and through a frozen wilderness.� Ultimately, he?ll have his quarry in his sights. But then an additional challenge will present itself.� He must face down Soapy Smith and his gang of 300 cutthroats. �Hanging in the balance: George Carmack?s fortune in gold. At once a compelling true-life mystery and an unforgettable portrait of a time in America?s history when thousands were fired with a vision of riches so unimaginable as to be worth any price, The Floor of Heaven is also an exhilarating tribute to the courage and undaunted spirit of the men and women who helped shape America. � From the Hardcover edition.

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Lt. Charles Gatewood & His Apache Wars Memoir by Charles B. Gatewood

Lt. Charles B. Gatewood (1853?1896), an educated Virginian, served in the Sixth U.S. Cavalry as the commander of Indian scouts. Gatewood was largely accepted by the Native peoples with whom he worked because of his efforts to understand their cultures. It was this connection that Gatewood formed... more

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Mollie: The Journal of Mollie Dorsey Sanford in Nebraska and Colorado Territories, 18...

Mollie is a vivid, high-spirited, and intensely feminine account of city people homesteading in the raw, new land west of the Missouri. More particularly, it is the story of Mollie herself – just turned eighteen when the Dorseys left Indianapolis for Nebraska Territory – of her... more

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Mollie: The Journal of Mollie Dorsey Sanford in Nebraska and Colorado Territories, 18...

Mollie is a vivid, high-spirited, and intensely feminine account of city people homesteading in the raw, new land west of the Missouri. More particularly, it is the story of Mollie herself?just turned eighteen when the Dorseys left Indianapolis for Nebraska Territory?of her reaction to the... more

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Bravos of the West by John Myers Myers

Bravos of the West is a panoramic history of the development of the West after the Lewis and Clark expedition. Appearing, exiting, and reappearing in this history are trappers, traders, prospectors, gunslingers, missionaries, soldiers, and scientists. Here they are shown trapping beaver,... more

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The Southwest Expedition of Jedediah Smith: His Personal Account of the Journey to Ca...

Jedediah S. Smith was to western exploration what Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison were to the world of invention—a legendary figure kiting into the unknown, a lighter of the dark. No one did more to open the American West than this mountain man. His greatest exploring expedition came... more

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Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter by Tom Clavin

In July 1865, "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, MO -- the first quick-draw duel on the frontier. Thus began the reputation that made him a marked man to every gunslinger in the Wild West. James Butler Hickock was known across the frontier as a soldier,... more

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Following the Royal Road: A Guide to the Historic Camino Real de Tierra Adentro by Ha...

The Camino Real de Tierra Adentro (Royal Road of the Interior Land) is North America's oldest (Juan de O�ate extended the Camino to New Mexico in 1598) and longest (1,500 miles) road. Here, Hal Jackson brings to life this important route connecting Mexico City with Santa Fe, New Mexico. It was... more

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Mountain Man: John Colter, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American...

?If you seek vicarious adventure, these pages await the armchair explorer.? ?Providence JournalIn 1804, John Colter set out with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the first US expedition to traverse the North American continent. During the 28- month ordeal, Colter served as a hunter and... more

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Geronimo (The Lamar Series in Western History) by Robert M. Utley

Renowned for ferocity in battle, legendary for an uncanny ability to elude capture, feared for the violence of his vengeful raids, the Apache fighter Geronimo captured the public imagination in his own time and remains a figure of mythical proportion today. This thoroughly researched biography... more

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Journey to the West: The Alabama and Coushatta Indians (Civilization of the American ...

When Europeans battled for control over North America in the eighteenth century, American Indians were caught in the cross fire. Two such peoples, the Alabamas and Coushattas, made the difficult decision to migrate from their ancestral lands and thereby preserve their world on their own terms.

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Coronado's Children: Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest (Barke...

Texas has its share of legendary treasure, and Dobie records the lore of the lost mines of the San Saba and Llano rivers, rumors of an untapped vein of wonderfully rich gold west of Paisano Pass in Devil's River country, tales of forgotten posthole stashes where prosperous frontier ranchers once... more

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The Wind by Dorothy Scarborough

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Black Kettle : The Cheyenne Chief Who Sought Peace But Found War by Thom Hatch

The Compelling, Tragic Story of a Great Cheyenne Chief As white settlers poured into the west during the nineteenth century, many famous Indian chiefs fought to stop them, including Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Geronimo. But one great Cheyenne chief, Black Kettle, understood that the... more

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Washita Memories: Eyewitness Views of Custer's Attack on Black Kettle's Village by Un...

The Battle of the Washita is one of the most tragic--and disturbing--events in American history. On November 27, 1868, the U.S. Cavalry under Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer attacked a peaceful Southern Cheyenne village along the Washita River in present-day western Oklahoma. This U.S. victory... more

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Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait by Karen Holliday Tanner

In Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait, Karen Holliday Tanner, a distant cousin, reveals the real man behind the legend. Shedding light on Holliday's early years in a prominent Georgia family during the Civil War and Reconstruction, she examines the elements that shaped his destiny: his birth... more

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The Galvanized Yankees by Dee Brown

Here is the fascinating and little-known story of the Galvanized Yankees, who stood watch over a nation that they had once sought to destroy. They were Confederate soldiers who were recruited from Union prison camps in the North to serve in the West. On the condition they would not be sent south... more

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Iron Women: The Ladies Who Helped Build the Railroad by Chris Enss

When the last spike was hammered into the steel track of the Transcontinental Railroad on May 10, 1869, at Promontory Point, Utah, Western Union lines sounded the glorious news of the railroad’s completion from New York to San Francisco. For more than five years an estimated four... more

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The Journals of Alfred Doten, 1849-1903 (Three Volume Set) by Alfred Doten

? ABOUT THE AUTHOR ? ___ Born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Alfred Doten (1829-1903) sailed to California in 1849 to make his fortune in placer gold mining. Unsuccessful, he moved to Nevada to participate in the silver boom but gravitated instead to journalism. He worked as a reporter on the... more

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A Surgeon with Custer at the Little Big Horn: James DeWolf?s Diary and Letters, 1876 ...

In spring 1876 a physician named James Madison DeWolf accepted the assignment of contract surgeon for the Seventh Cavalry, becoming one of three surgeons who accompanied Custer?s battalion at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Killed in the early stages of the battle, he might easily have become... more

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William Clark and the Shaping of the West by Landon Y. Jones

Between 1803 and 1806, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark co-captained the most famous expedition in American history. But while Lewis ended his life just three years later, Clark, as the highest-ranking federal official in the West, spent three decades overseeing its consequences: Indian... more

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The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the 19th Century by W...

n a highly original and engaging fashion, Schivelbusch discusses the ways in which our perceptions of distance, time, autonomy, speed, and risk were altered by railway travel. As a history of the surprising ways in which technology and culture interact, this book covers a wide range of... more

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the captured by scott zesch

a true story of abduction by indians on the texas frontier.

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Mary Austin and the American West by Susan Goodman & Carl Dawson

Mary Austin (1868-1934)--eccentric, independent, and unstoppable--was twenty years old when her mother moved the family west. Austin's first look at her new home, glimpsed from California's Tejon Pass, reset the course of her life, "changed her horizons and marked the beginning of her... more

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The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny by Michae...

Cutting through 160 years of mythmaking, bestselling historian Michael Wallis presents the ultimate cautionary tale of America?s westward expansion. Through his celebrated Western biographies, Michael Wallis has become renowned for his portraits of the real, largely unforgotten legends of... more

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The Robin Hood of El Dorado: The Saga of Joaquin Murrieta, Famous Outlaw of Californi...

First published in 1932 and never reprinted since, this historical drama re-creates the life and adventures of Joaquin Murrieta, a Hispanic social rebel in California during the tumultuous Gold Rush. Published during the Great Depression, at a time of mass deportations of Hispanos to Mexico,... more

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Across the Plains in 1844 (Dodo Press) by Catherine Sager Pringle

The Sager orphans (sometimes referred to as Sager children) were the children of Naomi and Henry Sager. In April 1844 Henry Sager and his family took part in the great westward migration and started their journey along the Oregon Trail. During their journey both Naomi and Henry Sager lost their... more

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The Never-Ending Lives of Liver-Eating Johnson by D. J. Herda

Born around 1824 in New Jersey, as a young man John Johnson headed west after deserting from the U.S. Navy and became a well-known and infamoous mountain man. His many lives would involve him working as a miner, hunter, trapper, bootlegger, woodcutter, and army scout. When his Flathead Indian... more

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Kit Carson's Autobiography by Kit Carson & Milo Milton Quaife (Editor)

As modest and undemonstrative as Kit's feats were remarkable, this account covers his activities as trapper, Indian fighter, guide, and buffalo hunter up to the autumn of 1856.

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Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West: 1846-1890 by Larry McMurtry

In Oh What a Slaughter, Larry McMurtry has written a unique, brilliant, and searing history of the bloody massacres that marked -- and marred -- the settling of the American West in the nineteenth century, and which still provoke immense controversy today.Here are the true stories of the West's... more

In Oh What a Slaughter, Larry McMurtry has written a unique, brilliant, and searing history of the bloody massacres that marked -- and marred -- the settling of the American West in the nineteenth century, and which still provoke immense controversy today.Here are the true stories of the West's most terrible massacres -- Sacramento River, Mountain Meadows, Sand Creek, Marias River, Camp Grant, and Wounded Knee, among others. These massacres involved Americans killing Indians, but also Indians killing Americans, and, in the case of the hugely controversial Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857, Mormons slaughtering a party of American settlers, including women and children.McMurtry's evocative descriptions of these events recall their full horror, and the deep, constant apprehension and dread endured by both pioneers and Indians. By modern standards the death tolls were often small -- Custer's famous defeat at Little Big Horn in 1876 was the only encounter to involve more than two hundred dead -- yet in the thinly populated West of that time, the violent extinction of a hundred people had a colossal impact on all sides. Though the perpetrators often went unpunished, many guilty and traumatized men felt compelled to tell and retell the horrors they had committed. From letters and diaries, McMurtry has created a moving and swiftly paced narrative, as memorable in its way as such classics as Evan S. Connell's Son of the Morning Star and Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.In Larry McMurtry's own words:"I have visited all but one of these famous massacre sites -- the Sacramento River massacre of 1846 is so forgotten that its site near the northern California village of Vina can only be approximated. It is no surprise to report that none of the sites are exactly pleasant places to be, though the Camp Grant site north of Tucson does have a pretty community college nearby. In general, the taint that followed the terror still lingers and is still powerful enough to affect locals who happen to live nearby. None of the massacres were effectively covered up, though the Sacramento River massacre was overlooked for a very long time."But the lesson, if it is a lesson, is that blood -- in time, and, often, not that much time -- will out. In case after case the dead have managed to assert a surprising potency."The deep, constant apprehension, which neither the pioneers nor the Indians escaped, has, it seems to me, been too seldom factored in by historians of the settlement era, though certainly it saturates the diary-literature of the pioneers, particularly the diary-literature produced by frontier women, who were, of course, the likeliest candidates for rapine and kidnap."

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The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples by Tim F...

In The Eternal Frontier, world-renowned scientist and historian Tim Flannery tells the unforgettable story of the geological and biological evolution of the North American continent, from the time of the asteroid strike that ended the age of dinosaurs 65 million years ago, to the present day.... more

In The Eternal Frontier, world-renowned scientist and historian Tim Flannery tells the unforgettable story of the geological and biological evolution of the North American continent, from the time of the asteroid strike that ended the age of dinosaurs 65 million years ago, to the present day. Flannery describes the development of North America's deciduous forests and other flora, and tracks the immigration and emigration of various animals to and from Europe, Asia, and South America, showing how plant and animal species have either adapted or become extinct. The story takes in the massive changes wrought by the ice ages and the coming of the Indians, and continues right up to the present, covering the deforestation of the Northeast, the decimation of the buffalo, and other facets of the enormous impact of frontier settlement and the development of the industrial might of the United States. Natural history on a monumental scale, The Eternal Frontier contains an enormous wealth of fascinating scientific details, and Flannery's accessible and dynamic writing makes the book a delight to read. This is science writing at its very best -- a riveting page-turner that is simultaneously an accessible and scholarly trove of incredible information that is already being hailed by critics as a classic. "Tim Flannery's account ... will fascinate Americans and non-Americans alike." -- Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel "No one before Flannery ... has been brave enough to tackle the whole pageant of North America." -- David Quammen, the New York Times Book Review "Tim Flannery's book will forever change your perspective on the North American continent ... Exhilarating." -- John Terborgh, The New York Review of Books "Full of engaging and attention-catching information about North America's geology, climate, and paleontology." -- Patricia Nelson Limerick, the Washington Post Book World "Natural history par excellence." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "This gutsy Aussie may have read our landscape and ecological history with greater clarity than any native son." -- David A. Burney, Natural History "A fascinating, current, and insightful look at our familiar history from a larger perspective." -- David Bezanson, Austin-American Statesman "The scope of [Flannery's] story is huge, and his research exhaustive." -- Lauren Gravitz, The Christian Science Monitor

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Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America by T. J. Stiles

From the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, a brilliant new biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times. In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in... more

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Bark-Skins by Annie Proulx

From Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain, comes her masterpiece, ten years in the writing -- an epic, dazzling, violent, magnificently dramatic novel about taming the wilderness and destroying the forest, set over... more

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The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr by Henry W. Brands

Though he was a hero of the Revolutionary War, a prominent New York politician, and vice president of the United States, Aaron Burr is today best remembered as the villain who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. But as H. W. Brands demonstrates in this fascinating portrait of one of the most... more

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Patriotic Fire : Andrew Jackson and Jean Laffite at the Battle of New Orleans by Wins...

From the author of best-selling works of history and fiction, a fast-paced, enthralling retelling of one of the greatest battles fought on the North American continent, and of the two men who—against all expectations and odds—joined forces to repel the British invasion of New Orleans... more

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Kearny's March: The Epic Creation of the American West, 1846-1847 (Vintage) by Winsto...

A thrilling re-creation of a crucial campaign in the Mexican-American War and a pivotal moment in America's history. � In June 1846, General Stephen Watts Kearny rode out of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, with a thousand cavalrymen of the First United States Dragoons. When his fantastic expedition... more

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The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth: Mountaineer, Scout, Pioneer, and Chie...

The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth: Mountaineer, Scout, Pioneer, and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians is the amazing story of an American pioneer. Beckwourth, born of mixed ancestry in Virginia around 1800, was freed in 1824 and became a mountain man and trapper. Beckwourth later... more

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A Texas Cavalry Officer's Civil War: The Diary and Letters of James C. Bates by James...

A volunteer officer with the 9th Texas Cavalry Regiment from 1861 to 1865, James Campbell Bates saw some of the most important and dramatic clashes in the Civil War’s western and trans-Mississippi theaters. Bates rode thousands of miles, fighting in the Indian Territory; at Elkhorn Tavern... more

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The Last Days of the Sioux Nation: Second Edition by Robert M. Utley

This fascinating account tells what the Sioux were like when they first came to their reservation and how their reaction to the new system eventually led to the last confrontation between the Army and the Sioux at the Battle of Wounded Knee Creek. A classic work, it is now available with a new... more

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My Story (Frontier Classics) by Anson Mills

Frontier Classics resurrect long out-of-print gems of frontier history. Antiquarian and rare book dealers have previously been the only source for these books, providing first editions for premium prices. Now, these books are available in affordable, quality paperback editions, with new... more

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The West of Wild Bill Hickok by Joseph G. Rosa

Of all the Old West figures whose images eventually found their way into our popular culture, none was better known than Wild Bill Hickok. This book, a companion volume to Joseph Rosa’s exhaustive biography, They Called Him Wild Bill, reproduces in one volume nearly all the known portraits... more

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One Hundred Years of Old Man Sage: An Arapaho Life (Studies in the Anthropology of No...

Sherman Sage (ca. 1844–1943) was an unforgettable Arapaho man who witnessed profound change in his community and was one of the last to see the Plains black with buffalo. As a young warrior, Sage defended his band many times, raided enemy camps, saw the first houses go up in Denver, was... more

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Participants in the Battle of the Little Big Horn: A Biographical Dictionary of Sioux...

The Battle of the Little Big Horn was the decisive engagement of the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877. In its second edition this biographical dictionary of all known participants--the 7th Cavalry, civilians and Indians--provides a brief description of the battle, as well as information on the... more

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Or Perish in the Attempt: Wilderness Medicine in the Lewis & Clark Expedition by Davi...

An urgent-care physician with a passion for the Lewis and Clark Expedition describes the medical challenges the captains encountered and treated using the primitive medicine and theories of 1803. Dr. Peck details how they dealt with illnesses and accidents including frostbite, severe cuts, and... more

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Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn by Evan S. Connell

On June 25, 1876, Gen. George Armstrong Custer and some 200 cavalrymen under his command blundered into a coulee along the banks of Montana's Little Bighorn River. They never came out; several thousand Cheyenne, Sioux, and Arapaho warriors saw to that. The name and the event of the Little... more

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Our Natural History: The Lessons of Lewis and Clark by Daniel B. Botkin

Often referred to as America's national epic of exploration, the 28-month Lewis and Clark expedition was certainly America's greatest odyssey. Commissioned in 1804 by Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set off on the greatest wilderness trip ever recorded. Beginning in St.... more

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Captured by the Indians: 15 Firsthand Accounts, 1750-1870 by Frederick Drimmer

Astounding eyewitness accounts of Indian captivity by people who lived to tell the tale. Fifteen true adventures recount suffering and torture, bloody massacres, relentless pursuits, miraculous escapes and adoption into Indian tribes. Fascinating historical record and revealing picture of Indian... more

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Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas by Gregg Cantrell

Known as a daring pioneer and the "Father of Texas," Stephen F. Austin has nevertheless remained an enigmatic hero. This prize-winning book is the first major biography of Austin in more than seventy years, at last bringing into sharp focus his private life, motives, personality, character,... more

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Outlasting the Trail: The Story of a Woman's Journey West by Mary Barmeyer O'Brien

Mary Rockwood Powers reluctantly left her comfortable life as a doctor's wife in Wisconsin in 1856, one of the many women whose destiny as a settler of the West was determined by her husband's wishes. Trading in her home for canvas roof and wheels, Mary, her husband, and their three children set... more

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North American Indian Dances and Rituals by Peter F. Copeland

Native Americans in a remarkable array of costumes, perform exciting, traditional dances and rituals: the Rio Grande Pueblo Deer Dance, the Song for Dead Warriors, Zia clown dancers, the Corn Dance of Santa Clara Pueblo, the Hopi Snake Dance, 33 others. Fact-filled captions describe events and... more

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Tales and Songs of Southern Illinois (Shawnee Classics (Reprinted)) by Charles Neely

First published in 1938, this lively collection of over 150 tales and songs runs the gamut from joy to woe, from horror to humor. In forming the collection, Charles Neely required only that the tales and songs?whether home grown or transplanted from the great body of world lore? had taken root... more

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Mackinac Island :Three Hundred Fifty Years of History by Robert E Benjamin

Autographed Copy. Mackinac Island...where Nicolet passed in 1634, where French missionaries planted lilacs that are today feted by spring tourists, .....where history has been made under the flags of three nations, French, British, and American...

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Your Fathers the Ghosts: Buffalo Bill's Wild West in Scotland by Tom F. Cunningham

Most people are conscious, at least in outline, of Buffalo Bill Cody's legendary exploits as an army scout and Indian fighter during the formative years of his career. However, the no less astonishing story of how the frontiersman-turned-showman later attended a Glasgow Cup tie between Rangers... more

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The Bastard of Fort Stikine: The Hudson's Bay Company and the Murder of John McLoughl...

Is it possible to reach back in time and solve an unsolved murder, more than 170 years after it was committed? Just after midnight on April 21, 1842, John McLoughlin, Jr. ? the chief trader for the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Stikine, in the northwest corner of the territory that would later... more

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The Cayuse Indians: Imperial Tribesmen Of Old Oregon by Robert H. Ruby & John Art...

In this book, Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown tell the story of the Cayuse people, from their early years through the nineteenth century, when the tribe was forced to move to a reservation. First published in 1972, this expanded edition is published in 2005 in commemoration of the... more

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Finding Chief Kamiakin: The Life and Legacy of a Northwest Patriot by Richard D. Sche...

Born to T'siyiak, a champion horse racer and Com-mus-ni, the daughter of Chief Wiya�wiikt, Kamiakin from an early age helped relatives tend his family's expanding herds. He wintered with relatives in tule mat lodges in the Kittitas and Ahtanum valleys. Other times of the year he shared in... more

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The Beautiful Snow: The Ingalls Family, the Railroads, and the Hard Winter of 1880 - ...

The Long Winter is one of the most memorable novels in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series. It beautifully details the dramatic events of The Hard Winter of 1880-81, a harrowing time with months of never-ending blizzards leading to railroad blockades that all but cut off fledgling... more

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Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter by Ben Goldfarb

WINNER of the 2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Washington Post ?50 Notable Works of Nonfiction? Science News ?Favorite Science Books of 2018? Booklist ?Top Ten Science/Technology Book of 2018? "A marvelously humor-laced page-turner about the science of semi-aquatic... more

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Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride by Michael Wallis

From the best-selling author of Route 66 comes this long-awaited biography of one of America's most legendary folk heroes.Award-winning historian Michael Wallis has spent several years re-creating the rich, anecdotal saga of Billy the Kid (1859-1881), a deeply mythologized young man who became a... more

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Savages and Scoundrels: The Untold Story of America's Road to Empire through Indian T...

What really happened in the early days of the American nation? How was it possible for white settlers to march across the entire continent, inexorably claiming Native American lands for themselves? Who made it happen, and why? This gripping book tells America's story from a new perspective,... more

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Custer by Larry McMurtry

This lavishly illustrated volume reassesses and celebrates the life and legacy of the West?s most legendary figure, George Armstrong Custer, from ?one of America?s great storytellers? (The Wall Street Journal).On June 25, 1876, General George Armstrong Custer and his seventh cavalry attacked a... more

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Rising Up from Indian Country: The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago b...

In August 1812, under threat from the Potawatomi, Captain Nathan Heald began the evacuation of ninety-four people from the isolated outpost of Fort Dearborn to Fort Wayne, hundreds of miles away. The group included several dozen soldiers, as well as nine women and eighteen children.�After... more

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Skookum: An Oregon Pioneer Family's History And Lore (Northwest Reprints) by Shannon ...

In 1843, brothers Jesse, Lindsay, and Charley Applegate-accompanied by their wives and twenty-two children-led the first major wagon train from Missouri to Oregon. By the end of the decade, the restless clan had left the "crowded" Willamette Valley and pointed their wagons toward Yoncalla in... more

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Wild Women of the Old West (Notable Westerners) by Glenda Riley (Editor) & Richar...

Presents the sensational lives and exploits of nine notorious women from the days of boisterous frontier saloons and high-noon showdowns. Introduction-what is a wild woman? -- Baby Doe Tabor-the culture of beauty / Glenda Riley -- Emily D. West (Morgan)-the Yellow Rose of Texas / Carmen... more

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The Santa Fe Trail : Its History, Legends, and Lore by David Dary

From 1610 to the 1860s the Santa Fe Trail, which ran from Missouri and Kansas to New Mexico, was a principal artery to and from the Southwest. Drawing from letters, journals, expedition reports, and newspaper articles, David Dary opens a window into the lives of the people who forged this trail... more

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Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life by Robert M. Utley

Whatever his name or alias at the moment -- Henry McCarty, Henry Antrim, Kid Antrim, Billy Bonney -- people always called him the Kid. Not until his final month did anyone call him Billy the Kid. Newspapers pictured him as a king of outlaws; and his highly publicized capture, trial, escape, and... more

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Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson by Raymond W. Bunker & Robert Thorp

The true story (on which the film Jeremiah Johnson was partially based) of John Johnson, who in 1847 found his wife and her unborn child had been killed by Crow braves. Out of this tragedy came one of the most gripping feuds—one man against a whole tribe—in American history.

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Ride The Wind by Lucia St. Clair Robson

This book is the story of Cynthia Ann Parker starting with her capture by the Comanche's at age 9 through her life with them as an adopted Comanche daughter to respected member of their tribe. Extremely well written, very descriptive of life on the prairie and life with the Comanches.

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Tom Horn: Blood on the Moon : Dark History of the Murderous Cattle Detective by Chip ...

Did Tom Horn kill Willie Nickell? He was a death sentence to rustlers and the devil incarnate to homesteaders in late nineteenth-century Wyoming. Did Tom Horn commit the 1901 murder of the fourteen-year-old son of a sheep-owning homesteader who had stolen from the cattle barons ranges? If... more

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The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight f...

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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West ...

In this book Wallace Stegner recounts the successes and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest. A prophet without honor who had a profound... more

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The Underworld Sewer: A Prostitute Reflects on Life in the Trade, 1871-1909 by Josie ...

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Songs of the Teton Sioux by Harry W. Paige

The beautiful and mysterious song of the Sioux is a carefully crafted and highly individualized ritual performed to invoke the strength of the spirits in order to harness the power of nature. In this, the first literary study of a fascinating tradition, Dr. Harry W. Paige immerses himself in the... more

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The Fate of the Corps : What Became of the Lewis and Clark Explorers After the Expedi...

The first book to trace the histories of the remarkable men—and one woman—who were members of the Lewis and Clark expedition.“[This] fascinating afterword to the expedition, focus[ing] on crucial events for members of the Corps of Discovery in the ensuing years, . . . demand[s]... more

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Sleuthing The Alamo: Davy Crockett's Last Stand and Other Mysteries of the Texas Revo...

In Sleuthing the Alamo, historian James E. Crisp draws back the curtain on years of mythmaking to reveal some surprising truths about the Texas Revolution---truths that are often obscured by both racism and political correctness. This engaging first-person account of historical detective work... more

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Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America by Richard White

A new, incisive history of the transcontinental railroads and how they transformed America in the decades after the Civil War. The transcontinental railroads of the late nineteenth century were the first corporate behemoths. Their attempts to generate profits from proliferating debt sparked... more

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The Frontier in American Culture: An Exhibition at the Newberry Library, August 26, 1...

Log cabins and wagon trains, cowboys and Indians, Buffalo Bill and General Custer. These and other frontier images pervade our lives, from fiction to films to advertising, where they attach themselves to products from pancake syrup to cologne, blue jeans to banks. Richard White and... more

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"It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own": A History of the American West by Richard ...

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"It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own": A New History of the American West by Rich...

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Plants of the Lewis Clark Expedition (Lewis Clark Expedition) by Wayne Phillips &am...

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American Indian Prophecies by Kurt Kaltreider

In American Indian Prophecies, Kurt Kaltreider, Ph.D., has written a uniquely fascinating work that brings together indigenous American culture, values, and spirituality as seen through Indian prophecies, visions, and dreams. This work includes a series of fact-based conversations between... more

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Scouting on Two Continents (Illustrated) by Major Frederick Russell Burnham

Frederick Burnham Russell was one of the greatest military scouts to have ever lived. Born on a Dakota Sioux reservation he was taught the ways of the Native Americans from as soon as he could walk. At the tender age of fourteen, having had little formal education, he was supporting himself and... more

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Life Among the Apaches: The Classic History of Native American Life on the Plains by ...

One of the original seventeenth-century historical accounts of the Apaches and the southwestern American Indians. John C. Cremony?s first encounter with the Indians of the Southwest occurred in the early 1850s, when he accompanied John R. Bartlett?s boundary commission surveying the United... more

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Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend by Gary L. Roberts

"You can't beat this story for drama. . . . An omnibus of everything ever known, spoken, or written about Doc Holliday." -Publishers Weekly "An engagingly written, persuasively argued, solidly documented work of scholarship that will surely take its place in the literature of the Old... more

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The Embroidered Tent: Five Gentlewomen in Early Canada by Marian Fowler

In this widely acclaimed study, Marian Fowler explores how the experience of wilderness and frontier create a psychic tension between the gentility of old-world "embroidery" and the rugged masculinity of "tent"-dwelling in the pioneering women of nineteenth-century Canada.

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The Oregon Trail: An American Journey by Rinker Buck

In the bestselling tradition of Bill Bryson and Tony Horwitz, Rinker Buck?s The Oregon Trail is a major work of participatory history: an epic account of traveling the entire 2,000-mile length of the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned way, in a covered wagon with a team of mules?which hasn?t been... more

In the bestselling tradition of Bill Bryson and Tony Horwitz, Rinker Buck?s The Oregon Trail is a major work of participatory history: an epic account of traveling the entire 2,000-mile length of the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned way, in a covered wagon with a team of mules?which hasn?t been done in a century?that also tells the rich history of the trail, the people who made the migration, and its significance to the country. Spanning 2,000 miles and traversing six states from Missouri to the Pacific Ocean, the Oregon Trail is the route that made America. In the fifteen years before the Civil War, when 400,000 pioneers used it to emigrate West?historians still regard this as the largest land migration of all time?the trail united the coasts, doubled the size of the country, and laid the groundwork for the railroads. The trail years also solidified the American character: our plucky determination in the face of adversity, our impetuous cycle of financial bubbles and busts, the fractious clash of ethnic populations competing for the same jobs and space. Today, amazingly, the trail is all but forgotten. Rinker Buck is no stranger to grand adventures. The New Yorker described his first travel narrative, Flight of Passage, as ?a funny, cocky gem of a book,? and with The Oregon Trail he seeks to bring the most important road in American history back to life. At once a majestic American journey, a significant work of history, and a personal saga reminiscent of bestsellers by Bill Bryson and Cheryl Strayed, the book tells the story of Buck?s 2,000-mile expedition across the plains with tremendous humor and heart. He was accompanied by three cantankerous mules, his boisterous brother, Nick, and an ?incurably filthy? Jack Russell terrier named Olive Oyl. Along the way, Buck dodges thunderstorms in Nebraska, chases his runaway mules across miles of Wyoming plains, scouts more than five hundred miles of nearly vanished trail on foot, crosses the Rockies, makes desperate fifty-mile forced marches for water, and repairs so many broken wheels and axels that he nearly reinvents the art of wagon travel itself. Apart from charting his own geographical and emotional adventure, Buck introduces readers to the evangelists, shysters, natives, trailblazers, and everyday dreamers who were among the first of the pioneers to make the journey west. With a rare narrative power, a refreshing candor about his own weakness and mistakes, and an extremely attractive obsession for history and travel, The Oregon Trail draws readers into the journey of a lifetime.

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Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails 1854-1860 (Covered W...

Some of the women traveling west in the late 1850s were strong advocates of equal rights for their sex. On the trail, Julia Archibald Holmes and Hannah Keziah Clapp sensibly wore the "freedom costume" called bloomers. In 1858 Holmes joined the Pikes Peak gold rush and was the first... more

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Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1879 - 1903 (Covere...

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Across the Plains in 1844 by Catherine Sager

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Heart of the Trail: The Stories of Eight Wagon Train Women by Mary Barmeyer O'Brien

True stories of the triumphs and tribulations of eight women who crossed the American frontier by wagon. First hand accounts from their letters and diaries, most written on the trail.

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Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier (Okla...

When originally published in 1998, Cavalier in Buckskin met with critical acclaim. Now Robert M. Utley has revised his best-selling biography of General George Armstrong Custer. In his new edition, Utley writes about his summers (1947-1952) spent as a historical aide at the Custer Battlefield -... more

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Custer: The Controversial Life of George Armstrong Custer by Jeffry D. Wert

The outlines of Custer's life are familiar to all: After graduating last in his class at West Point, he rose to become the Union's youngest general on the strength of his flamboyance and military genius. Next came 12 years of checkered service in the American West, ending with the famous... more

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The Princess Doll's Scrapbook by Elaine Melby Ayre

"...imparts evanescent visions of oceans crossed and lands traversed from the late 1800s and grounds the reader to the present time. Beginning in Norway and culminating in Canada, a lovingly crafted outline of the author's rich family history..." "...more than the record of an heirloom or a... more

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Sister to the Sioux (Second Edition): The Memoirs of Elaine Goodale Eastman, 1885-189...

In 1885 a genteel New England girl traveled to the western frontier to open a school on the Great Sioux Reservation. For six years, Elaine Goodale Eastman taught, hunted with, and lived among the Lakotas, who were experiencing profound changes as buffalo herds dwindled and they were forced to... more

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The Black West: A Documentary and Pictoral History of the African American Role in th...

This entirely new edition of a famous classic has glorious new photographs?many never before seen?as well as a revised and expanded text that deepens our understanding of the vital role played by African American men and women on our early frontiers.Inspired by a conversation that William Loren... more

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Glorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian America by Owen Ma...

The Russian Empire once extended deep into America: in 1818 Russia's furthest outposts were in California and Hawaii. The dreamer behind this great Imperial vision was Nikolai Rezanov - diplomat, adventurer, courtier, millionaire and gambler. His quest to plant Russian colonies from Siberia to... more

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Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers by Doug J. Swanson

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The Outlaw Trail: Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch by Charles Kelly

Ramon Adams in his judicious bibliography, Six Guns and Saddle Leather, praises it as "an excellent history of the lives and exploits of the better-known outlaws of the Northwest." Follows the story of Butch and Sundance to their final showdown in Bolivia as well as the careers of many of their... more

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Wicked Women of New Mexico by Donna Blake Birchell

New Mexico Territory attracted outlaws and desperados as its remote locations guaranteed non-detection while providing opportunists the perfect setting in which to seize wealth. Many wicked women on the run from their pasts headed there seeking new starts before and after 1912 statehood.... more

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1877: America's Year of Living Violently by Michael A Bellesiles & Michael A Be...

In 1877, a decade after the Civil War, not only was the United States gripped by a deep depression, but the country was also in the throes of nearly unimaginable violence and upheaval marking the end of the brief period known as Reconstruction and a return to white rule across the South. In the... more

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Women of Red River: Being a book written from the recollections of women surviving fr...

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Halfbreed by Maria Campbell

I write this for all of you, to tell you what it is like to be a Halfbreed woman in our country. I want to tell you about the joys and sorrows, the oppressing poverty, the frustration and the dreams. . . . I am not bitter. I have passed that stage. I only want to say: this is what it... more

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Fur Trade in Ruperts Land by Duquemin

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Pierriche by Louis Ritchotte

Pierriche represents a unique perspective?the history of Pierre Falcon and the Metis people from the 1800s as reconstructed by Falcon's great great grandson, Louis Ritchotte. Mr. Falcon's story is one of a man who lived and fought for the dignity and rights of the Metis, whose mixed... more

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Adventures Of The First Settlers On The Oregon Or Columbia River: Being A Narrative O...

Volume VII. Of Early Western Travels 1748-1846. A Series Of Annotated Reprints Of Some Of The Best And Rarest Contemporary Volumes Of Travel, Descriptive Of The Aborigines And Social And Economic Conditions In The Middle And Far West, During The Period Of Early American Settlement.

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The Red River Settlement: Its rise, progress, and present state : with some account o...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally... more

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Ordeal by Hunger: The Classic Story of the Donner Party by George R. Stewart

In 1846, eighty-seven people -- men, women and children -- set out overland for California. At the insistence of a foolish guide, the ill-fated Donner Party braved a new route across the desert. As they struggled across the barren waste, they lost many oxen and wagons and nearly died of thirst... more

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Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental...

A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now. From across the sea, they came by the thousands, escaping war and poverty in southern China to seek... more

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Seeking a Felicitous Space on the Frontier. The Progression of the Modern American W...

This monograph seeks to reconstruct the culture of the pioneer woman as presented in O. E. R�lvaag's Giants in the Earth, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie, and Willa Cather's My �ntonia. Essentially, the textual analyses show the pioneer woman's evolving and dynamic reaction to... more

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The Long Hard Winter of 1880-81: What was it Really Like? by Dan L. White

Laura Ingalls Wilder's classic novel The Long Winter tells the riveting story of the winter of 1880-81. She wrote of three day blizzards, forty ton trains stuck in the snow, houses buried in snowdrifts and a town that nearly starved. Was Laura's story just fiction, or was that one winter... more

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A Wilder World: Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Landscapes of the American Frontier by M...

Laura Ingalls Wilder?s Little House series chronicled frontier life in the late 1860s. The classic books are both a coming of age story based on Wilder?s life and a reflection of the pioneer spirit of the time. They are also deeply rooted in the natural world. The plants, animals, and landscapes... more

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Soldier, Sister, Spy, Scout: Women Soldiers and Patriots on the Western Frontier by C...

From the earliest days of the western frontier, women heeded the call to go west along with their husbands, sweethearts, and parents. Many of these women were attached to the army camps and outposts that dotted the prairies. Some were active participants in the skirmishes and battles that took... more

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Tales Behind the Tombstones: The Deaths and Burials of the Old West's Most Nefarious ...

Tales Behind the Tombstones tells the stories behind the deaths (or supposed deaths) and burials of the Old West's most nefarious outlaws, notorious women, and celebrated lawmen. Readers will learn the story behind Calamity Jane's wish to be buried next to Wild Bill Hickok, discover how and... more

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The Illustrated Life and Times of Billy the Kid (2nd Revised Edition) by Bob Boze Bel...

