University of North Texas Press, 2017. — 656 p. Authors Bob Alexander and Donaly E. Brice grappled with several issues when deciding how to relate a general history of the Texas Rangers. Should emphasis be placed on their frontier defense against Indians, or focus more on their role as guardians of the peace and statewide law enforcers? What about the tumultuous Mexican Revolution...
University of North Texas Press, 2016. — 400 p. Captain Frank Jones, a famed nineteenth-century Texas Ranger, said of his company’s top sergeant, Baz Outlaw (1854–1894), “A man of unusual courage and coolness and in a close place is worth two or three ordinary men.” Another old-time Texas Ranger declared that Baz Outlaw “was one of the worst and most dangerous” because “he never...
Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep; Abm. H. Inskeep, New York, 1814. History of the expedition under the command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the sources of Missouri, thence across the Rocky Mountains, and down the river Columbia to the Pacific Ocean : performed during the years 1804, 1805, 1806, by order of the government of the United States.
Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep; Abm. H. Inskeep, New York, 1814. History of the expedition under the command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the sources of Missouri, thence across the Rocky Mountains, and down the river Columbia to the Pacific Ocean : performed during the years 1804, 1805, 1806, by order of the government of the United States.
Enslow Publishers, 2012 . — 128 p. — (Stories in American History). In 1848, gold was discovered in California! This exciting news spread eastward. People from all walks of life with dreams of enormous riches packed up their belongings and left their comfortable homes behind in search of the hidden treasure. Author Linda Jacobs Altman describes the development of this rugged...
Simon and Schuster, 2000. — 432 p. In this account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage, Stephen E. Ambrose offers a historical successor to his universally acclaimed "Undaunted Courage, " which recounted the explorations of the West by Lewis and Clark. "Nothing Like It in the World" is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad -- the...
Simon & Schuster, 1996. — 520 p.
From the bestselling author of "Band of Brothers" and "D-Day", the definitive book on Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time.
In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead...
Editors. — Future Publishing, 2021. — 148 р. — (All About History). As the American Revolution drew to a close and the colonies claimed independence from Britain, the United States’ gaze turned west to the vast expanse of land that was seemingly ripe for the taking. After all, according to their Manifest Destiny, it was their God-given right to expand. In the Book of the...
Heritage House Publishing Co., 2009. — 128 p. The early history of the Hudson's Bay Company comes alive in these true tales of fur-trade wars, incredible wilderness journeys, hardships and danger. Founded by the extraordinary adventurers and renegades Radisson and des Groseilliers, the HBC attracted many memorable characters. Explorer Henry Kelsey was the first European to see the...
New Word City Inc., 2015. — 168 p. On May 14, 1804, a party of explorers dispatched by President Thomas Jefferson set off up the Missouri River into America’s newly acquired Louisiana Territory. Under the leadership of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, the men of the Corps of Discovery would cross the continent and into history. Here, from award-winning historian Ralph K....
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016. — 274 p. From the first account of "Colter’s Run", published in 1810, fascination with John Colter, one of America’s most famous and yet least known frontiersmen and discoverer of Yellowstone Park, has never waned. Unlike other legends of the era like Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, and Kit Carson, Colter has remained elusive because he left not...
Texas University Press, 1985. — 367 p. Reading almost like a western novel, this well-documented history of a frontier business enterprise reveals the turbulent career of a stagecoach line that stretched from San Antonio to El Paso and at times reached to Santa Fe and San Diego.
Thomas Dunne Books, 2011. — 336 p. A surprising and sweeping history that reveals the fur trade to be the driving force behind conquest, colonization, and revolution in early America. Combining the epic saga of Hampton Sides's Blood and Thunder with the natural history of Mark Kurlansky's Cod , popular historian Alan Axelrod reveals the astonishingly vital role a small animal -...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. — 544 p. The massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent attack on a wagon train in the thirty-year history of the Oregon and California trails. Yet it has been all but forgotten. Will Bagley’s "Blood of the Prophets" is an award-winning, riveting account of the attack on the Baker-Fancher wagon train by...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. — 544 p. The massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent attack on a wagon train in the thirty-year history of the Oregon and California trails. Yet it has been all but forgotten. Will Bagley’s "Blood of the Prophets" is an award-winning, riveting account of the attack on the Baker-Fancher wagon train by...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. — 320 p. Deployed to posts from the Missouri River to the Pacific in 1848, the United States Army undertook an old mission on frontiers new to the United States: occupying the western territories; suppressing American Indian resistance; keeping the peace among feuding Indians, Hispanics, and Anglos; and consolidating United States sovereignty in...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. — 320 p. 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 which was the brainchild of Kenneth McKenzie and Pierre...
