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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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 Blücher wrote letters home describing the hardships of droughts and Indian and bandit raids, the chaos of the... more
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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 whowith valor, spirit, respect, and unparalleled leadershipfought... more
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America by Michael H...
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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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, nèe 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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Shotguns and Stagecoaches: The Brave Men Who Rode for Wells Fargo in the Wild West by...
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Adventures of the Woman Homesteader: The Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart (...
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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 Andrés 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
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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. Â 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
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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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170

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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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
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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
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
The Log Cabin: Homes of the North American Wilderness by Alex W. Bealer
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
It Happened in Texas: Stories of Events and People that Shaped Lone Star State Histor...
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
The Encyclopedia of Lawmen, Outlaws, and Gunfighters (Facts on File Crime Library) by...
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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196

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History by Colin G. Calloway
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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 Americas 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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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.
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
The Cowboy Way - an Exploration of History and Culture by Paul H. Carlson
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
James Bowie: Texas Fighting Man : A Biography by Clifford Hopewell
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Bat Masterson: The Man and the Legend by Robert K. Dearment
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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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
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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 Oñate 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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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
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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
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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 Wars 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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
"It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own": A New History of the American West by Rich...
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers by Doug J. Swanson
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Women of Red River: Being a book written from the recollections of women surviving fr...
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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. Rölvaag's Giants in the Earth, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie, and Willa Cather's My Ántonia. Essentially, the textual analyses show the pioneer woman's evolving and dynamic reaction to... more
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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 divorcée married Colorado's wealthiest mining magnate and became... more
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
The Ordeal of Olive Oatman: A True Story of the American West (Women of the Frontier)...
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Fools Crow (Contemporary American Fiction) by James Welch
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
To Hell on a Fast Horse Updated Edition: The Untold Story of Billy the Kid and Pat Ga...
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chief...
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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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... more
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Sacred Fireplace (Oceti Wakan): Life and Teachings of a Lakota Medicine Man by Pete C...
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
The Sodbreakers: People Who Lived and Died Settling the West (Conquering the Wild Wes...
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Life of Billy Dixon: Plainsman, Scout, and Pioneer by Olive K. Dixon
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Through a Night of Horrors: Voices from the 1900 Galveston Storm by Casey Edward Gree...
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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 geniusesFranklin, Washington, Adams, Jeffersonversus the villainous Aaron Burr. Generations have been told Burr was a... more
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter by Tom Clavin
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Shallow grave at Waiilatpu: The Sagers' West by Erwin N Thompson
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Fort Union Trading Post: Fur Trade Empire on the Upper Missouri by Erwin N. Thompson
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Jesse James and the Civil War in Missouri (Missouri Heritage Readers) by Robert L. Dy...
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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422

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit ...
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Jim Bridger: Trailblazer of the American West by Jerry Enzler
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425

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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429

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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435

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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436

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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437

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Juan Davis Bradburn: A Reappraisal of the Mexican Commander of Anahuac (Essays on the...
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440

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
The European Challenge (American Indians) by Time-Life Books
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441

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
People of the Desert (American Indians, Bk. 4) by Time-Life Editorial Staff
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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447

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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448

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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450

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Arredondo: Last Spanish Ruler of Texas and Northeastern New Spain by Dr. Bradley Fols...
In this biography of Joaquín 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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455

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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458

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America by Megan K...
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459

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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 Solnits new book, which weaves together biography, history, and fascinating insights into art and technology to create a... more
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
The Will to Succeed: Stories of Swedish Pioneers by Adolph B. Benson & Editor
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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478

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Ride the Devil's Herd: Wyatt Earp's Epic Battle Against the West's Biggest Outlaw Gan...
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
American Axe: The Tool That Shaped a Continent by Brett McLeod
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
The Father of Glacier National Park: Discoveries and Explorations In His Own Words by...
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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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499

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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500

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Gun Barons: The Weapons That Transformed America and the Men Who Invented Them by Joh...
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501

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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502

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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503

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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504

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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505

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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506

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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507

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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508

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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509

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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510

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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511

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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512

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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513

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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514

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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515

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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516
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517

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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518

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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519