How many movies would you go to see about an outlaw named Henry the kid? Probably not 44, which is how many Hollywood has made so far about Henry McCarty, the boy Outlaw who used the Alias Billy Bonnie. Of course, we know him today as Billy the Kid. If you saw the Young Gun movies or any of the... more

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Charlie Siringo's West: An Interpretive Biography by Howard R. Lamar

Charlie Siringo (1855?1928) lived the quintessential life of adventure on the American frontier as a cowboy, Pinkerton detective, writer, and later as a consultant for early western films. Siringo was one of the most attractive, bold, and original characters to live and flourish in the final... more

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The Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace: The Texas Ranger and Hunter by John C. Duval

At six foot two inches and two hundred and forty pounds, Big-Foot Wallace cut a formidable figure and certainly made a major impact on the early history of Texas. As a nineteen year old he had heard that one of his brothers had been killed in the Battle of Goliad, an early confrontation in the... more

At six foot two inches and two hundred and forty pounds, Big-Foot Wallace cut a formidable figure and certainly made a major impact on the early history of Texas. As a nineteen year old he had heard that one of his brothers had been killed in the Battle of Goliad, an early confrontation in the Texan war of independence with Mexico, and swore to travel West to ?take pay of the Mexicans? for his brother?s death. In the following years he fought time and again against the Mexicans for the newly formed Republic of Texas and saw action at Salado Creek, Hondo River and during the Mier Campaign. After returning for the wars in Mexico he abandoned the Texan military and joined the Texas Rangers under the leadership of John Coffee Hays and served for a number of years defending Texans against Native American and border bandits along the frontier. This riotous narrative of the adventures of one of the saltiest and most individualistic pioneer Indian fighters that the state ever produced is told in a leisurely, satirical fashion that reflects a way of life long since lost. Duval's chronicle of one of Texas' greatest adventurers is filled with Wallace's humor and colorful speech. Wallace emerges from the book in all his vigor and robustness, and the reader is transported to a rugged, uncultivated frontier where a few men who were rough enough were carving out a new empire. The flavor and the spirit of early Texas have been captured for countless readers by John C. Duval's Big Foot Wallace. About one-fourth of Big Foot Wallace is devoted to a detailed account of Wallace's experiences in the Mier Expedition. The remainder of the book deals with his adventures on the frontiers of Texas as an Indian fighter, a soldier of fortune, and a member of the first company of Rangers. John C. Duval, the author of Big Foot Wallace, has been called the first man of letters in Texas. Earlier Texans devoted their time to writing about politics and land, but Duval wrote of the frontier and its people with a clarity of perception equaled by few writers in any period. Duval was a man of the camp and range. Civilization did not fit him very well, and he spent much of his time in the wilderness alone. Like his friend and companion, Big Foot Wallace, Duval was an adventurer whose experiences were varied and exciting. In Big Foot Wallace Duval relates a number of his experiences that had been shared with Wallace. Writing late in life, Duval set down memories of events that had mellowed with time. He strove for pictorial and dramatic effects, not historical accuracy. Still Big Foot Wallace has been acclaimed by historians for its amazing accuracy. This book was published in 1870. Duval passed away in 1897 and Wallace in 1899.

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A Lawless Breed: John Wesley Hardin, Texas Reconstruction, and Violence in the Wild W...

John Wesley Hardin! His name spread terror in much of Texas in the years following the Civil War as the most wanted fugitive with a $4,000 reward on his head. A Texas Ranger wrote that he killed men just to see them kick. Hardin began his killing career in the late 1860s and remained a wanted... more

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Six Years With the Texas Rangers: 1875-1881 by James B. Gillett

Texas in the nineteenth century was a dangerous place. The Texas Rangers were there to keep people safe. James Gillett joined the rangers in 1875 with the task of repressing domestic foes of this frontier region where banditry flourished and crimes of violence were committed with... more

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Baby Doe Tabor: The Madwoman in the Cabin by Judy Nolte Temple

The story of Baby Doe Tabor has seduced America for more than a century. Long before her body was found frozen in a Leadville shack near the Matchless Mine, Elizabeth McCourt "Baby Doe" Tabor was the stuff of legend. The stunning divorc�e married Colorado's wealthiest mining magnate and became... more

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The Ordeal of Olive Oatman: A True Story of the American West (Women of the Frontier)...

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Fools Crow (Contemporary American Fiction) by James Welch

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Soapy Smith (Amazing Stories) (Amazing Stories) by Stan Sauerwein

In 1897, the Klondike Gold Rush brought thousands of hopeful prospectors to the North. With them came many scoundrels and swindlers who were willing to do whatever it took to separate unsuspecting targets from their hard-earned cash. No swindler was more successful at his craft than Jefferson... more

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The Life of Buffalo Bill by William F. Cody

What we know of Buffalo Bill Cody (1846–1917) is more myth than man. Yet the stage persona that took audiences by storm was based on the very real encounters of William F. Cody with the American West. This autobiography, infused with the drama of dime novels and stage melodramas that... more

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To Hell on a Fast Horse Updated Edition: The Untold Story of Billy the Kid and Pat Ga...

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Crowfoot: Chief of the Blackfeet (Goodread Biographies) by Hugh Dempsey

Crowfoot, a Blood Indian who became chief of the Blackfoot Nation, was a great warrior and peacemaker during the time of settlement of the Canadian West.In one shattering decade, from 1875 to 1885, the great buffalo herds diappeared from Western Canada, forcing the Plains Indians who had... more

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Firewater: The Impact of the Whisky Trade on the Blackfoot Nation by Hugh A. Dempsey

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The Vengeful Wife And Other Blackfoot Stories by Hugh A. Dempsey

The Vengeful Wife and Other Blackfoot Stories by historian Hugh Dempsey presents tales of the Blackfoot tribe on the plains of northern Montana and southern Alberta. The result of fifty years of interviewing tribal elders and sifting through archives, these stories are about warfare, hunting,... more

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Kid Curry: The Life and Times of Harvey Logan and the Wild Bunch by F. Bruce Lamb

One of the original members of the Wild Bunch, Kid Curry (Harvey Logan), became known by the company he kept?men like Butch Cassidy, Harry Longabaugh (Sundance Kid), Elzy Lay, Ben Kilpatrick, Flat Nose George Currie, and other members of the Hole in the Wall Gang. But Kid Curry?s own story is... more

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Upper Mississippi River History: Fact-Fiction-Legend by Ron Larson

Captian Ron's book "UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER HISTORY" begins with the early French explorers and hardy fur trappers. He covers the history of the paddle-wheel steamboats from the first one on the Mississippi River in 1811, the "NEW ORLEANS",to the fonding and growth of the paddle-wheel steamboat... more

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Through Indian Sign Language: The Fort Sill Ledgers of Hugh Lenox Scott and Iseeo, 18...

Hugh Lenox Scott, who would one day serve as chief of staff of the U.S. Army, spent a portion of his early career at Fort Sill, in Indian and, later, Oklahoma Territory. There, from 1891 to 1897, he commanded Troop L, 7th Cavalry, an all-Indian unit. From members of this unit, in particular a... more

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Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chief...

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Early American Naturalists: Exploring the American West, 1804-1900 by John Moring

This history is the first to detail the lives, adventures, and discoveries of pioneering American naturalists such as Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.

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Cowgirls: Women of the American West by Teresa Jordan

American lore has slighted the cowgirl, although at least one can still be found in nearly every ranching community. Like her male counterpart, she rides and ropes, understands land and stock, and confronts the elements. Jordan traveled 60,000 miles in the West, talking with more than a hundred... more

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Abraham Lincoln's World: How Riverboats, Railroads and Republicans Transformed Americ...

A unique look at the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century Abraham Lincoln's World describes not only important new developments during Lincoln's life-time, but also relates them -- and other key events-- to the appropriate historical and geographical context. There are... more

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Life of Tom Horn, Government Scout and Interpreter by Tom Horn

Guilty or not? Many thought that Tom Horn, the great Indian scout who was hanged for the murder of a fourteen year-old boy, was innocent. In fact, this book was published as "A Vindication." Can reading the story of his life as he tells it convince you? Horn fought the Apache, and like... more

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Annie Oakley by Shirl Kasper

Annie Oakley is a legend. America’s greatest female sharpshooter, a woman who triumphed in the masculine world of road shows and firearms during the 1880s and 1890s. Despite her great fame, the popular image of Annie Oakley is more fiction than fact. She was neither a swaggering... more

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Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery by Dayton Duncan & Ken Burns

The companion volume to Ken Burns's PBS documentary film, with more than 150 illustrations, most in full color. In the spring of 1804, at the behest of President Thomas Jefferson, a party of explorers called the Corps of Discovery crossed the Mississippi River and started up the Missouri,... more

The companion volume to Ken Burns's PBS documentary film, with more than 150 illustrations, most in full color. In the spring of 1804, at the behest of President Thomas Jefferson, a party of explorers called the Corps of Discovery crossed the Mississippi River and started up the Missouri, heading west into the newly acquired Louisiana Territory. The expedition, led by two remarkable and utterly different commanders -- the brilliant but troubled Meriwether Lewis and his trustworthy, gregarious friend William Clark -- was to be the United States' first exploration into unknown spaces. The unlikely crew came from every corner of the young nation: soldiers from New Hampshire and Pennsylvania and Kentucky, French Canadian boatmen, several sons of white fathers and Indian mothers, a slave named York, and eventually a Shoshone Indian woman, Sacagawea, who brought along her infant son. Together they would cross the continent, searching for the fabled Northwest Passage that had been the great dream of explorers since the time of Columbus. Along the way they would face incredible hardship, disappointment, and danger; record in their journals hundreds of animals and plants previously unknown to science; encounter a dizzying diversity of Indian cultures; and, most of all, share in one of America's most enduring adventures. Their story may have passed into national mythology, but never before has their experience been rendered as vividly, in words and pictures, as in this marvelous homage by Dayton Duncan. Plentiful excerpts from the journals kept by the two captains and four enlisted men convey the raw emotions, turbulent spirits, and constant surprises of the explorers, who each day confronted the unknown with fresh eyes. An elegant preface by Ken Burns, as well as contributions from Stephen E. Ambrose, William Least Heat-Moon, and Erica Funkhouser, enlarge upon important threads in Duncan's narrative, demonstrating the continued potency of events that took place almost two centuries ago. And a wealth of paintings, photographs, journal sketches, maps, and film images from the PBS documentary lends this historic, nation-redefining milestone a vibrancy and immediacy to which no American will be immune.

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Sacred Fireplace (Oceti Wakan): Life and Teachings of a Lakota Medicine Man by Pete C...

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The Sodbreakers: People Who Lived and Died Settling the West (Conquering the Wild Wes...

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Life of Billy Dixon: Plainsman, Scout, and Pioneer by Olive K. Dixon

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National Geographic The Old West by Stephen G. Hyslop

From Lewis and Clark?s epic 1803 expedition to the showmanship of Buffalo Bill, the story of the American West is epic in scope, full of amazing tales of tragedy and triumph. Lavishly illustrated with vivid photographs and intricate maps, The Old West is the definitive history of a time and... more

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Through a Night of Horrors: Voices from the 1900 Galveston Storm by Casey Edward Gree...

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L. A. Huffman: Photographer of the American West by Larry L. Peterson

Frontier photographer L. A. Huffman (1854 1931) captured the spirit of the American West like no other artist. As comfortable photographing the haunting images of the plains Indians as he was the working cowboy, Huffman accurately recorded a passing way of life on the American western frontier.... more

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The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Start...

In the tradition of Empire of the Summer Moon, a stunningly vivid historical account of the manhunt for Geronimo and the 25-year Apache struggle for their homeland They called him Mickey Free. His kidnapping started the longest war in American history, and both sides--the Apaches and the white... more

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Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson: Lawmen of the Legendary West by Bill Markley

Which lawman did the most to tame the frontier, Bat Masterson or Wyatt Earp? Neither of them was a saint. At times their actions were not in compliance with the law, and they only served as peace officers for limited portions of their lives. What sets them apart from the thousands of sheriffs... more

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Bad Men: Outlaws Gunfighters of the Old West (Historical and Old West) by Bob Boze B...

Artist and author Bob Boze Bell offers the reader a unique look at the lives of over 250 of the Old West's most notorious bad men. Fully illustrated, with over 100 original paintings by the author, plus over 200 photos, many never before published.

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Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr by Nancy Isenberg

This definitive biography of the revolutionary era villain overturns every myth and image we have of him The narrative of America's founding is filled with godlike geniuses—Franklin, Washington, Adams, Jefferson—versus the villainous Aaron Burr. Generations have been told Burr was a... more

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Arizona Oddities: Land of Anomalies and Tamales (American Legends) by Marshall Trimbl...

Arizona has stories as peculiar as its stunning landscapes. The Lost Dutchman's rumored cache of gold sparked a legendary feud. Kidnapping victim Larcena Pennington Page survived two weeks alone in the wilderness, and her first request upon rescue was for a chaw of tobacco. Discover how the town... more

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Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves (Race and...

Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves appears as one of ?eight notable Oklahomans,? the ?most feared U.S. marshal in the Indian country.? That Reeves was also an African American who had spent his early life as a slave in Arkansas and Texas makes his accomplishments all the more remarkable. Bucking... more

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Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter by Tom Clavin

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Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal by Stuart Lake

An authorized biography of the legendary marshal describes the Old West exploits and law enforcement career of Wyatt Earp, his brothers Morgan and Virgil, and his sidekick, Doc Holliday. Wyatt Earp, his brothers and his enemies have been endlessly fascinating to Americans for more than a hundred... more

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The Karankawa Indians, the Coast People of Texas by Albert Samuel Gatschet

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1891 edition by Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge (Mass.).

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Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental...

A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now From across the sea, they came by the thousands, escaping war and poverty in southern China to seek... more

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Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the Am...

Ladies of the Canyons is the true story of remarkable women who left the security and comforts of genteel Victorian society and journeyed to the American Southwest in search of a wider view of themselves and their world. Educated, restless, and inquisitive, Natalie Curtis, Carol Stanley, Alice... more

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Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West--One M...

The legendary life and entrepreneurial vision of Fred Harvey helped shape American culture and history for three generations, from the 1880s all the way through World War II, and still influence our lives today in surprising and fascinating ways. Now award-winning journalist Stephen Fried... more

The legendary life and entrepreneurial vision of Fred Harvey helped shape American culture and history for three generations, from the 1880s all the way through World War II, and still influence our lives today in surprising and fascinating ways. Now award-winning journalist Stephen Fried re-creates the life of this unlikely American hero, the founding father of the nation’s service industry, whose remarkable family business civilized the West and introduced America to Americans. Appetite for America is the incredible real-life story of Fred Harvey, told in depth for the first time ever, as well as the story of this country’s expansion into the Wild West of Bat Masterson and Billy the Kid, of the great days of the railroad, of a time when a deal could still be made with a handshake and the United States was still uniting. As a young immigrant, Fred Harvey worked his way up from dishwasher to household name: He was Ray Kroc before McDonald’s, J. Willard Marriott before Marriott Hotels, Howard Schultz before Starbucks. His eating houses and hotels along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad (including historic lodges still in use at the Grand Canyon) were patronized by princes, presidents, and countless ordinary travelers looking for the best cup of coffee in the country. Harvey’s staff of carefully screened single young women, the celebrated Harvey Girls, were the country’s first female workforce and became genuine Americana, even inspiring an MGM musical starring Judy Garland. With the verve and passion of Fred Harvey himself, Stephen Fried tells the story of how this visionary built his business from a single lunch counter into a family empire whose marketing and innovations we still encounter in myriad ways. Inspiring, instructive, and hugely entertaining, Appetite for America is historical biography that is as richly rewarding as a slice of fresh apple pie, and every bit as satisfying. *With two photo inserts featuring over 75 images, and an appendix with over fifty Fred Harvey recipes, most of them never-before-published.

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American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America by David O. Stewart

In this vivid and brilliant biography, David Stewart describes Aaron Burr, the third vice president, as a daring and perhaps deluded figure who shook the nation’s foundations in its earliest, most vulnerable decades. In 1805, the United States was not twenty years old, an unformed... more

In this vivid and brilliant biography, David Stewart describes Aaron Burr, the third vice president, as a daring and perhaps deluded figure who shook the nation’s foundations in its earliest, most vulnerable decades. In 1805, the United States was not twenty years old, an unformed infant. The government consisted of a few hundred people. The immense frontier swallowed up a tiny army of 3,300 soldiers. Following the Louisiana Purchase, no one even knew where the nation’s western border lay. Secessionist sentiment flared in New England and beyond the Appalachians. Burr had challenged Jefferson, his own running mate, in the presidential election of 1800. Indicted for murder in the dueling death of Alexander Hamilton in 1804, he dreamt huge dreams. He imagined an insurrection in New Orleans, a private invasion of Spanish Mexico and Florida, and a great empire rising on the Gulf of Mexico, which would swell when America’s western lands seceded from the Union. For two years, Burr pursued this audacious dream, enlisting support from the General-in-Chief of the Army, a paid agent of the Spanish king, and from other western leaders, including Andrew Jackson. When the army chief double-crossed Burr, Jefferson finally roused himself and ordered Burr prosecuted for treason. The trial featured the nation’s finest lawyers before the greatest judge in our history, Chief Justice John Marshall, Jefferson’s distant cousin and determined adversary. It became a contest over the nation’s identity: Should individual rights be sacrificed to punish a political apostate who challenged the nation’s very existence? In a revealing reversal of political philosophies, Jefferson championed government power over individual rights, while Marshall shielded the nation’s most notorious defendant. By concealing evidence, appealing to the rule of law, and exploiting the weaknesses of the government’s case, Burr won his freedom. Afterwards Burr left for Europe to pursue an equally outrageous scheme to liberate Spain’s American colonies, but finding no European sponsor, he returned to America and lived to an unrepentant old age. Stewart’s vivid account of Burr’s tumultuous life offers a rare and eye-opening description of the brand-new nation struggling to define itself.

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An Artist in Treason: The Extraordinary Double Life of General James Wilkinson by And...

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New Tracks in North America: A Journal of Travel and Adventure Whilst Engaged in the ...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally... more

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The Black Crook and Other 19th Century American Plays by Myron Matlaw (Editor)

Plays include: Fashion or, Life in New York by Anna Cora Mowatt Francesca Da Rimini by George Henry Boker The Octoroon or, Life in Louisiana by Dion Boucicault Rip van Winkle by Joseph Jefferson The Black Crook by Charles M. Barras Shenandoah by Bronson Howard Margaret... more

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Steamboats on Northwest Rivers: Before the Dams by Bill Gulick

For 100 years, before the dams were built on the Columbia-Snake river system, steamboats carried cargo and people to the farthest reaches of the rivers. Where water flowed, sturdy steamboats and bold captains went - with no navigational aids needed. William Polk Gray piloted steamboats on... more

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American Rifle: A Biography by Alexander Rose

George Washington insisted that his portrait be painted with one. Daniel Boone created a legend with one. Abraham Lincoln shot them on the White House lawn. And Teddy Roosevelt had his specially customized.In this first-of-its-kind book, historian Alexander Rose delivers a colorful, engrossing... more

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Broken Hand, the Life of Thomas Fitzpatrick, Mountain Man, Guide and Indian Agent by ...

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Shallow grave at Waiilatpu: The Sagers' West by Erwin N Thompson

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Fort Union Trading Post: Fur Trade Empire on the Upper Missouri by Erwin N. Thompson

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Modoc War by Erwin N. Thompson

This is an excellent brief narrative of the military campaign during the war between the Modoc Indians of Northern California and Southern Oregon and units of the U.S. Army during 1872 & 1873. The author provides a high level of detail on the troop movements, units, and soldiers involved. The... more

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Jesse James and the Civil War in Missouri (Missouri Heritage Readers) by Robert L. Dy...

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It Will Live Forever: Traditional Yosemite Indian Acorn Preparation by Beverly R. Ort...

For centuries, the Yosemite Indians have been gathering acorns, drying and storing them, and pounding, winnowing, sifting, leaching, and cooking them in a highly evolved, elegant, and skillful process. _It Will Live Forever_ looks at Julia Parker, a Kashaya Pomo woman who married into the... more

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Grinnell: America's Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West by ...

Before Rachel Carson, there was George Bird Grinnell?the man whose prophetic vision did nothing less than launch American conservation. George Bird Grinnell, the son of a New York merchant, saw a different future for a nation in the thrall of the Industrial Age. With railroads scarring virgin... more

Before Rachel Carson, there was George Bird Grinnell?the man whose prophetic vision did nothing less than launch American conservation. George Bird Grinnell, the son of a New York merchant, saw a different future for a nation in the thrall of the Industrial Age. With railroads scarring virgin lands and the formerly vast buffalo herds decimated, the country faced a crossroads: Could it pursue Manifest Destiny without destroying its natural bounty and beauty? The alarm that Grinnell sounded would spark America?s conservation movement. Yet today his name has been forgotten?an omission that John Taliaferro?s commanding biography now sets right with historical care and narrative flair. Grinnell was born in Brooklyn in 1849 and grew up on the estate of ornithologist John James Audubon. Upon graduation from Yale, he dug for dinosaurs on the Great Plains with eminent paleontologist Othniel C. Marsh?an expedition that fanned his romantic notion of wilderness and taught him a graphic lesson in evolution and extinction. Soon he joined George A. Custer in the Black Hills, helped to map Yellowstone, and scaled the peaks and glaciers that, through his labors, would become Glacier National Park. Along the way, he became one of America?s most respected ethnologists; seasons spent among the Plains Indians produced numerous articles and books, including his tour de force, The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Ways of Life. More than a chronicler of natural history and indigenous culture, Grinnell became their tenacious advocate. He turned the sportsmen?s journal Forest and Stream into a bully pulpit for wildlife protection, forest reserves, and national parks. In 1886, his distress over the loss of bird species prompted him to found the first Audubon Society. Next, he and Theodore Roosevelt founded the Boone and Crockett Club to promote ?fair chase? of big game. His influence among the rich and the patrician provided leverage for the first federal legislation to protect migratory birds?a precedent that ultimately paved the way for the Endangered Species Act. And in an era when too many white Americans regarded Native Americans as backwards, Grinnell?s cries for reform carried from the reservation, through the halls of Congress, all the way to the White House. Drawing on forty thousand pages of Grinnell?s correspondence and dozens of his diaries, Taliaferro reveals a man whose deeds and high-mindedness earned him a lustrous peerage, from presidents to chiefs, Audubon to Aldo Leopold, John Muir to Gifford Pinchot, Edward S. Curtis to Edward H. Harriman. Throughout his long life, Grinnell was bound by family and sustained by intimate friendships, toggling between the East and the West. As Taliaferro?s enthralling portrait demonstrates, it was this tension that wound Grinnell?s nearly inexhaustible spring and honed his vision?a vision that still guides the imperiled future of our national treasures. 16 pages of black and white illustrations

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Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit ...

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The Correspondence and Journals of Captain Nathaniel J. Wyeth, 1831-6: A Record of Tw...

Excerpt from The Correspondence and Journals of Captain Nathaniel J. Wyeth, 1831-6: A Record of Two Expeditions for the Occupation of the Oregon Country, With Maps, Introduction and Index American enterprise pitted against English on the Columbia in the line of fur trading operations was... more

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Jim Bridger: Trailblazer of the American West by Jerry Enzler

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Incredible Elfego Baca: Good Man, Bad Man of the Old West by Howard Bryan

Folk hero Elfego Baca (1865-1945) is best remembered for his single-handed standoff against an estimated 80 Texas cowboys who fired a reported 4,000 shots at him without effect. In this informative and entertaining book, Howard Bryan examines the facts and legends surrounding Baca's long and... more

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Native American Medicinal Plants: An Ethnobotanical Dictionary by Daniel E. Moerman

In Native American Medicinal Plants, anthropologist Daniel E. Moerman describes the medicinal use of more than 2700 plants by 218 Native American tribes. Information -- adapted from the same research used to create the monumental Native American Ethnobotany -- includes 82 categories of medicinal... more

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Cochise: Chiricahua Apache Chief (The Civilization of the American Indian, Vol 204) b...

When it acquired New Mexico and Arizona, the United States inherited the territory of a people who had been a thorn in side of Mexico since 1821 and Spain before that. Known collectively as Apaches, these Indians lived in diverse, widely scattered groups with many names—Mescaleros,... more

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New Women in the Old West: From Settlers to Suffragists, an Untold American Story by ...

Between 1840 and 1910, hundreds of thousands of men and women traveled deep into the underdeveloped American West, lured by the prospect of adventure and opportunity, and galvanized by the spirit of Manifest Destiny. Alongside this rapid expansion of the United States, a second, overlapping... more

Between 1840 and 1910, hundreds of thousands of men and women traveled deep into the underdeveloped American West, lured by the prospect of adventure and opportunity, and galvanized by the spirit of Manifest Destiny. Alongside this rapid expansion of the United States, a second, overlapping social shift was taking place: survival in a settler society busy building itself from scratch required two equally hardworking partners, compelling women to compromise eastern sensibilities and take on some of the same responsibilities as their husbands. At a time when women had very few legal or economic---much less political---rights, these women soon proved they were just as essential as men to westward expansion. Their efforts to attain equality by acting as men's equals paid off, and well before the Nineteenth Amendment, they became the first American women to vote. During the mid-nineteenth century, the fight for women's suffrage was radical indeed. But as the traditional domestic model of womanhood shifted to one that included public service, the women of the West were becoming not only coproviders for their families but also town mothers who established schools, churches, and philanthropies. At a time of few economic opportunities elsewhere, they claimed their own homesteads and graduated from new, free coeducational colleges that provided career alternatives to marriage. In 1869, the men of the Wyoming Territory gave women the right to vote---partly to persuade more of them to move west---but with this victory in hand, western suffragists fought relentlessly until the rest of the region followed suit. By 1914 most western women could vote---a right still denied to women in every eastern state. In New Women in the Old West, Winifred Gallagher brings to life the riveting history of the little-known women---the White, Black, and Asian settlers, and the Native Americans and Hispanics they displaced---who played monumental roles in one of America's most transformative periods. Like western history in general, the record of women's crucial place at the intersection of settlement and suffrage has long been overlooked. Drawing on an extraordinary collection of research, Gallagher weaves together the striking legacy of the persistent individuals who not only created homes on weather-wracked prairies and built communities in muddy mining camps, but also played a vital, unrecognized role in the women's rights movement and forever redefined the "American woman."

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Jim Bridger "The Grand Old Man of the Rockies" by Grace Raymond Hebard

Jim Bridger may be most famous for being, as a youth, one of the two mountain men who abandoned famed trapper Hugh Glass after he had been mauled by a grizzly bear. It was Hugh's thoughts of revenge for this abandonment that fueled his recovery and eventual tracking down of the young Bridger. ... more

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Troupers of the Gold Coast: The Rise of Lotta Crabtree by Constance Mayfield Rourke

Originally published in 1928, Troupers of the Gold Coast follows the startup and success of a theater company of the same name that started performing in 1837 at California?s First Theater. More than 2,000 actors and actresses performed and trained with the company between 1848 and 2005. Until... more

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Baby Doe Tabor: Matchless Silver Queen by Joyce B. Lohse

Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt was born in 1854 in Wisconsin. She moved west, married a man named Harvey Doe, and came to be called ?Baby? by the miners in Central City, Colorado. After attracting the attention of wealthy ?Silver King? Horace Tabor of Leadville, she began a very public affair with... more

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Stagecoach West by Ralph Moody

A triumph of Yankee design and ingenuity, the American stagecoach sped over the primitive roads of the western prairies, deserts, and moutains from the gold-rush days of 1849 until the turn of the century. Drawn by four- and six-horse teams and driven by some of the most skillful reinsmen the... more

A triumph of Yankee design and ingenuity, the American stagecoach sped over the primitive roads of the western prairies, deserts, and moutains from the gold-rush days of 1849 until the turn of the century. Drawn by four- and six-horse teams and driven by some of the most skillful reinsmen the the world has ever known, these singular carriages hauled the wealth of a new nation, provided the lines of rapid communication vital to its growth, and helped Americans settle the region between the Missouri and the Pacific in the span of a generation. Their heroic drivers often became stagecoach mogals, cattle barons, sometimes even bandits. They made Sacramento the stagecoach center of the world: in 1853, Californians thrilled to the news of a 160-mile stage race down the Sacramento Valley. The North-South power struggle in Congress delayed stagecoaching across the nation for nearly a decade, for no company could hope to operate over 2000 miles of deserts, mountains, and prairies--teeming with Indians--without governmental support. Each faction, anxious to bind California to its cause, demanded that the stage route be on its side of the Mason-Dixon line. Mining and frontier towns, and the men who ran them; Morman and Indian raids; false gold rushes, bond scandals, and political highjinx are all a part of this story of the stagecoach era. So too are the exploits of the flamboyant William Russell and Ben Holladay--men who would stop at nothing to obtain valuable mail contracts--and of more conventional "bad men" like Black Bart and Jack Slade. Here is the short-lived stagecoaching glory of Wells Fargo, which ordered thirty Concord coaches in a single shipment the year before the cross-country rails met. Here are Horace Greeley "going West," the young Mark Twain on his way to Virginia City, and Calamity Jane riding the Deadwood Mail Stage. One could have few better guides for an excursion into the old West than Ralph Moody, author of "The Old Trails West,""Little Britches," and "Riders of the Pony Express". Since his boyhood on a Colorado ranch, when he knew "Colonel" Robert Spotswood, a famous stage-line operator, and rode with the driver of the mail coach in the mountains, Mr. Moody has been interested in stagecoaching history. He has followed the routes himself, knows the art of reining a six-horse team "Yankee fashion," and has based his account on original sources and painstaking historical research.

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Life in the Rocky Mountains: A Diary of Wanderings on the Sources of the Rivers Misso...

This memoir by adventurer Warren Angus Ferris offers an in-depth and first-hand tale of the Rocky Mountains and its neighboring rivers, as they were during the 1830s. Beginning with an enthusiastic cry of "Westward, Ho!", we are taken on a journey by Ferris, who proves a lively and thoroughly... more

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Yellowstone and the Great West: Journals, Letters, and Images from the 1871 Hayden Ex...

Here, for the first time in paperback, is a fascinating daily record of Ferdinand Hayden’s historic 1871 scientific expedition through Utah, Idaho, and Montana Territories to the Yellowstone Basin. The expedition’s findings quickly led Congress to establish Yellowstone as the... more

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Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico by John L. Kessell

For more than four hundred years in New Mexico, Pueblo Indians and Spaniards have lived "together yet apart." Now the preeminent historian of that region's colonial past offers a fresh, balanced look at the seventeenth-century origins of a precarious relationship. John L. Kessell sets aside... more

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The Real Dirt on America's Frontier Legends by Jim Motavalli

The first in a new Wild West series: Learn the real stories behind the larger-than-life characters of the West. Characters like Daniel Boone, Davy Crocket, “Buffalo Bill” Cody, and Jim Bridger have fascinated the people for generations. But in many cases, the stories we know of... more

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Gold Rush Stories: 49 Tales of Seekers, Scoundrels, Loss, and Luck by Gary Noy & ...

The follow-up to the award-winning Sierra Stories This volume explores the deeply human stories of the California Gold Rush generation, drawing out all the brutality, tragedy, humor, and prosperity as lived by those who experienced it. In less than ten years, more than 300,000 people made the... more

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The Song of the Lark (Great Plains, Bk 2) by Willa Cather

A moving story about a young woman's artistic growth, "The Song of the Lark" (1915) conflates Willa Cather's own childhood experiences with the career of a celebrated Wagnerian soprano of her day. Thea Kronberg is a Scandinavian-American singer who rises from a one-story... more

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Juan Davis Bradburn: A Reappraisal of the Mexican Commander of Anahuac (Essays on the...

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The European Challenge (American Indians) by Time-Life Books

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The First Americans (American Indians) by Time-Life Books (Editor)

A history of the first Americans depicts their everyday life, food, shelter, culture, pottery, crafts, and clothing

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The Mighty Chieftains (American Indians) by Time-Life Books (Editor)

Discusses the varying role of the chief in Native American cultures, and profiles notable leaders from Metacomet ("King Philip") through the nineteenth century, including the Apache chiefs, Chief Joseph, and Plenty Coups

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People of the Desert (American Indians, Bk. 4) by Time-Life Editorial Staff

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Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands: A Young Politician's Quest for Recovery in the Am...

Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands chronicles the turbulent years Roosevelt spent as a rancher in the Badlands of Dakota Territory, following the sudden deaths on February 14, 1884, of his wife, two days after giving birth, and of his mother. Grief-stricken-and driven by doubts about his career... more

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Sitting Bull: His Life and Legacy by Ernie LaPointe

This story of Native American History, told by a Native American, provides a new perspective on the iconic legend Sitting Bull. Now in paperback, this is the only book on Sitting Bull written by a lineal descendant of the famous Hunkpapa Lakota chief. Ernie LaPointe is the great-grandson of... more

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Black West by William Loren Katz

The American West: no period in our history has defined and shaped us more as a nation. Unique to the U.S., the Old West exerts a power on the American imagination that can still be seen in almost every aspect of our culture. Sadly, as is the case with most other periods, historic acknowledgment... more

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Riders of the Pony Express by Ralph Moody

Prior to the Civil War, the fastest mail between the West Coast and the East took almost thirty days by stagecoach along a southern route through Texas. Some Californians feared their state would not remain in the Union, separated so far from the free states. Then businessman William Russell... more

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The Cattle King: The Biography of Henry Miller by Edward F. Treadwell

In 1850 a German immigrant with an adopted name and six dollars in his pocket arrived in San Francisco. Forty years later, Henry Miller was the largest private landowner in the United States, the driving force behind the firm of Miller & Lux, and one of the most powerful men in... more

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Sitting Bull's Boss: Above the Medicine Line with James Morrow Walsh by Ian Anderson

No Native American in U.S. history has provoked more emotion and interest than Sitting Bull. His often misunderstood role in the Battle of the Little Bighorn and his subsequent self-imposed exile have rarely been explored. The events that followed the demise of General George Custer and his 7th... more

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Shotguns and Stagecoaches: The Brave Men Who Rode for Wells Fargo in the Wild West by...

The true stories of the Wild West heroes who guarded the iconic Wells Fargo stagecoaches and trains, battling colorful thieves, vicious highwaymen, and robbers armed with explosives.The phrase "riding shotgun" was no teenage game to the men who guarded stagecoaches and trains the Western... more

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Gatewood & Geronimo by Louis Kraft

The two pre-eminent warriors of the Apache Wars between 1878 and 1886, Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood of the Sixth United States Cavalry and Chiricahua leader Geronimo, respected one another in peace and feared one another in war. Within two years of his posting to Arizona in 1878, Gatewood... more

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Custer and the Cheyenne: George Armstrong Custer's Winter Campaign on the Southern Pl...

224p, illust dj, photos, illus, paintings, maps, footnotes, biblio, index. Excellent reconstruction of George Armstrong Custer's winter campaign on the southern plains. The Washita, of course, but also the entire development and conclusion of the operation,. El Segundo 1995. Volume 5,... more

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Lt. Charles Gatewood & His Apache Wars Memoir by Charles B. Gatewood

Lt. Charles B. Gatewood (1853?96), an educated Virginian, served in the Sixth U.S. Cavalry as the commander of Indian scouts. Gatewood was largely accepted by the Native peoples with whom he worked because of his efforts to understand their cultures. It was precisely this connection between... more

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Arredondo: Last Spanish Ruler of Texas and Northeastern New Spain by Dr. Bradley Fols...

In this biography of Joaqu�n de Arredondo, historian Bradley Folsom brings to life one of the most influential and ruthless leaders in North American history. Arredondo (1776?1837), a Bourbon loyalist who governed Texas and the other interior provinces of northeastern New Spain during the... more

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The Indian Wars by Duane R. Lund

Indian Wars is based on both oral and recorded history and includes all known significant battles and conflicts among Native American tribes and between Native Americans and non-Indians in the center of the North American continent.

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Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow by Dee Brown

The heroes in this extraordinary epic are the Irish labourers and Chinese coolies; the villains, the avaricious bankers and the corrupt politicians. Before the undertaking was complete, more than 155 million acres of land had been given away to railway magnates, the Indian tribes had been... more

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Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping with His Daughter: Coyote Builds North America by B...