University of Utah Press, 1997. — 392 p.
The early plans for Mount Rushmore called for blasting heroic likenesses of mountain men--Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, and John Colter - into the solid mountain granite of South Dakota. Readers of this colorful volume will see the heroics and the brutally rugged individualism that made these fur trappers candidates for legend and infamy....
University of Nebraska Press, 2020. — 270 p. The Bents might be the most famous family in the history of the American West. From the 1820s to 1920 they participated in many of the major events that shaped the Rocky Mountains and Southern Plains. They trapped beaver, navigated the Santa Fe Trail, intermarried with powerful Indian tribes, governed territories, became Indian...
University of New Mexico Press, 2001. — 454 p.
When it appeared in 1949, the first edition of Ray Allen Billington's Westward Expansion set a new standard for scholarship in western American history, and the book's reputation among historians, scholars, and students grew through four subsequent editions. This abridgment and revision of Billington and Martin Ridge's fifth...
St. Martin's Griffin, 2012. — 576 p. Empire of Shadows is the epic story of the conquest of Yellowstone, Wyoming, a landscape uninhabited, inaccessible and shrouded in myth in the aftermath of the Civil War. In a radical reinterpretation of the nineteenth century West, George Black casts Yellowstone's creation as the culmination of three interwoven strands of history - the...
Forge Books , 2005. — 336 p. 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 Your Heart to the Hawks", Win Blevins presents a poetic tribute to these...
Hanover Square Press, 2020. — 512 p. 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 in the history of the American West. After battles...
Thomas Dunne Books, 2018. — 368 p. 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 frontier. Armed with sawed-off, double-barreled shotguns...
Thomas Dunne Books, 2018. — 368 p. 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 frontier. Armed with sawed-off, double-barreled shotguns...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2014. — 496 p.
The definitive look at one of the most famous American generals of the American Indian Wars.
After serving over fifteen years with General George Crook, John Gregory Bourke, his right-hand man, sat down to write of his time with the legendary US Army officer in the post-Civil War West. "On the Border with Crook" is a firsthand account of...
Basic Books, 2019. — 344 p. 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 California gold rush to the Oklahoma land rush. He shows how the migrants' dreams drove them to feats of courage and perseverance that put...
Anchor Books, 2003. — 592 p. When gold was first discovered on the American River above Sutter's Fort in January 1848, California was sparsely populated frontier territory not yet ceded to the United States from Mexixo. The discovery triggered a massive influx as hundreds of thousands of people scrambled to California in search of riches, braving dangerous journeys across the...
National Geographic Partners, 2018. — 480 p. 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, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark embarked on an...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2013. — 320 p. 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, existing as they did among animals, and spending most of their days...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2011. — 224 p. Based in part on Davy Crockett’s own writings, this is the true story about one of America’s most iconic historical figures. From his days as a scout for Andrew Jackson during the war of 1812, his time as a Congressman for the state of Tennessee, and his eventual death at the Alamo, Davy Crockett led a life that was admired and idealized by...
New York, NY : Simon & Schuster Inc., Touchstone edition, 1995. — 448 p. ; photographs and maps. Renowned storyteller Dee Brown, author of the bestselling Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee , recreates the struggles of Native Americans, settlers, and ranchers in this stunning volume that illuminates the history of the old West that’s filled with maps and vintage photographs. Beginning...
Open Road Media, 2012. — 372 p. Frontier life, Dee Brown writes, “was hard, unpleasant most of the time,” and “ lacking in almost all amenities or creature comforts.” And yet, tall tales were the genre of the day, and humor, both light and dark, was abundant. In this historical account, Brown examines the aspects of the frontier spirit that would come to assume so central a...
University of British Columbia Press, 1985. — 292 p. The North American fur trade of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was a vividly complex and changing social world. Strangers in Blood fills a major gap in fur trade literature by systematically examining the traders as a group -- their backgrounds, social patterns, domestic lives and families, and the problems of their...