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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520

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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521

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
On the Border with Crook (Expanded, Annotated) by John Gregory Bourke
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522

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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523

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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524
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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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526

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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527

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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528

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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529

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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530

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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531

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Western Tales : Treasury of Western Folklore by B.A. Botkin
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532

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
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534

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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535

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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536

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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537

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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538

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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539

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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540

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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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542

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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543

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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544

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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545

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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546

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Divina Lola/ Divine Lola (Spanish Edition) by Cristina Morató
La apasionante biografía de Lola Montes como la falsa española que quiso ser reina.
Muchos han oído hablar de Lola Montes, pero pocos saben en realidad quién fue: una bailarina aventurera y gran viajera que encandiló a toda una época, una mujer adelantada a su tiempo que vivió una vida de... more
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547

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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548

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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549

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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550

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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551

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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553

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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554

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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555

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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556

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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557

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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558

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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559

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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560

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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561

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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562

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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563

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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564

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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565

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Pretty-Shield: Medicine Woman of the Crows by Frank B. Linderman
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566

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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567

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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568

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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569

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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570

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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571

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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572

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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573

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
New Women in the Old West: From Settlers to Suffragists, an Untold American Story by ...
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574

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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575

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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576

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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577

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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578

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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579

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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580

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
German Artist on the Texas Frontier: Friedrich Richard Petri by William Wilmon Newcom...
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581

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America by H. W. Brands
No description available.
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582

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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583

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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584

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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585

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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586

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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587

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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588

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
The Battle of Wisconsin Heights: An Eye-Witness Account of the Black Hawk War of 1832...
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589

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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590

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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591

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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592

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America by Megan K...
No description available.
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593

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
The Art of the Native American Flute by R. Carlos Nakai & James Demars & Davi...
No description available.
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594

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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595

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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596

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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597

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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598

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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599

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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600

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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601

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Food Plants of Coastal First Peoples (Handbook (Royal British Columbia Museum).) by N...
No description available.
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602

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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603

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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604

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
The Lady and the Mountain Man: Isabella Bird, Rocky Mountain Jim, and their Unlikely ...
No description available.
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605

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
The Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley (Oklahoma Western Biographies, Volume 7) by Glend...
No description available.
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606

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Stampede: Gold Fever and Disaster in the Klondike by Brian Castner
No description available.
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607

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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608

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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609

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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610

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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611

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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612

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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613

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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614

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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615

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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616

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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617

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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618

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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620

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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621

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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622

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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623

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Texas Jack: America's First Cowboy Star by Matthew Kerns
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624

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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625

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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626

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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627

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Butcher's Crossing (University of Arkansas Press Reprint Series) by John Edward Willi...
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628

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Death at the Little Bighorn: A New Look at Custer, His Tactics, and the Tragic Decisi...
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629

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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630

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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631

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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632

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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633

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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634

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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635

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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636

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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637

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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638

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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639

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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640

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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641

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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642

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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643

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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644

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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645

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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646

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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647

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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648

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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649

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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650

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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651

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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652

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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653

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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654

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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. Jürgen 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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655

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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656

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
A Way Through the Wilderness: The Natchez Trace and the Civilization of the Southern ...
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657

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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659

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Cowboys of the Americas (Yale Western Americana Series) by Richard W. Slatta
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660

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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661

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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662

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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663

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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664

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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665

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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666

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Seth Bullock: Black Hills Lawman (South Dakota Biography) by David A. Wolff
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667

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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668

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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670

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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671

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Gre...
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673

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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674

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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676

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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677

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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678

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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679

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Three Years With Quantrill: A True Story Told by His Scout (Western Frontier Library)...
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680

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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681

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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682

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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683

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit ...
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684

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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685

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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687

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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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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692

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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693

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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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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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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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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
No description available.
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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
No description available.
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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
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757

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Wisconsin Chippewa Myths Tales and Their Relation to Chippewa Life by Victor Barnouw
No description available.
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758
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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
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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...
No description available.
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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...
No description available.
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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
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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...
No description available.
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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 ...
No description available.
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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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803

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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804

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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815

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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816

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
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818

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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820

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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821