In sixty-eight tales from forty-two Native American tribes, Lopez recreates the timeless adventures and rueful wisdom of Old Man Coyote, a hero with a thousand faces, and a thousand tricks. Prankster, warrior, seducer, fool -- Old Man Coyote is the most enduring legend in Native American... more

In sixty-eight tales from forty-two Native American tribes, Lopez recreates the timeless adventures and rueful wisdom of Old Man Coyote, a hero with a thousand faces, and a thousand tricks. Prankster, warrior, seducer, fool -- Old Man Coyote is the most enduring legend in Native American culture. Crafty and cagey -- often the victim of his own magical intrigues and lusty appetites -- he created the earth and man, scrambled the stars and first brought fire . . . and death. Barry Lopez has collected sixty-eight tales from forty-two tribes, and brings to life a timeless myth that abounds with sly wit, erotic adventure, and rueful wisdom. Coyote keeps his name (Okanagon) -- Coyote creates the earth (Crow) -- Coyote makes the human beings (Nez Perce) -- The creation of the Shoshone (Shoshone) -- How Coyote brought fire to the people (Karok) -- Coyote places the stars (Wasco) -- White Crow hides the animals (Kiowa) -- Coyote steals tobacco from Crow (Jicarilla Apache) -- Coyote brings a girl back to life (Quinault) -- Prairie falcon loses (Yokuts) -- The medicines (Menomini) -- The bungling host (Okanagon) -- Coyote and the Bear Women (Arapaho) -- Coyote's son (Naskapi) -- Coyote and Buffalo (Colville) -- Rattlesnake fools with Coyote (Sia) -- The borrowed feathers (Laguna) -- The wood-cutting ducks (Pima) -- Coyote and Sandhill Crane (Jicarilla Apache) -- The tree holders (Menomini) -- Always-Living-at-the-Coast (Kwakiutl) -- Coyote and the fire-leggings (Blackfoot) -- The eye-juggler (Cheyenne) -- Coyote marries a man (Plains Cree) -- Coyote's member keeps talking (Crow) -- The dancing bulrushes (Plains Ojibwa) -- The deceived blind men (Menomini) -- The berries in the stream (Blackfoot) -- Coyote builds a canoe (Tsimshian) -- Coyote and his anus (Nez Perce) -- Coyote and Spider (Southern Ute) -- Coyote and Beaver exchange wives (Cochiti) -- Coyote and Never Grows Bigger (Wichita) -- Coyote shows how he can lie (Jicarilla Apache) -- Coyote cuts his hair (Arapaho) -- Coyote and Skunk kill game (Navajo) -- Fisher teaches Coyote to make music (Mississaga) -- The offended rolling stone (Pawnee) -- Coyote takes himself apart (Takelma) -- Coyote loses some blood (Pawnee) -- Coyote and Mosquito (Jicarilla Apache) -- Possum loses his hair (Cherokee) -- The dead whale (Tsimshian) -- Coyote and Mouse (Crow) -- The sharpened leg (Cheyenne) -- Coyote and Wolverine (Chilcotin) -- Coyote and the bad-medicine woman (Huron) -- Coyote and Rabbit (Jicarilla Apache) -- Whirlwind woman (Arapaho) -- Coyote imitates Mountain Lion (Jicarilla Apache) -- Coyote and his knee (Wichita) -- Coyote marries his daughter (Piegan) -- Coyote, Wren and Grouse (Pend d'Oreille) -- Fox loses his tail (Crow) -- Coyote visits the land of the dead (Nez Perce) -- Coyote gets his head stuck in an elk skull (Gros Ventre) -- Coyote and the mouse girls (Koryak) -- Coyote avenges his death (Nez Perce) -- The hoodwinked dancers (Beaver) -- Coyote swallows Horned Toad (Navajo) -- Coyote visits the women (Assiniboine) -- Coyote gambles (Kalapuya) -- Woodpecker feeds Coyote (Fox) -- Coyote and the mallard ducks (Nez Perce) -- Coyote steals Otter's coat (Cherokee) -- Coyote and Buzzard (Kickapoo) -- Coyote takes water from the Frog People (Kalapuya) -- Coyote finishes his work (Nez Perce)

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Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America by Megan K...

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The Ghost Dance Religion And The Sioux Outbreak Of 1890 by James Mooney

Fourteenth Annual Report Of The Bureau Of Ethnology To The Secretary Of The Smithsonian Institution 1892-93 By J. W. Powell, Director. Part 2.

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Aloha Rodeo: Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World's Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History...

The�triumphant�true�story of the native Hawaiian cowboys who�shocked America at the 1908 world rodeo championships"An inspiring and impeccably crafted story of against-all-odds triumph.? ?Simon Winchester"Groundbreaking. ? Not only a must-read, but an essential addition. ? One of the best single... more

The�triumphant�true�story of the native Hawaiian cowboys who�shocked America at the 1908 world rodeo championships"An inspiring and impeccably crafted story of against-all-odds triumph.? ?Simon Winchester"Groundbreaking. ? Not only a must-read, but an essential addition. ? One of the best single volumes on the rise and diversity of the North American cattle industry and the cowboy culture." ?True WestIn August 1908, three unknown riders arrived in Cheyenne, Wyoming, their hats adorned with wildflowers, to compete in the world?s greatest rodeo. Steer-roping virtuoso Ikua Purdy and his cousins Jack Low and Archie Ka?au?a had travelled 4,200 miles from Hawaii, of all places, to test themselves against the toughest riders in the West. Dismissed by whites, who considered themselves the only true cowboys, the native Hawaiians would astonish the country, returning home champions?and American legends. An unforgettable human drama set against the rough-knuckled frontier, David Wolman and Julian Smith?s�Aloha Rodeo�unspools the fascinating and little-known true story of the Hawaiian cowboys, or paniolo, whose 1908 adventure upended the conventional history of the American West. What few understood when the three paniolo rode into Cheyenne is that the Hawaiians were no underdogs. They were the product of a deeply engrained cattle culture that was twice as old as that of the Great Plains, for Hawaiians had been chasing cattle over the islands? rugged volcanic slopes and through thick tropical forests since the late 1700s.Tracing the life story of Purdy and his cousins, Wolman and Smith delve into the dual histories of ranching and cowboys in the islands, and the meteoric rise and sudden fall of Cheyenne, ?Holy City of the Cow.? At the turn of the twentieth century, larger-than-life personalities like ?Buffalo Bill? Cody and Theodore Roosevelt capitalized on a national obsession with the Wild West and helped transform Cheyenne?s annual Frontier Days celebration into an unparalleled rodeo spectacle, the ?Daddy of ?em All.?The hopes of all Hawaii rode on the three riders? shoulders during those dusty days in August 1908. The U.S. had forcibly annexed the islands just a decade earlier. The young Hawaiians brought the pride of a people struggling to preserve their cultural identity and anxious about their future under the rule of overlords an ocean away. In Cheyenne, they didn?t just astound the locals; they also overturned simplistic thinking about cattle country, the binary narrative of ?cowboys versus Indians,? and the very concept of the Wild West. Blending sport and history, while exploring questions of identity, imperialism, and race,�Aloha Rodeo�spotlights an overlooked and riveting chapter in the saga of the American West.

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The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa), Revised and Updated Edition: Light on the In...

This revised and updated edition contains the most important writings of Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa), the first Native American author to live simultaneously in both the traditional world of the Santee Sioux and the modern civilization of the white man. Dr. Eastman also attended the injured at the... more

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River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West by Rebecca Solni...

The world as we know it today began in California in the late 1800s, and Eadweard Muybridge had a lot to do with it. This striking assertion is at the heart of Rebecca Solnit’s new book, which weaves together biography, history, and fascinating insights into art and technology to create a... more

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Inkpaduta: Dakota Leader by Paul N. Beck

Leader of the Santee Sioux, Inkapduta (1815-1879) partcipated in some of the most decisive battles of the northern Great Plains, including Custer's defeat at the Little Bighorn. But the attack in 1857 on forty white settlers known as the Spirit Lake Massacre gave Inkapaduta the reputation of... more

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Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson by Christina Sny...

In this beautifully written book, prize-winning historian Christina Snyder reinterprets the history of Jacksonian America. Usually, this drama focuses on whites who turned west to conquer a continent, extending liberty as they went. Great Crossings features Indians from across the continent... more

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The Character of Meriwether Lewis: Explorer in the Wilderness by Clay S. Jenkinson

Meriwether Lewis commanded the most important exploration mission in the early history of the United States. Clay S. Jenkinson takes a fresh look at Lewis, not to offer a paper cutout hero but to describe and explain a hyperserious young man of great complexity who found the wilderness of Upper... more

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American Bison: A Natural History (Organisms and Environments, 6) by Dale F. Lott

American Bison combines the latest scientific information and one man's personal experience in an homage to one of the most magnificent animals to have roamed America's vast, vanished grasslands. Dale F. Lott, a distinguished behavioral ecologist who was born on the National Bison Range and has... more

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The Will to Succeed: Stories of Swedish Pioneers by Adolph B. Benson & Editor

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Dark and Tangled Threads of Crime: San Francisco's Famous Police Detective Isaiah W. ...

"He was the greatest criminal catcher the West ever knew." William Plinkerton He came to California with the great Gold Rush, but instead of riches, Isaiah W. Lees discovered his great talent for solving crimes and catching criminals. He captured stage robbers in Missouri, tracked con... more

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Wild West Characters by Dale Pierce

More than one hundred biographical sketches of unique and colorful characters of the Wild West.

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My Early Travels and Adventures in America and Asia (Duckworth Discoverers) by Henry ...

Sir Henry Stanley is most known for his expeditions and explorations in Africa. However, as a journalist he spent much time in other continents before his famous search for Livingstone. In this gripping volume, he writes poignantly about his journeys to the US and particularly about the... more

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Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natura...

John Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold today--that much of California was pristine, untouched wilderness before the arrival of Europeans. But as this groundbreaking book demonstrates, what Muir was really seeing when he admired the grand vistas of Yosemite and the gold and... more

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MEN OF STEAM: Railwaymen in Their Own Words by David Wragg

Few modes of travel have the enduring appeal of steam railways. Today preserved lines, locomotives and rolling stock attract not just expert enthusiasts but more casual visitors who are keen to savour the distinctive atmosphere of a lost era in transport history. Yet these relics are but one... more

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Why Gone Those Times? Blackfoot Tales (Civilization of the American Indian) by James ...

During his long life, James Willard Schultz wrote thirty-eight books that attracted a large following among admirers of western life and history. Here for new readers, and for those already familiar with his work, is a new collection of Schultz's stories, many of them never before... more

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The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday

First published in paperback by UNM Press in 1976, The Way to Rainy Mountain has sold over 200,000 copies. This re-designed edition includes a new Preface. “The paperback edition of The Way to Rainy Mountain was first published twenty-five years ago. One should not be surprised, I suppose,... more

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I Will Fight No More Forever: Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War by Merrill D. Beal

"Hear me, my chiefs, I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I Will Fight No More Forever" - Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce. In this superb summation of the ethnohistory of the (Nez Perce) tribe containing also careful analyses of the... more

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Indian Boyhood by Charles A. Eastman

Indian Boyhood (1902) was the literary debut of Charles A. Eastman (Ohiyesa), a Santee Sioux whose eleven books aimed at bringing whites and Indians closer together. The favorable reception of the autobiographical Indian Boyhood would lead him to write such classic works as Old Indian Days... more

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Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West b...

A fresh history of the West grounded in the lives of mixed-descent Native families who first bridged and then collided with racial boundaries. Often overlooked, there is mixed blood at the heart of America. And at the heart of Native life for centuries there were complex households using... more

A fresh history of the West grounded in the lives of mixed-descent Native families who first bridged and then collided with racial boundaries. Often overlooked, there is mixed blood at the heart of America. And at the heart of Native life for centuries there were complex households using intermarriage to link disparate communities and create protective circles of kin. Beginning in the seventeenth century, Native peoples -- Ojibwes, Otoes, Cheyennes, Chinooks, and others -- formed new families with young French, English, Canadian, and American fur traders who spent months in smoky winter lodges or at boisterous summer rendezvous. These families built cosmopolitan trade centers from Michilimackinac on the Great Lakes to Bellevue on the Missouri River, Bent’s Fort in the southern Plains, and Fort Vancouver in the Pacific Northwest. Their family names are often imprinted on the landscape, but their voices have long been muted in our histories. Anne F. Hyde’s pathbreaking history restores them in full. Vividly combining the panoramic and the particular, Born of Lakes and Plains follows five mixed-descent families whose lives intertwined major events: imperial battles over the fur trade; the first extensions of American authority west of the Appalachians; the ravages of imported disease; the violence of Indian removal; encroaching American settlement; and, following the Civil War, the disasters of Indian war, reservations policy, and allotment. During the pivotal nineteenth century, mixed-descent people who had once occupied a middle ground became a racial problem drawing hostility from all sides. Their identities were challenged by the pseudo-science of blood quantum -- the instrument of allotment policy -- and their traditions by the Indian schools established to erase Native ways. As Anne F. Hyde shows, they navigated the hard choices they faced as they had for centuries: by relying on the rich resources of family and kin. Here is an indelible western history with a new human face. 16 pages of illustrations; 9 maps

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Jim Bridger - Greatest of the Mountain Men by Shannon Garst

This classic book is the biography of Jim Bridger, and would be an excellent addition to the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in American history. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are... more

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David Crockett: The Man and the Legend by James Atkins Shackford

Davy Crockett has been America's best-known folk hero for at least 160 years. This informed biography by James Atkins Shackford first appeared in 1956, at the height of the television-inspired Crockett craze. As Michael Lofaro notes in his introduction, "Shackford faced the monumental task of... more

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The Life and Legend of Jay Gould by Maury Klein

"A wonderful read." -- USA Today"Klein... has delved deep into archives that most previous writers on Gould have ignored, and is able to back up his revisionist assertions with a multitude of telling details." -- New York TimesHe was, for Joseph Pulitzer, "one of the most sinister figures that... more

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The Winchester: The Gun That Built an American Dynasty by Laura Trevelyan

Arguably the world?s most famous firearm, the Winchester repeating rifle was one of the first to fire continuously without needing to be reloaded after every round. Laura Trevelyan, a descendant of the Winchester family, offers an engrossing personal history of the colorful New England clan... more

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Ride the Devil's Herd: Wyatt Earp's Epic Battle Against the West's Biggest Outlaw Gan...

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Butch Cassidy: The True Story of an American Outlaw by Charles Leerhsen

For more than a century the life and death of Butch Cassidy have been the subject of legend, spawning a small industry of mythmakers and a major Hollywood film. But who was Butch Cassidy, really? Charles Leerhsen sorts out facts from folklore and paints a brilliant portrait of the celebrated... more

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Searching for Tamsen Donner (American Lives) by Gabrielle Burton

Tamsen Donner. For most the name conjures the ill-fated Donner party trapped in the snows of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1846?47. Others might know Tamsen as the stoic pioneer woman who saw her children to safety but stayed with her dying husband at the cost of her own life. For Gabrielle... more

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The Journals of Alexander MacKenzie: Exploring Across Canada in 1789 1793 by Alexand...

Alexander Mackenzie (1763-1820), explorer and fur trader, was possibly the first white man to cross continental North America. He traveled mostly by canoe, determining his longitude by observing the eclipses of the planet Jupiter's satellites. He made two trips: one to the Arctic Ocean in 1789,... more

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Jefferson's America: The President, The Purchase and The Explorers who Transformed a ...

The surprising story of how Thomas Jefferson commanded an unrivaled age of American exploration—and in presiding over that era of discovery, forged a great nation. At the dawn of the nineteenth century, as Britain, France, Spain, and the United States all jockeyed for control of the... more

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Unsettling the West: Eliza Farnham and Georgiana Bruce Kirby in Frontier California (...

California during the gold rush offered many strange sights, but few were as startling as the arrival of two women activists in Santa Cruz in 1850. When Eliza Farnham and Georgiana Bruce Kirby showed up to work on the farm dressed in bloomers and boots, the townsfolk were amazed. It was shocking... more

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They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush by JoAnn Levy

In the literature of the Gold Rush, women have been generally neglected. Freelance writer Levy here corrects that oversight with a colorful account of intrepid female argonauts--with and without men. She draws on letters, journals and reminiscences for a fresh view of western history. The women... more

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Daughter of Joy by Joann Levy

Winner of the 1999 WILLA Literary Prize for Best Historical Fiction. This is the story of the famed gold rush courtesan Ah Toy. The first Chinese woman to use the American courts, she even testified against the powerful tongs then gaining a foothold in California's Chinese society.

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Blacks in Gold Rush California (Yale Western Americana Series) by Rudolph M. Lapp

By 1860, twelve years after the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill, more than five thousand American blacks had made the difficult trek to California in search of quick wealth. The part that they played in this epic adventure has been too long ignored. Here for the first time Rudolph Lapp... more

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Voices of the Winds: Native American Legends by Margot Edmonds & Ella E. Clark &a...

An anthology of more than 130 Native American legends representative of many different tribes and organized by geographical regions across the United States. Each legend is introduced with a headnote and many are accompanied by a drawing.

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American Axe: The Tool That Shaped a Continent by Brett McLeod

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Krieghoff by John Russell Harper

Cornelius Krieghoff (1815-1872) is one of the most popular and well-known Canadian painters. His work was greatly appreciated in his lifetime and continues to captivate new audiences today. Krieghoff's subject matter was Canadians, French Canadians, Native peoples, and landscapes - mostly people... more

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The Father of Glacier National Park: Discoveries and Explorations In His Own Words by...

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Peter Strickland: New London Shipmaster, Boston Merchant, First Consul to Senegal by ...

This is the first biography of Capt. Peter Strickland, a little-known Connecticut Yankee who crossed the Atlantic 100 times in command of a sailing vessel, traded with French and Portuguese colonies during the period 1864-1905, and served as the first American consul to French West... more

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All roads lead to Deadwood by Irma H Klock

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Sioux Women: Traditionally Sacred by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve

All tasks of women cooking, caring for children, tanning and sewing were considered dignified and worthwhile. No work was looked upon as menial, consequently there were no menial workers. Luther Standing Bear, 1931 Sioux women are the center of tribal life and the core of the tiospaye, the... more

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Recollections of Early Texas: The Memoirs of John Holland Jenkins (Personal Narrative...

"John Holland Jenkins was thirteen and a half years old when the Alamo fell in 1836 and he became a soldier of the Texas Republic under General Sam Houston.... [But] it was not until 1884, when he was past sixty years old, that he began writing down . . . the reminiscences that, as now put... more

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Lighting Out For the Territory: How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain ...

In the very last paragraph of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the title character gloomily reckons that it’s time “to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest.” Tom Sawyer’s Aunt Sally is trying to “sivilize” him, and Huck Finn... more

In the very last paragraph of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the title character gloomily reckons that it’s time “to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest.” Tom Sawyer’s Aunt Sally is trying to “sivilize” him, and Huck Finn can’t stand it -- he’s been there before. It’s a decision Huck’s creator already had made, albeit for somewhat different reasons, a quarter of a century earlier. He wasn’t even Mark Twain then, but as Huck might have said, “That ain’t no matter.” With the Civil War spreading across his native Missouri, twenty-five-year-old Samuel Clemens, suddenly out of work as a Mississippi riverboat pilot, gladly accepted his brother Orion’s offer to join him in Nevada Territory, far from the crimsoned battlefields of war. A rollicking, hilarious stagecoach journey across the Great Plains and over the Rocky Mountains was just the beginning of a nearly six-year-long odyssey that took Samuel Clemens from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Hawaii, with lengthy stopovers in Virginia City, Nevada, and San Francisco. By the time it was over, he would find himself reborn as Mark Twain, America’s best-loved, most influential writer. The “trouble,” as he famously promised, had begun. With a pitch-perfect blend of appreciative humor and critical authority, acclaimed literary biographer Roy Morris, Jr., sheds new light on this crucial but still largely unexamined period in Mark Twain’s life. Morris carefully sorts fact from fiction -- never an easy task when dealing with Twain -- to tell the story of a young genius finding his voice in the ramshackle mining camps, boomtowns, and newspaper offices of the wild and woolly West, while the Civil War rages half a continent away. With the frequent help of Twain’s own words, Morris follows his subject on a winding journey of selfdiscovery filled with high adventure and low comedy, as Clemens/Twain dodges Indians and gunfighters, receives marriage advice from Brigham Young, burns down a mountain with a frying pan, gets claim-jumped by rival miners, narrowly avoids fighting a duel, hikes across the floor of an active volcano, becomes one of the first white men to try the ancient Hawaiian sport of surfing, and writes his first great literary success, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.” Lighting Out for the Territory is a fascinating, even inspiring, account of how an unemployed riverboat pilot, would-be Confederate guerrilla, failed prospector, neophyte newspaper reporter, and parttime San Francisco aesthete reinvented himself as America’s most famous and beloved writer. It’s a good story, and mostly true -- with some stretchers thrown in for good measure.

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Gun Barons: The Weapons That Transformed America and the Men Who Invented Them by Joh...

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Pioneer Children on the Journey West by Emmy E. Werner

Between 1841 and 1865, some forty thousand children participated in the great overland journeys from the banks of the Missouri River to the shores of the Pacific Ocean. In this engaging book, Emmy Werner gives 120 of these young emigrants, ranging from ages four to seventeen, a chance to tell... more

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The Way of the Warrior: Stories of the Crow People by Barney Old Coyote

With vigor and insight, Crow elders tell their favorite stories of the exploits of memorable leaders from years past in The Way of the Warrior. Rousing adventures and unforgettable warriors inhabit these tales: the impetuous Rabbit Child, who rushes to his fate as he keeps a sacred vow; the rise... more

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Adventures of a Mountain Man: The Narrative of Zenas Leonard by Zenas Leonard

In the spring of 1830, Zenas Leonard, a native of Clearfield, Pennsylvania, embarked on an expedition across the Rocky Mountains, in the capacity of clerk to the company of trappers. One misfortune after another happening to the company, he was deprived of all in the fall of 1835, after an... more

In the spring of 1830, Zenas Leonard, a native of Clearfield, Pennsylvania, embarked on an expedition across the Rocky Mountains, in the capacity of clerk to the company of trappers. One misfortune after another happening to the company, he was deprived of all in the fall of 1835, after an absence of five years and six months. Written in response to popular demand, Leonard's account of these years, based in large part on a minute journal of every incident that occurred, is recognized as one of the fundamental sources on the exploration of the American West. A free trapper until the summer of 1833, when he entered the employ of Captain B. L. E. Bonneville, Leonard was part of the group sent under command of Captain Joseph Walker to explore the Great Salt Lake region, an expedition that resulted in Walker's finding the overland route to California. The Narrative ends in August 1835, with Leonard's return to Independence. Zenas Leonard (March 19, 1809 - July 14, 1857) was an American mountain man, explorer and trader, best known for his journal Narrative of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard. Leonard worked for his uncle in Pittsburgh before moving to St. Louis and working as a clerk for the fur company, Gant and Blackwell. In 1831 he went with Gant and Blackwell's company of about 70 men on a trapping and trading expedition. Living off the land (Leonard reported that "The flesh of the Buffaloe is the wholesomest and most palatable of meat kind"), Leonard and his associates endured great privation while amassing a fortune in furs. The horses died in the harsh winter and the party was at times near starvation. They survived, in part, by trading with Native Americans. Among the more helpful tribal members he reported encountering was a negro who claimed to have been on Lewis and Clark's expedition, and who may have been the explorer-slave York. In 1835 Leonard returned to Independence, Missouri, with enough wealth in furs to establish a store and trading post at Fort Osage. He continued to trade along the river for the rest of his life. Leonard's journal was published in book form by D.W. Moore of Clearfield, Pennsylvania, in 1839, after being serialized in the Clearfield Republican. It includes many details of the different tribes with which his parties interacted. As it is in the public domain, there are numerous reprints.

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Women of the Earth Lodges: Tribal Life on the Plains by Virginia Bergman Peters

In Women of the Earth Lodges, Virginia Peters uses women’s accounts, myths and creation stories, and anthropological and archaeological data to examine the influence and vitality of Plains Indian women. She demonstrates that village life was organized around women’s labor and the... more

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In the Shadow of Billy the Kid: Susan McSween and the Lincoln County War by Kathleen ...

The events of July 19, 1878, marked the beginning of what became known as the Lincoln County War and catapulted Susan McSween and a young cowboy named Henry McCarty, alias Billy the Kid, into the history books. The so-called war, a fight for control of the mercantile economy of southeastern New... more

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Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter by Tom Clavin

The definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City. In July 1865, "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, MO?the first quick-draw duel on the frontier. Thus began the reputation that made him... more

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Six Years With the Texas Rangers by James B. Gillett

In the spring of 1875, J. B. Gillett enlisted in Company D of the Texas Rangers, at the tender age of seventeen. He spent the next six years living the adventurous frontier life: fighting Indians, bringing the Ranger's brand of law to the frontier, and having a glorious time sleeping under the... more

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Historic Native Peoples of Texas by William C. Foster

Several hundred tribes of Native Americans were living within or hunting and trading across the present-day borders of Texas when Cabeza de Vaca and his shipwrecked companions washed up on a Gulf Coast beach in 1528. Over the next two centuries, as Spanish and French expeditions explored the... more

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Digging in the Southwest: Archeological Explorations in 1923 Arizona by Ann Axtell Mo...

After Ann Morris graduated from Smith College, she married Earl Halstead Morris, and together they became the glamour couple of 1920s American archeology, living in a tent in Arizona's Canyon of the Dead for a season. In an era when wives rarely accompanied their scientist husbands into the... more

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The Montana Cowboy: An Anthology of Western Life by Wanda Rosseland

The Montana Cowboy brings together true stories of real cowboys and cowgirls from across the Treasure State. Cowboys who have chased wild horses in the Missouri River badlands, ridden through freezing blizzards, and followed the roundup wagons while branding calves in the spring and gathering in... more

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Five Years a Cavalryman: Or Sketches of Regular Army Life on the Texas Frontier, Twen...

Excerpt from Five Years a Cavalryman: No apology is needed for these sketches, but a word regarding them may be in place. The last few years have witnessed an overwhelming ﬂood of literature pertaining to the late war, but little, however, has ever been written illustrating phases of the... more

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Soldiers West by Paul Andrew Hutton (Editor)

Soldiers West : biographies from the military frontier These biographies emphasize the wide diversity of style, temperament, activity, and occupation of frontier soldiers. Included are William Clark, Stephen H. Long, William S. Harney, James Henry Carleton, Philip H. Sheridan, George... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Passage to the World: The Emigrant Experience 1818-1939 by Kevin Brown

From the early nineteenth century onwards, millions of people left their homes to cross the seas. Some, like the convicts transported from England to Australia, had no choice; others like the indentured Indian and Chinese laborers had almost no alternative; but the vast majority of emigrants... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Murder in Tombstone: The Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp (The Lamar Series in Western H...

The gunfight at the OK Corral is legendary?but what happened once the shooting ended? This book tells the nearly unknown story of the prosecution of Wyatt Earp, his brothers, and Doc Holliday following the gunfight and shows how a talented defense attorney saved them from the gallows. "[One of... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Grey Fox: The True Story of Bill Miner -- Last of the Old-Time Bandits by Mark Du...

Miner's criminal career began in the 1860s and ended in 1911, two years before his death in prison. A gentleman robber of trains and stagecoaches, never a murderer, he believed that the railroad companies robbed the public and that he therefore had a right to rob them back. Although Dugan... more

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Tom Custer: Ride To Glory by Carl F. Day

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Scoundrels, Dreamers and Second Sons: British Remittance Men in the Canadian West by ...

Between 1880 and 1914, thousands of British remittance men came to the Canadian West, urged overseas by a rapidly changing British society. In a land of cowboys and loggers, their attempts to recreate the aura of landed gentry were sometimes misunderstood - and often ridiculed. Many... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

A Dynasty of Western Outlaws by Paul I. Wellman

The organized gangs of robbers and killers who roamed the Midwest and Southwest from the 1860s to the 1930s went to the same school and were succored by each other's notoriety. So Paul I. Wellman makes a case for "the contagious nature of crime." William Quantrill and his... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Middle Ground : Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1...

This book seeks to step outside the simple stories of Indian/white relations--stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans and Indians met, regarding each other as alien, as... more

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The Wisdom of the Native Americans by Kent Nerburn (Editor)

Subtitle: Including the Soul of an Indian and Other Writings by Ohiyesa, and the Great Speeches of Red Jacket, Chief Joseph, and Chief Seattle These thought-provoking teachings from respected Native American leaders and thinkers provide a connection with the land, the environment, and... more

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On the Border with Crook (Expanded, Annotated) by John Gregory Bourke

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Agnes Lake Hickok: Queen of the Circus, Wife of a Legend by Linda A. Fisher & Car...

The first woman in America to own and operate a circus, Agnes Lake spent thirty years under the Big Top before becoming the wife of Wild Bill Hickok--a mere five months before he was killed. While books abound on the famous lawman, Agnes's life has remained obscured by circus myth and legend. ... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Element Encyclopedia of Native Americans: An A to Z of Tribes, Culture, and Histo...

A comprehensive guide to the history, culture, and religious beliefs and practices of America's native people, The Element Encyclopedia of Native Americans tells the varied and colourful stories of the tribes, their greatest leaders, wars, pacts, and the long-lasting impact that their profound... more

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Texas Indian Myths & Legends by Jane Archer

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525

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

A Glorious Defeat: Mexico and Its War with the United States by Timothy J. Henderson

The war that was fought between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 was a major event in the history of both countries: it cost Mexico half of its national territory, opened western North America to U.S. expansion, and brought to the surface a host of tensions that led to devastating... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Native American Myth Legend: An A-Z of People and Places by Mike Dixon-Kennedy

Here's all the Native American myths and legends--presented in a single volume! Spanning the vast land mass from the inhospitable Arctic ice flows in the north to the warm Caribbean sands and tropical Amazon rain forest, to the harsh, windswept Tierra del Fuego in the south, the lore of the... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting by W. T. Hamilto...

Of course I knew how to scalp, and soon accomplished the feat, much to his satisfaction, for he said, ?You are broke in now. You will do.? Following the doctor?s orders for a change of climate, in 1842 William Hamilton found himself accompanying a party of trappers on a year-long expedition. ... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Rooster: The Life and Time of the Real Rooster Cogburn, the Man Who Inspired True Gri...

Franklin "Rooster" Cogburn was born in 1866 in Fancy Hill, Arkansas, the descendant of pioneers and moonshiners. Six foot three, dark eyed, and a dead shot with a rifle, he was as hard as the rocky mountain ground his family settled. Though he never packed a badge, Rooster meted out his own... more

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Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast by Joan...

The secret history of the rebellious Frenchwomen who were exiled to colonial Louisiana and found power in the Mississippi Valley In 1719, a ship named La Mutine (the mutinous woman), sailed from the French port of Le Havre, bound for the Mississippi. It was loaded with urgently needed goods... more

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In Mountain Shadows: A History of Idaho by Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes

Idaho is now seen as one of the most intriguing and attractive states in the Union. Any view of the Gem State is likely to be broadened and deepened by this superbly written history of it, In Mountain Shadows. Carlos A. Schwantes illustrates the extent to which Idahoans have always been divided... more

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Western Tales : Treasury of Western Folklore by B.A. Botkin

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Mysterious Life and Faked Death of Jesse James: Based on Family Records, Forensic...

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533

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Captivity of the Oatman Girls: Being an Interesting Narrative of Life among the Apach...

A dramatic true story of captivity on the American frontier. In 1851, on route to California in a covered wagon, the Oatman family was brutally attacked by Apache Indians. Six family members were murdered on sight, one boy was left for dead, who escaped afterward, and two young girls, Mary Ann... more

A dramatic true story of captivity on the American frontier. In 1851, on route to California in a covered wagon, the Oatman family was brutally attacked by Apache Indians. Six family members were murdered on sight, one boy was left for dead, who escaped afterward, and two young girls, Mary Ann and Olive, were taken captive. Mary Ann, the younger of the two girls, died of starvation in 1852. Olive, however, spent five years in captivity before an incredible rescue. In 1856, she was discovered living among the Mohave tribe, and a ransom was offered in exchange for her release. After years of slavery and bearing a prominent blue tattoo traditional to the Mohave people on her face, Olive was restored to her only living family member, Lorenzo Oatman, the brother who survived. This book was originally commissioned by Lorenzo Oatman as a factual record of his sisters? fates, based on true events. The story is one of tragedy and loss, at times fascinating and also horrifying. This edition includes illustrations and Olive?s own observations about the customs of her captors and the geography of the land. The dramatic yet somber words of Lorenzo and Olive, as recorded by Royal B. Stratton, bring readers into the thrilling immediacy of the Apache attack, Lorenzo?s escape, the tragic moment when Olive watches Mary Ann die, and most importantly into the final, happy rescue as Olive is reunited with her brother. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

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Bold Women in Montana History by Beth Judy

From the Blackfeet warrior Running Eagle to the stereotype-smashing librarian Alma Jacobs, the eleven women portrayed in this engaging book were indeed bold breaking down barriers of sexism, racism, and political opposition to emerge as heroines of their time. The third in this Mountain... more

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The War of the Copper Kings by C. B. Glasscock

Greed and corruption, bribery and fraud, insiders getting fabulously rich while workers get robbed. Sound familiar? That was the great battle for Butte, Montana, at the dawn of the twentieth century when it was the richest hill on earth. Copper was the treasure, eagerly sought for wiring the... more

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Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1850 by Kenneth L. ...

The personal diaries of women crossing America in covered wagons told of the ingenuity, courage, bravery , loneliness, fear, boredom, excitement and danger they encountered. They were called "overlanders." Margaret Frink's diary was a great discovery describing her observations of... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

My Life as an Indian: The Story of a Red Woman and a White Man in the Lodges of the B...

?A rip-roaring yarn and a dazzling glimpse into a vanished past.? ? The New York Times In the year 1880, James Willard Schultz left the comfort of his home in St. Louis, bound for adventure in the Far West. Fired by the writings of Lewis and Clark?s Journal, The Oregon Trail,... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Gamblers (The Old West) by Editors of Time-Life Books

This volume examines the role of gambling on the American frontier: among the Indians, on the rivers, in the mining camps, and in the boom towns.... The book is packed with interesting anecdotes, and covers the race track and boxing ring, lotteries and steamboat racing, as well as all of the... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca by Andre Resendez

In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong: Delayed by a hurricane, knocked off course by a colossal error of navigation, and ultimately doomed by a disastrous decision to separate the men from their ships, the mission quickly became a... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Indians of the Rio Grande Delta: Their Role in the History of Southern Texas and Nort...

Certain to become a standard reference in its field, Indians of the Rio Grande Delta is the first single-volume source on these little-known peoples. Working from innumerable primary documents in various Texan and Mexican archives, Martin Salinas has compiled data on more than six dozen... more

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Texian Iliad: A Military History of the Texas Revolution, 1835-1836 by Stephen L. Har...

Hardly were the last shots fired at the Alamo before the Texas Revolution entered the realm of myth and controversy. French visitor Frederic Gaillardet called it a "Texian Iliad" in 1839, while American Theodore Sedgwick pronounced the war and its resulting legends "almost burlesque." In this... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Chisholm Trail: A History of the World's Greatest Cattle Trail by Sam Ridings

The Chisholm Trail is one of the most famous cattle trails of the Old West. It ran for eight hundred miles, from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas, and was instrumental in creating the famous image of the cowboy. But how was this trail created? Who devised its route? And why were the... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Savage Frontier: 1838-1839: Rangers, Riflemen, And Indian Wars in Texas (Savage Front...

This second volume of the "Savage Frontier" series focuses on two of the bloodiest years of fighting in the young Texas Republic, 1838 and 1839. By early 1838, the Texas Rangers were in danger of disappearing altogether. Stephen L. Moore shows how the major general of the new Texas Militia... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn: A Lakota History by Joseph M. Marshall III

The author of The Journey of Crazy Horse presents a legendary battle through the eyes of the Lakota The saga of ?Custer?s Last Stand? has become ingrained in the lore of the American West, and the key players?Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and George Armstrong Custer?have grown to larger-than-life... more

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Native American Myth Legend: An A-Z of People and Places by Mike Dixon-Kennedy

Here's all the Native American myths and legends--presented in a single volume! Spanning the vast land mass from the inhospitable Arctic ice flows in the north to the warm Caribbean sands and tropical Amazon rain forest, to the harsh, windswept Tierra del Fuego in the south, the lore of the... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Divina Lola/ Divine Lola (Spanish Edition) by Cristina Morató

La apasionante biograf�a de Lola Montes como la falsa espa�ola que quiso ser reina. Muchos han o�do hablar de Lola Montes, pero pocos saben en realidad qui�n fue: una bailarina aventurera y gran viajera que encandil� a toda una �poca, una mujer adelantada a su tiempo que vivi� una vida de... more

La apasionante biograf�a de Lola Montes como la falsa espa�ola que quiso ser reina. Muchos han o�do hablar de Lola Montes, pero pocos saben en realidad qui�n fue: una bailarina aventurera y gran viajera que encandil� a toda una �poca, una mujer adelantada a su tiempo que vivi� una vida de novela. Con una inteligencia y belleza arrolladoras, Lola fue capaz de reinventarse y luchar para salir adelante en un mundo de hombres. Bajo una falsa identidad, su vida fue una sucesi�n de excentricidades y esc�ndalos. Sin apenas conocimientos de baile logr� llegar a lo m�s alto como bailarina, debutando en los teatros m�s importantes de las capitales europeas. Se code� con los literatos, pol�ticos, m�sicos y arist�cratas m�s populares de la �poca, como Alejandro Dumas padre, George Sand o el m�sico Liszt, con quien vivi� un intenso romance. Y, sobre todo, enamor� al rey Luis I de Baviera, quien la hizo condesa y acab� abdicando por ella. Divina Lola nos traslada a escenarios ex�ticos y remotos, desde su Irlanda natal a la India, donde vivi� en Calcuta y Dinapore; a ciudades como Par�s, Londres, M�nich, donde deslumbr� con sus �bailes espa�oles�, y a las peligrosas tierras de California y Australia, donde vivi� como una intr�pida pionera. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The fascinating biography of Lola Montes, the fake Spaniard who wanted to be queen. Many have heard of Lola Montes, but few know who she really was: an adventurous dancer and world traveler who dazzled an entire era, a woman ahead of her time who lived a fairytale life. With great intelligence and breathtaking beauty, Lola was able to reinvent herself and become successful in a world led by men. Under a false identity, her life was a series of eccentricities and scandals. With very little dancing knowledge and abilities, she managed to become a top dancer, debuting in the most prominent theaters in Europe. Her social circle was filled with the most popular writers, politicians, musicians, and nobles of the time, such as Alexander Dumas, George Sand, or the musician Liszt, with whom she had a passionate love affair. And, above all, she made King Ludwig I of Bavaria fall in love with her; he named her Countess and ended up abdicating the throne for her.