Louisiana State University Press, 2008 — 375 p. he name Daniel Boone conjures up the image of an illiterate, coonskin cap-wearing patriot who settled Kentucky and killed countless Indians. The scarcity of surviving autobiographical material has allowed tellers of his story to fashion a Boone of their own liking, and his myth has evolved in countless stories, biographies, novels,...
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1961. — 168 p. The whiplash crack of an explosion, the jolting "kick" in the shoulder, the acrid smell of burning powder come sharp and clear as Will Bryant describes the famous firearms that helped secure the American frontier. Writing, for instance, of what the Kentucky rifle meant in its heyday, he says, "it was an extension of a man's...
New York, NY: Routledge, 2012. — (Critical Moments in American History Series). — x, 220 p. : ill., maps. In June of 1876, the U.S. government’s plan to pressure the Lakota and Cheyenne people onto reservations came to a dramatic and violent end with a battle that would become enshrined in American memory. In the eyes of many Americans at the time, the Battle of Little Bighorn...
Routledge, 2012. — 232 p. — (Critical Moments in American History Series). In June of 1876, the U.S. government’s plan to pressure the Lakota and Cheyenne people onto reservations came to a dramatic and violent end with a battle that would become enshrined in American memory. In the eyes of many Americans at the time, the Battle of Little Bighorn represented a symbolic struggle...
Normanby Press, 2015. — 185 p. The book Life Of F. M. Buckelew: The Indian Captive is a memoir written by F. M. Buckelew about his experiences as a captive of Native American tribes during the mid-19th century. Buckelew was taken captive at the age of 14 and spent several years living among different tribes, including the Comanche, Apache, and Kiowa. In the book, Buckelew...
Bison Books, 2008. — 392 p. In The Story of Oklahoma, Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves appears as the "most feared U.S. marshal in the Indian country." That Reeves was also an African American who had spent his early life enslaved in Arkansas and Texas made his accomplishments all the more remarkable. Black Gun, Silver Star sifts through fact and legend to discover the truth...
Eakin Press, 1991. — 322 p. Cherokee Bill, one of the meanest of the mean, was hanged for the murder of thirteen men by the time he was twenty. Author Art Burton recounts the exploits of Cherokee Bill and other black and Indian outlaws and lawmen in Black, Red, and Deadly, the story of law and lawlessness in the Indian Territory. He also tells of Dick Glass, the most notorious...
Louisiana State University Press, 1991. — 320 p. Because Texas emerged from the western frontier relatively late in the formation of the antebellum nation, it is frequently and incorrectly perceived as fundamentally western in its political and social orientation. In fact, most of the settlers of this area were emigrants from the South, and many of these people brought with...
Texas A&M University Press, 2003. — 192 p. In the middle of the arid summer of 1877, a drought year in West Texas, a troop of some forty buffalo soldiers (African American cavalry led by white officers) struck out into the Llano Estacado from Double Lakes, south of modern Lubbock, pursuing a band of Kwahada Comanches who had been raiding homesteads and hunting parties. A group of...
University of Texas Press, 2001. — 252 p. When he settled in Mexican Texas in 1832 and began courting Anna Raguet, Sam Houston had been separated from his Tennessee wife Eliza Allen for three years, while having already married and divorced his Cherokee wife Tiana and at least two other Indian "wives" during the interval. Houston's political enemies derided these marital...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. — 424 p. 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 out of US territory. Major Stephen H....
University of Oklahoma Press, 2013. — 256 p. The opening of the West after the Civil War drew a flood of Americans and immigrants to the frontier. Among the liveliest records of the westering of the 1870s is the series of prints collected for the first time in this book. Chronicling the West for Harper’s showcases 100 illustrations made for the weekly magazine by French artists...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2019. — 298 p. In 1863, the thirteen-year-old boy who would come to be called Comanche Jack was sent to the well to fetch water. Instead, he joined a wagon train bound for Santa Fe. Thus began the exploits of Simpson E. "Jack" Stilwell (1850–1903), a man generally known for slipping through Indian lines to get help for some fifty frontiersmen besieged...
Athens Press, 1932. — 458 p. Thirty years after Meriwether Lewis and William Clark passed through the Mandan villages in present-day North Dakota, the Upper Missouri River region was being plied by fur traders. In 1834 Francis A. Chardon, a Philadelphian of French extraction, took charge of Fort Clark, a main post of the American Fur Company on the Upper Missouri. The journal...