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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822

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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823

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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824

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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825

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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826

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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827

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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828

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
The Trial of Billy the Kid (Mesilla Valley History Series) by David G. Thomas
No description available.
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829

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War by ...
No description available.
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830

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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831

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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832

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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833

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Native Nations: A Millennium in North America by Kathleen DuVal
No description available.
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834

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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835

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Geronimo and Sitting Bull: Leaders of the Legendary West by Bill Markley
No description available.
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836

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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837

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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838

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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839

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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840

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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841

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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842

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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843

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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844

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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845

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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846

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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847

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America (North Amer...
No description available.
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848

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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849

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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850

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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851

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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852

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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853

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Making Of Legends: More True Stories Of Frontier America by Mark Dugan
No description available.
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854

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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855

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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856

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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857

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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858

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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859

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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860

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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861

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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862

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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863

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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864

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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865

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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866

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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867

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Black, Red and Deadly: Black and Indian Gunfighters of the Indian Territory, 1870-190...
No description available.
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868

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Black, Buckskin, and Blue: African American Scouts and Soldiers on the Western Fronti...
No description available.
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869

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
?Boots and Saddles,? or Life in Dakota with General Custer by Elizabeth B. Custer
No description available.
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870

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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871

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849 by Chris...
No description available.
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872

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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873

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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874

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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875

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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876

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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877

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Eyewitnesses To The Indian Wars, 1865-1890: The Army And The Indian (Eyewitnesses to ...
No description available.
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878

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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879

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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880

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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881

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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882

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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883

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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884

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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885
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886

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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887

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Plains Indian History and Culture: Essays on Continuity and Change by John Canfield E...
No description available.
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888

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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889

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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 Hämäläinen explores... more
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890

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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891

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings (Penguin Classics) by Zitkala-Sa
No description available.
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892

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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893

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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894

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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895

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
No Ordinary Journey: Stories of Men on the Overland Trails by Mary Barmeyer O'Brien
No description available.
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896

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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897

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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898

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Lamy of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan
The extraordinary biography of a pioneer hero of the frontier Southwest.
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899

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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900

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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901

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
The Arawak: The History and Legacy of the Indigenous Natives in South America and the...
No description available.
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902

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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903
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904

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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905

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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906

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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907

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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908

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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909

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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910

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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911

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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912

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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913

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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914

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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915

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
The Men of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: A Biographical Roster of the Fifty-One Mem...
No description available.
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916

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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917

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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918

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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919

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
American Disruptor: The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford by Roland De Wolk
No description available.
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920

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
The Neutral Zone: Backdoor to the United States by Don C. Marler
No description available.
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921

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
RED EARTH, WHITE LIES : NATIVE AMERICANS AND THE MYTH OF SCIENTIFIC FACT by Vine Delo...
No description available.
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922

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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923

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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924

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
The Well-Traveled Casket: A Collection of Oregon Folklife by Tom Nash & Twilo Sco...
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925

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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926

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Fossil Legends of the First Americans by Adrienne Mayor
No description available.
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927

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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928

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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929

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Salvation and the Savage: An Analysis of Protestant Missions and American Indian Resp...
No description available.
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930

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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931

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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932

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Or Perish in the Attempt: Wilderness Medicine in the Lewis and Clark Expedition by Da...
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933
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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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936

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Gone to Texas: Genealogical Abstracts from "the Telegraph Texas Register" 1835-1841 ...
No description available.
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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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941

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Medieval Religion and Technology: Collected Essays (Center for Medieval and Renaissan...
No description available.
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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...
No description available.
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944

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
The History of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Volume 3) by Meriwether Lewis & Wi...
No description available.
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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...
No description available.
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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
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957

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Famous Gunfighters of the Western Frontier: Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Luke Short and ...
No description available.
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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
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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...
No description available.
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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 ...
No description available.
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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
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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 Entrepôt (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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976

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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977

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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978

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
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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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981

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
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986

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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987

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
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988

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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
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989

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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990

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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991

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
Frontier Grit, Revised Edition: The Unlikely True Stories of Daring Pioneer Women by ...
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992

Michael W. (mlwonio) - |
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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