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Civil War in the Southwest: Recollections of the Sibley Brigade (Canesco-Keck History...

In 1861 and 1862, in the vast deserts and rugged mountains of the Southwest, eighteen hundred miles from Washington and Richmond, the Civil War raged in a struggle that could have decided the fate of the nation. In the summer and fall of 1861, Gen. Henry Hopkins Sibley raised a brigade of... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson (New Edition) by Raymond W. Thorp Jr. &...

The movie Jeremiah Johnson introduced millions to the legendary mountain man, John Johnson. The real Johnson was a far cry from the Redford version. Standing 6'2" in his stocking feet and weighing nearly 250 pounds, he was a mountain man among mountain men, one of the toughest customers... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Wood Eternal: The Story of Osage Orange, Bois d'Arc, etc. by Fred Tarpley

Maclura pomifera, commonly known as Osage orange, bois d'arc, or as forty other common names is a fascinating American tree, with hundreds of usages and an intriguing history. First known outside Indians lands in 1804, he tree that had supplied Native Americans with bow wood later became the... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Horse in Blackfoot Indian Culture: With Comparative Material from Other Western T...

Much of the factual information on which this study is based was supplied by elderly, fullblood Piegan and Blood Indian informants, whose knowledge of the functions of horses in the late years of buffalo days was solidly grounded in personal experiences. These old people really loved horses and... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Spanish Expeditions into Texas, 1689-1768 by William C. Foster

Mapping old trails has a romantic allure at least as great as the difficulty involved in doing it. In this book, William Foster produces the first highly accurate maps of the eleven Spanish expeditions from northeastern Mexico into what is now East Texas during the years 1689 to 1768. Foster... more

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552

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Kiowa Military Societies: Ethnohistory and Ritual (Civilization of the American India...

Warrior culture has long been an important facet of Plains Indian life. For Kiowa Indians, military societies have special significance. They serve not only to honor veterans and celebrate and publicize martial achievements but also to foster strong role models for younger tribal members. To... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Salish People and the Lewis and Clark Expedition by Salish-Pend d'Oreille Culture...

On September 4, 1805, in the upper Bitterroot Valley of what is now western Montana, more than four hundred Salish people were encamped, pasturing horses, preparing for the fall bison hunt, and harvesting chokecherries as they had done for countless generations. As the Lewis and Clark Expedition... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Adventures of the Woman Homesteader: The Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewa...

Generations of readers have delighted in Elinore Pruitt Stewart's Letters of a Woman Homesteader (1914) and Letters on an Elk Hunt (1915), among the most engaging accounts of life in the American West. Stewart related her adventures on an isolated Wyoming homestead with such vividness,... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Twilight of Empire by Allan W. Eckert

Sixth in the successful "Narrative on America" series, this continues the tragic story of the taking of land from the Native Americans. Vividly recounting the battles of the Black Hawk War, two characters emerge--William Henry Harrison, and Chief Black Hawk himself. HC: Little, Brown.

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Lewis & Clark: Voyage of Discovery by Stephen E. Ambrose & Sam Abell (Photographe...

Lewis and Clark’s Voyage of Discovery defined the American spirit like no other event of the 19th century. Now, in celebration of its bicentennial, Stephen E. Ambrose offers a refreshing look at the explorers and their legendary journey in this edition of Lewis & Clark: Voyage of... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Tipi: Home of the Nomadic Buffalo Hunters by Paul Goble

Award-winning author Paul Goble examines the construction, art, and significance of the tipi to the Plains Indians in his newest book, entitled Tipi: Home of the Nomadic Buffalo Hunters. Through a re-telling of the old-timer's stories, Goble shows how the tipi was more than just a home, but an... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Navajo Sacred Places by Klara Bonsack Kelley & Harris Francis

The Navajo see even the most minute parts of their homelands and surrounding territory as infused with sacred significance. Places of special power are the most alive, and stories usually go with them. Navajos visit these places to connect with their power. The places anchor the ways of Navajo... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

By His Own Hand? The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis by John D. W. Guice (Editor...

Foreword / by Elliott West -- Preface / by John D.W. Guice -- Introduction: Meriwether Lewis's mysterious death on the Natchez Trace / Clay S. Jenkinson -- "I fear the weight of his mind has over come him": the case for suicide / James J. Holmberg -- "It seems to be more... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Coyote Stories of the Montana Salish Indians by Montana Historical Society Press

Here are traditional Salish Indian coyote stories, recorded by Salish elders and illustrated by Indian artists from the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana. Written at a fourth grade level, these legends are meant to be enjoyed by people of all ages--from three to eighty-three--just... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Frontiersmen (Narratives of America, Bk 1) by Allan Eckert

Driven from their homeland, the Indians fought bitterly to keep a final stronghold east of the Mississippi. Savage cunning, strength, skill, and knowledge of the wilderness were their weapons, and the Indians used them mercilessly. But they couldn't foresee the white... more

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INDIAN WAR VETERANS: Memories of Army Life and Campaigns in the West, 1864-1898 by Je...

Indian War Veterans: Memories of Army Life and Campaigns in the West, 1864-1898�presents the first comprehensive collection of veteran (primarily former enlisted soldiers') reminiscences. The vast majority of these writings have never before seen wide circulation.Now in paperback, Indian War... more

Indian War Veterans: Memories of Army Life and Campaigns in the West, 1864-1898�presents the first comprehensive collection of veteran (primarily former enlisted soldiers') reminiscences. The vast majority of these writings have never before seen wide circulation.Now in paperback, Indian War Veterans addresses soldiers' experiences throughout the area of the trans-Mississippi West. As readers will quickly discover, the depth and breadth of coverage is truly monumental. Topics include recollections of fighting with Custer and mutilating the dead at Little Bighorn, the Fetterman fight, the Yellowstone Expedition of 1873, battles at Powder River and Rosebud Creek, fighting Crazy Horse at Wolf Mountains, Geronimo and the Apache wars, the Ute and Modoc wars, Wounded Knee, and much more. The remembrances also include selections as diverse as "Christmas at Fort Robinson," "Service with the Eighteenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry," and "Chasing the Apache Kid."These carefully drawn recollections come from a wide array of sources, including manuscript and private collections, veterans' scrapbooks, obscure newspapers, and private veterans' statements. A special introductory essay about Indian war veterans contains new material about their post-service organizations all the way into the 1960s.Complementing the riveting entries are dozens of previously unpublished photographs. Readers will also find a gallery of never-before-seen full-color plates displaying a wide variety of Indian war veterans' badges, medals, and associated materials.No other book discusses the post-army lives of these men or presents their recollections of army life as thoroughly as Jerome Greene's Indian War Veterans. This groundbreaking study will appeal to lay readers, historians, site visitors, and interpreters, Civil War and Indian wars enthusiasts, collectors, museum curators, and archeologists. REVIEWS "A groundbreaking study that will appeal to those interested in the Plains Indian wars, the history of the central and western plains, and late nineteenth century America. It is a superb piece of scholarship and writing." - Kansas History"A treasure-trove of original sources on the Indian wars, an essential addition to every library on the subject." - Paul A. Hutton, University of New Mexico, and the author of Phil Sheridan and His Army and The Custer Reader

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Forty Miles a Day on Beans and Hay: The Enlisted Soldier Fighting the Indian Wars by ...

The enlisted men in the United States Army during the Indian Wars (1866-91) need no longer be mere shadows behind their historically well-documented commanding officers. As member of the regular army, these men formed an important segment of our usually slighted national military continuum... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Warriors of the Plains: The Arts of Plains Indian Warfare (Artistic Traditions in Wor...

Warriors of the Plains explores the art of North American Plains Indian warriors - weapons, amulets, clothing and ceremonial objects - with particular emphasis on their ritual use and symbolic meanings. Unlike most books on Plains Indians, which have a purely historical focus, this title... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Pretty-Shield: Medicine Woman of the Crows by Frank B. Linderman

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Lige Mounts, Free Trapper by Frank B. Linderman

In 1822 Elijah Mounts, barely eighteen, shoulders his rifle and walks from his uncle's Missouri farm to Saint Louis to seek his fortune in the fur trade. Frank B. Linderman's 1922 novel is a first-person account, based on a true story and his own trapping experience, of a young man's coming of... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West by Pete...

Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History After the Civil War the Indian Wars would last more than three decades, permanently altering the physical and political landscape of America. Peter Cozzens gives us both sides in comprehensive and singularly intimate detail. He illuminates... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace by John C. Duval

William A. Wallace (1816?1899) went from his native Virginia to Texas in 1836, shortly after the battle of San Jacinto, "for the purpose . . . of taking pay out of the Mexicans for the murder of his brother and cousin." His experiences as a hunter, Indian fighter, member of the Mier Expedition... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Life of "Big Foot" Wallace: The Great Ranger Captain by A. J. Sowell

"Big Foot" Wallace was one of Texas's most famous folk heroes in the days of the republic and the years thereafter. He was captured at the Mier Expedition, survived the drawing of the black beans, and spent months in the Mexican prison of Perote. First published in 1899, this book allows... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Texas Indian Fighters by A. J. Sowell

Originally published in 1900 as Early Settlers and Indian Fighters of Southwest Texas, this volume has been praised by reviewers for more than a century. J. Frank Dobie said it is "meaty with the character of ready-to-fight but peace-seeking Texas pioneers." Joe B. Frantz, renowned Texas... more

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A Warrior I Have Been: Plains Indian Cultures in Transition by Richard Green

This catalog of Plains Indian material culture is a wonderful reference source for anyone interested in learning about Plains Indians lifestyle. Richard Green's enclosed exhibition traces the evolution of Plains Indian art and culture from early times to the present, and includes material... more

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The Black Legend: George Bascom, Cochise, and the Start of the Apache Wars by Doug Ho...

In 1861, war between the United States and the Chiricahua seemed inevitable. The Apache band lived on a heavily traveled Emigrant and Overland Mail Trail and routinely raided it, organized by their leader, the prudent, not friendly Cochise. When a young boy was kidnapped from his... more

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New Women in the Old West: From Settlers to Suffragists, an Untold American Story by ...

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Crow Dog : Four Generations of Sioux Medicine Men by Leonard Crow Dog & Richard E...

From Leonard Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes comes a compelling account detailing the unique experiences and spiritual knowledge accumulated by four generations of powerful medicine men. The first Crow Dog, Jerome, a contemporary of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, was a witness to the coming of... more

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Gall: Lakota War Chief by Robert W. Larson

Called the "Fighting Cock of the Sioux" by U.S. soldiers, Gall was a great Hunkpapa Lakota chief who, along with Sitting Bull, resisted efforts by the U.S. government to annex the Black Hills. Enraged by the slaughter of his family, Gall led the charge across Medicine Tail Ford to attack... more

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Lakota Portraits: Lives of the Legendary Plains People by Joseph Agonito

A moving, thoughtful, beautifully illustrated look at the lives of men and women who helped shape the history of the Lakota people and the American West�Lakota Portraits weaves together vignettes of Lakotas, including both prominent and ordinary individuals, to tell the story of the Lakota... more

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The Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890 by Rani-Henrik Andersson

A�broad range of perspectives from Natives and non-Natives makes this book the most complete account and analysis of the Lakota ghost dance ever published. A revitalization movement that swept across Native communities of the West in the late 1880s, the ghost dance took firm hold among the... more

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Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America by Leila Philip

An intimate and revelatory dive into the world of the beaver—the wonderfully weird rodent that has surprisingly shaped American history and may save its ecological future. From award-winning writer Leila Philip, BEAVERLAND is a masterful work of narrative science writing, a book that... more

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The Indians of Texas: From Prehistoric to Modern Times by William Wilmon Newcomb

This book covers the history of the Indian tribes who lived in Texas at the beginning of the colonial period.

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German Artist on the Texas Frontier: Friedrich Richard Petri by William Wilmon Newcom...

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The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America by H. W. Brands

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Rainy Lake House: Twilight of Empire on the Northern Frontier by Theodore Catton

In September 1823, three men met at Rainy Lake House, a Hudson?s Bay Company trading post near the Boundary Waters. Dr. John McLoughlin, the proprietor of Rainy Lake House, was in charge of the borderlands west of Lake Superior, where he was tasked with opposing the petty traders who operated... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Portrait of a Lawman: U. S. Deputy Marshal Heck Thomas by Bonnie Stahlman Speer

U.S. Deputy Marshal Heck Thomas was a man of exceptional courage, instrumental in capturing Sam Bass, the Dalton and Doolin gangs. But this book is not so much about Thomas' exploits as a fearless lawman; rather it is a revealing picture of his life as a warm and caring human being. Indexed and... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Buffy Sainte-Marie: It's My Way by Blair Stonechild

Buffy Saint-Marie is a symbol of the free expression movement of the 1960s and her powerful songs inspired countless people seeking hope and change. Her life has been one of transitions; from songwriter to famous intellectually-oriented folk and protest singer, to country and western and rock... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days by Noah Smithwick

A blacksmith and a tobacco smuggler, Noah Smithwick made weapons for the Battle of Concepcion, and he fought in that battle. With Hensley's company, he chased the Mexican army south of the Rio Grande after the Battle of San Jacinto. Twice he served with the Texas Rangers. In quieter times, he... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Road (Jack London) by Jack London

The Road by Jack London - The Road is an autobiographical memoir by Jack London, first published in 1907. It is London's account of his experiences as a hobo in the 1890s, during the worst economic depression the United States had experienced up to that time. He describes his experiences hopping... more

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The Battle of Wisconsin Heights, 1832: Thunder on the Wisconsin by Patrick Jung

The brief war that Black Hawk waged against the United States in 1832 saw half of the people under his leadership killed in savage massacres and the entire Sauk tribe removed to Iowa. Yet this dismal outcome cannot obscure the superb military leadership that Black Hawk demonstrated during many... more

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The Battle of Wisconsin Heights: An Eye-Witness Account of the Black Hawk War of 1832...

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

In Geronimo's Footsteps: A Journey Beyond Legend by Corine Sombrun & Harlyn Geron...

The name "Geronimo" came to Corine Sombrun insistently in a trance during her apprenticeship to a Mongolian shaman. That message and the need to understand its meaning brought her to the home of the legendary Apache leader's great-grandson, Harlyn Geronimo, himself a medicine man on the... more

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Westward the Women by Nancy Wilson Ross

WESTWARD THE WOMEN is a book about women of every kind and sort, from nuns to prostitutes, who participated in the greatest American adventure―pioneering across the continent. Not only does the material represent half-forgotten history―which the author garnered from attics,... more

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When Buffalo Ran: A Frontier Classic of Childhood on the Plains by George Bird Grinne...

When Buffalo Ran tells the story of a young, mid nineteenth century Plains Indian, named Wikis. As Wikis grows, he encounters many wild buffalo and enemy tribes. Along the way, he is guided by his uncle, a mentor and tutor, who teaches him all the necessary skills to become an Indian... more

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Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America by Megan K...

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The Art of the Native American Flute by R. Carlos Nakai & James Demars & Davi...

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The Greatest Cowboy Stories Ever Told: Enduring Tales of the Western Frontier by Step...

Tales of the adventure and influence of a timeless American character. Stories include: Life in cattle country / Frederic Remington The trouble man / Eugene Manlove Rhodes Sugar / Tom McGuane The kid / Walter Noble Burns A Mexican plug / Mark Twain Jack Hildreth among the... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild by Lee Sandlin

A riveting narrative look at one of the most colorful, dangerous, and peculiar places in America's historical landscape: the strange, wonderful, and mysterious Mississippi River of the 19th century. Beginning in the early 1800s and climaxing with the siege of Vicksburg in 1863,... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Hopi Tales of Destruction by Unknown Author

Hopi Tales of Destruction preserves seven powerful tales about ancient Hopi villages that now lie in ruins. These narratives shed considerable light on the Hopis' past, giving insight into cultural values and social motivations beyond the ability of archaeology. The tales concern such villages... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Broadsides: The Age of Fighting Sail, 1775-1815 by Nathan Miller & Nathan Miller

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR BROADSIDES "Pace the pitching black deck with a sleepless Admiral Nelson the night before battle bestows eternal rest and peerless immortality upon him; envision with Mahan the storm-tossed and ever-watchful ships-of-the-line that kept England secure from invasion; wonder... more

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Galveston and the 1900 Storm by Patricia Bellis Bixel & Elizabeth Hayes Turner

The Galveston storm of 1900 reduced a cosmopolitan and economically vibrant city to a wreckage-strewn wasteland where survivors struggled without shelter, power, potable water, or even the means to summon help. At least 6,000 of the city's 38,000 residents died in the hurricane. Many observers... more

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Hidden Faces (Native Nations) by Edward S. Curtis & Christopher Cardozo (Compiler...

Mythologies and rites of Native Americans fascinated enthographer/photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis. During his journeys in the United States, Canada, and Alaska, from the 1890s through to the 1930s, these aspects of tribal life, recorded extensively on film and in text, played a large part in... more

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Maverick: The American Name That Became a Legend by Lewis F. Fisher

By definition, a maverick is a ?lone dissenter? who ?takes an independent stand apart from his or her associates? or ?a person pursuing rebellious, even potentially disruptive policies or ideas.? The word maverick has evolved in the English language from being the term for an unbranded stray... more

By definition, a maverick is a ?lone dissenter? who ?takes an independent stand apart from his or her associates? or ?a person pursuing rebellious, even potentially disruptive policies or ideas.? The word maverick has evolved in the English language from being the term for an unbranded stray calf to a label given to a nontraditional person to a more extreme ?uncontrollable individualist, iconoclast, unstable nonconformist.? The word has grown into an adjective (?he made a maverick decision?) and become a verb (mavericking or mavericked). Of all the words that originated in the Old West and survive to the present day, author Lewis Fisher notes, maverick has been called the least understood and most corrupted. But where did the word come from? The word?s definition is still such a mystery that Merriam-Webster lists it in the top 10 percent of its most-looked-up words. All of the origin stories agree it had something to do with Samuel A. Maverick and his cattle, but from there things go amok rather quickly. Was Sam Maverick a cattle thief? A legendary nonconformist who broke the code of the West by refusing to brand his calves? A Texas rancher who believed branding cattle was cruelty to animals? A runaway from South Carolina who branded all the wild cattle he could find and ended up with more cattle than anyone else in Texas? Samuel A. Maverick was a notable landholder and public figure in his own time, but his latter-day fame is based on the legend that he was a cattle rancher. No amount of truth-telling about maverick seems to have slowed the tall tales surrounding the word?s origination. Maverick: The American Name That Became a Legend is a whodunit, a historical telling of the man who unwittingly inspired the term, the family it?s derived from, the cowboys who embraced it as an adjective meaning rakish and independent, the curious inquirers intrigued by its narrative, and the appropriators who have borrowed it for political fame. Texas historian (and secondhand Maverick by marriage) Lewis Fisher has combed through Maverick family papers along with cultural memorabilia and university collections to get at the heart of the truth behind the far-flung Maverick legends. Maverick follows the history of the word through the ?Maverick gene? all the way to Hollywood and uncovers the mysteries that shadow one of our country?s iconic words. Taken as a whole, the book is a fascinating portrayal of how we form, use, and change our language in the course of everyday life, and of the Maverick family?s ongoing relationship to its own contributions, all seen through the lens of a story featuring cowboys, Texas Longhorns, rustlers, promoters, movie stars, athletes, novelists, lawyers, mayors, congressmen, and senators?to say nothing of named maverick brands ranging from Ford cars and air-to-ground missiles to computer operating systems, Vermont maple syrup, and Australian wines. Ironically, given its literal meaning as unbranded, maverick is a brand name that helped shape the history of the American West and represents the ideal of being true to oneself.

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Food Plants of Coastal First Peoples (Handbook (Royal British Columbia Museum).) by N...

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Pacific Destiny and Bear Flag Rising: Two Chronicles of the Quest to Claim the Americ...

Historian Dale L. Walker chronicles the early days of the American Pacific Northwest in two engrossing accounts, now available in one volume: Pacific Destiny and Bear Flag Rising. Pacific Destiny: The Three-Century Journey to the Oregon Country Pacific Destiny chronicles the discovery,... more

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An Elusive Victory : the Battle of the Big Hole by Aubrey L. Haines

Montana, Nez Percé Indians -- Wars, 1877. Prologue and epilogue by Jack R. Williams.

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The Lady and the Mountain Man: Isabella Bird, Rocky Mountain Jim, and their Unlikely ...

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The Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley (Oklahoma Western Biographies, Volume 7) by Glend...

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Stampede: Gold Fever and Disaster in the Klondike by Brian Castner

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane: Deadwood Legends (South Dakota Biography) by Jame...

Myths surround these two Wild West legends synonymous with the town of Deadwood. Although Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane spent only a few weeks in Deadwood at the same time, their fame and fate have become intertwined and their relationship legendary. James D. McLaird examines the... more

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The Western River Steamboat (Studies in Nautical Archaeology, No. 8) by Adam I. Kane

The first Western steamboat was built in 1811 in Pittsburgh, and thousands more were constructed in the years before the Civil War. These waterborne vehicles helped define the nineteenth-century trans-Appalachian West. Decades of incremental changes created a distinctive watercraft, and the... more

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Poems of the American West (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) by Unknown Author

In this provocative and insightful anthology, many voices join in celebrating the remarkably vast and varied American West. The verse collected here ranges from Indian tribal lyrics to nineteenth-century folksongs like "The Streets of Laredo," from country-western lyrics to the poems of such... more

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Western Places, American Myths: How We Think About the West (Wilbur S. Shepperson Ser...

Despite countless past attempts to describe and analyze it, the American West retains an enigmatic quality that continues to attract and intrigue us. As Gary J. Hausladen, editor of "Western Places, American Myths," states, "The power and importance of the American West, ambiguous... more

Despite countless past attempts to describe and analyze it, the American West retains an enigmatic quality that continues to attract and intrigue us. As Gary J. Hausladen, editor of "Western Places, American Myths," states, "The power and importance of the American West, ambiguous or not, cannot be overstated. Not just a real geographical region, the West is a mythic concept that repeatedly transcends simple historical-geographical description. For Americans, the West is part of our psyche, an essential part of who we are as a people." The essays in "Western Places, American Myths" are the work of a dozen scholars from several disciplines, all examining the West as both an actual region and as an enduring element of American culture, demonstrating how today's West is the result of a long and continuous process, a constant reinvention and redefining of place. Their essays address such topics as the role of the West in the development of the scholarly discipline of historical geography; the changing role of the ranch and the rancher in Western culture and economy; the role of the West in the development of the National Park System; and the impact of conflicting systems of land tenure and concepts of space on Western development-those of the Native Americans and those of the Anglo-European settlers. The region's minorities are not unnoticed, as evidenced by ruminations on the role of Mormon theology and culture in shaping settlement patterns and the economy of the Intermountain states; the mainstreaming of Hispanic popular culture; the changing role of Native Americans in regional politics and development; and the impact of Western realities on traditional gender roles, as exemplified by the adventures of nineteenth-century British travel writer Isabella Bird. Nor is the mythic quality of the West left unexamined. There are essays on the evolution of gambling in the West, from frontier pastime to economic mainstay; on ghost towns as an element of the West's past and present image; and on the ways that Western films both reflect and shape the myth of the region; and a color photo essay illuminates the visual power of the West's mythic and perceived spiritual qualities. On its own, each essay in this collection makes a powerful contribution to our understanding of the modern West. As a collection, the essays offer a provocative and engaging commentary on the complexity, vitality, tensions, and ceaseless change that characterize this vast and myth-haunted region. For anyone who might think that there is nothing new that can be said about the West, "Western Places, American Myths" rewards its reader with exciting new perspectives and insights, reminding us that the West still contains "mythic places that help us come to grips with our national identity and who we are as a people."

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The Mississippi Steamboat Era in Historic Photographs : Natchez to New Orleans, 1870-...

Considered among the finest photographs of the Mississippi ever taken, 170 recently discovered photographs offer vivid, detailed, beautifully composed images of major steamboats, picturesque river towns, landings, floods, cargoes, great waterway itself. Detailed, informative text. Index.... more

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Famous Sheriffs and Western Outlaws: Incredible True Stories of Wild West Showdowns a...

This in-depth collection, unchanged since the 1940s, tells of the most legendary heroes and villains of the Old West. Get swept back to a time when sheriffs did their best to keep order in a lawless land. Read about the likes of Tom Horn, the “Apache Kid,” “Bucky”... more

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The Illustrated Life and Times of Billy the Kid (2nd Revised Edition) by Bob Boze Bel...

How many movies would you go to see about an outlaw named Henry the kid? probably not 44, which is how many Hollywood has made so far about Henry McCarty, the boy Outlaw who use the Alias Billy Bonnie of course we know him today is Billy the Kid. If you saw the Young Gun movies or any of the... more

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A Wyatt Earp Anthology: Long May His Story Be Told by Unknown Author

Wyatt Earp is one of the most legendary figures of the nineteenth-century American West, notable for his role in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. He was a product of his time, often walking both sides of the street, sometimes on the side of law and order and sometimes as... more

Wyatt Earp is one of the most legendary figures of the nineteenth-century American West, notable for his role in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. He was a product of his time, often walking both sides of the street, sometimes on the side of law and order and sometimes as the law-breaker. Some see him as the ?Lion of Tombstone,? a hero lawman of the Wild West, whereas others see him as yet another outlaw, a pimp, and failed lawman. Roy B. Young, Gary L. Roberts, and Casey Tefertiller, all notable experts on Earp and the Wild West, present in A Wyatt Earp Anthology an authoritative account of his life, successes, and failures. The editors have curated an anthology of the very best work on Earp?more than sixty articles and excerpts from books?from a wide array of authors, selecting only the best written and factually documented pieces and omitting those full of suppositions or false material. Nearly all of the selections come from the last twenty years, when a more critical eye was turned to sources of Earp history. Many articles derive from the five stellar western publications dedicated to preserving the history of the American West: True West, Wild West, WOLA Journal, NOLA Quarterly, and the Journal of the Wild West History Association. Earp?s life is presented in chronological fashion, from his early years to Dodge City, Kansas; triumph and tragedy in Tombstone; and his later years throughout the West. Important figures in Earp?s life, such as Bat Masterson, the Clantons, the McLaurys, Doc Holliday, and John Ringo, are also covered. Wyatt Earp?s image in film and the myths surrounding his life, as well as controversies over interpretations and presentations of his life by various writers, also receive their due. Finally, an extensive epilogue by Gary L. Roberts explores Earp and frontier violence. Readers of the Old West will appreciate this well-balanced, comprehensive account of the life, legend, and legacy of the incomparable Wyatt Earp. �

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The River of the West: Adventures of Joe Meek (Classics of the Fur Trade) by Frances ...

Joe Meek was one of the West's irresistible characters-dashing, devil-may-care, cheeky, irreverent, more fun than a playful grizzly cub. Meek comes down to us not as a myth, says Blevins, but as "simply a right kind of fella." It is our good luck that Joe knew how to yarn his mountain... more

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Triggernometry: A Gallery of Gunfighters by Eugene Cunningham

Stories about the gunfighters of the old West--particularly legends like Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, and Wyatt Earp--tend to be filled with colorful exaggerations. Eugene Cunningham's stories are a different matter altogether. A Western man himself, Cunningham stands apart from other... more

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Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of th...

From the author of THE REVENANT – the book that inspired the award-winning movie – comes the fascinating story of America’s first battle over the environment. In the last three decades of the nineteenth century, an American buffalo herd once numbering 30 million animals was... more

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Far From the Shamrock Shore: The Story of Irish-American Immigration Through Song by ...

From the lush green hills of their homeland to the cramped ghettoes of industrialized cities an ocean away, from the famine-ravaged fields of Ireland to the community dance halls in America, the Irish documented their history through song.Far from the Shamrock Shore tells the story of Irish... more

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Girl from the Gulches: The Story of Mary Ronan by Ellen Baumler

A covered wagon on a dim road, the promise of a long journey, and the wonder of what lay ahead filled the shadowy spaces of Mary Sheehan Ronan's earliest memories. By the time she was a married woman in her twenties, she was a well-seasoned pioneer, having crossed most of the country and... more

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Recollections of a Handcart Pioneer of 1860: A Woman's Life on the Mormon Frontier by...

In the summer of 1860 the author of these recollections, Mary Ann Stucki, then six years old, walked beside her parents’ handcart from Florence (Omaha), Nebraska, to Salt Lake City, Utah. The family, converts to Mormonism, had left their comfortable home near Bern, Switzerland, to make the... more

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Moss Bluff Rebel: A Texas Pioneer in the Civil War (Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life)...

'I was not willing, but finally agreed...' So wrote Texas pioneer cattle drover William Berry Duncan in his March 1862 diary entry, the day he joined the Confederate Army. Despite his misgivings, Duncan left his prosperous business to lead neighbors and fellow volunteers as commanding officer of... more

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Atlas of the North American Indian by Carl Waldman

This unique resource covers the entire history, culture, tribal locations, languages, and lifeways of Native American groups across the United States, Canada, Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Thoroughly updated throughout, Atlas of the North American Indian combines clear and... more

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Texas Jack: America's First Cowboy Star by Matthew Kerns

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Kit Carson and His Three Wives: A Family History (Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western ...

Kit Carson (1809-1868) has long held a prominent place in the popular imagination of the American West. However, little is known about his family life thanks largely to Carson's own guardianship of his privacy. After almost four decades devoted to researching Kit Carson's personal life, Marc... more

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The Life of Kit Carson by Alan E Grey

Kit Carson, the quintessential frontiersman, is remembered as a larger-than-life mountain man, explorer, trapper, guide, soldier, Indian agent, officer, hunter, and rancher. Now you can know the real man, the story behind the tales of adventure. The Life of Kit Carson takes a narrative approach... more

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Butcher's Crossing (New York Review Books Classics) by John Williams

In the 1870s, Will Andrews, a young man from a proper eastern family drops out of Harvard to go west. Intoxicated by the heady fumes of Emersonian transcendentalism, he seeks that "original relation" to Nature celebrated by the sage of Concord. He knows he is not going to find it in... more

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Butcher's Crossing (University of Arkansas Press Reprint Series) by John Edward Willi...

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Death at the Little Bighorn: A New Look at Custer, His Tactics, and the Tragic Decisi...

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Boy Captives by Clinton L. Smith

From Back Cover: This true narrative of the only known brothers to survive the hardships of captivity by hostile Indians is undistorted by contemporary historical interpretation and unfolds in diary-like fashion as if the author were speaking to you in person.

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Amerindian Rebirth: Reincarnation Belief Among North American Indians and Inuit by Un...

Until now few people have been aware of the prevalence of belief in some form of rebirth or reincarnation among North American native peoples. This collection of essays by anthropologists and one psychiatrist examines this concept among native American societies, from near the time of contact... more

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Pretty-Shield: Medicine Woman of the Crows by Frank B. Linderman

Pretty-shield, the legendary medicine woman of the Crows, remembered what life was like on the Plains when the buffalo were still plentiful. A powerful healer who was forceful, astute, and compassionate, Pretty-shield experienced many changes as her formerly mobile people were forced to come to... more

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Buffalo Jones' Adventures on the Plains by Charles Jesse Jones & Henry Inman (Com...

Charles Jesse "Buffalo" Jones (1844-1919) was an American frontiersman, farmer, rancher, hunter, and conservationist. He cofounded Garden City, Kansas. He is cited by the National Archives as one of the "preservers of the American bison". He was also the first game... more

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Woman Walking Ahead: In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull by Eileen Pollack

This book restores a little-known advocate of Indian rights to her place in history. In June 1889, a widowed Brooklyn artist named Catherine Weldon traveled to the Standing Rock Reservation in Dakota Territory to help Sitting Bull hold onto land that the government was trying to wrest from his... more

This book restores a little-known advocate of Indian rights to her place in history. In June 1889, a widowed Brooklyn artist named Catherine Weldon traveled to the Standing Rock Reservation in Dakota Territory to help Sitting Bull hold onto land that the government was trying to wrest from his people. Since the Sioux chieftain could neither read nor write English, he welcomed the white woman�s offer to act as his secretary and lobbyist. Her efforts were counterproductive; she was ordered to leave the reservation, and the Standing Rock Sioux were bullied into signing away their land. But she returned with her teen-age son, settling at Sitting Bull�s camp on the Grand River. In recognition of her unusual qualities, Sitting Bull�s people called her Toka heya mani win, Woman Walking Ahead.Predictably, the press vilified Weldon, calling her �Sitting Bull�s white squaw� and accusing her of inciting Sitting Bull to join the Ghost Dance religion then sweeping the West. In fact, Weldon opposed the movement, arguing that the army would use the Ghost dance as an excuse to jail or kill Sitting Bull. Unfortunately she was right. Up to now, history has distorted and largely overlooked Weldon�s story. In retracing Weldon�s steps, Eileen Pollack recovers her life and compares her world to our own. Weldon�s moving struggle is a classic example of the misunderstandings that can occur when a white woman attempts to build friendships across cultural lines and assist the members of an oppressed minority fighting for their rights.�A wonderful poignance, a bittersweetness, the haunting loneliness of the plains hangs over this �search� . . . a fascinating project.�--Peter Nabokov�A fascinating story, well told and engaging. It will be eagerly embraced in the area of women�s studies and will find interested readers in history and anthropology, as well as a large general audience.�-Raymond DeMallieAn exploration of the life and times of a white woman who became Sitting Bull�s advocate and friend, living on the reservation with the chief and his family during the final year of his life.

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Built in Texas (Publications of the Texas Folklore Society) by Francis Edward Abernet...

A book of folk building in Texas, that ranges across the state in word and photograph. It explores the pine buildings of settlers in East Texas, those of oak in the Western Cross Timbers, and the rock homes of European migrants into Central Texas. West Texans of the Pecos, who had neither rocks... more

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Remember This!: Dakota Decolonization and the Eli Taylor Narratives (Contemporary Ind...

Situating Dakota language and oral tradition within the framework of decolonization, Remember This! Dakota Decolonization and the Eli Taylor Narratives makes a radical departure from other works in Indigenous history because it relies solely on Indigenous oral tradition for its primary sources... more

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Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railro...

Empire’s Tracks boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes, and the Chinese migrants who toiled on its path. In this meticulously researched book, Manu Karuka situates the... more

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The Cahuilla Indians by Harry C. James

History and lore of the Indian tribe which inhabits the San Jacinto Mountains area in Southern California.

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Phil Sheridan and His Army by Paul Andrew Hutton

Philip H. Sheridan's reputation in the Civil War often overshadows his longer and more significant roles as the nation's chief Indian fighter and commander of the army. Phil Sheridan and His Army is the first comprehensive biography and study of that later career. Formed by his... more

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Cowboy Life: The Letters of George Philip by George Philip

Philip's tales emphasize the simple pleasures and hard work of cowboy life. His writing details the cowboy's day-to-day work, from from branding and roping to navigating across the plains by stars and buttes as the great open range slowly closes up.

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Puebloan Ruins of the Southwest by Arthur H. Rohn & William M. Ferguson

Puebloan Ruins of the Southwest offers a complete picture of Puebloan culture from its prehistoric beginnings through twenty-five hundred years of growth and change, ending with the modern-day Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and Arizona. Aerial and ground photographs, over 325 in color, and sixty... more

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Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier (Okla...