Charles River Editors Press, 2020. — 45 p. In January 1811, hundreds of slaves in Louisiana attempted to make a new beginning for themselves or die trying. Armed with muskets, cane knives, and axes, and wearing stolen United States militia uniforms, they set out to conquer the city of New Orleans. The goal was to establish a free republic where slavery was outlawed and blacks...
St. Martin's Press, 2024. — 368 p. The explosive true saga of the legendary adventurer Jedediah Smith and the Mountain Men who explored the American frontier, written by New York Times bestselling authors of Blood and Treasure 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...
St. Martin's Press, 2017. — 400 p. Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs passing through to populate the expanding West. Before long, Dodge City’s streets were lined with saloons and brothels and its populace was thick...
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2023. — 384 p. In turbulent 1870s Texas, the revered and fearless Ranger Leander McNelly led his men in one dramatic campaign after another, apprehending cattle thieves, desperadoes, border ruffians, and other dangerous criminals and throwing them in jail or, if that's how they wanted it, six feet under. They would stop at nothing in pursuit of...
St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2020. — 448 p. 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 rustlers had been terrorizing the back country of...
St. Martin's Press, 2019. — 336 p. 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, Union spy, scout, lawman, gunfighter, gambler, showman, and actor. He...
St. Martin's Press, 2019. — 336 p. 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, Union spy, scout, lawman, gunfighter, gambler, showman, and actor....
TwoDot, 2021. — 216 p. When the U.S. Army ordered troops into Arizona Territory in the 19th century to protect and defend the new settlements established there, some of the military men brought their wives and families, particularly officers who might be stationed in the west for years. Most of the women were from refined, eastern-bred families with little knowledge of the...
Edited and with an introduction by Frank Christianson — University of Nebraska Press, 2012. — 256 p. Army scout, frontiersman, and hero of the American West, William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody was also a shrewd self-promoter, showman, and entrepreneur. In 1888 he published The Story of the Wild West, a collection of biographies of four well-known American frontier figures: Daniel...
Lanham, MD : TwoDot Books, 2019. — xvii, 181 p. ; b&w and col. illus. Throughout the Gold Rush years and beyond, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of nineteenth-century Colorado. Whether escaping a bad home life, lured by false advertising, or seeking to subsidize their income, thousands of women chose or were forced to enter an...
Foreword by Thomas J. Noel. — Albuquerque, NM : University of New Mexico Press, 2009. — xxi, 458 p. : ill. Throughout the development of the American West, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Rocky Mountains. Whether escaping a bad home life, lured by false advertising, or seeking to subsidize their income,...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. — 328 p. Reconsidering the myth of “good guys in white hats”. The Texas Rangers have been the source of tall tales and the stuff of legend as well as a growing darker reputation. But the story of the Rangers along the Mexican border between Texas statehood and the onset of the Civil War has been largely overlooked―until now. This engaging...
University of Utah Press, 2013. — 664 p. Frontiersman, colonizer, missionary to the Indians, and explorer of the American West, Jacob Hamblin has long been one of the most enigmatic figures in Mormon history. In this defining biography, Todd Compton examines and disentangles many of the myths and controversies surrounding Hamblin. His Grand Canyon adventures and explorations as...
Harper Perennial, 1991. — 442 p. Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Big Horn is a nonfiction account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876, by novelist Evan S. Connell, published in 1984 by North Point Press. The book features extensive portraits of the battle's participants, including General George Armstrong Custer, Sitting Bull, Major Marcus Reno,...
North Point Press, 1984. — 442 p. Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Big Horn is a nonfiction account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876, by novelist Evan S. Connell, published in 1984 by North Point Press. The book features extensive portraits of the battle's participants, including General George Armstrong Custer, Sitting Bull, Major Marcus Reno,...
Plano: Taylor Trade Publishing, 1999. — 300 p. Mike Cox knows as much about the Texas Rangers as anybody on the planet. And in this, his second book on the Rangers, he spins more great tales of these larger-than-life heroes and their sometimes almost unvelievable adventures. These are all new stories, some only told among the Rangers themselves, some told quietly over remote...
Plano: Taylor Trade Publications, 1997. — 336 p. They were men who could not be stampeded, said the late Colonel Homer Garrison Jr. of the men who wore the badge of the Texas Rangers. Colonist Stephen F. Austin, during the earliest days of Anglo settlement in Texas, wrote that he would employ 10 men to act as 'rangers' for the common defense... and thus, the famous Texas...