When originally published in 1998, Cavalier in Buckskin met with critical acclaim. Now Robert M. Utley has revised his best-selling biography of General George Armstrong Custer. In his new edition, Utley writes about his summers (1947-1952) spent as a historical aide at the Custer Battlefield -... more

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The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull by Robert M. Utley

As for Indians who made peace with the whites and took their presents, they had better do as he did -- go to the buffalo country, eat plenty of meat, and when they needed a horse go to some fort and steal one. "Look at me," he challenged some listening Assiniboines. "See if I am poor, or my... more

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William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life by James Lee McDonough

A major new biography of one of America?s most storied military figures. General Sherman?s 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Yet Sherman proved far more complex than his legendary military tactics reveal. James Lee McDonough offers fresh insight into a man... more

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Buffalo Bill's Wild West: An American Legend by R. L. Wilson & Greg Martin

No theme in history has captured the imagination like the American West, and no presentation of the drama?surpassed the original Wild West shows. In this unparalleled theater, the cast of characters were themselves authentic heroes: Buffalo Bill Cody, Texas Jack Omohundro, Wild Bill Hickok,... more

No theme in history has captured the imagination like the American West, and no presentation of the drama?surpassed the original Wild West shows. In this unparalleled theater, the cast of characters were themselves authentic heroes: Buffalo Bill Cody, Texas Jack Omohundro, Wild Bill Hickok, Captain A. H. Bogardus, Annie Oakley, Doc Carver ("Evil Spirit of the Plains"), Lillian Smith, Captain Jack Crawford ("Poet Scout of the Plains"), Sitting Bull and hordes of Indians, Pawnee Bill, and May Lillie. These pioneer stars and superstars were predecessors to the Western film and television personalities of later times, and to the troupe in the contemporary extravaganza at Disneyland/Paris. ?? Buffalo Bill's Wild West is a panoramic celebration of these colorful characters, who created the image of the West for Americans, and for the world. The book also celebrates the exciting and often flamboyant accoutrements and costumes, which were part and parcel of the stars' public appearance, and honors such characters as William Mathewson, recognized even by Cody himself as the "original Buffalo Bill." ???? The lavish illustrations feature the Michael Del Castello Collection of the American West, with portfolios of treasures from the Buffalo Bill Museum (Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming) and the Autry Museum of Western Heritage (Los Angeles). Cody and his contemporaries made the West come alive to millions through their Wild West show tours of Europe and America. Lavishly illustrated and unsurpassed in its authenticity, Buffalo Bill's Wild West is a collector's item for anyone interested in the most fascinating array of all objects of Americana, and in the uniquely colorful saga of the West. From the original Wild West shows of P. T. Barnum in Hoboken, New Jersey, to the spectacular entertainments of such headliners as Buffalo Bill and Annie Oakley, see the arms and accessories of the adventurers who charmed the crowned heads of Europe and brought America's Wild West culture to the world--in the process helping to make Colt, Winchester, Wells Fargo, and the West into American legends. ?? In this unique volume, the authors have produced the most spectacular, lavish, and detailed illustrated tribute ever to Buffalo Bill and his Wild West show-business originals. ?? Buffalo Bill's Wild West is an unmatched chronicle drawn upon decades of research and collecting, augmented with images by master photographers Peter Beard and Douglas Sandberg, and period photo-graphs and archival material from museums and private collections, particularly that of Michael Del Castello--featured at the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds, in the summer 1999 loan exhibition "Buffalo Bill's Wild West." ?? In over 225 color plates and 160 black-and-white illustrations, with in-depth text and captions, the colorful arms, posters, photo-graphs, costumes, saddles, accoutrements, stagecoaches, and, for the first time, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Winchester Ammo Wagon, are brought to life. The extraordinary, exquisitely detailed illustrations include more than 50 posters and advertising broadsheets, over 100 rare cabinet card photographs, innumerable historic firearms, advertising art and trade cards, and show-business memorabilia. ?? All the renowned exhibition shooters are presented: Buffalo Bill Cody, Annie Oakley, Frank Butler, Doc Carver, Johnny Baker, Pawnee Bill, Lillian Smith, Captain A. H. Bogardus and sons, Captain E. E. Stubbs, Curtis Liston, Arizona Joe, and many more--all of them sports and entertainment luminaries of their day. ???? Designed as a companion volume to the bestselling Colt: An American Legend; Winchester: An American Legend; The Peacemakers; Steel Canvas; and Ruger & His Guns, this new work covers a fascinating period in history and entertainment that will never be seen again.

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The Daring Trader: Jacob Smith in the Michigan Territory, 1802-1825 by Kim Crawford

A fur trader in the Michigan Territory and confidant of both the U.S. government and local Indian tribes, Jacob Smith could have stepped out of a James Fennimore Cooper novel. Controversial, mysterious, and bold during his lifetime, in death Smith has not, until now, received the attention he... more

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Conflict on the Michigan Frontier: Yankee and Borderland Cultures, 1815-1840 by James...

Schwartz examines how Michigan settlers blended New England culture with life on the frontier. In the early 19th century, the pioneers who came from New England to the Northwest Territory envisioned themselves taming the wilderness. As they cleared the forests for their crops and livestock,... more

Schwartz examines how Michigan settlers blended New England culture with life on the frontier. In the early 19th century, the pioneers who came from New England to the Northwest Territory envisioned themselves taming the wilderness. As they cleared the forests for their crops and livestock, these settlers also sought to transform the social landscape for the cultivation of their own moral values, political beliefs, and cultural institutions. Using Michigan as a case study, James Schwartz explains how settlers employed both legal tactics and moral suasion to impose their vision of a civilized society. Yankees were concerned not only with the barbarism of the Native Americans in Michigan but also with the savagery of the territory's white inhabitants who violated the norms of genteel society. Michigan leaders sought to eliminate this compound threat by establishing two kinds of boundaries - formal legal barriers and informal restraints. Combining these elements of civic culture allowed settlers to enact laws while also placing emphasis on families, schools, community groups, and print culture to reestablish social norms in a new environment. The elected legislature passed anti-vice laws to control drunks and gamblers while it debated ways in which to curb unscrupulous speculators and avaricious bankers. Meanwhile crusaders advocated religious instruction and education to civilize the state's youth. "Conflict on the Michigan Frontier" touches on one of the oldest debates in American history: whether westerners created new cultures or simply transplanted those in which they had been raised. Schwartz concludes that, while efforts to transform the physical and social landscape of the Northwest Territory generally succeeded, Michigan's settlers blended New England and the frontier, establishing a landscape that resembled, but was not identical to, that of the East. Despite the focus on Michigan, Schwartz's study sheds important new light on how settlers transplanted eastern culture not just to the Midwest, but to the entire American frontier.

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Follow Me to Hell: McNelly's Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice by Tom Cl...

Tom Clavin's Follow Me to Hell is the explosive true story of how legendary Ranger Leander McNelly and his men brought justice to a lawless Texan frontier. In turbulent 1870s Texas, the revered and fearless Ranger Leander McNelly led his men in one dramatic campaign after another, throwing... more

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Kit Carson Days, 1809-1868: Adventures in the Path of Empire, Volume 1 (Revised Editi...

Volume 1 of Kit Carson Days shows Carson running away from his Missouri home at age fifteen in 1826. He joins a caravan headed toward Santa Fe and in the coming years shuttles between poverty and prosperity as a wrangler, teamster, and trapper. He lives all over the unplotted West, helping to... more

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Kit Carson Days, 1809-1868: Adventures in the Path of Empire, Volume 2 by Edwin L. Sa...

Volume 2 begins with Carson carrying the news of the conquest of California across the country to Washington, D.C., stopping en route to see his wife in Taos, New Mexico. The older Carson consolidates his fame as a courier, scout, soldier, and Indian agent. Americans, avid for newfound gold,... more

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Mariner: A Theological Voyage with Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Studies in Theology and t...

Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is often regarded as having heralded the beginning of the Romantic era in British literature. The poem narrates the story of a sailor who has returned home from a... more

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Black Bart, Boulevardier Bandit by George Hoeper

Subtitle: The Saga of California's Most Mysterious Stagecoach Robber and the Men Who Sought to Capture Him California Gold Country historian George Hoeper reveals what promises to be the final piece to the 100-year-old puzzle of the infamous stagecoach robber Black... more

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The Chosen Folks: Jews on the Frontiers of Texas by Bryan Edward Stone

Texas has one of the largest Jewish populations in the South and West, comprising an often-overlooked vestige of the Diaspora. The Chosen Folks brings this rich aspect of the past to light, going beyond single biographies and photographic histories to explore the full evolution of the Jewish... more

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Lawman: The Life and Times of Harry Morse, 1835-1912 by John Boessenecker

Harry Morse - gunfighter, manhunter, and sleuth - was among the West’s most famous lawmen. Elected sheriff of Alameda County, California, in 1864, he went on to become San Francisco’s foremost private detective. His career spanned five decades. In this gripping biography, John... more

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The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century (America ...

A comprehensive examination of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic portrait of a world in flux. J�rgen Osterhammel, a scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronological accounts of the... more

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Dan Rice: The Most Famous Man You've Never Heard Of by David Carlyon

Dan Rice had many lives. He was a pig presenter, a strongman, a lecturer, and a comic singer, all before joining the dazzling world of the circus. In 1855, he created Dan Rice's Great Show. Labeling himself the "Great American Humorist," he toured the country and spoke out on issues of the day... more

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A Way Through the Wilderness: The Natchez Trace and the Civilization of the Southern ...

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Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims by Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins

This autobiographical work was written by one of the country's most well-known Native American women, Sarah Winnemucca. She was a Paiute princess and a major figure in the history of Nevada and her tribe which lived and still resides primarily in the state. Life Among the Piutes... more

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Comparing Cowboys & Frontiers by Richard W. Slatta

A collection of essays that offers a "how-to" guide to comparative frontier research in the Americas. The popular Old West cowboy is joined by the gaucho, llanero, vaquero, and charro as Slatta compares and contrasts their work techniques, forms of entertainment, equipment, diets, lingo, and vices.

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Cowboys of the Americas (Yale Western Americana Series) by Richard W. Slatta

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Cowboy: The Illustrated History by Richard W. Slatta

Here?s a book as big and beautiful as the West itself, dedicated to the larger-than-life figure who symbolizes the American spirit. Whether the straight-shooting hero from a John Wayne movie or the lawless gunslinger spreading mayhem, the cowboy lassos the imagination and just won?t let go. On... more

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Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend by Ron J. Jackson Jr. & Lee Spencer Whi...

If we do in fact “remember the Alamo,” it is largely thanks to one person who witnessed the final assault and survived: the commanding officer’s slave, a young man known simply as Joe. What Joe saw as the Alamo fell, recounted days later to the Texas Cabinet, has come down to... more

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Bull Trains to Deadwood by Chuck Cecil

Pandemonium wafted up out of Deadwood Gulch whenever bellowing, muddy oxen teams led wagons rattling into town. For a decade, thousands of bull trains hauled all that miners, settlers and ne'er-do-wells needed to survive in that isolated prairie oasis. The bulls, thousands of them in... more

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Sea Otter Chiefs by Michael P. Robinson

The only existing set of histories of 3 great Canadian Northeast Indian chiefs and the sea otter fur trade.

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Hugh Glass: Grizzly Survivor (South Dakota Biography Series) by James D. McLaird

The most famous grizzly-bear attack in the history of the American West took place in 1823 and left Glass struggling for life. Setting out on a journey of revenge and forgiveness, he eventually crawled 200 miles across the plains back to civilization. The story of Hugh Glass has provided fertile... more

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Red Cloud: Oglala Legend (South Dakota Biography) by John D. McDermott

No Indian of modern times can compare with him in ability, courage and statecraft. Denver Times, 16 April 1902 A celebrated warrior who led his people to victory on the battlefield, Red Cloud was also a skilled diplomat who transitioned the Oglala Sioux to reservation life. In Red Cloud:... more

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Seth Bullock: Black Hills Lawman (South Dakota Biography) by David A. Wolff

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The Wisconsin Frontier (A History of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier) by Mark Wyman

From 17th-century French coureurs de bois to lumberjacks of the 19th century, Wisconsin's frontier era saw thousands arriving from Europe and other areas seeking wealth and opportunity. Indians mixed with these newcomers, sometimes helping and sometimes challenging them, often benefiting from... more

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Soldiers of Misfortune: The Somervell and Mier Expeditions by Sam W. Haynes

"Sam W. Haynes has provided an excellent, well-written account of the ill-fated Texas expeditions against Mexico in the 1840s. Not only does the author cover these events in entertaining detail, he scrupulously places them in the context of the political and diplomatic realities of the Texas... more

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Savage Frontier Volume IV: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1842-1845 by ...

This fourth and final volume of the Savage Frontier series completes the history of the Texas Rangers and frontier warfare in the Republic of Texas era. During this period of time, fabled Captain John Coffee Hays and his small band of Rangers were often the only government-authorized frontier... more

This fourth and final volume of the Savage Frontier series completes the history of the Texas Rangers and frontier warfare in the Republic of Texas era. During this period of time, fabled Captain John Coffee Hays and his small band of Rangers were often the only government-authorized frontier fighters employed to keep the peace.Author Stephen L. Moore covers the assembly of Texan forces to repel two Mexican incursions during 1842, the Vasquez and Woll invasions. This volume covers the resulting battle at Salado Creek, the defeat of Dawson?s men, and a skirmish at Hondo Creek near San Antonio. Texas Rangers also played a role in the ill-fated Somervell and Mier expeditions.By 1844, Captain Hays? Rangers had forever changed the nature of frontier warfare with the use of the Colt five-shooter repeating pistol. This new weapon allowed his men to remain on horseback and keep up a continuous and deadly fire in the face of overwhelming odds, especially at Walker?s Creek. Through extensive use of primary military documents and first-person accounts, Moore sets the record straight on some of Jack Hays? lesser-known Comanche encounters.For the exacting historian or genealogist of early Texas, the Savage Frontier series is an indispensable resource on early nineteenth-century Texas frontier warfare.PRAISE FOR SAVAGE FRONTIER VOL IV?Moore?s fourth and final volume of the Savage Frontier series contains many compelling battle narratives, but there is a wealth of social as well as military history lurking in these chapters.�No one who is interested in the people and the problems of the Texas Republic can afford to leave these pages unread.??James E. Crisp, author of How Did Davy Die? And Why Do We Care So Much??The early 1840s was one of the most turbulent chapters in the history of the lower Rio Grande valley. Readers familiar with earlier volumes in the Savage Frontier series will find much to admire in Steven Moore?s eminently readable account.??Sam W. Haynes, author of Soldiers of Misfortune: The Somervell and Mier ExpeditionsPRAISE FOR THE SAVAGE FRONTIER SERIES?An exhaustively researched study of the pervasive violence that confronted the newborn Texas Rangers even in colonial days.??Kent Biffle, Dallas Morning News?The volumes of Savage Frontier provide exciting action and accurate history. In addition, important genealogical material is given for anyone seeking the role of his or her ancestors in early Texas history.??Chuck Parsons, Texas Ranger Dispatch?Moore has done an extraordinary job of exhaustively researching his subject. I am not aware of any other book that investigates this period of Ranger history with such thoroughness as Savage Frontier.??Donaly Brice, author of The Great Comanche Raid

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Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation by Peter Cozzens

The first biography of the great Shawnee leader in more than twenty years, and the first to make clear that his overlooked younger brother, Tenskwatawa, was a crucial partner in the last great pan-Indian confederacy against the United States. Until Tecumseh's death in 1813, he was, alongside... more

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The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Gre...

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An Open Secret by Chris Enss

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The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend by...

An astonishing untold story of the American West The great Sioux warrior-statesman Red Cloud was the only American Indian in history to defeat the United States Army in a war, forcing the government to sue for peace on his terms. At the peak of Red Cloud?s powers the Sioux could claim control... more

An astonishing untold story of the American West The great Sioux warrior-statesman Red Cloud was the only American Indian in history to defeat the United States Army in a war, forcing the government to sue for peace on his terms. At the peak of Red Cloud?s powers the Sioux could claim control of one-fifth of the contiguous United States and the loyalty of thousands of fierce fighters. But the fog of history has left Red Cloud strangely obscured. Now, thanks to the rediscovery of a lost autobiography, and painstaking research by two award-winning authors, the story of our nation?s most powerful and successful Indian warrior can finally be told. Born in 1821 near the Platte River in modern-day Nebraska, Red Cloud lived an epic life of courage, wisdom, and fortitude in the face of a relentless enemy?the soldiers and settlers who represented the ?manifest destiny? of an expanding America. He grew up an orphan and had to overcome numerous social disadvantages to advance in Sioux culture. Red Cloud did that by being the best fighter, strategist, and leader of his fellow warriors. As the white man pushed farther and farther west, they stole the Indians? land, slaughtered the venerated buffalo, and murdered with impunity anyone who resisted their intrusions. The final straw for Red Cloud and his warriors was the U.S. government?s frenzied spate of fort building throughout the pristine Powder River Country that abutted the Sioux?s sacred Black Hills?Paha Sapa to the Sioux, or ?The Heart of Everything That Is.? The result was a gathering of angry tribes under one powerful leader. ?The white man lies and steals,? Red Cloud told his thousands of braves at council fire. ?My lodges were many, now they are few. The white man wants all. They must fight for it.? What came to be known as Red Cloud?s War (1866?1868) culminated in a massacre of American cavalry troops that presaged the Little Bighorn and served warning to Washington that the Plains Indians would fight, and die, for their land and traditions. But many more American soldiers would die first. In The Heart of Everything That Is, Bob Drury and Tom Clavin, the New York Times bestselling authors of Halsey?s Typhoon and The Last Stand of Fox Company, restore Red Cloud to his rightful place in American history in a sweeping and dramatic narrative based on years of primary research. As they trace the events leading to Red Cloud?s War they provide intimate portraits of the many and various men and women whose lives Red Cloud touched?mountain men such as the larger-than-life Jim Bridger; U.S. generals like William Tecumseh Sherman who were charged with annihilating the Sioux; fearless explorers such as the dashing John Bozeman; and the warriors whom Red Cloud groomed, the legendary Crazy Horse in particular. And residing at the heart of the story is Red Cloud, fighting for the very existence of the Indian way of life. This fiery narrative, fueled by contemporary diaries and journals, newspaper reports, eyewitness accounts, and meticulous firsthand sourcing, is a stirring chronicle of the conflict between an expanding white civilization and the Plains Indians who stood in its way. The Heart of Everything That Is not only places the reader at the center of this remarkable epoch, but finally gives Red Cloud the modern-day recognition he deserves.

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Health of the Seventh Cavalry: A Medical History by Unknown Author

With its charismatic leader George Custer and its memorable encounters with Plains Indians, including the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the Seventh Cavalry serves as the iconic regiment in the post?Civil War U.S Army. Voluminous written documentation as well as archaeological and osteological... more

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Custer Survivor: The end of a myth--the beginning of a legend by John Koster

It has been recorded in official government records that there were no survivors of the five companies of the Seventh Cavalry who were with General George Armstrong Custer at the battle at the Little Big Horn. Recently, uncovered records and forensic handwriting evidence, the latter verified... more

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A Wild West History of Frontier Colorado: Pioneers, Gunslingers & Cattle Kings on the...

From the gold rush to the coming of the railroad, the mid-1800s saw prospectors, desperados and opportunists flock to Colorado. Exaggerated tales of easy gold lured thousands of hardy souls across harsh territory. These pioneers survived famine and flood, clashed with marauding outlaws and... more

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Colorado Forts:: Historic Outposts on the Wild Frontier by Jolie Anderson Gallagher

Throughout the 1800s, explorers braved brutal weather and hostile enemies, trekking through the towering mountains and fertile valleys on the ragged edge of civilization. These early pioneers built stockades, trading posts, military camps and miniature citadels that would shape the state of... more

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Lakota Noon: The Indian Narrative of Custer's Defeat by Gregory F. Michno

"With careful attention to his book's subtitle, Michno presents the most important surviving testimony of Cheyenne and Lakota Sioux participants in the 1876 Little Bighorn battle. He follows the virtual minute-by-minute approach successfully used in John S. Gray's Centennial... more

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Three Years With Quantrill: A True Story Told by His Scout (Western Frontier Library)...

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The Salish People And The Lewis And Clark Expedition by Salish-Pend D'Oreille Culture...

On September 4, 1805, in the upper Bitterroot Valley of what is now western Montana, more than four hundred Salish people were encamped, pasturing horses, preparing for the fall bison hunt, and harvesting chokecherries as they had done for countless generations. As the Lewis and Clark expedition... more

On September 4, 1805, in the upper Bitterroot Valley of what is now western Montana, more than four hundred Salish people were encamped, pasturing horses, preparing for the fall bison hunt, and harvesting chokecherries as they had done for countless generations. As the Lewis and Clark expedition ventured into the territory of a sovereign Native nation, the Salish met the strangers with hospitality and vital provisions, while receiving comparatively little in return. For the first time, a Native American community offers an in-depth examination of the events and historical significance of their encounter with the Lewis and Clark expedition. The result is a new understanding of the expedition and its place in the wider context of U.S. history. Through oral histories and other materials, Salish elders recount the details of the Salish encounter with Lewis and Clark-their difficulty communicating with the strangers through multiple interpreters and consequent misunderstanding of the expedition's invasionary purpose, their discussions about whether to welcome or wipe out the newcomers, their puzzlement over the black skin of the slave York, and their decision to extend traditional tribal hospitality and gifts to the guests. What makes The Salish People and the Lewis and Clark Expedition a startling departure from previous accounts of the Lewis and Clark expedition is how it depicts the arrival of non-Indians-not as the beginning of history, but as another chapter in a long tribal history. Much of this book focuses on the ancient cultural landscape and history that had already shaped the region for millennia prior to the arrival of Lewis and Clark. The elders begin their vivid portrait of the Salish world by sharing creation stories and the traditional cycle of life. The book then takes readers on a cultural tour of the Native trails that the expedition followed. With tribal elders as our guides, we now learn of the Salish cultural landscape that was invisible to Lewis and Clark. The Salish People and the Lewis and Clark Expedition also brings new clarity to the profound upheaval of the Native world in the century prior to the expedition's arrival, as tribes in the region were introduced to horses, European diseases, and firearms. The arrival of Lewis and Clark marked the beginning of a heightened level of conflict and loss, and the book details the history that followed the expedition: the opening of Salish territory to the fur trade, the arrival of Jesuit missionaries, the establishment of Indian reservations, the non-Indian development of western Montana, and more recently, the revival and strengthening of tribal sovereignty and culture. Conveyed by tribal recollections and richly illustrated, The Salish People and the Lewis and Clark Expedition not only sheds new light on the meaning of the expedition, but also illuminates the people who greeted Lewis and Clark, and despite much of what followed, thrive in their homeland today.

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Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth by Bryan Burrough & Chris...

Every nation needs its creation myth, and since Texas was a nation before it was a state, it's no surprise that its myths bite deep. There's no piece of history more important to Texans than the Battle of the Alamo, when Davy Crockett and a band of rebels went down in a blaze of glory... more

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Rising from the Plains by John McPhee

Rising from the Plains is John McPhee’s third book on geology and geologists. Following Basin and Range and In Suspect Terrain, it continues to present a cross section of North America along the fortieth parallel—a series gathering under the overall title Annals of the Former World.

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Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit ...

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Legacy of the Tetons: Homesteading in Jackson Hole by Candy Vyvey Moulton

Today's Jackson Hole is a magnet for tourists who come for a taste of the American West. However, before the cars and buses, homesteaders on horseback and in wagons saw the beauty of the land and built their homes within sight of the majestic Grand Tetons.This second edition of Legacy of the... more

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Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser

The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Little House on the Prairie booksOne of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year Millions of readers of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls?the pioneer girl... more

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686

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Tecumseh : A Life by John Sugden

If Sitting Bull is the most famous Indian, Tecumseh is the most revered. He does not stand for one tribe or nation, but for all Native Americans. He remains the ultimate symbol of endeavor and courage. Over thirty years in the writing, this is the first authoritative biography of the principal... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Wheelwright's Shop by George Sturt

George Sturt's frank and moving account of his trade as a wheelwright in the late nineteenth century offers a unique glimpse into the working lives of craftsmen in a world since banished by technology. The wheelwright's shop where he entered business had been operating for two centuries; this... more

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688

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

At the End of the Santa Fe Trail by Sister Blandina Segale

Originally published in 1932 and long unavailable, this memoir by a strong-willed and resourceful nun is a valuable addition to the story of women in the West. Sister Blandina (1850-1941) served in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico from 1872 to 1894 as a member of the Sisters of... more

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689

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

A Cowful of Cowboy Poetry by Baxter Black

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690

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Legend of Baby Doe: The Life and Times of the Silver Queen of the West by John Bu...

In her pulchritudinous prime Baby Doe was called the Silver Queen of Colorado by journalists and "that shameless hussy" by the proper wives of the men who eyed her. Flirtatious, adventurous, ambitious, Elizabeth McCourt Doe gave everyone a lot to talk about when she met Horace Tabor,... more

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691

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Life of Buffalo Bill by William F. Cody

In a remarkable early life as an Indian scout, trapper, miner and Pony Express rider, William F. Cody developed a reputation for courage. Yet it was buffalo hunting that earned his nickname. Turning his life into a theatrical spectacular which toured the United States and Europe and brought him... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny by Michae...

?A book so gripping it can scarcely be put down. . . . Superb.?? New York Times Book Review"WESTWARD HO! FOR OREGON AND CALIFORNIA!"In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper as he and a restless caravan prepared for what they hoped would be... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

My Life As an Indian by James Willard Schultz

Fascinating, firsthand memoir of a young white man’s life among the Piegan Blackfeet in Montana Territory. Includes detailed accounts of religious ceremonies and customs, child-rearing, food preparation, tanning buffalo hides, war parties, raids and much else. Of great interest to... more

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694

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Making the Voyageur World: Travelers and Traders in the North American Fur Trade (Fra...

French Canadian workers who paddled canoes, transported goods, and staffed the interior posts of the northern North American fur trade became popularly known as voyageurs. Scholars and public historians alike have cast them in the romantic role of rugged and merry heroes who paved the way for... more

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695

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life by Andrew C. Isenberg

?This is the best dead-on Earp deconstruction I?ve ever read.? ?Tucson Weekly In popular culture, Wyatt Earp is the hero of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral and a beacon of rough justice in the tumultuous American West. The subject of dozens of films, he has been invoked in battles against... more

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696

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Railroads Triumphant: The Growth, Rejection, and Rebirth of a Vital American Force by...

In 1789, when the First Congress met in New York City, the members traveled to the capital just as Roman senators two thousand years earlier had journeyed to Rome, by horse, at a pace of some five miles an hour. Indeed, if sea travel had improved dramatically since Caesar's time, overland travel... more

In 1789, when the First Congress met in New York City, the members traveled to the capital just as Roman senators two thousand years earlier had journeyed to Rome, by horse, at a pace of some five miles an hour. Indeed, if sea travel had improved dramatically since Caesar's time, overland travel was still so slow, painful, and expensive that most Americans lived all but rooted to the spot, with few people settling more than a hundred miles from the ocean (a mere two percent lived west of the Appalachians). America in effect was just a thin ribbon of land by the sea, and it wasn't until the coming of the steam railroad that our nation would unfurl across the vast inland territory. In Railroads Triumphant, Albro Martin provides a fascinating history of rail transportation in America, moving well beyond the "Romance of the Rails" sort of narrative to give readers a real sense of the railroad's importance to our country. The railroad, Martin argues, was "the most fundamental innovation in American material life." It could go wherever rails could be laid--and so, for the first time, farms, industries, and towns could leave natural waterways behind and locate anywhere. (As Martin points out, the railroads created small-town America just as surely as the automobile created the suburbs.) The railroad was our first major industry, and it made possible or promoted the growth of all other industries, among them coal, steel, flour milling, and commercial farming. It established such major cities as Chicago, and had a lasting impact on urban design. And it worked hand in hand with the telegraph industry to transform communication. Indeed, the railroads were the NASA of the 19th century, attracting the finest minds in finance, engineering, and law. But Martin doesn't merely catalogue the past greatness of the railroad. In closing with the episodes that led first to destructive government regulation, and then to deregulation of the railroads and the ensuing triumphant rebirth of the nation's basic means of moving goods from one place to another, Railroads Triumphant offers an impassioned defense of their enduring importance to American economic life. And it is a book informed by a lifelong love of railroads, brimming with vivid descriptions of classic depots, lavish hotels in Chicago, the great railroad founders, and the famous lines. Thoughtful and colorful by turn, this insightful history illuminates the impact of the railroad on our lives.

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697

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Deadly Dozen: Twelve Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West by Robert K. Dearment &...

Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday-such are the legendary names that spring to mind when we think of the western gunfighter. But in the American West of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, thousands of grassroots gunfighters straddled both sides of the law without hesitation.... more

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698

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Way West: True Stories of the American Frontier by Unknown Author

The history of America is, at its core, the story of the American West. In this new volume from the Western Writers of America, readers are taken deep into the true stories that helped America form its identity, and the people that embodied its essence. James A. Crutchfield, a long-time WWA... more

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699

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Comanches (Pimlico Wild West) by T.R. Fehrenbach

Authoritative and immediate, this is the classic account of the most powerful of the American Indian tribes. T.R. Fehrenbach traces the Comanches’ rise to power, from their prehistoric origins to their domination of the high plains for more than a century until their demise in the face of... more

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700

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Voices on the River: The Story of the Mississippi Waterways by Walter Havighurst

Voices on the River relates two centuries of tales of famous steamboats and of the men who piloted them, from the renowned Mark Twain to the trailblazing Captain Henry Shreve. The book portrays roustabouts on the main deck, passengers in plush cabins, pilots at the big steering wheel, and... more

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701

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Lewis and Clark in Missouri by Ann Rogers

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702

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Early Voices: Portraits of Canada by Women Writers, 1639-1914 by Mary Alice Downie

This selection of writings by 29 women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the 17th to the early 20th century, from the Maritimes to British Columbia and the Far North. There is a range of voices from high-born wives of... more

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703

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Fort Laramie and the Sioux (American Forts Series.) by Remi A. Nadeau

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704

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Rachel Calof's Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains by Rachel Calof

In 1894, 18-year-old Rachel Kahn traveled from Russia to the U.S. for an arranged marriage to Abraham Calof. As North Dakota homesteaders, Rachel and Abraham carved out a life, enduring many hardships.

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705

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West by Da...

An homage to the West and to two great writers who set the standard for all who celebrate and defend it.Archetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western landscape. Now, award-winning nature writer David Gessner follows the ghosts... more

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706

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Crazy Horse and Custer by Stephen E. Ambrose

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707

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Great Plains Bison (Discover the Great Plains) by Dan O'Brien

A Project of the Center for Great Plains Studies and the School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska Great Plains Bison traces the history and ecology of this American symbol from the origins of the great herds that once dominated the prairie to its near extinction in the late... more

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708

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Fifty Years on the Owl Hoot Trail by Jim Herron & Harry E. Chrisman (Editor)

Jim Herron led a fantastic life as a cowboy, sheriff, fugitive from the law. hotel and saloon owner, and international cattleman. In 1890 Herron was elected the first sheriff of Oklahoma Territory, but he soon found himself on the other end of the handcuffs: charged with cattle theft. To... more

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709

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Helldorado: Bringing the Law to the Mesquite by William M Breakenridge

1928. With Illustrations. The memoirs of one of the pioneers of the west and the only firsthand account of the vendetta between Wyatt Earp and the Cowboys. Breakenridge was deputy to Sheriff Johnny Behan at the time of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Helldorado is criticized by some in its... more

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710

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Oklahoma Renegades: Their Deeds and Misdeeds by Ken Butler

Some lesser-knowncharacters from Oklahoma's past have received little, if any attention . . .until now. Now, the story of Bert Casey and his gang can be told. Casey was thefiercely violent leader of a band of outlaws that terrorized the people of Oklahoma. While not as well known or as... more

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711

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Riata and Spurs (Southwest Heritage) by Charles Angelo Siringo

In his introduction to the 1927 edition of Riata and Spurs, Gifford Pinchot said that 'Charlie Siringo's story of his life is one of the best, if not the very best, of all books about the Old West, when cowpunchers actually punched cows.' He goes on to say that 'it is worth something to be able... more

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712

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Robbers Rogues and Ruffians: True Tales of the Wild West by Howard Bryan

Western historian Howard Bryan presents the authentic stories of some of the most colorful outlaws and desperadoes of the Western frontier, based to a large extent on 19th century newspaper accounts of their activities and interviews with pioneers who knew some of them. Many of these stories are... more

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713

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Original History of John Colter : His Years in the Rocky Mountains by Burton Harr...

John Colter was a crack hunter with the Lewis and Clark expedition before striking out on his own as a mountain man and fur trader. A solitary journey in the winter of 1807-8 took him into present-day Wyoming. To unbelieving trappers he later reported sights that inspired the name of... more

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714

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Nighthawk Rising: A Biography of Accused Cattle Rustler Queen Ann Bassett of Brown's ...

Author Diana Allen Kouris, a native of Brown's Park, utilized her personal and family connections, along with years of research, to meticulously and extensively record the fascinating life events of Ann Bassett. Kouris includes never-before-published photographs. Ann Bassett was known as the... more

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715

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Union General: Samuel Ryan Curtis and Victory in the West by William L. Shea

Union General is the first biography of Samuel Ryan Curtis, the most important and most successful general on either side in the Civil War west of the Mississippi River. Curtis was a West Point graduate, Mexican War veteran, and determined foe of secession who gave up his seat in Congress to... more

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716

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

How the Indians Lost Their Land : Law and Power on the Frontier by Stuart Banner

Between the early seventeenth century and the early twentieth, nearly all the land in the United States was transferred from American Indians to whites. This dramatic transformation has been understood in two very different ways—as a series of consensual transactions, but also as a... more

Between the early seventeenth century and the early twentieth, nearly all the land in the United States was transferred from American Indians to whites. This dramatic transformation has been understood in two very different ways—as a series of consensual transactions, but also as a process of violent conquest. Both views cannot be correct. How did Indians actually lose their land? Stuart Banner provides the first comprehensive answer. He argues that neither simple coercion nor simple consent reflects the complicated legal history of land transfers. Instead, time, place, and the balance of power between Indians and settlers decided the outcome of land struggles. As whites' power grew, they were able to establish the legal institutions and the rules by which land transactions would be made and enforced. This story of America's colonization remains a story of power, but a more complex kind of power than historians have acknowledged. It is a story in which military force was less important than the power to shape the legal framework within which land would be owned. As a result, white Americans—from eastern cities to the western frontiers—could believe they were buying land from the Indians the same way they bought land from one another. How the Indians Lost Their Land dramatically reveals how subtle changes in the law can determine the fate of a nation, and our understanding of the past. Between the early seventeenth century and the early twentieth, nearly all the land in the United States was transferred from American Indians to whites. This dramatic transformation has been understood in two very different ways--as a series of consensual transactions, but also as a process of violent conquest. Both views cannot be correct. How did Indians actually lose their land? Stuart Banner provides the first comprehensive answer. He argues that neither simple coercion nor simple consent reflects the complicated legal history of land transfers. Instead, time, place, and the balance of power between Indians and settlers decided the outcome of land struggles. As whites' power grew, they were able to establish the legal institutions and the rules by which land transactions would be made and enforced. This story of America's colonization remains a story of power, but a more complex kind of power than historians have acknowledged. It is a story in which military force was less important than the power to shape the legal framework within which land would be owned. As a result, white Americans--from eastern cities to the western frontiers--could believe they were buying land from the Indians the same way they bought land from one another. How the Indians Lost Their Land dramatically reveals how subtle changes in the law can determine the fate of a nation, and our understanding of the past. Between the early seventeenth century and the early twentieth, nearly all the land in the United States was transferred from American Indians to whites. How did Indians actually lose their land? Stuart Banner argues that neither simple coercion nor simple consent reflects the complicated legal history of land transfers. Instead, time, place, and the balance of power between Indians and settlers decided the outcome of land struggles.

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717

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Converting California: Indians and Franciscans in the Missions by Professor James A. ...

This book is a compelling and balanced history of the California missions and their impact on the Indians they tried to convert. Focusing primarily on the religious conflict between the two groups, it sheds new light on the tensions, accomplishments, and limitations of the California mission... more

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718

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Lipan Apaches: People of Wind and Lightning by Thomas A. Britten

Despite the significant role they have played in Texas history for nearly four hundred years, the Lipan Apaches remain among the least studied and least understood tribal groups in the West. Considered by Spaniards of the eighteenth century to be the greatest threat to the development of New... more

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719

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Living with Strangers: The Nineteenth-Century Sioux and the Canadian-American Borderl...

The story of the Sioux who moved into the Canadian-American borderlands in the later years of the nineteenth century is told in its entirety for the first time here. Previous histories have been divided by national boundaries and have focused on the famous personages involved, paying scant... more

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720

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Rise and Fall of Indian Country, 1825-1855 by William E. Unrau

The Indian Trade and Intercourse Act of 1834 represented what many considered the ongoing benevolence of the United States toward Native Americans, establishing a congressionally designated refuge for displaced Indians to protect them from exploitation by white men. Others came to see it as a... more

The Indian Trade and Intercourse Act of 1834 represented what many considered the ongoing benevolence of the United States toward Native Americans, establishing a congressionally designated refuge for displaced Indians to protect them from exploitation by white men. Others came to see it as a legally sanctioned way to swindle them out of their land. This first book-length study of "Indian country" focuses on Section 1 of the 1834 Act-which established its boundaries-to show that this legislation was ineffectual from the beginning. William Unrau challenges conventional views that the act was a continuation of the government's benevolence toward Indians, revealing it instead as little more than a deceptive stopgap that facilitated white settlement and development of the trans-Missouri West. Encompassing more than half of the Louisiana Purchase and stretching from the Red River to the headwaters of the Missouri, Indian country was designated as a place for Native survival and improvement. Unrau shows that, although many consider that the territory merely fell victim to Manifest Destiny, the concept of Indian country was flawed from the start by such factors as distorted perceptions of the region's economic potential, tribal land compressions, government complicity in overland travel and commerce, and blatant disregard for federal regulations. Chronicling the encroachments of land-hungry whites, which met with little resistance from negligent if not complicit lawmakers and bureaucrats, he tells how the protection of Indian country lasted only until the needs of westward expansion outweighed those associated with the presumed solution to the "Indian problem" and how subsequent legislation negated the supposed permanence of Indian lands. When thousands of settlers began entering Kansas Territory in 1854, the government appeared powerless to protect Indians-even though it had been responsible for carving Kansas out of Indian country in the first place. Unrau's work shows that there has been a general misunderstanding of Indian country both then and now-that it was never more or less than what the white man said it was, not what the Indians were told or believed-and represents a significant chapter in the shameful history of America's treatment of Indians.

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721

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Lady Undertakers of Old Texas by Kathy Benjamin

The intimate task of caring for the dead had long fallen under women's sphere of responsibilities. But after the Civil War, the sudden popularity of embalming offered new financial opportunities to men who set up as undertakers, pushing women out of their traditional role. In Texas, from the... more

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722

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Colorado Gunsmoke: True Stories of Outlaws & Lawmen on the Colorado Frontier by Kenne...

In the early days of the American West, Colorado was no stranger to the six-shooter and the lynch mob. The names Bob Ford, Doc Shores and Clay Allison figured prominently in the state's history. So did the lesser-known names of James Gordon, Charley Harrison and others. In this unique... more

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723

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Pistol Packin' Madams: True Stories of Notorious Women of the Old West by Chris Enss

Between 1840 and 1870, hundreds of thousands of enthusiastic dreamers embarked on a 2,000-mile journey into the wide-open frontier of the United States in search of free land, gold, adventure, and a better life. Although only a few women were numbered among the very first pioneers, those who did... more

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724

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang by Tom Clavin

The Last Outlaws is the thrilling true story of the last of one of the greatest outlaw gangs. The dreaded Dalton Gang consisted of three brothers and their rotating cast of colorful accomplices who saw themselves as descended from the legendary James brothers. They soon became legends... more

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725

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Inventing Wyatt Earp: His Life and Many Legends by Allen Barra

In a violent half-minute, in a gunfight near the O.K. Corral, Wyatt Earp became a legend. He was thirty-three. He died forty-eight years later, in Hollywood, where he worked as an advisor on film westerns. He'd had firsthand experience in the creation of American myth, and in this remarkable... more

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726

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Women of the West (Tales of the Wild West, Vol 5) by Rick Steber

The independent-minded western woman was often eclipsed in popular literature by sensations like Calamity Jane and Belle Starr. Dorothy Gray looks at the actual lives of women who made their own way out west. Starting with Sacajawea, the Shoshone guide for Lewis and Clark, Women of the West... more

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727

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad (Asian America)...

The completion of the transcontinental railroad in May 1869 is usually told as a story of national triumph and a key moment for American Manifest Destiny. The railroad made it possible to cross the country in a matter of days instead of months, paved the way for new settlers to come out West,... more

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728

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Gold Dust by Donald Dale Jackson

The saga of the forty-niners-their adventures and ordeals, their courage and greed, their ingenuities, delusions, bonanzas and catastrophies -- in California and on the way there. Drawing upon a wide variety of documentary sources -- letters and diaries, as well as contemporary newspaper and... more

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729

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

A Pretty Village: Documents of Worship and Culture Change, St. Ignatius Mission, Mont...

The 1880s were a critical decade for the Salish and Kootenai people of the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana. The recent loss of the plains buffalo herds forced tribal members to look for new ways to support themselves. The priests and schools at St. Ignatius Mission taught many of... more

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730

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Francis Parkman : France and England in North America : Vol. 1: Pioneers of France in...

This is the first of two volumes presenting all seven parts of Francis Parkman's monumental narrative history of the struggle for control of the American continent. Thirty years in the writing, Parkman's "history of the American forest" is an accomplishment hardly less awesome than the... more

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731

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Mountain Men: The Song of Three Friends; The Song of Hugh Glass; The Song of Jed ...

First volume of the celebrated epic poem A Cycle of the West, covering the era of fur traders.

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732

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Mountain Men (Cycle of the West, Bk 1) by John Gneisenau Neihardt

The first volume in this two-volume edition of A Cycle of the West includes The Song of Three Friends (1919), which received the National Prize of the Poetry Society of America, The Song of Jed Smith (1941). The first two songs, in the poet's words, "deal with the ascent of the river... more

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733

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Adventures of the Mountain Men: True Tales of Hunting, Trapping, Fighting, and Su...

The “mountain men” were the hunters and trappers who fiercely strode the Rocky Mountains in the early to mid-1800s. They braved the elements in search of the skins of beavers and other wild animals, to sell or barter for goods. The lifestyle of the mountain men could be harsh,... more

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734

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Splendid Wayfaring: The Story of the Exploits and Adventures of Jedediah Smith an...

The story of the famous mountain man Jedediah Smith.

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735

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Song of Three Friends by John G. Neihardt

Epic poem about mountain men explorers in the American West.

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736

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Sam Sixkiller: Cherokee Frontier Lawman by Chris Enss & Howard Kazanjian

Sam Sixkiller was one of the most accomplished lawmen in 1880s Oklahoma Territory. And in many ways, he was a typical law enforcement official, minding the peace and gunslinging in the still-wild West. What set Sam Sixkiller apart was his Cherokee heritage. Sixkiller’s sworn duty was... more

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737

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Frontier Teachers: Stories of Heroic Women of the Old West by Chris Enss

Frontier Teachers tells the stories of�a dozen courageous, intrepid women who faced down rooms full of children on the open prairies and in the mining towns of the Old West to�bring them educational opportunities.

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738

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

A Frontier Lady : Recollections of the Gold Rush and Early California by Sarah Royce

Accounts have been written of many early journeys across the plains by those who accomplished them and California is rich in personal literature of the gold rush. Few of those memoirs have the drama and classic quality of that written from her "pilgrimage diary" by Sarah Royce.... more

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739

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

King of the Wild Frontier: An Autobiography by Davy Crockett (Dover Books on American...

This easy-reading autobiography established Crockett as a larger-than-life American hero and introduced tall tales of the frontier to a popular audience. Written in 1834, two years before the legendary Tennessean met his fate at the Alamo, it begins during Crockett's early childhood and ends... more

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740

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense by Walter Prescott Webb

In The Texas Rangers, published by UT Press in 1965, Walter Prescott Webb told the story of this unique law enforcement agency as no one else could. Forsaking the historian's ivory tower, Webb rode with the Rangers in the days when desperate, greedy men thought the border between Texas and... more

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741

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

After the Gold Rush: Tarnished Dreams in the Sacramento Valley by David Vaught

"It is a glorious country," exclaimed Stephen J. Field, the future U.S. Supreme Court justice, upon arriving in California in 1849. Field's pronouncement was more than just an expression of exuberance. For an electrifying moment, he and another 100,000 hopeful gold miners found themselves... more

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742

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Little Lion of the Southwest: A Life of Manuel Antonio Chaves by Marc Simmons

He was called El Leoncito, The Little Lion, by the simple peones of New Mexico who knew him a century ago. Manuel Antonio Chaves (1818-1889) earned that name in more than a score of battle with hostile Navajo, Ute, and Apache, and there can be little doubt that he was one of the finest Indian... more

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743

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Lady Was a Gambler: True Stories of Notorious Women of the Old West by Chris Enss

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744

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

No Place for a Woman: The Struggle for Suffrage in the Wild West by Chris Enss

No description available.

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745

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War by Peter Guardino

It has long been held that the United States emerged victorious from the Mexican–American War because its democratic system was more stable and its citizens more loyal. But this award-winning history shows that Americans dramatically underestimated the strength of Mexican patriotism and... more

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746

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Western Apache Heritage: People of the Mountain Corridor by Richard John Perry

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747

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

With Badges & Bullets: Lawmen & Outlaws in the Old West (Notable Westerners) by Richa...

Who are the lawmen and who are the outlaws? ... Was there, in fact, always a distinction between officers of the law and lawbreakers in the Old West?" These are the key questions that ten well-known historians puzzle over in their revealing portraits of such legendary frontier figures as... more

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748

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Bad Blood: The Families Who Made the West Wild by Robert Barr Smith

This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West’s most egregiously bad family-based gangs caught in the act of mayhem, distraction, murder, and highway robbery, includes famous names like the James brothers and lesser known families just as the Deautremonts, the Newtons,... more

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749

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1...

Between 1846 and 1873, California?s Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars that supported the violence, indigenous... more

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750

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Forty-Niner: The Extraordinary Gold Rush Odyssey of Joseph Goldsborough Bruff (Americ...

Experience the majesty and terror of the Gold Rush firsthand While the seminal California Gold Rush of 1849 produced numerous firsthand diaries and accounts, Joseph Goldsborough Bruff?s?widely regarded as the best and most accurate?provides the basis of this narrative reimagining of a... more

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751

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails 1852 : The California ...

"The writing is rich with the sounds of common speech and jargon . . . and it should be a gold mine for students of everyday life."-John Mack Faragher, Western Historical Quarterly. "The entries from these pioneer women are alternately rich with optimism, stark with tragedy, and... more

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752

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Canadian Rockies: New and Old Trails (Mountain Classics Collection) by Arthur Phi...

"There is a cleanness and virginity, an exquisite loneliness, about many of the Rocky Mountain peaks and valleys that has a peculiar charm. There is the feeling of having made a new discovery, of having caught Nature unawares at her work of creation." ? Arthur Philemon Coleman Arthur... more

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753

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Charlie Gould: Memories of a Cowboy by Ed Ashurst

Charlie Gould holds no prejudices or preconceived notions about where a person hails from, whether he is called cowpuncher, buckaroo or cowboy. Makes no difference to him whether his outfit is a center-fire or double rig saddle, whether his rope is tied hard and fast or he dallies with a sixty... more

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754

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Burning the Breeze: Three Generations of Women in the American West by Lisa Hendricks...

In the middle of the Great Depression, Montana native Julia Bennett arrived in New York City with no money and an audacious business plan: to identify and visit easterners who could afford to spend their summers at her brand new dude ranch near Ennis, Montana. Julia, a big-game hunter whom... more

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755

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Captain Bill McDonald, Texas Ranger: A Story of Frontier Reform by Albert Bigelow Pai...

The compelling story of one of the most famous Texas Rangers. "One riot, one ranger." McDonald's daring six-gun adventures are all part of Paine"s dramatic biography. Originally published in 1909.

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756

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Octopus's Garden: How Railroads and Citrus Transformed Southern California by Benjami...

As Southern California recovered from the collapse of the cattle industry in the 1860s, the arrival of railroads—attacked by newspapers as the greedy “octopus”—and the expansion of citrus agriculture transformed the struggling region into a vast, idealized, and prosperous... more

As Southern California recovered from the collapse of the cattle industry in the 1860s, the arrival of railroads—attacked by newspapers as the greedy “octopus”—and the expansion of citrus agriculture transformed the struggling region into a vast, idealized, and prosperous garden. New groves of the latest citrus varieties and new towns like Riverside quickly grew directly along the tracks of transcontinental railroads. The influx of capital, industrial technology, and workers, especially people of color, energized Southern California and tied it more closely to the economy and culture of the United States than ever before. Benjamin Jenkins’s Octopus’s Garden argues that citrus agriculture and railroads together shaped the economy, landscape, labor systems, and popular image of Southern California. Orange and lemon growing boomed in the 1870s and 1880s while railroads linked the region to markets across North America and ended centuries of geographic isolation for the west coast. Railroads competed over the shipment of citrus fruits from multiple counties engulfed by the orange empire, resulting in an extensive rail network that generated lucrative returns for grove owners and railroad businessmen in Southern California from the 1890s to the 1950s. While investment from white Americans, particularly wealthy New Englanders, formed the financial backbone of the Octopus’s Garden, citrus and railroads would not have thrived in Southern California without the labor of people of color. Many workers of color took advantage of the commercial developments offered by railroads and citrus to economically advance their families and communities. However, these people of color also suffered greatly under the constant realities of bodily harm, low wages, and political and social exclusion. Promoters of the railroads and citrus cooperatives touted California as paradise for white Americans and minimized the roles of non-white laborers by stereotyping them in advertisements and publications. These practices fostered conceptions of California’s racial hierarchy by praising privileged whites and maligning the workers who made them prosper. The Octopus’s Garden continues to shape Southern Californians’ understanding of their past. In bringing together multiple storylines, Jenkins provides a complex and fresh perspective on the impact of citrus agriculturalists and railroad companies in Southern Californian history.

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757

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Wisconsin Chippewa Myths Tales and Their Relation to Chippewa Life by Victor Barnouw

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758

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Lawmen of the Wild West by Terry C Treadwell

No description available.

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759

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Encyclopedia of Native Tribes of North America by Michael Johnson

Review of the previous edition: "A model of excellence in the art of reference volume publishing... Every public and school library... should acquire this treasure. It will remain the standard for many years to come." - Dr. James A. Clifton, Department of Anthropology, Western Michigan... more

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760

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Such a Landscape!: A Narrative of the 1864 California Geological Survey Exploration o...

Reprint of the 1987 work. Introduction, notes, and fine black and white photos by William Alsup (who appears to have studied Ansel Adams' techniques).

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761

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

American Legend: The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett by Buddy Levy

The new popular biography of one of America's most enduring symbols of the Old West. David Crockett was an adventurer, a pioneer, and a tragic hero who died at the Alamo. But the life of the real Crockett has been largely obscured and overshadowed by his mythology, turning this honest,... more

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762

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

American Legend: The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett by Buddy Levy

THE REAL KING OF THE WILD FRONTIER David Crockett was an adventurer, a pioneer, and a media-savvy national celebrity. In his short-but-distinguished lifetime, this charismatic frontiersman won three terms as a U.S. congressman and a presidential nomination. His 1834 memoir enjoyed frenzied... more

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763

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Shipwrecked!: The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy by Rhoda Blumberg

In the 1800s, the Japanese government had strict isolation laws. By decree, foreigners and ideas from outside Japan were forbidden. So when fourteen-year-old Manjiro and four other fishermen were shipwrecked on a small rocky island three hundred miles from shore, they wondered if they would ever... more

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764

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Annotated Early Life Among the Indians: Reminiscences from the Life of Benjamin G...

This is the annotated 1892 memoir of Benjamin Green Armstrong, a trader, woodsman, and a man whose drive to protect his friends, the Ojibwe people, knew no bounds. His efforts to assist them included persuading the government to honor treaties granting them the right to gather fish, game, rice,... more

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765

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Bright Eyes: The Story of Susette La Flesche, an Omaha Indian by Dorothy Clarke Wilso...

Susette's family tree encapsulates the history of westward expansion and Native Americans. One grandfather was a French fur trader, the other a surgeon at Fort Atkinson. One grandmother was from the Ponca tribe, the other from the Iowa tribe. Her father was the last chief of the Omaha. Her... more

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766

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Dear Brother: Letters of William Clark to Jonathan Clark by William Clark

Over the course of his life, American explorer William Clark sent dozens of letters to his brother Jonathan, including six written during the epic Lewis and Clark Expedition. This collection of Clark's intriguing letters-many published for the first time-reveals important new details about the... more

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767

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull by Robert Marshall Utley

"His narrative is griping....Mr. Utley transforms Sitting Bull, the abstract, romanticized icon and symbol, into a flesh-and-blood person with a down-to-earth story....THE LANCE AND THE SHIELD clears the screen of the exaggerations and fantasies long directed at the name of Sitting Bull."THE NEW... more

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768

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Essential Lewis and Clark by Meriwether Lewis & William Clark & Landon Y....

The journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark remain the single most important document in the history of American exploration. Through these tales of adventure, edited and annotated by American Book Award nominee Landon Jones, we meet Indian peoples and see the Great Plains, the Rocky... more

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769

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Mustangs by J. Frank Dobie

J. Frank Dobie's history of the "mustang"-from the Spanish mesteña, an animal belonging to (but strayed from) the Mesta, a medieval association of Spanish farmers-tells of its impact on the Spanish, English, and Native cultures of the West. J. Frank Dobie (1888-1964) was for many years... more

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770

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History by Paul Horgan

An epic history of the American southwest.

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771

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Conquest of the Missouri: The Story of the Life and Exploits of Captain Grant Mar...

Frontier Classics resurrect long out-of-print gems of frontier history. Antiquarian and rare book dealers have previously been the only source for these books, providing first editions for premium prices. Now, these books are available in affordable, quality paperback editions, with new... more

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772

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Man-Hunters of the Old West, Volume 2 by Robert K. DeArment

Until the early twentieth century, life in the American West could be rough and sometimes vicious. Those who brought thieves and murderers to justice at times had to employ tactics as ruthless as their prey. In this follow-up to his first collection of biographies of the West?s most recognized... more

Until the early twentieth century, life in the American West could be rough and sometimes vicious. Those who brought thieves and murderers to justice at times had to employ tactics as ruthless as their prey. In this follow-up to his first collection of biographies of the West?s most recognized man-hunters, noted western historian Robert K. DeArment recounts the remarkable careers of eight men?Pat Garrett, John Hughes, Harry Love, Harry Morse, Frank Norfleet, Bass Reeves, Granville Stuart, and Tom Tobin?who pursued notorious criminals. Volume 2 of Man-Hunters of the Old West shows that limited resources and dire conditions often made extralegal violence necessary for survival. Harry Love, the famous killer of California bandito Joaquin Murrieta, and Tom Tobin, who ended the murders of the Espinosa gang in Colorado, tracked their quarries to remote hideouts, shot them, and cut off their heads to prove they had been eliminated. Felon trackers, like the vigilante organizations that preceded them, on occasion administered summary justice?the on-the-spot hanging of their captured prey?especially if they believed the established court system was not working. Some of the man-hunters in DeArment?s accounts were freelance scouts and trackers; others were career officers of the law. At least one, Frank Norfleet, was a private citizen turned dedicated nemesis of con artists. Love, Stuart, and Morse began life as easterners who made their way West. All the others were midwesterners or far westerners. Some of these man-hunters wrote about their adventures, and were written about in turn. Garrett?s account of his hunt for Billy the Kid remains a best seller, for example, and both Reeves and Hughes have been credited for inspiring the Lone Ranger of TV and movie fame. DeArment discusses constant threats to the man-hunters? survival, the federal government?s undependable presence, and extralegal violence as major themes in western law enforcement. In recounting these eight men?s adventures, this volume reveals the forces that made brutality seem commonplace. �

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773

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Lizzie: The Letters of Elizabeth Chester Fisk, 1864 - 1893 by Elizabeth Chester Fisk ...

Lizzie Fisk's letters from Montana to her parents in Connecticut are more than an intimate glimpse into the life of a pioneer woman, they are also an opportunity for us to actually share life back then.

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774

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, And Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Savage Front...

This second volume of the "Savage Frontier" series focuses on two of the bloodiest years of fighting in the young Texas Republic, 1838 and 1839. By early 1838, the Texas Rangers were in danger of disappearing altogether. Stephen L. Moore shows how the major general of the new Texas Militia... more

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775

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Taming Texas: Captain William T. Sadler's Lone Star Service by Stephen L. Moore

Profiles one of the leading pioneers of nineteenth-century Texas, who served in the Cherokee War and the Civil War and helped tame the frontier.

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776

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Eighteen Minutes : The Battle of San Jacinto and the Texas Independence Campaign by S...

The book follows General Sam Houston as he takes command of the Texas Volunteers to lead them to victory six weeks after the fall of the Alamo.

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777

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Savage Frontier, 1835-1837: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas (Savage Front...

This first volume of the "Savage Frontier" series is a comprehensive account of the formative years of the legendary Texas Rangers. Stephen L. Moore provides fresh detail about each ranging unit formed during the Texas Revolution and narrates their involvement in the pivotal battle of San... more

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778

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Savage Frontier: 1840-1841: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas (Savage Front...

This third volume of the "Savage Frontier" series focuses on the evolution of the Texas Rangers and frontier warfare in Texas during the years 1840 and 1841. Comanche Indians were the leading rival to the pioneers during this period. Peace negotiations in San Antonio collapsed during the Council... more

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779

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Texas Rising: The Epic True Story of the Lone Star Republic and the Rise of the Texas...

The official nonfiction companion to HISTORY?s dramatic series Texas Rising (created by the same team that made the ratings record-breaker Hatfields & McCoys): a thrilling new narrative history of the Texas Revolution and the rise of the legendary Texas Rangers who patrolled the violent western... more

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780

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Wanted: The Outlaw Lives of Billy the Kid and Ned Kelly (The Lamar Series in Western ...

A renowned biographer compares the lives and times of American outlaw Billy the Kid and his Australian counterpart Ned Kelly The oft-told exploits of Billy the Kid and Ned Kelly survive vividly in the public imaginations of their respective countries, the United States and Australia. But the... more

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781

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands by ...

Revising the standard narrative of European-Indian relations in America, Juliana Barr reconstructs a world in which Indians were the dominant power and Europeans were the ones forced to accommodate, resist, and persevere.

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782

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Unsettled: Lord Selkirk?s Scottish Colonists and the Battle for Canada?s West, 1813?1...

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783

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Sleuthing the Alamo: Davy Crockett's Last Stand and Other Mysteries of the Texas Revo...

In Sleuthing the Alamo, historian James E. Crisp draws back the curtain on years of myth-making to reveal some surprising truths about the Texas Revolution --- truths often obscured by both racism and "political correctness," as history has been hijacked by combatants in the culture... more

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784

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Journal of a Trapper: A Hunter's Rambles Among the Wild Regions of the Rocky Mountain...

In 1834, Osborne Russell joined an expedition from Boston, under the direction of Nathaniel J. Wyeth, which proceeded to the Rocky Mountains to capitalise on the salmon and fur trade. He would remain there, hunting, trapping, and living off the land, for the next nine years. Journal of a... more

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785

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia River by William Dietrich

From Library Journal: Dietrich, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Seattle Times and author of The Final Forest (LJ 5/1/92), here covers a wealth of information and personal histories. Once supporting the greatest chinook salmon and steelhead trout runs in the world and one of the most... more

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786

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail by Theodore Roosevelt & Frederic Remington (Illu...

Follow Boone and Crockett Club founder Theodore Roosevelt during his time in the Dakotas and Montana beginning in 1884. Upon his return from this particular sojourn out west he promptly organized a formal dinner with his friends and colleagues in December 1887 and formed the Boone and Crockett... more

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787

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Shawnees and the War for America (Penguin Library of American Indian History) by ...

Long before the American Revolution, the Shawnees lived in Ohio, hunted in Kentucky, and traveled as far afield as Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Missouri. White settlers, however, sharply curtailed their freedom. With the courage and resilience embodied by their legendary leader Tecumseh, the... more

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788

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Seven Visions of Bull Lodge: As Told by His Daughter, Garter Snake by Fred P. Gon...

'Provides real insight into the religion of the nineteenth-century Gros Ventre (Atsina) Indians. Known to themselves as the White Clay People, this little-known tribe now shares the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana with the Assiniboines. However, throughout much of their recorded history... more

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789

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Mr. Roosevelt's Steamboat by Mary Helen Dohan

Here, in a story of high adventure and unlikely romance, is an authoritative account of the first steamboat voyage on the Mississippi river in 1811. This hazardous three-month's long voyage changed the course of history. It is also the story of two fascinating people, inventor Nicholas... more

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790

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Sa

'American Indian Stories' is a collection of childhood stories, allegorical fictions and essays written by Sioux writer and activist Zitkala-Sa. First published in 1921, 'American Indian Stories' details the hardships encountered by Zitkala-Sa and other Native Americans in the missionary and... more

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791

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Sagebrush Ocean: A Natural History of the Great Basin (Max C. Fleischmann Series ...

This tenth anniversary hardcover edition celebrates the Great Basin wilderness in all seasons. "The Great Basin is one of the least novelized, least painted, least eulogized of American landscapes. Stephen Trimble has opened it up with the perception of a frontier scout, but for a different set... more

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792

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance by Rebecca Clarren

An award-winning author investigates the entangled history of her Jewish ancestors' land in South Dakota and the Lakota, who were forced off that land by the United States government Growing up, Rebecca Clarren only knew the major plot points of her tenacious immigrant family’s... more

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793

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860 by R...

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794

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

A History of Utah's American Indians by Forrest S. Cuch

In this volume, the editor and authors endeavor to write the history of Utah's first residents from an Indian perspective. An introductory chapter provides an overview of Utah's American Indians and a concluding chapter summarizes the issues and concerns of contemporary Indians and their... more

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795

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West by Katie Hickman

The dramatic, untold stories of the diverse array of women who helped transform the American West. Hard-drinking, hard-living poker players and prostitutes of the new boom towns; wives and mothers traveling two and a half thousand miles across the prairies in covered-wagon convoys, some of... more

The dramatic, untold stories of the diverse array of women who helped transform the American West. Hard-drinking, hard-living poker players and prostitutes of the new boom towns; wives and mothers traveling two and a half thousand miles across the prairies in covered-wagon convoys, some of them so poor they walked the entire route; African-American women in search of freedom from slavery; Chinese sex-workers sold openly on the docks of San Francisco; Native American women brutally displaced by the unstoppable tide of white settlers -- these were the women who settled the American West, whose stories until now have remained mostly untold. As the internationally bestselling historian Katie Hickman writes, “Myth and misunderstanding spring from the American frontier as readily as rye grass from sod, and -- like the wiry grass -- seem as difficult to weed out and discard.” But the true-life story of women's experiences in the Wild West is more gripping, heart-rending, and stirring than all the movies, novels, folk-legends, and ballads of popular imagination. Drawing on letters, diaries, and other extraordinary contemporary accounts, sifting through the legends and the myths, the laws and the treaties, Katie Hickman presents us with a cast of unforgettable women, all forced to draw on huge reserves of resilience and courage in the face of tumultuous change: the half Cree, Marguerite McLoughlin, the much-admired “First Lady” of Fort Vancouver; the Presbyterian missionary Narcissa Whitman, who in 1837 became the first white woman to make the overland journey west across the Rocky Mountains; Biddy Mason, the Mississippi slave who fought for her freedom through the courts of California; Olive Oatman, adopted by the Mohave, famous for her facial tattoos. This is the story of the women who participated in the greatest mass migration in American history, transforming their country in the process. This is American history not as it was romanticized but as it was lived. *WINNER OF THE WOMEN WRITING THE WEST 2023 WILLA LITERARY AWARD*

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796

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Horse Packing: A Manual of Pack Transportation by Charles Johnson Post

Horse packing?using horses (and sometimes mules) as a form of conveyance for supplies and goods?was once a cornerstone of human transportation. Filled with precisely drawn illustrations and written instructions on the many types of required hitches, cordage, ropes, splices, and knots, this... more

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797

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Essential Lewis and Clark by William Clark & Meriwether Lewis & Anthony B...

With nuanced observations from the star author and historian, here are the celebrated journals documenting Lewis and Clark's legendary expedition into the uncharted American West, abridged into a single volume and translated into modern English. At the start of the 19th century,... more

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798

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

American Carriages, Sleighs, Sulkies, and Carts: 168 Illustrations from Victorian Sou...

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799

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie by We...

For anyone who has ever wanted to step into the world of a favorite book, here is a pioneer pilgrimage, a tribute to Laura Ingalls Wilder, and a hilarious account of butter-churning obsession. Wendy McClure is on a quest to find the world of beloved Little House on the Prairie author Laura... more

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800

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Blood Memory: The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo ...

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801

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Red Cloud and the Sioux Problem (Bison Book) by James C. Olson

From the mid-1860s until the end of organized resistance on the Great Plains, Red Cloud, the noted Oglala Sioux, epitomized for many the Indian problem. Centered on Red Cloud?s career, this is an admirably impartial, circumstantial, and rigorously documented study of the relations between the... more

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802

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Joseph Banks : A Life by Patrick O'Brian

One of our greatest writers about the sea has written an engrossing story of one of history's most legendary maritime explorers. Patrick O'Brian's biography of naturalist, explorer and co-founder of Australia, Joseph Banks, is narrative history at its finest. Published to rave reviews, it... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Stories of the Sioux, New Edition by Luther Standing Bear

Luther Standing Bear, a Lakota Sioux born in the 1860s, heard these legends in his youth, when his people were being moved to reservations. In haunting mood and imagery, they celebrate the old nomadic life of the Sioux, when buffalo were plentiful and all nature fed the spirit. The twenty... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Touch The Earth: A Self-portrait of Indian Existence by T. C. McLuhan

Simply but eloquently, the selections tell of the Indians' relationship with the earth, their kinship with all of nature's creatures, and their unity with the elements. They speak of the harmony that existed between the Indian and the land, a harmony that was disrupted as 'the... more

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805

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Beyond the Law by Emmett Dalton

Many Western outlaw gangs have reached mythological proportions, but the Dalton gang stands above the rest for their daring exploits and because their criminality represented, in the case of Gratton and Bob, lawmen who turned their backs on laws they found to be criminally flawed. Though there... more

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806

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Mexican Wars for Independence by Timothy J. Henderson

Mexico?s struggle for independence was as much a series of civil wars and failed social revolutions as it was a war to separate Mexico from Spain. Some Mexicans fought to bring profound social change to the country, some to achieve autonomy, some for vengeance or booty, still others to maintain... more

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807

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Life of Tom Horn: Government Scout and Interpreter by Tom Horn

Guilty or not? Many thought that Tom Horn, the great Indian scout who was hanged for the murder of a fourteen year-old boy, was innocent. In fact, this book was published as "A Vindication." Can reading the story of his life as he tells it convince you? Horn fought the Apache, and like many... more

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808

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Falcon by John Tanner & Louise Erdrich (Introduction)

John Tanner was born on the Kentucky River around 1780. He spent most of his life with the Ojibwa tribe, and disappeared in 1846. John Tanner's fascinating autobiography tells the story of a man torn between white society and the Native Americans with whom he identified.

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809

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

A National Crime: The Canadian Government And the Residential School System (Manitoba...

For over 100 years, thousands of Aboriginal children passed through the Canadian residential school system. Although the system was meant to bring Aboriginal children into the "circle of civilization," the actual results were far different. More commonly, it provided an inferior education in an... more

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810

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

William Walker's Wars: How One Man's Private American Army Tried to Conquer Mexico, N...

In the decade before the onset of the Civil War, groups of Americans engaged in a series of longshot—and illegal—forays into Mexico, Cuba, and other Central American countries in hopes of taking them over. These efforts became known as filibustering, and their goal was to seize... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Assembling California by John McPhee

At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in... more

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812

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

A Song to the Creator: Traditional Arts of Native American Women of the Plateau by Li...

Among Native American Plateau people, women are important culture bearers, responsible for passing spiritual values from one generation to the next by many means, including manual art forms, stories, and songs. This book explores each of the Plateau arts by means of Native American legends and... more

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813

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America by Christi...

Slavery existed in North America long before the first Africans arrived at Jamestown in 1619. For centuries, from the pre-Columbian era through the 1840s, Native Americans took prisoners of war and killed, adopted, or enslaved them. Christina Snyder?s pathbreaking book takes a familiar setting... more

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814

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Bear River Massacre and the Making of History by Kass Fleisher

Explores how a pivotal event in American history-the massacre of over 300 Shoshone men, women, and children in 1863-has been constructed, contested, negotiated, and forgotten.

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson

A moving love story with grand melodramatic touches, Ramona was linked with Uncle Tom's Cabin as one of the great ethical novels of the 19th century. A bestseller in 1884, Ramona was both a political and literary success and will continue to move modern readers with its sympathetic characters... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Chief Marin: Leader, Rebel, and Legend by Betty Goerke

In this thoroughly researched biography, anthropologist and archaeologist Betty Goerke has pieced together a portrait of the life of a fugitive leader, using mission records, ethnographies, explorers and missionaries diaries and correspondence, and other material. Chief Marin became a leader of... more

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817

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Chief Left Hand: Southern Arapaho (Civilization of the American Indian Series) by Mar...

This is the first biography of Chief Left Hand, diplomat, linguist, and legendary of the Plains Indians. Working from government reports, manuscripts, and the diaries and letters of those persons—both white and Indian—who knew him, Margaret Coel has developed an unusually readable,... more

This is the first biography of Chief Left Hand, diplomat, linguist, and legendary of the Plains Indians. Working from government reports, manuscripts, and the diaries and letters of those persons—both white and Indian—who knew him, Margaret Coel has developed an unusually readable, interesting, and closely documented account of his life and the life of his tribe during the fateful years of the mid-1800s. It was in these years that thousands of gold-seekers on their way to California and Oregon burst across the plains, first to traverse the territory consigned to the Indians and then, with the discovery of gold in 1858 on Little Dry Creek (formerly the site of the Southern Arapaho winter campground and presently Denver, Colorado), to settle. Chief Left Hand was one of the first of his people to acknowledge the inevitability of the white man’s presence on the plain, and thereafter to espouse a policy of adamant peacefulness —if not, finally, friendship—toward the newcomers. Chief Left Hand is not only a consuming story—popular history at its best—but an important work of original scholarship. In it the author: Clearly establishes the separate identities of the original Left Hand, the subject of her book, and the man by the same name who succeeded Little Raven in 1889 as the principal chief of the Southern Arapahos in Oklahoma—a longtime source of confusion to students of western history; Lays to rest, with a series of previously unpublished letters by George Bent, a century-long dispute among historians as to Left Hand’s fate at Sand Creek; Examines the role of John A. Evans, first governor of Colorado, in the Sand Creek Massacre. Colonel Chivington, commander of the Colorado Volunteers, has always (and justly) been held responsible for the surprise attack. But Governor Evans, who afterwards claimed ignorance and innocence of the colonel’s intentions, was also deeply involved. His letters, on file in the Colorado State Archives, have somehow escaped the scrutiny of historians and remain, for the most part, unpublished. These Coel has used extensively, allowing the governor to tell, in his own words, his real role in the massacre. The author also examines Evans’s motivations for coming to Colorado, his involvement with the building of the transcontinental railroad, and his intention of clearing the Southern Arapahos from the plains —an intention that abetted Chivington’s ambitions and led to their ruthless slaughter at Sand Creek.

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Sacagawea's Child: The Life and Times of Jean-Baptiste (Pomp) Charbonneau by Susan A....

Sacagawea's Child follows the life of Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, a boy born at the forefront of westward expansion in the early nineteenth century. Author Susan M. Colby details Charbonneau family history, analyzing the characters and cultures of Jean-Baptiste's father, Toussaint, a French fur... more

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American General: The Life and Times of William Tecumseh Sherman by John S. D. Eisenh...

Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman earned a place in history as "the first modern general," yet behind his reputation as a fierce warrior was a sympathetic man of complex character. A century and a half after the Civil War, Sherman remains one of its most controversial... more

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The Life of Yellowstone Kelly by Jerry Keenan

Luther Sage "Yellowstone" Kelly (1849-1928) was neither flamboyant nor a braggart; he felt no need to embellish stories of his accomplishments. It was this modesty that has allowed Kelly to almost disappear from the pages of history. Until now, that is. Thanks to Jerry Keenan's dogged research... more

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Victorio: Apache Warrior and Chief (Oklahoma Western Biographies) by Kathleen P. Cham...

A steadfast champion of his people during the wars with encroaching Anglo-Americans, the Apache chief Victorio deserves as much attention as his better-known contemporaries Cochise and Geronimo. In presenting the story of this nineteenth-century Warm Springs Apache warrior, Kathleen P.... more

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Paper Medicine Man: John Gregory Bourke and His American West by Joseph C. Porter &am...

John Gregory Bourke was a U.S. Army officer who became an ethnologist, military historian, and prolific writer on the American West. Bourke spent most of his military service in the post–Civil War West. After graduating from West Point, he fought in last-stand battles with the Sioux,... more

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Lucien Maxwell by Harriet Freiberger

As one hundred thousand gold seekers raced to California in 1849, thirty-one-year-old mountain man Lucien Maxwell had already crossed the Shining Mountains with John Fremont and chosen a different destiny: land, not gold. Far from the perceived glamour of California, he settled near a... more

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Standing Bear Is a Person: The True Story of a Native American's Quest for Justice by...