3rd Edition. — Imagine Publishing, 2018. — 148 р. — (All About History). The All About History Book of the Wild West separates fact from fiction, uncovering the fights for survival and the gruelling trials of the American frontier. Trace the adventures that took people beyond the edge of the map in search of gold, new land and trade goods. Find out why Jesse James and his infamous...
New York: Barnes & Noble, 1996. — 441 p. In this now classic volume, Eugene Cunningham collects― in his gallery ―biographies of nearly a score of master gunfighters, including such notables as John Wesley Hardin, Billy the Kid, Dallas Stoudenmire, Sam Bass, Wild Bill Hickok, Butch Cassidy, and Tom Horn. Himself a Westerner familiar with the feel of pistol and rifle, Cunningham...
University of North Carolina Press, 1993. — 416 p. Will both edify the scholar while captivating and entertaining the general reader. Cutrer's research is impeccable, his prose vigorous, and his life of McCulloch likely to remain the standard for many years. A well-crafted work that makes an important contribution to understanding the frontier military tradition and the early...
TwoDot, 2021. — 296 p. In Standoff at High Noon , the sequel to Old West Showdown , coauthors Kellen Cutsforth and Bill Markley again investigate ten well-known, controversial stories from the Old West. Through their opposing viewpoints, learn more about notorious figures and infamous events, including the controversial death of Davy Crockett at the Alamo; the life and death of...
TwoDot, 2021. — 296 p. In Standoff at High Noon , the sequel to Old West Showdown , coauthors Kellen Cutsforth and Bill Markley again investigate ten well-known, controversial stories from the Old West. Through their opposing viewpoints, learn more about notorious figures and infamous events, including the controversial death of Davy Crockett at the Alamo; the life and death of...
Lawrence, KS : University Press of Kansas, 2012. — xiii, 368 p. : ill., maps. The famous trail of romantic western lore was established in about 1610 by Spanish settlers of Mexico who had explored western and southern regions of North America long before the French and English arrived. Stretching 900 miles from its origin in Santa Fe through present-day Colorado and Kansas, the...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2016. — 368 p. For weeks in 1902 it commanded headlines. All of Wyoming and much of the West followed the trial of Tom Horn for the murder of a fourteen-year-old boy. John W. Davis’s book, the only full-length account of the trial, places it in perspective as part of a larger struggle for control of Wyoming’s grazing land. Davis also portrays an...
Harper Perennial, 1999. — 816 p. Three Roads to the Alamo is the definitive book about the lives of David Crockett, James Bowie and William Barret Travis—the legendary frontiersmen and fighters who met their destiny at the Alamo in one of the most famous and tragic battles in American history—and about what really happened in that battle.
Arte Publico Press, 1996. — 215 p. Originally published in 1917 by Adina de Zavala, this volume reconstructs the history of the Alamo back to pre-colonial times. Its importance lies not only in its portrayal of Texas' history as a product of Native American, Spanish, Mexican and Anglo-American contributions, but also in its focus on the role of Texas women and Texas Mexicans in...
Taylor Trade Publishing, 2006. — 192 p. Every time a cowhand dug his boot into the stirrup, he knew that this ride could carry him to trail's end. In real stories told by genuine cowboys, this book captures the everyday perils of the "flinty hoofs and devil horns of an outlaw steer, the crush of a half-ton of fury in the guise of a saddle horse, the snap of a rope pulled taut...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. — 244 p. More than a century after his death in 1878, the mere mention of John Larn’s name can trigger strong reactions along the Clear Fork of the Brazos River in northern Texas. In Bravo of the Brazos , Robert K. DeArment tells for the first time the complete story of this enigmatic and controversial figure. Larn was good-looking,...
William Morrow, 2018. — 368 p. On the eve of the Civil War, three American businessmen launched an audacious plan to create a financial empire by transforming communications across the hostile territory between the nation’s two coasts. In the process, they created one of the most enduring icons of the American West: the Pony Express. Daring young men with colorful names like...
University of South Carolina Press, 1996. — 272 p. In December 1848, spurred by President James K. Polk's confirmation that fabulous riches had indeed been discovered in far-off California, more than a thousand ships set sail for San Francisco. These ships, filled with eager fortune hunters, launched the maritime arm of America's largest gold rush. In To California by Sea,...