The only book about the landmark trial of the first Native American to be recognized legally as a person-"an eloquent reminder of a fight well fought."-Kirkus In a federal courtroom in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1879, Standing Bear, clan chief of the small and peaceful Ponca tribe, was in court... more

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Throne of Grace: A Mountain Man, an Epic Adventure, and the Bloody Conquest of the Am...

The explosive true saga of the legendary adventurer Jedediah Smith and the Mountain Men who explored the American frontier, written by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. It is the early 19th century, and the land recently purchased by President Thomas Jefferson stretches west for thousands of miles.... more

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Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition by Campbell Mcgrath

Who finds this body Be it known My name is George Shannon & I bequeath my remains To seed this land With American bones. From the inimitable Campbell McGrath comes an epic poem of George Shannon, the youngest member of the Lewis and Clark expedition, who wandered the prairie alone... more

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The Blood of Heroes: The 13-Day Struggle for the Alamo--and the Sacrifice That Forged...

A sweeping, action-packed saga of the legendary last stand at the Alamo, by the author of the bestselling A Terrible Glory. On February 23, 1836, a large Mexican army led by dictator Santa Anna reached San Antonio and laid siege to about 175 Texas rebels holed up in the Alamo. The Texans... more

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The Trial of Billy the Kid (Mesilla Valley History Series) by David G. Thomas

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Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War by ...

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The Widowed Ones: Beyond the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Chris Enss & Howard ...

There weren’t many women in the late 1800s who had the opportunity to accompany their husbands on adventures that were so exciting they seemed fictitious. Such was the case for the women married to the officers in General George Armstrong Custer’s Seventh Cavalry. There were seven... more

There weren’t many women in the late 1800s who had the opportunity to accompany their husbands on adventures that were so exciting they seemed fictitious. Such was the case for the women married to the officers in General George Armstrong Custer’s Seventh Cavalry. There were seven officers’ wives. They were all good friends who traveled from post to post with one another along with their spouses. Of the seven widows, Elizabeth Custer was the most well-known. As the wife of the commanding officer, Libbie felt it was her duty to be present when the officer’s wives at Fort Lincoln were told their husbands had been killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. The women were overwhelmed with letters of condolence. Most people were sincere in their expressions of sorrow over the widows’ loss. Others were ghoulish souvenir hunters requesting articles of their husbands’ clothing and personal weapons as keepsakes. The press was preoccupied with how the wives of the deceased officers were handling their grief. During the first year after the tragic event, reporters sought them out to learn how they were coping, what plans they had for the future, and what, if anything, they knew about the battle itself. The widows were able to soldier through the scrutiny because they had one another. They confided in each other, cried without apologizing, and discussed their desperate financial situations. The friendship the bereaved widows had with one another proved to be a critical source of support. The transition from being officers’ wives living at various forts on the wild frontier to being single women with homes of their own was a difficult adjustment. Without one another to depend upon, the time might have been more of a struggle. The Widowed Ones: Beyond the Battle of the Little Bighorn tells the stories of these women and the unique bond they shared through never-before-seen materials from the Elizabeth Custer Library and Museum at Garryowen, Montana, including letters to and from politicians and military leaders to the widows, fellow soldiers and critics of George Custer to the widows, and letters between the widows themselves about when the women first met, the men they married, and their attempts to persevere after the tragedy.

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The Rush: America's Fevered Quest for Fortune, 1848-1853 by Edward Dolnick

A riveting portrait of the Gold Rush, by the award-winning author of Down the Great Unknown and The Forger's Spell. In the spring of 1848, rumors began to spread that gold had been discovered in a remote spot in the Sacramento Valley. A year later, newspaper headlines declared "Gold Fever!" as... more

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Navajo by Susanne Page & Jake Page

Striking full-color photographs provide an unprecedented look at the daily life, rituals, and traditions of the proud Navajo people and their lands, while a lively text traces their history and spiritual philosophy.

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Native Nations: A Millennium in North America by Kathleen DuVal

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Billy the Kid and Jesse James: Outlaws of the Legendary West by Bill Markley

Who was the biggest, baddest outlaw in the Old West? Billy the Kid or Jesse James? Which outlaw did the most to wreak havoc across the frontier? And which outlaw left behind the biggest legacy? Author Bill Markley takes on those questions and more in this thoughtful and entertaining examination... more

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Geronimo and Sitting Bull: Leaders of the Legendary West by Bill Markley

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Essential Histories 59: The Plains Wars 1757-1900 by Charles Iii & Charles M. Rob...

The Great Plains cover the central two-thirds of the United States, and during the nineteenth century were home to some of the largest and most powerful Indian tribes on the continent. The conflict between those tribes and the newcomers from the Old World lasted about one hundred and fifty... more

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The Piikani Blackfeet: A Culture Under Siege by John C. Jackson

Jackson, an independent scholar and author of several publications, looks at the profound effects of European contact with the Piikani Blackfeet in Northern Montana and Southern Alberta. The book examines how the Piikani mastered horseback riding, how they defended their territory against fur... more

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Famous American Plays of the 1930s (The Laurel Drama Series) by Harold Clurman (Edito...

Five famous american plays of the 1930s: 1) "Awake and Sing"--Odets' rebellious and compassionate story of a struggling Jewish family in the Bronx. 2) "End of Summer"--Behrman's spirited comedy about a beautiful woman of the idle rich confronted with reality and the... more

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Apache Wars by Ernest Lisle Reedstrom

The Apache people deserve to be remembered for much more than their renegades, but public interest in their warlike days remains high. Reedstrom is a historian and noted illustrator of Western and cavalry themes, and this book reflects his military interest. The various campaigns and forays... more

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Make a Beautiful Way: The Wisdom of Native American Women by Unknown Author

Make a Beautiful Way is nothing less than a new way of looking at history?or more correctly, the reestablishment of a very old way. For too long, Euro-American discourse styles, emphasizing elite male privilege and conceptual linearity, have drowned out democratic and woman-centered Native... more

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Good Time Girls of Arizona and New Mexico: A Red-Light History of the American Southw...

As settlements and civilization moved West to follow the lure of mineral wealth and the trade of the Santa Fe Trail, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Southwest. Whether escaping a bad home life, lured by false... more

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The White Devil's Daughters: The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatow...

A revelatory history of the trafficking of young Asian girls that flourished in San Francisco during the first hundred years of Chinese immigration (1848-1943) and an in-depth look at the "safe house" that became a refuge for those seeking their freedom Beginning in 1874, the Occidental Mission... more

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Fort Inge by Thomas Tyree Smith

Now an obscure site near Uvalde, Texas, Fort Inge was once considered one of the most important posts on the Texas frontier. Founded in 1849, the site was a crossroads of Texas history and home to the Second Dragoons, Mounted Rifles, Second Cavalry, Fourth Cavalry, and the Buffalo Soldiers of... more

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Free Frank: A Black Pioneer on the Antebellum Frontier by Juliet E. K. Walker

The story of Free Frank is not only a testament to human courage and resourcefulness but affords new insight into the American frontier. Born a slave in the South Carolina piedmont in 1777, Frank died a free man in 1854 in a town he had founded in western Illinois. His accomplishments,... more

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Oldtimers: Their Own Stories by Florence Fenley

This spellbinding collection of fifty-three true pioneer stories, originally published in 1939, brilliantly captures the history of the development of the frontier in the area of southwestern Texas from the Civil War period up to the 1930's.

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Indian Fishing: Early Methods on the Northwest Coast by Hilary Stewart

First published in 1977 and unavailable for several years, Indian Fishing is more than a sterile account of the technology of fishing; it considers the momentous role of fish and fishing in the lives of the Northwest Coast peoples. A classic, thoroughly researched and informative text, it... more

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Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America (North Amer...

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Buchanan-Smith's Handbook to the Axe: Knowing, Buying, Using, Hanging, Restoring & Ad...

Buchanan-Smith’s Axe Handbook is a trusted resource for anyone looking to reconnect with handcraft and the outdoors. Beautifully designed and lavishly illustrated, this handbook will inspire readers to rediscover the great outdoors. Peter Buchanan-Smith founded Best Made Co. in 2009... more

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Men to Match My Mountains: The Opening of the Far West 1840-1900 (Mainstream of Ameri...

Taking as his motif the poet Sam Foss’s words, “Bring me men to match my mountains,” Irving Stone has created an interwoven pageant of stories of the great westward drive which, in a few rousing decades, settled a continent and gave the United States dimensions of... more

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Smoky The Cow Horse by Will James

If you'd like to meet a real cow puncher, you'll enjoy Clint, the bronc peeler. He'll tell you all about his favorite pony, Smoky, who lived a full horse's life in cow country in the early 1900s. Will James, himself a cowboy and rancher, tells this story with the warmth that only love of an... more

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The American West: The Reader by Walter Nugent (Editor) & Martin Ridge (Editor)

An anthology of classic articles tells the history of the American West, from women's property rights in Spanish-Mexican California to the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864, and from Homesteading and mining to the Great Depression and World War II. Where is the American West?: report on a... more

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Treasure in a Cornfield: The Discovery & Excavation of the Steamboat Arabia by Greg H...

Steaming up the Missouri River en route to the frontier, the Arabia carried 130 passengers and 220 tons of precious cargo. On September 5, 1856, a submerged walnut tree pierced her hull, sinking the Arabia one-half mile below Parkville, Missouri. In time the river changed course, leaving the... more

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Making Of Legends: More True Stories Of Frontier America by Mark Dugan

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Exodus from the Alamo: The Anatomy of the Last Stand Myth by Phillip Thomas Tucker

Contrary to movie and legend, we now know that the defenders of the Alamo in the war for Texan independence-including Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie and William B. Travis-did not die under brilliant sunlight, defending their positions against hordes of Mexican infantry. Instead the Mexicans launched a... more

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Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America by Michael H...

In 1869, when the final spike was driven into the transcontinental railroad, few were prepared for its seismic aftershocks. Once a hodgepodge of short, squabbling lines, America’s railways soon exploded into a titanic industry helmed by a pageant of speculators, crooks, and visionaries.... more

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Indians Of North America by Geoffrey Turner

Paiute, Seminole, Apache, Iroquois-their traditions, rituals and crafts are part of our heritage. This pocket encyclopedia, filled with more than 60 pages of full-color photos and illustrations and more than a hundred rare black-and-white photos of the 19th and early 20th centuries, brings you a... more

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The Long Death: The Last Days of the Plains Indian by Ralph K. Andrist

This compelling narrative explains how Native Americans found themselves time and again betrayed by the ever-expanding white nation of the East, fighting for lands on the edge of the shrinking frontier. Long considered a classic, this edition features an introduction by Dee Brown, author of Bury... more

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The Laura Ingalls Wilder Songbook : Favorite Songs from The Little House Books by Eug...

An authentic look at America's pioneer past contains complete music and lyrics to the ballads, hymns, and folk songs that Ma and Pa Ingalls sing and play to their children.

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Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park by James Willard Schultz

In 1877 Schultz went to Montana for the summer to buffalo hunt. He ended up staying and became fascinated with the Indian life and joined the Blackfeet tribe. He learned to speak the Blackfeet language and married a Pikuni (Blackfeet) woman. He became a recorder of the open West romance and... more

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The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History by Joseph M. Marshall

As the peerless warrior who brought the U.S. Army to its knees at the Battle of Little Bighorn, Crazy Horse remains one of the most perennially fascinating figures of the American West. Now Joseph Marshall -- a masterful storyteller, historian, and descendant of the same Lakota community that... more

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Cowboy Spur Maker: The Story of Ed Blanchard by Jane Pattie & Tom Kelly

Ed Blanchard was known to family and friends as a wild, reckless cowboy long before horsemen of the West recognized him as a noted maker of cowboy spurs. But his years spent herding snorty cattle and cinching his saddle on broncs taught him his trade as both a cowboy and a spur maker. Through... more

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Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire by Raymon...

The story of how nineteenth-century European rulers conspired with Mexican conservatives in an outlandish plan to contain the rising US colossus by establishing Old World empire on its doorstep. The outbreak of the US Civil War provided an unexpected opportunity for political conservatives... more

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The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America by Laura Das...

Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began with Napoleon and ended with Darwin. With Cosmos, the book that crowned his career, Humboldt offered to the world his vision of humans and nature as integrated halves of a... more

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Mountain Man: John Colter, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American...

The extraordinary life of Lewis & Clark?s right-hand man In 1804, John Colter set out with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the first U.S. expedition to traverse the North American continent. During the twenty-eight month ordeal, Colter served as a hunter and scout, and honed his survival... more

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Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography by Laura Ingalls Wilder & Pamela Smith ...

Follow the real Laura Ingalls and her family as they make their way west and discover that truth is as remarkable as fiction. Hidden away since the 1930s, Laura Ingalls Wilder s never-before-published autobiography reveals the true stories of her pioneering life. Some of her experiences will be... more

Follow the real Laura Ingalls and her family as they make their way west and discover that truth is as remarkable as fiction. Hidden away since the 1930s, Laura Ingalls Wilder s never-before-published autobiography reveals the true stories of her pioneering life. Some of her experiences will be familiar; some will be a surprise. Pioneer Girl re-introduces readers to the woman who defined the pioneer experience for millions of people around the world. Through her recollections, Wilder details the Ingalls family's journey from Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, back to Minnesota, and on to Dakota Territory sixteen years of travels, unforgettable stories, and the everyday people who became immortal through her fiction. Using additional manuscripts, diaries, and letters, Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography builds on Wilder's work by adding valuable context and explores her growth as a writer. Author of an award-winning Laura Ingalls Wilder biography, editor Pamela Smith Hill offers new insights into Wilder's life and times. In an introduction, Hill illuminates Wilder's writing career and the dynamic relationship between the budding novelist and her daughter and editor, Rose Wilder Lane. Sharing the story of Wilder's original manuscript, Hill discusses the catalysts for Pioneer Girl and the process through which Wilder's story turned from an unpublished memoir into the national phenomenon of the Little House series. Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography also explores the history of the frontier that the Ingalls family traversed and the culture and life of the communities Wilder lived in. This groundbreaking volume develops a fuller picture of Wilder's life and times for the millions of readers who wish to learn more about this important American author. It contains one hundred and twenty-five images, eight fully researched maps, and hundreds of annotations based on numerous primary sources, including census data, county, state, and federal records, and newspapers of the period. An important historic and literary achievement, this annotated edition of Pioneer Girl provides modern readers with new insights into the woman behind the fictional classics Little House in the Big Woods, Farmer Boy, Little House on the Prairie, On the Banks of Plum Creek, By the Shores of Silver Lake, The Long Winter, Little Town on the Prairie, These Happy Golden Years, and The First Four Years.

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Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West by Christopher Knowlton

?The best all-around study of the American Cowboy ever written. A must-read!??Douglas Brinkley, author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America The open-range cattle era lasted barely a quarter century, but it left America irrevocably changed. These few decades... more

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Black, Red and Deadly: Black and Indian Gunfighters of the Indian Territory, 1870-190...

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Black, Buckskin, and Blue: African American Scouts and Soldiers on the Western Fronti...

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?Boots and Saddles,? or Life in Dakota with General Custer by Elizabeth B. Custer

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The Revenger: The Life and Times of Wild Bill Hickok by Aaron Woodard

The Revenger: The Life and Times of Wild Bill Hickok examines Wild Bill?s life in the context of 19th Century American history, from his birth, through his early manhood, and to his eventual demise. Woven into his life story are the significant role played by the Civil War in the development of... more

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Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849 by Chris...

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Marking the Sparrow's Fall : The Making of the American West by Wallace Stegner

Winner of three O. Henry Awards, the Commonwealth Gold Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Kirsch Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement, Wallace Stegner was a literary giant. In Marking the Sparrow's Fall, the first collection of Stegner's work published since... more

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Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America by Eric Jay Do...

?A compelling and well-annotated tale of greed, slaughter and geopolitics.??Los Angeles Times As Henry Hudson sailed up the broad river that would one day bear his name, he grew concerned that his Dutch patrons would be disappointed in his failure to find the fabled route to the Orient. What... more

?A compelling and well-annotated tale of greed, slaughter and geopolitics.??Los Angeles Times As Henry Hudson sailed up the broad river that would one day bear his name, he grew concerned that his Dutch patrons would be disappointed in his failure to find the fabled route to the Orient. What became immediately apparent, however, from the Indians clad in deer skins and ?good furs? was that Hudson had discovered something just as tantalizing. The news of Hudson?s 1609 voyage to America ignited a fierce competition to lay claim to this uncharted continent, teeming with untapped natural resources. �The result was the creation of an American fur trade, which fostered economic rivalries and fueled wars among the European powers, and later between the United States and Great Britain, as North America became a battleground for colonization and imperial aspirations. In Fur, Fortune, and Empire, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin chronicles the rise and fall of the fur trade of old, when the rallying cry was ?get the furs while they last.? Beavers, sea otters, and buffalos were slaughtered, used for their precious pelts that were tailored into extravagant hats, coats, and sleigh blankets. To read Fur, Fortune, and Empire then is to understand how North America was explored, exploited, and settled, while its native Indians were alternately enriched and exploited by the trade. �As Dolin demonstrates, fur, both an economic elixir and an agent of destruction, became inextricably linked to many key events in American history, including the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and the War of 1812, as well as to the relentless pull of Manifest Destiny and the opening of the West. This work provides an international cast beyond the scope of any Hollywood epic, including Thomas Morton, the rabble-rouser who infuriated the Pilgrims by trading guns with the Indians; British explorer Captain James Cook, whose discovery in the Pacific Northwest helped launch America?s China trade; Thomas Jefferson who dreamed of expanding the fur trade beyond the Mississippi; America?s first multimillionaire John Jacob Astor, who built a fortune on a foundation of fur; and intrepid mountain men such as Kit Carson and Jedediah Smith, who sliced their way through an awe inspiring and unforgiving landscape, leaving behind a mythic legacy still resonates today. Concluding with the virtual extinction of the buffalo in the late 1800s, Fur, Fortune, and Empire is an epic history that brings to vivid life three hundred years of the American experience, conclusively demonstrating that the fur trade played a seminal role in creating the nation we are today. 125 black-and-white illustrations

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Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865-1890: Conquering the Southern Plains (Eyewitnes...

"Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865-1890: Conquering the Southern Plains" is the third in a planned five-volume series that will tell the saga of the military struggle for the American West in the words of the soldiers, non-combatants, and Native Americans who shaped it. "Volume III:... more

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Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865-1890: The Wars for the Pacific Northwest (Eyewi...

Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 18651890: The Wars for the Pacific Northwest is the second in a planned five-volume series that will tell the saga of the military struggle for the American West in the words of the soldiers, noncombatants, and Native Americans who shaped it. Patterned after... more

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Eyewitnessed to the Indian Wars, 1865-1890: The Struggle for Apacheria (Eyewitnesses ...

Patterned after the classic Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, this series of five volumes will the most comprehensive work on the military aspects of the Indian Wars in the West. The author will gather a wide variety of first-person accounts that are not generally available elsewhere,... more

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Eyewitnesses To The Indian Wars, 1865-1890: The Army And The Indian (Eyewitnesses to ...

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Year of the Century: 1876 by Dee Brown

Dee Brown’s sparkling account of a momentous year in American history In 1876, America was eager to celebrate its centenary, but questioned what might lie ahead. The American Republic had grown to four times its original population, and was in the midst of enormous changes.... more

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From the River to the Sea: The Untold Story of the Railroad War That Made the West by...

A propulsive and panoramic history of one of the most dramatic stories never told—the greatest railroad war of all time, fought by the daring leaders of the Santa Fe and the Rio Grande to seize, control, and create the American West. It is difficult to imagine now, but for all its... more

A propulsive and panoramic history of one of the most dramatic stories never told—the greatest railroad war of all time, fought by the daring leaders of the Santa Fe and the Rio Grande to seize, control, and create the American West. It is difficult to imagine now, but for all its gorgeous scenery, the American West might have been barren tundra as far as most Americans knew well into the 19th century. While the West was advertised as a paradise on earth to citizens in the East and Midwest, many believed the journey too hazardous to be worthwhile—until 1869, when the first transcontinental railroad changed the face of transportation. Railroad companies soon became the rulers of western expansion, choosing routes, creating brand-new railroad towns, and building up remote settlements like Santa Fe, Albuquerque, San Diego, and El Paso into proper cities. But thinning federal grants left the routes incomplete, an opportunity that two brash new railroad men, armed with private investments and determination to build an empire across the Southwest clear to the Pacific, soon seized, leading to the greatest railroad war in American history. In From the River to the Sea, bestselling author John Sedgwick recounts, in vivid and thrilling detail, the decade-long fight between General William J. Palmer, the Civil War hero leading the “little family” of his Rio Grande, and William Barstow Strong, the hard-nosed manager of the corporate-minded Santa Fe. What begins as an accidental rivalry when the two lines cross in Colorado soon evolves into an all-out battle as each man tries to outdo the other—claiming exclusive routes through mountains, narrow passes, and the richest silver mines in the world; enlisting private armies to protect their land and lawyers to find loopholes; dispatching spies to gain information; and even using the power of the press and incurring the wrath of the God-like Robber Baron Jay Gould—to emerge victorious. By the end of the century, one man will fade into anonymity and disgrace. The other will achieve unparalleled success—and in the process, transform a sleepy backwater of thirty thousand called “Los Angeles” into a booming metropolis that will forever change the United States.

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Hard Road West: History and Geology along the Gold Rush Trail by Keith Heyer Meldahl

In 1848 news of the discovery of gold in California triggered an enormous wave of emigration toward the Pacific. Lured by the promise of riches, thousands of settlers left behind the forests, rain, and fertile soil of the eastern United States in favor of the rough-hewn lands of the American... more

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Wilderness Journey: The Life of William Clark (Missouri Biography Series) by William ...

Strange as it may seem today, William Clark-best known as the American explorer who joined Meriwether Lewis in leading an overland expedition to the Pacific-has many more claims to fame than his legendary Voyage of Discovery, dramatic and daring though that venture may have been. Although... more

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Gold Seeker : Adventures of a Belgian Argonaut during the Gold Rush Years (Yale Weste...

In 1850, Jean-Nicolas Perlot, a 26-year-old Belgian, joined a French mining company bound for the gold fields of California. This book is Perlot’s witty and informative account of his life in California and his subsequent career in the newly rich town of Portland, Oregon.

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A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of th...

From popular historian and author of the “marvelous” (The New York Times Book Review) The Last American Aristocrat comes the fascinating story of how in 1854, a new law—the Kansas-Nebraska Act—unexpectedly became the greatest miscalculation in American history, dividing... more

From popular historian and author of the “marvelous” (The New York Times Book Review) The Last American Aristocrat comes the fascinating story of how in 1854, a new law—the Kansas-Nebraska Act—unexpectedly became the greatest miscalculation in American history, dividing North and South, creating the Republican party, and paving the way for the Civil War. The history of the United States includes a series of sectional compromises—the Constitutional Convention, the Missouri Compromise in 1820, and the Compromise of 1850. While these accords created an imperfect republic, or “a house divided,” as Lincoln put it, the country remained united. But then in 1854, this three-generations system suddenly blew up with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and here, David Brown explores in riveting detail how the Act led to the sudden division of North and South. The Act declared that planters, if permitted by territorial laws, could bring their enslaved peoples to the land extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains—the core of Jefferson’s old Louisiana Purchase which had been reserved for free labor. Northerners were shocked that free soil might now be turned over to slavery and responded with unprecedented backlash. In the bill’s wake the conservative Whig Party (winners of multiple presidential elections) collapsed, and the radical Republican Party was born—in six years it would take control of the central government, provoking Southern secession. In A Hell of a Storm, Brown brings history to life in a way that resonates with the events of present. Through chapters on Lincoln, Emerson, Stowe, Thoreau, and Tubman, along with a cast of presidents, poets, abolitionists, and black emigrationists, Brown weaves a political, cultural, and literary history that chronicles the Republican party’s creation and rise, the collapse of antebellum compromises, and the coming of the Civil War, all topics that mirror current discussions about polarization in our nation today. By illuminating the personalities and the platforms, the writings and ideas that upended an older America and made space for its successor, A Hell of a Storm reminds us that American history is always being made, and it can be both dynamic and dangerous, both then and now.

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A Life Wild and Perilous: Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific by Robert M. Utle...

Early in the 19th century, the mountain men emerged as a small but distinctive group whose knowledge and experience of the Trans-Mississippi West extended the national consciousness to continental dimensions. The West remained largely terra incognita until trappers and traders such as Jim... more

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Across the Plains in 1884 by Catherine Sager

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A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson by Camille P...

He was an ambitious but drifting writer from a prominent Scottish family. She was a tough Nevada silver miner’s wife, with children, when they met. Who could have predicted that Fanny Van de Grift and Robert Louis Stevenson would go on to create one of history’s great literary... more

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Plains Indian History and Culture: Essays on Continuity and Change by John Canfield E...

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Bison: Symbol of the American West by Michael S. Sample

Easy-to-read facts about bison. Includes 52 outstanding color photos.

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Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power (The Lamar Series in Western Histor...

The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America?s history � This first complete account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty?first century. Pekka H�m�l�inen explores... more

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Colorado Gunsmoke: True Stories of Outlaws and Lawmen on the Colorado Frontier by Ken...

True Stories of Outlaws and Lawmen on the Colorado frontier. A word about the research Slade of Virginia Dale James Gordon brought to justice Denver gambler Charley Harrison He brought back their heads Confederate guerillas in Colorado The end of the Musgrove Gang Rocky... more

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American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings (Penguin Classics) by Zitkala-Sa

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The Last Days of the Incas by Kim MacQuarrie

In 1532, the fifty-four-year-old Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru. Unbeknownst to the Spaniards, the Inca rulers of Peru had just fought a bloody civil war in which the emperor Atahualpa had defeated his brother... more

In 1532, the fifty-four-year-old Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru. Unbeknownst to the Spaniards, the Inca rulers of Peru had just fought a bloody civil war in which the emperor Atahualpa had defeated his brother Huascar. Pizarro and his men soon clashed with Atahualpa and a huge force of Inca warriors at the Battle of Cajamarca. Despite being outnumbered by more than two hundred to one, the Spaniards prevailed -- due largely to their horses, their steel armor and swords, and their tactic of surprise. They captured and imprisoned Atahualpa. Although the Inca emperor paid an enormous ransom in gold, the Spaniards executed him anyway. The following year, the Spaniards seized the Inca capital of Cuzco, completing their conquest of the largest native empire the New World has ever known. Peru was now a Spanish colony, and the conquistadors were wealthy beyond their wildest dreams.But the Incas did not submit willingly. A young Inca emperor, the brother of Atahualpa, soon led a massive rebellion against the Spaniards, inflicting heavy casualties and nearly wiping out the conquerors. Eventually, however, Pizarro and his men forced the emperor to abandon the Andes and flee to the Amazon. There, he established a hidden capital, called Vilcabamba. Although the Incas fought a deadly, thirty-six-year-long guerrilla war, the Spanish ultimately captured the last Inca emperor and vanquished the native resistance.Kim MacQuarrie lived in Peru for five years and became fascinated by the Incas and the history of the Spanish conquest. Drawing on both native and Spanish chronicles, he vividly describes the dramatic story of the conquest, with all its savagery and suspense. MacQuarrie also relates the story of the modern search for Vilcabamba, of how Machu Picchu was discovered, and of how a trio of colorful American explorers only recently discovered the lost Inca capital of Vilcabamba, hidden for centuries in the Amazon.This authoritative, exciting history is among the most powerful and important accounts of the culture of the South American Indians and the Spanish Conquest.

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Black Hawk: The Battle for the Heart of America by Kerry A. Trask

?Blending history with ethnography and a bit of sociology, Trask?s volume explains the war and its lingering impact extremely well . . . Fascinating.??Chicago Sun-TimesIn the spring of 1832, Black Hawk and his Sauk followers, including 700 warriors, rose up in a rage and defiantly crossed the... more

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The Last Ride of the Pony Express: My 2,000 - Mile Horseback Journey into the Old Wes...

Cowboy and journalist Will Grant takes us on an epic and authentic horseback journey into the modern West on an adventure of a lifetime. The Last Ride of the Pony Express boldly illuminates both our mythic fascination with the Pony Express, and how its spirit continues to this... more

Cowboy and journalist Will Grant takes us on an epic and authentic horseback journey into the modern West on an adventure of a lifetime. The Last Ride of the Pony Express boldly illuminates both our mythic fascination with the Pony Express, and how its spirit continues to this day. âThe Pony Express was a fast-horse frontier mail service that spanned the American West -- the high, dry, and undeniably lonesome part of North America. While in operation during the 1860s, it carried letter mail on a blistering ten-day schedule between Missouri and San Francisco, running through a vast and mostly uninhabited wilderness. It covered a massive distance -- akin to running horses between Madrid and Moscow -- and to this day, the Pony Express is irrefutably the greatest display of American horsemanship to ever color the pages of a history book. Though the Pony Express has enjoyed a lot of traction over the years, among the authors that have attempted to encapsulate it, none have ever ridden it themselves. While most scholars would look for answers inside a library, Will Grant looks for his between the ears of a horse. Inspired by the likes of Mark Twain, Sir Richard Burton, and Horace Greeley, all of whom traveled throughout the developing West, Will Grant returned to his roots: he would ride the trail himself with his two horses, Chicken Fry and Badger, from one end to the other. Will Grant captures the spirit of the West in a way that few writers have. Along with rich encounters with the ranchers, farmers, historians, and businessmen who populate the trail, his exploits on horseback offer an intimate portrait of how the West has evolved from the rough and tumble 19th century to the present, and it’s written with such intimacy that you’ll feel as though you’re riding right alongside of him. The result is an extraordinary portrait of the treacherous and, at times, thrilling landscape of the known and unknown American West, and the people who populate it. The Last Ride of the Pony Express is a tale of adventure by a horseman who defies most modern conveniences, and is an unforgettable narrative that will forever change how you see the West, the Pony Express, and America as a whole.

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No Ordinary Journey: Stories of Men on the Overland Trails by Mary Barmeyer O'Brien

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The Trail Led North: Mont Hawthorne's Story by Martha Ferguson McKeown

This is the true saga of Mont Hawthorne's life as told to his niece, Martha Ferguson McKeown. Mont Hawthorne went North for the silver salmon and the gold nugget in the wild, rough 80's and 90's. These were days when unwary young men were shanghaied onto the merchant ships, when... more

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The Trail Drivers of Texas: Interesting Sketches of Early Cowboys by J. Marvin Hunter

These are the chronicles of the trail drivers of Texas those rugged men and, sometimes, women who drove cattle and horses up the trails from Texas to northern markets in the late 1800s. Gleaned from members of the Old Time Trail Drivers' Association, these hundreds of real life stories some... more

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Lamy of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan

The extraordinary biography of a pioneer hero of the frontier Southwest.

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Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History/2 Volumes in 1/Vol 1 : Indians ...

An epic history of the American southwest.

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American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon by Steven Rinella

A hunt for the American buffalo?an adventurous, fascinating examination of an animal that has haunted the American imagination.�In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery permit to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness.�Despite the odds?there?s only a 2 percent chance... more

A hunt for the American buffalo?an adventurous, fascinating examination of an animal that has haunted the American imagination.�In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery permit to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness.�Despite the odds?there?s only a 2 percent chance of drawing the permit, and fewer than 20 percent of those hunters are successful?Rinella managed to kill a buffalo on a snow-covered mountainside and then raft the meat back to civilization while being trailed by grizzly bears and suffering from hypothermia. Throughout these adventures, Rinella found himself contemplating his own place among the 14,000 years? worth of buffalo hunters in North America, as well as the buffalo?s place in the American experience. At the time of the Revolutionary War, North America was home to approximately 40 million buffalo, the largest herd of big mammals on the planet, but by the mid-1890s only a few hundred remained. Now that the buffalo is on the verge of a dramatic ecological recovery across the West, Americans are faced with the challenge of how, and if, we can dare to share our land with a beast that is the embodiment of the American wilderness. American Buffalo is a narrative tale of Rinella?s hunt. But beyond that, it is the story of the many ways in which the buffalo has shaped our national identity. Rinella takes us across the continent in search of the buffalo?s past, present, and future: to the Bering Land Bridge, where scientists search for buffalo bones amid artifacts of the New World?s earliest human inhabitants; to buffalo jumps where Native Americans once ran buffalo over cliffs by the thousands; to the Detroit Carbon works, a ?bone charcoal? plant that made fortunes in the late 1800s by turning millions of tons of buffalo bones into bone meal, black dye, and fine china; and even to an abattoir turned fashion mecca in Manhattan?s Meatpacking District, where a depressed buffalo named Black Diamond met his fate after serving as the model for the American nickel.�Rinella?s erudition and exuberance, combined with his gift for storytelling, make him the perfect guide for a book that combines outdoor adventure with a quirky blend of facts and observations about history, biology, and the natural world. Both a captivating narrative and a book of environmental and historical significance, American Buffalo tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies the American ethos.

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The Arawak: The History and Legacy of the Indigenous Natives in South America and the...

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902

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Stagecoaching on the California Coast: The Coast Line Stage from Los Angeles to San J...

Because of rugged mountain ranges, the California coastal railroads were not completed until 1901, and therefore stagecoaching persisted along the California coast much longer than it did elsewhere. This book takes us back in history and up the coast, from Los Angeles to San Juan Bautista, with... more

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The Memoirs of Chief Red Fox by Chief Red Fox

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The Memoirs of Chief Red Fox by Chief Red Fox

Perhaps as in no other single document of its kind is the plight of the Indian written about with such candor and with such personal conviction as it is in these memoirs. From over seventy-five years of notes, Chief Red Fox, with the help of Cash Asher -- journalist and former Executive Director... more

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House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest by Crai...

In this landmark work on the Anasazi tribes of the Southwest, naturalist Craig Childs dives head on into the mysteries of this vanished people.The various tribes that made up the Anasazi people converged on Chaco Canyon (New Mexico) during the 11th century to create a civilization hailed as "the... more

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Utes: The Mountain People by Jan Pettit

Moving with the seasons, the Utes covered vast areas of Colorado and surrounding states. Summer would find the tribes in the high country of the Rockies. In the fall, attention turned to gathering food and supplies and preparing for the harsh season ahead. Winters were spent in the semi-arid... more

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Lady at the O.K. Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp by Ann Kirschner

Lady at the O.K. Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp by Ann Kirschner is the definitive biography of a Jewish girl from New York who won the heart of Wyatt Earp.For nearly fifty years, she was the common-law wife of Wyatt Earp: hero of the O.K. Corral and the most famous lawman of... more

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The Earp Brothers of Tombstone by Frank Waters

The Earp Brothers of Tombstone and the famous fight at the O. K. Corral are well known to American history and even better known to American legend. This composite biography of Wyatt, Morgan, Virgil, James and Warner Earp is based on the recollections of Mrs. Virgil Earp, dictated to the... more

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Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman by Robert L. O'Connell

NATIONAL BESTSELLER William Tecumseh Sherman was more than just one of our greatest generals. Fierce Patriot is a bold, revisionist portrait of how this iconic and enigmatic figure exerted an outsize impact on the American landscape?and the American character. � America?s first ?celebrity?... more

NATIONAL BESTSELLER William Tecumseh Sherman was more than just one of our greatest generals. Fierce Patriot is a bold, revisionist portrait of how this iconic and enigmatic figure exerted an outsize impact on the American landscape?and the American character. � America?s first ?celebrity? general, William Tecumseh Sherman was a man of many faces. Some were exalted in the public eye, others known only to his intimates. In this bold, revisionist portrait, Robert L. O?Connell captures the man in full for the first time. From his early exploits in Florida, through his brilliant but tempestuous generalship during the Civil War, to his postwar career as a key player in the building of the transcontinental railroad, Sherman was, as O?Connell puts it, the ?human embodiment of Manifest Destiny.? Here is Sherman the military strategist, a master of logistics with an uncanny grasp of terrain and brilliant sense of timing. Then there is ?Uncle Billy,? Sherman?s public persona, a charismatic hero to his troops and quotable catnip to the newspaper writers of his day. Here, too, is the private Sherman, whose appetite for women, parties, and the high life of the New York theater complicated his already turbulent marriage. Warrior, family man, American icon, William Tecumseh Sherman has finally found a biographer worthy of his protean gifts. A masterful character study whose myriad insights are leavened with its author?s trademark wit, Fierce Patriot will stand as the essential book on Sherman for decades to come. Praise for Fierce Patriot � ?A superb examination of the many facets of the iconic Union general.??General David Petraeus � ?Sherman?s standing in American history is formidable. . . . It is hard to imagine any other biography capturing it all in such a concise and enlightening fashion.??National Review � ?A sharply drawn and propulsive march through the tortured psyche of the man.??The Wall Street Journal � ?[O?Connell?s] narrative of the March to the Sea is perhaps the best I have ever read.??Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post � ?A surprising, clever, wise, and powerful book.??Evan Thomas, author of Ike?s Bluff From the Hardcover edition.

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Give Your Heart to the Hawks: A Tribute to the Mountain Men by Winfred Blevins

For over thirty years, from the time of Lewis and Clark into the 1840s, the mountain men explored the Great American West. As trappers in a hostile, trackless land, their exploits opened the gates of the mountains for the wagon trains of pioneers who followed them. In Give... more

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Laura : The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Donald Zochert

Courage, Adventure, Steadfast Love From a little house set deep in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, across Indian territory and into the Dakotas, Laura's family moved westward right along the frontier. Their true-life saga, beloved by countless millions of TV viewers and readers of the... more

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The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square by Ned Sublette

Offering a new perspective on the unique cultural influences of New Orleans, this entertaining history captures the soul of the city and reveals its impact on the rest of the nation. Focused on New Orleans? first century of existence, it presents a comprehensive, chronological narrative of the... more

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Ghosts of the Wild West: Enlarged Edition Including Five Never-Before-Published Stori...

Once deemed the "custodian of the twilight zone" by Southern Living, celebrated storyteller and ghost hunter Nancy Roberts returns to familiar subject matter in this newly expanded edition of her Ghosts of the Wild West, a finalist for the Spur Award of the Western Writers of America in its... more

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Ghosts of the Wild West by Bruce Roberts & Nancy Roberts

The last homesteaders The ghost and the lost treasure The ghost of Cripple Creek Wild Bill Hickock and the ghost gunman Indians who won't stay dead The phantom rider of the Butterfield stage The lovely apparition of Fort Davis Pancho Villa'a treasure and the ghost... more

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The Men of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: A Biographical Roster of the Fifty-One Mem...

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Last Outlaws by Tom Clavin

The Last Outlaws is the thrilling true story of the last of one of the greatest outlaw gangs. The dreaded Dalton Gang consisted of three brothers and their rotating cast of colorful accomplices who saw themselves as descended from the legendary James brothers. They soon became legends... more

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Hollywood of the Rockies: Colorado, the West and America's Film Pioneers by Michael J...

In the early days of the twentieth century, movies werent made in California. As Americas film pioneers traveled westward, Colorado became a beacon to them, contributing to the early motion picture business with all the relish and gusto of a western saga. The gorgeous natural scenery was perfect... more

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Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs by Budd...

In an astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an adventure thriller, historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures. ?I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold.?... more

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American Disruptor: The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford by Roland De Wolk

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The Neutral Zone: Backdoor to the United States by Don C. Marler

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RED EARTH, WHITE LIES : NATIVE AMERICANS AND THE MYTH OF SCIENTIFIC FACT by Vine Delo...

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The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 30th Anniversary...

Thirty years ago, Alfred Crosby published a small work that illuminated a simple point, that the most important changes brought on by the voyages of Columbus were not social or political, but biological in nature. The book told the story of how 1492 sparked the movement of organisms, both large... more

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Kokopelli (Look West Series) by Lawrence W. Cheek

According to legend, Kokopelli, a magical figure with a hump on his back, used to wander from pueblo to pueblo across the American West, playing sweet music to everyone?and also playing Don Juan among the women. Possibly this legend began with a real man, perhaps a trader carrying a pack. But... more

According to legend, Kokopelli, a magical figure with a hump on his back, used to wander from pueblo to pueblo across the American West, playing sweet music to everyone?and also playing Don Juan among the women. Possibly this legend began with a real man, perhaps a trader carrying a pack. But over time Kokopelli has become a symbol for many different things, as Lawrence W. Cheek points out in this entertaining and informative addition to the Look West series from Rio Nuevo Publishers. Sometimes, when his image appears in pre-Columbian rock art and pottery, Kokopelli is clearly a fertility symbol. He also represents the coming of spring, the spirit of celebration, and the joy of music. On another level, he is a traveling salesman with a roving eye, the hero, or villain of many stories, some not suitable for prime time. His musical instrument may actually have been a nose flute, and the purported contents of his bulging pack include seeds, rain, clouds, rainbows, songs...and babies. Even more clearly, Kokopelli has come to symbolize the spirit of the Southwest in a very simple commercial way. His dancing image appears in sculpture and jewelry as well as cookie cutters, snow globes, T-shirts, cigarette lighters, and neon signs. It would seem that Kokopelli, the salesman, is still traveling. 30 photos & illustrations. About the series: Look West: What do you find? Wide, wild landscapes...extraordinary plants and animals...rugged people rich in history...ghost towns and working ranches...ancient pueblos and ultramodern urban areas. In the West, coyotes howl. Native Americans endure and flourish. Kokopelli, the mythical humpbacked flute player, prances across the cliff dwellings and into popular culture?and thousands of curio shops. Every small, handsome book in Rio Nuevo Publishers' new Look West series presents a unique aspect of the American West. Using words and pictures, each volume explores a special Western topic or phenomenon, and all have been written and illustrated by regional experts. Each of these attractive 6 x 6-inch hardcover books contains 64 pages of text, illustrations, and photographs. And each one allows the reader to capture the spirit of the West in the palm of a hand.

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The Well-Traveled Casket: A Collection of Oregon Folklife by Tom Nash & Twilo Sco...

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Singing Cowboys by Douglas Green

Singing Cowboys tells the fabled story of the men and women who shone brightly during the magical era of the singing cowboy movie star. It was an era when Western heroes sang and yodeled as well as threw punches and drew six-guns; an era where for a time nearly half the Western films churned out... more

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Fossil Legends of the First Americans by Adrienne Mayor

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Emperor of the North by James Raffan

The adventure-filled story of the legendary Hudson’s Bay Company is inextricably linked to the formation of a Canadian nation stretching from sea to sea to sea. In an absorbing and lively new book on The Bay, James Raffan explores the forces that moulded a man, a company and a... more

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The White Man's Indian : Images of the American Indian from Columbus to the Present b...

Columbus called them "Indians" because his geography was faulty. But that name and, more importantly, the images it has come to suggest have endured for five centuries, not only obscuring the true identity of the original Americans but serving as an idealogical weapon in their... more

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Salvation and the Savage: An Analysis of Protestant Missions and American Indian Resp...

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The Black Jacobins (Penguin History) by C.L.R. James

A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World.This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1794-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the model for the Third World liberation movements... more

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Lone Cowboy: My Life Story by Will James

1930. Illustrated by the author. The narrative of Lone Cowboy tells how a little boy, hardly more than a baby, becomes an orphan in the West; how an old French trapper, whom the boy calls Bopy, adopts him and takes him on his long, long hunts; how when he is hardly more than a little boy Bopy is... more

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Or Perish in the Attempt: Wilderness Medicine in the Lewis and Clark Expedition by Da...

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Davy Crockett by Constance Rourke

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934

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Ride the Razor's Edge: The Younger Brothers Story by Carl W. Breihan

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935

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Cross Timbers by Edward Everett Dale

The activities of a young boy on a small farm in the Texas Cross Timbers during the 1880s seem especially distant today. No one can remember the adventure of a sixteen-and-a-half-mile journey, which consumed the greater part of a day; or hurried predawn dressing in a frosty cold loft while the... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Gone to Texas: Genealogical Abstracts from "the Telegraph Texas Register" 1835-1841 ...

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937

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Elemental Prairie: Sixty Tallgrass Plants (Bur Oak Book) by John Madson

"Elemental" is the perfect word to describe George Olson's watercolor drawings of the plants of the tallgrass prairie. Delicately precise yet filled with vigor and color, they present the prairie in its individual elements and--taken as a group that celebrates the hues and textures of tallgrass... more

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938

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Wildflowers of the Tallgrass Prairie: The Upper Midwest (Bur Oak Guide) by Sylvan T. ...

This classic of midwestern natural history is back in print with a new format and new photographs. Originally published in 1989, Wildflowers of the Tallgrass Prairie introduced many naturalists to the beauty and diversity of the native plants of the huge grasslands that once stretched from... more

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939

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Frontiersmen: A Narrative by Allan W. Eckert

A narrative of a frontiersman and his experiences with the Shawnee Indians from the dates of April 3, 1755 to April 29, 1836.

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940

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Rails across the Mississippi: A HISTORY OF THE ST. LOUIS BRIDGE by Robert W. Jackson

An absorbing tale of grand dreams, shady politics, daring engineering experiments, greed, ambition, and westward expansion, "Rails Across the Mississippi" is the first book-length history since 1881 to document the planning, financing, and construction of the first bridge across the Mississippi... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Medieval Religion and Technology: Collected Essays (Center for Medieval and Renaissan...

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942

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer by Mi...

On a hot summer day in 1876, George Armstrong Custer led the Seventh Cavalry to the most famous defeat in U.S. military history. Badly outnumbered and exhausted from a day of forced marches, Custer’s forces were quickly overwhelmed by warriors from the Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho... more

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943

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

My Grandfather's Altar: Five Generations of Lakota Holy Men (American Indian Lives) b...

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944

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The History of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Volume 3) by Meriwether Lewis & Wi...

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945

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Hopi Coyote Tales: Istutuwutsi (American Tribal Religions, Vol 9) by Ekkehart Malotki...

This volume brings together twenty-one traditional tales recently retold by Hopi narrators. Complete with English translations and original Hopi transcriptions on facing pages and a bilingual glossary. Hopi Coyote Tales is important to an understanding of the Hopi language and folklore. To... more

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946

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Railroad Tycoon Who Built Chicago: A Biography of William B. Ogden by Jack Harpst...

William Butler Ogden was a pioneer railroad magnate, one of the earliest founders and developers of the city of Chicago, and an important influence on U.S. westward expansion. His career as a businessman stretched from the streets of Chicago to the wilds of the Wisconsin lumber forests, from the... more

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947

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Nonfiction, Memoir, or Fiction?: Dissecting the Works of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Roby...

This project is a critical paper partially fulfilling the requirements for a Masters of Fine Arts Degree in Creative Nonfiction and Fiction at Ashland University. It examines the works of beloved pioneer author Laura Ingalls Wilder, teasing out the elements of her stories that were Nonfiction,... more

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948

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Anza Trail and the Settling of California by Vladimir Guerrero

In 1774, as the American colonies were preparing to break away from the powerful British crown, Spain was trying to strengthen its hold on Alta California. The Spanish viceroy of Mexico sent Juan Bautista de Anza, captain of the Presidio at Tubac (in what is now Arizona), to lead two... more

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949

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Custer's Chief of Scouts: The Reminiscences of Charles A. Varnum Including His Testim...

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950

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

John Beargrease: Legend of Minnesota's North Shore by Daniel Lancaster

"Thanks to St. Paul author Daniel Lancaster's new comprehensive biography, lovers of northern Minnesota now not only have a chance to meet the man who began delivering the mail on the North Shore 130 years ago, but they also get to understand how Beargrease helped bridge the cultural gap between... more

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951

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Grass Beyond the Mountains: Discovering the Last Great Cattle Frontier by Richmond P....

The first in a trilogy, Grass Beyond the Mountains is a story of discovery and endurance on North America's western frontier by three good old-fashioned cowboys. ��With laconic cowboy humor and the ease of a born writer, Richmond Hobson describes the life-and-death escapades, the funny and... more

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952

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Civil War Medicine (Illustrated Living History) by C. Keith Wilbur

"A thoughtful collection of words about the brave men and women who worked to keep the body and soul together while the fabric of our nation was being ripped apart." Dr. C. Keith Wilbur takes you on a detailed and fascinating tour through the medical history of this bloody and... more

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953

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Spanish Texas, 1519-1821 by Donald E. Chipman & Harriett Denise Joseph

Modern Texas, like Mexico, traces its beginning to sixteenth-century encounters between Europeans and Indians who contested control over a vast land. Unlike Mexico, however, Texas eventually received the stamp of Anglo-American culture, so that Spanish contributions to present-day Texas tend to... more

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954

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Real Billy the Kid: With New Light on the Lincoln County War (Recovering the Us H...

Published in 1936, The Real Billy the Kid: With New Light on the Lincoln County War, is a landmark biography of the infamous Western outlaw William H. Booney, Jr.--his childhood, encounters with the Apache, entanglement in the murderous Lincoln County War, and his friendship with Sheriff Pat... more

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955

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Guns of Outlaws: Weapons of the American Bad Man by Gerry Souter & Janet Souter

From colonial-era rifles carried on the "Owlhoot Trail", to John Dillinger's Colt pistols, the history of the American outlaw is told in guns--weapons that became each man's personal signature. Guns of Outlaws peer into these criminals' choices of derringers, revolvers, shotguns, rifles,... more

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956

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Chief Joseph Country Land of the Nez Perce by Bill Gulick

The relationship between Westering Americans and the Nez Perce Indians covers a time-span of one hundred years, from the meeting of the Lewis and Clark party with the Indians in 1805 to the death of Chief Joseph in 1904. It is epic drama, taking place on a vast stage during a critical period in... more

The relationship between Westering Americans and the Nez Perce Indians covers a time-span of one hundred years, from the meeting of the Lewis and Clark party with the Indians in 1805 to the death of Chief Joseph in 1904. It is epic drama, taking place on a vast stage during a critical period in the development of the United States. Certainly no setting could be more spectacular than the rugged, beautiful homeland of this tribe. No story can equal in historical importance the long-standing friendship given by the Nez Perces to the white newcomers in their country. And no event is more poignant, bitter, and tragic than the Nez Perce War. Before acquiring the horse around 1730, the Nez Perces occupied approximately 27,000 square miles of what is now north-central Idaho, northeastern Oregon, and southeastern Washington. After becoming a mounted people, they ranged over a much larger area, traveling east to the buffalo country claimed by Blackfeet, Crow, and Sioux, west to the great fishing and trading station on the lower Columbia, Celilo Falls. Uniquely situated as they were between the Plains and Coastal Indian cultures, they would play a key role in the struggle between Great Britain and the United States as to which nation would take title to the Pacific Northwest. In Chief Joseph Country: Land of the Nez Perce, author Bill Gulick lets the participants in the developing drama tell the story in their own words by excerpting diaries, letters, and statements made in contemporary accounts. Beginning with the prehistory of the Nez Perces, he relates how, after being pedestrians for eight thousand years, acquisition of the horse drastically altered their way of life. Then, in rapid succession, came firearms, American explorers, British fur traders, the Manifest Destiny struggle, missionaries, Oregon Trail emigrants, settlers, gold miners, farmers, and finally war. "If there is a bias in this book, it is that I have given more credence to statements made by Indians than to words written by white men," the author says. "Time and again in my research I have come across references to the importance the Indian placed on telling the plain, simple truth when relating any event in which he was involved. To the contrary, time and again I have found statements made by white leaders so contradictory and at variance with the truth that I began to question everything they wrote." In selecting the many historical photographs and sketches used to illustrate the book, the author examined the holdings of some twenty institutions from coast to coast, some of which dated back to the 1850s. As he did in Snake River Country, Bill Gulick applies skills learned as a novelist and dramatist to the non-fiction field of history, using the twin tools of dramatic narrative and sound research to bring history alive to the layman reader. He writes: "As in all epic dramas, forces beyond the understanding or control of the people involved were at work as the Nez Perces and the whites confronted one another, driving them toward a fate neither could forsee. "Here, I have recorded that confrontation from the Indian point of view."

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957

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Famous Gunfighters of the Western Frontier: Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Luke Short and ...

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958

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Rise and Fall of North American Indians: From Prehistory through Geronimo by Will...

Who were the first settlers in North America? Where did they come from? How did they survive? In this expansive one-volume account of the native peoples of North America, eminent historian William Brandon?who devoted much of his life to examining this subject?presents this revelatory history of... more

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959

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Doc Shores: an authorized reprint of Memoirs of a Lawman by Wilson Rockwell

The name Cyrus W. Doc Shores may not be found on the list of larger-than-life lawmen whose legends and lore give them top billing in the taming of America s wild and wooly West; yet, in the late 1800s, Doc Shores became known to law officers and the lawless alike eliciting both fear and respect... more

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960

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America by Carrie Gibson

Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and clarity in El Norte, the nation has... more

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961

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

A Splendid Savage: The Restless Life of Frederick Russell Burnham by Steve Kemper

"Rich, detailed, and pitch-perfect, with the witty and wonderful skipping off every page." ?Maxwell Carter, Wall Street JournalFrederick Russell Burnham?s (1861?1947) amazing story resembles a newsreel fused with a Saturday matinee thriller. One of the few people who could turn his garrulous... more

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962

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Last Outlaws: The Lives and Legends of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid by Thom...

The Old West was coming to an end. Two legendary outlaws refused to go with it. � As leaders of the Wild Bunch, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid executed the most daring bank and train robberies of their day. For several years at the end of the 1890s, the two friends, along with a... more

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963

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Letters of a Woman Homesteader (Women of the West) by Elinore Pruitt Stewart

Elinore Pruitt, a widow and mother who washed clothes for a living in Denver, planned to work as a housekeeper for some rancher while learning all she would need to know about homesteading a place for herself. In 1909 she went to work for Clyde Stewart, whose ranch was near Burnt Fork,... more

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964

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

1876: Year of the Gun: The Year Bat, Wyatt, Custer, Jesse, and the Two Bills 'Buffalo...

1876: Year of the Gun: The Year Bat, Wyatt, Custer, Jesse, and the Two Bills (Buffalo and Wild) Created the Wild West, and Why It's Still With Us Veteran journalist and historian Steve Wiegand takes readers across the post-Civil War Wild West. Wiegand introduces -- or re-introduces -- us... more

1876: Year of the Gun: The Year Bat, Wyatt, Custer, Jesse, and the Two Bills (Buffalo and Wild) Created the Wild West, and Why It's Still With Us Veteran journalist and historian Steve Wiegand takes readers across the post-Civil War Wild West. Wiegand introduces -- or re-introduces -- us to lawmen such as Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp and outlaws such as the Younger and James Brothers, as well as larger-than-life figures such as Buffalo Bill and George Custer. He details the stories of these real-life legends, the aftermath and legacies they left behind, and the innumerable myths frequently attributed to them. Juxtaposing their real lives with the often-outlandish accounts of their exploits, 1876 swings from lighthearted humor to cliff-hanger suspense. It also portrays how the Wild West's initial, tantalizing promise of fame and glamour often disintegrated. But 1876 also offers readers a unique element noticeably absent from most Wild West books: historical context. Wiegand expands his contemporary spotlight on America's 100th birthday year to encompass what was going on in the rest of the country. On the very same day George Armstrong Custer was dying on a parched hill in southeastern Montana and immortalizing himself as both hero and villain, Alexander Graham Bell was at America's first World's Fair in Philadelphia, demonstrating his new invention -- the telephone. At the same time Wyatt Earp was moseying into Dodge City to join the town's police force, Albert Goodwill Spalding was on a pitcher's mound in Chicago, establishing baseball as the national pastime and creating a sporting goods empire. And even as the James Boys and Younger Brothers were robbing banks, Democrats and Republicans were conspiring to steal the White House from the American voter. This book brings them all together in one place. Fueled by the author's childhood interest in cowboys, train and bank robberies, and high noon shootouts, and their portrayal in iconic TV shows, 1876 is a delightful homage to famous Wild West figures who, with media help, helped shape the American character.

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965

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Black Badge: Deputy United States Marshal Bass Reeves from Slave to Heroic Lawman...

"The Black Badge: The Life Of Deputy United States Marshal Bass Reeves," Paul L. Brady will keep you hanging on every word, every twist and turn in Bass Reeve's life. At a time when slavery was a very recent memory, and "Negroes" kept their place, Bass Reeves became a deputy marshal�known for... more

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966

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Geronimo: The Man, His Time, His Place (Civilization of the American Indian Series) b...

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967

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Wheelwright's Shop (Canto original series) by George Sturt

George Sturt's frank and moving account of his trade as a wheelwright in the late nineteenth century offers a unique glimpse into the working lives of craftsmen in a world since banished by technology. The wheelwright's shop where he entered business had been operating for two centuries; this... more

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968

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Wheelwright's Shop by George Sturt

The Wheelwright's Shop By George Stuart Originally published in 1930. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high... more

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969

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Healing a Divided Nation: How the American Civil War Revolutionized Western Medicine ...

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970

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Powell Expedition: New Discoveries about John Wesley Powell?s 1869 River Journey ...

John Wesley Powell?s 1869 expedition down the Green and Colorado Rivers and through the Grand Canyon continues to be one of the most celebrated adventures in American history, ranking with the Lewis and Clark expedition and the Apollo landings on the moon. For nearly twenty years Lago has... more

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971

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Confederate Pathway to the Pacific: Major Sherod Hunter and Arizona Territory, C.S.A ...

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972

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Wise Women: From Pocahontas to Sarah Winnemucca, Remarkable Stories of Native America...

The story of Pocahontas saving John Smith is justly famous, as is the cross-country journey of Sacajawea with the Corps of Discovery, and Sarah Winnemucca earned fame by being a champion of her people as the old ways of life were disappearing. But there are lesser known stories of the Native... more

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973

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Floor of Heaven: A True Tale of the Last Frontier and the Yukon Gold Rush by Howa...

It is the last decade of the 19th century. The Wild West has been tamed and its fierce, independent and often violent larger-than-life figures ? gun-toting wanderers, trappers, prospectors, Indian fighters, cowboys, and lawmen ?are now victims of their own success. They are heroes who?ve... more

It is the last decade of the 19th century. The Wild West has been tamed and its fierce, independent and often violent larger-than-life figures ? gun-toting wanderers, trappers, prospectors, Indian fighters, cowboys, and lawmen ?are now victims of their own success. They are heroes who?ve outlived their usefulness. But then gold is discovered in Alaska and the adjacent Canadian Klondike and a new frontier suddenly looms - an immense unexplored territory filled with frozen waterways, dark spruce forests, and towering mountains capped by glistening layers of snow and ice. ?Klondicitis,? a giddy mix of greed and lust for adventure, ignites a stampede. Fleeing the depths of a worldwide economic depression and driven by starry-eyed visions of vast wealth, tens of thousands rush northward. Joining this throng of greenhorns and grifters, whores and highwaymen, sourdoughs and seers are three unforgettable men. In a true-life tale that rivets from the first page, we meet Charlie Siringo, a top-hand sharp-shooting cowboy who, after futilely trying to settle down with his new bride, becomes one of the Pinkerton Detective Agency?s shrewdest; George Carmack, a California-born American Marine who?s adopted by an Indian tribe, raises a family with a Taglish squaw, makes the discovery that starts off the Yukon Gold Rush ? and becomes fabulously rich; and Soapy Smith, a sly and inventive predator-conman who rules a vast criminal empire. As we follow this trio?s lives, we?re led inexorably into a perplexing mystery. A fortune in gold bars has somehow been stolen from the fortress-like Treadwell Mine in Juneau, Alaska, with no clues as to how the thieves made off with such an immensely heavy cargo.� To many it appears that the crime will never be solved. �But the Pinkerton Agency has a reputation for finding the answers that elude others.� Charged with getting the job done is Charlie Siringo who discovers that, to run the thieves to ground, he must embark on a rugged cross-territory odyssey that will lead him across frigid waters and through a frozen wilderness.� Ultimately, he?ll have his quarry in his sights. But then an additional challenge will present itself.� He must face down Soapy Smith and his gang of 300 cutthroats. �Hanging in the balance: George Carmack?s fortune in gold. At once a compelling true-life mystery and an unforgettable portrait of a time in America?s history when thousands were fired with a vision of riches so unimaginable as to be worth any price, The Floor of Heaven is also an exhilarating tribute to the courage and undaunted spirit of the men and women who helped shape America. �

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974

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Mark Twain's Mississippi River: An Illustrated Chronicle of the Big River in Samuel C...

Combine the wild waters of the Mississippi River and wordsmith Mark Twain, and what have you got? Some of the most famous and familiar literary works in American history, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Gilded Age, and Life on the Mississippi.... more

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975

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Frontier Seaport: Detroit's Transformation into an Atlantic Entrep�t (American Beginn...

Detroit?s industrial health has long been crucial to the American economy. Today?s troubles notwithstanding, Detroit has experienced multiple periods of prosperity, particularly in the second half of the eighteenth century, when the city was the center of the thriving fur trade. Its proximity to... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Pioneer Jews: A New Life in the Far West by Harriet Rochlin

From their storehouse of information . . . the Rochlins have produced an 'illustrated social history' packed with information and anecdotes likely to surprise most readers -New York Times Book Review "American Jewish history in a fresh, Far Western light-unpreoccupied by traditional themes . . .... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Deadly Dozen (Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West) by Robert K. Dearment

For every Wild Bill Hickok or Billy the Kid, there was another western gunfighter just as deadly but not as well known. Robert K. DeArment has earned a reputation as the premier researcher of unknown gunfighters, and here he offers twelve more portraits of men who weren't glorified in legend but... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

American Indian Myths and Legends by Richard Erdoes (Editor) & Alfonso Ortiz (Edi...

Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library Gathering 160 tales from 80 tribal groups to offer a rich and lively panarama of the Native American mythic heritage. 100 drawings. Rabbit boy kicked that blood clot around: tales of human creation -- The place of emergence: tales of world... more

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979

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Son of the Old West by Nathan Ward

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980

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Jim Courtright of Fort Worth: His Life and Legend by Robert K. Dearment

Timothy Isaiah "Longhair Jim" Courtright operated on both sides of the law and became a legend in his lifetime and after his death. One of the most colorful characters from the wild and woolly days of Fort Worth's Hell's Half Acre, Courtright was at various times city marshal, deputy sheriff,... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Engines of Empire: Steamships and the Victorian Imagination by Douglas Burgess

In 1859, the S.S. Great Eastern departed from England on her maiden voyage. She was a remarkable wonder of the nineteenth century: an iron city longer than Trafalgar Square, taller than Big Ben's tower, heavier than Westminster Cathedral. Her paddles were the size of Ferris wheels; her decks... more

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982

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild by Bryan Burrough

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983

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Amateurs, to Arms!: A Military History of the War of 1812 (Major Battles and Campaign...

Begun in ignorance of the military reality, the War of 1812 was fought catch-as-catch-can with raw troops, incompetent officers, and appallingly inadequate logistics. The odds against the American fighting forces-woefully unrealistic preparations and expectations, British military might, a... more

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984

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Lawman: The Life and Times of Harry Morse, 1835 - 1912 by John Boessenecker

Harry Morse - gunfighter, manhunter, and sleuth - was among the West’s most famous lawmen. Elected sheriff of Alameda County, California, in 1864, he went on to become San Francisco’s foremost private detective. His career spanned five decades. In this gripping biography, John... more

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985

Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Island of Color: Where Juneteenth Started by Izola Ethel Fedford Collins

On this island called Galveston, Texas, African-Americans have a unique position in the history of the world. Natives of this city, and incoming residents, who were people of color, were the pioneers of much of the civilization that occurred in this part of the world. "Juneteenth" has become a... more

On this island called Galveston, Texas, African-Americans have a unique position in the history of the world. Natives of this city, and incoming residents, who were people of color, were the pioneers of much of the civilization that occurred in this part of the world. "Juneteenth" has become a term used by persons all over the nation who recognize the validity of the term now synonymous with freedom of the former black-skinned slaves. This term comes from the fact that, in Galveston, Texas, General Granger arrived by ship with orders that were read to the public at Ashton Villa on June 19, 1865. He actually arrived in the harbor on June 17, 1865, and the news leaked out from the deckhands on that date. But the dates are both worthy of the title "Juneteenth", which is the way the former slaves passed down the news to their progeny. This news came from the official document called the Emancipation Proclamation, which was a law signed by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, and sent to the southern states involved in the Confederacy. So Texas was the first of these states to receive this law, and Galveston was the entry port, and therefore had the distinction of being the first place to embrace the freedom of persons of color in the southern part of the new United States of America. There were free men and women of color in Galveston before this announcement was made, so the progress of the city toward racial harmony was already underway. Pioneers of all kinds of institutions and businesses came from Galveston. It is no accident that Galveston has been a city of "firsts". The titles of "first" have been proven for the state of Texas, because these were recorded and documented in many journals and publications. Some visionaries of African descent have been recorded by name, but since the freed persons of color usually could not read or write (they were forbidden to learn to read or write in slavery), there is little written from their perspective. It is the purpose of this book to reveal what was written by a man of color, my grandfather, who came to Galveston with his family as a small child, immediately after freedom was declared. His words are proven to be true by later documentation of official sources in the city. In addition, recorded words of interviews with numbers of citizens who were alive when this book was begun have been used and preserved on audio tapes. Quite a number of persons who contributed to this book were African-Americans who were imported to Galveston for the sole purpose of educating its segregated citizens in their churches and schools. Until now, this story, told from the perspective of the persons who lived it, has been untold. Because of its far-reaching effects in the whole world, this story fairly screams to be acknowledged and revealed. It is with great excitement that I bid you to indulge yourself in the luxury of discovery!

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

American Hunter: How Legendary Hunters Shaped America by Willie Robertson & Willi...

New York Times bestselling author and star of A&E?s Duck Dynasty, Willie Robertson, teams up with William Doyle, the bestselling coauthor of American Gun, to share the history of America?s most well known hunters. American Hunter is an amazing compilation of the history of America?s greatest... more

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Michael W. (mlwonio) - ,

Bass Reeves: The Life and Legacy of the Wild West's First Black Deputy Marshal by Cha...

“My mom always said she heard that Bass was so tough he could spit on a brick and bust it in two!” – attributed to Willabelle Shultz, granddaughter of Reeves' colleague Exploration of the early American West, beginning with Lewis and Clark’s transcontinental... more

“My mom always said she heard that Bass was so tough he could spit on a brick and bust it in two!” – attributed to Willabelle Shultz, granddaughter of Reeves' colleague Exploration of the early American West, beginning with Lewis and Clark’s transcontinental trek at the behest of President Thomas Jefferson, was not accomplished by standing armies, the era’s new steam train technology, or by way of land grabs. These came later, but not until pathways known only to a few of the land’s indigenous people were discovered, carved out, and charted in an area stretching from the eastern Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, and the present-day borders of Mexico and Canada. Even the great survey parties, such as Colonel William Powell’s exploration of the Colorado River, came decades later. The first views of the West’s enormity by white Americans were seen by individuals of an entirely different personality, in an era that could only exist apart from its home civilization. Explorers, soldiers, and settlers of African-American heritage comprise an unfamiliar story to most students of American history. However, in the push westward, they were present in sufficient enough numbers to exert great influence on the nation’s development. Among the earliest accounts is that of Isabel de Olvera, who settled in New Mexico around the year of 1600, and it is estimated that by 1750, 25% of Albuquerque’s population shared discernible African ancestry. York, the well-known servant of Lewis and Clark, accompanied the legendary expedition under the auspices of the Jefferson administration, and Edward Rose traveled up the Missouri River in the same era. Within just a few years, Pio Pico became the governor of California, and George Bush became one of the first black men to travel the Oregon Trail, opening that route to a flood of settlers over a 10-year period. In parallel with these individuals came a number of black frontiersmen who participated in the exploration of the Western terrain, said to have numbered in the dozens. Seldom heard but notable names of black figures in the West include trick rodeo rider Jesse Stahl, stunt rider and castle rustler Ned Huddleston, and Bass Reeves, the first black deputy U.S. Marshal. Isom Dart and Willie Bill Pickett also garnered some fame in the era. Furthermore, given the segregated nature of society, it was all the more shocking that Reeves reached such a position in law enforcement. The region was known for infamous outlaws and gangs, but numerous icons in the form of tin-star bearing, gun-toting lawmen emerged, sworn to round up these anarchic and violent desperadoes and bring them to justice, dead or alive. Some of them are still well known today, such as Wyatt Earp and Sheriff Pat Garrett, a former cowboy, bartender, and customs agent best known for his slaying of Billy the Kid. Bill Tilghman, a prolific peace officer and member of the Three Guardsmen, along with Chris Madsen and Heck Thomas, cemented his place in history when he apprehended the elusive bandit outlaw Bill Doolin, a one-time member of the Dalton Gang and later head of the Wild Bunch. Deputy Marshal Heck Thomas himself was hailed as one of the most accomplished lawmen of the West in his own right, squaring off with and playing a hand in the arrests of dozens of marauders and murderers, including several members of the Sam Bass Gang, as well as Jim and Pink Lee of the notorious Lee Gang. Despite his hulking 6'2” and 200-lb frame, the famously indomitable Bass Reeves was a man of mystery. Although his peerless reputation and near-flawless track record often preceded him, this mountain of a man – both literally and figuratively – had a gift for blending in and creeping up on his targets unnoticed.

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The Trail Drivers Of Texas Volume I Second Edition by J. Marvin Hunter

Revised VOlLUME I The Trail Drivers of Texas Interesting Sketches of Early Cowboys and their Experiences on the Range and on the Trail during the Days that Tried Mens Souls True Narratives Related by Real Cow-Punchers and Men who Fathered the Cattle Industry in Texas Published Under the... more

Revised VOlLUME I The Trail Drivers of Texas Interesting Sketches of Early Cowboys and their Experiences on the Range and on the Trail during the Days that Tried Mens Souls True Narratives Related by Real Cow-Punchers and Men who Fathered the Cattle Industry in Texas Published Under the Direction of GEORGE W. SAUNDERS, President of THE OLD TIME TRAIL DRIVERS ASSOCIATION Compiled and Edited by J. MARVIN HUNTER SECOND EDITION GEORGE W. SAUNDERS President and Organizer Old Time Trail Drivers Association FOREWORD. This volume is brought forth to present a link in the long chain of Texas history that cannot well be spared if the rec ord is kept straight, and posterity is given a true account of the deeds of daring and heroism of the early pioneers of our great state. The characters mentioned in this book are men of sterling worth and integrity, as has been proven in every instance wherein they came in contact with the prob lems and difficulties that made for the development of an empire so vast in its possibilities as to excite the envy of the world. These pages sparkle with the lustre of deeds well done by a passing generation, and it is our purpose to keep bright that lustre, that it may not pale with the fleet ing years. The men and women, the pioneers who blazed the way for the present day civilization, happiness and prosperity in Texas, are looked upon with the greatest respect and ven eration. Fifty years ago the Indian, the buffalo and the deer roamed at will over the Texas prairies. A half century now intervenes, but today prosperous cities dot the green distances and men and women who thirty-five and forty years ago drifted to the great and boundless West with hardly a penny are today wealthy and in the saddle in the States affairs. They endured many privations. They fought for what they believed was right. They blazed the trail. The people of today, the younger generation, are not unmindful of what the early settlers did for them, and as they enjoy the splendid prosperity that is theirs they silent ly thank the earlier ones. To the memory of the old trail drivers, the Texas pioneers to the heroic mothers, fathers to the young and the brave who fought manfully for proud, imperial Texas, this volume is lovingly dedicated. THE TRAIL DRIVERS OF TEXAS Before the advent of railroads the marketing of cattle was a problem that confronted the man who undertook the rais ing of cattle in Texas. The great expanse of unsettled do main was ideal for the business. No wire fences were here to limit the range, grass was knee high, and cattle roamed freely over the hills, valleys and prairies of Texas. The long horn was in the hey-day of his glory. The limitless range, broken by no barrier, extending from the Gulf to Kansas, offered ample opportunities for the man with nerve and de termination in this great out-of-doors. There being no fences he allowed his cattle to scatter over the range, but at times he would round them up and throw them back in the vicinity of the home ranch when they strayed too far away. In the spring the big round-ups usually took place, when all of the cowmen of each section would participate, coming together at a stated time, gathering all of the cattle on the range, and branding what was rightfully theirs. Be it said to their credit, those early cowmen seldom claimed animals that belonged to a neighbor. If a cow was found unbranded, and there was any evidence that she belonged to some cowman not present, or who lived over in the next neighborhood, the owner was notified and usually got his cow. There was a noticeable absence of greed in those days in the cattle business, for the men who chose that means of livelihood were of that whole-souled, big-hearted type that established a rule of live and let live, and where a man was suspected of being a thief he was watched and if the suspicions were realized that man found that particular neighborhood to be a mighty unhealthy place to live in...

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Hardtack and Coffee or the Unwritten Story of Army Life by John D. Billings

Hardtack and Coffee is a humourous account of a soldier's life during the Civil War, as told by a veteran of the Union Army of the Potomac. The author expounds on the most interesting topics NOT usually found in history books - clothing and shelter, the many aspects of life in camp and on the... more

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The Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821-1900 by Mike Cox

Austin Statesman journalist Michael Cox explores the origin and rise of the famed Texas Rangers. Starting in 1821 with just a handful of men, the Rangers' first purpose was to keep settlers safe from the feared and gruesome Karankawa Indians, a cannibalistic tribe that wanderd the Texas... more

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Frontier Grit, Revised Edition: The Unlikely True Stories of Daring Pioneer Women by ...

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The Bloody Bozeman: The Perilous Trail to Montana's Gold by Dorothy M. Johnson

The Bozeman Trail led to the goldfields of Montana for six years in the 1860s before the army abandoned its three forts along the way, yielding to Red Cloud and his warriors. Hailed by A. B. Guthrie Jr. as "among the very best in the American Trail series, The Bloody Bozeman weaves an... more

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