Lincoln NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. — 398 p. The War in Words is the first book to study the captivity and confinement narratives generated by a single American war as it traces the development and variety of the captivity narrative genre. Providing background in her methodology, the history of the war, Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola examines the complex 1862...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2004. — 586 p. — (Blackwell Companions to American History). A Companion to the American West is a rigorous, illuminating introduction to the history of the American West. Twenty-five essays by expert scholars synthesize the best and most provocative work in the field and provide a comprehensive overview of themes and historiography. Covers the culture,...
Ediciones Nowtilus, 2011. — 352 p. La Breve historia de la conquista del Oeste nos lleva directamente a una época en la que lo desconocido era una fuente infinita de posibilidades, una época en la que al menos dos millones de personas que querían labrarse un porvenir desfilaron en masa hacia el Oeste en busca de la fortuna o de la muerte. En poco más de setenta años, las Trece...
Rockville, MD: American Heritage Publishing, 2016. — 135 p. ; 17 color plates. The Mexican-American War established the reputation of Major General Zachary Taylor, resulting in his election as president of the United States. It also gave invaluable experience to young American officers who would play leading parts in the Civil War - among them, Ulysses S. Grant, George H. Thomas,...
St. Martin's Press, 2021. — 400 p. It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the 13 colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America’s "First Frontier" beyond the Appalachian Mountains commence a series of bloody battles. These violent conflicts are waged against the Native American tribes whose lands they covet, the French, and...
New York, NY : Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1997. — 336 p. : maps. On July 24, 1847, a band of Mormon pioneers who had crossed the Great Plains and hauled their wagons over the Rocky Mountains descended into the Salt Lake valley. They settled alongside the Indians there in an immense, self-contained region covering more than 220,000 square miles aptly named the Great Basin...
New York, NY : Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1997. — 336 p. : maps. On July 24, 1847, a band of Mormon pioneers who had crossed the Great Plains and hauled their wagons over the Rocky Mountains descended into the Salt Lake valley. They settled alongside the Indians there in an immense, self-contained region covering more than 220,000 square miles aptly named the Great Basin...
Vanderbilt University Press, 1997. — 352 p. Other than the Civil War, no single event of the nineteenth century affected so many Americans as did the California Gold Rush of 1849. Responding with the same enthusiasm shown by the Mexican War volunteers, Tennessee gold seekers rushed to be among the first from the South to reach the California mines. In Volunteer Forty-Niners,...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2015. — 304 p. The thrilling adventures of traveler, rancher, and fighter “Big-Foot” Wallace in a bygone era of the American frontier. Amid the embroiling conflicts of frontiersmen, Mexicans, and war in Texas, 1837, William “Big-Foot” Wallace left his hometown of Virginia to avenge the deaths of his brother and cousin, soldiers executed by Mexicans. Upon...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. — 288 p. Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Joaquín Murrieta are fixed in the American imagination as towering legends of the Old West. But that has not always been the case. There was a time when these men were largely forgotten relics of a bygone era. Then, in the early twentieth century, an obscure Chicago newspaperman changed all that. Walter...
Jesse Stuart Foundation, 2001. — 626 p. The frontiersmen were a remarkable breed of men. They were often rough and illiterate, sometimes brutal and vicious, often seeking an escape in the wilderness of mid-America from crimes committed back east. In the beautiful but deadly country which would one day come to be known as West Virginia, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and...
University Of Chicago Press, 2007. — 344 p.
On a hot summer day in 1876, George Armstrong Custer led the Seventh Cavalry to the most famous defeat in U.S. military history. Outnumbered and exhausted, the Seventh Cavalry lost more than half of its 400 men, and every soldier under Custer’s direct command was killed.
It’s easy to understand why this tremendous defeat shocked the...
University of Utah Press, 2015. — 485 p. This book is a collection of essays showcasing cutting-edge research and innovative approaches that a new generation of scholars is bringing to the study of immigration in the American West. Often overlooked in general studies of immigration, the western United States has been and is an important destination for immigrants. The unique...
TwoDot, 2012. — 176 p. 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 to uphold the law, but he also took it upon himself to protect the...
Lanham, MD: TwoDot Books, 2019. — 184 p. ; illus. Doc Holliday’s paramour Big Nose Kate could never get a publisher to give her the big bucks she demanded to tell the story of her life, but that didn’t mean she didn’t collect material she wanted to use in a biography. Over the fifty years Mary Kate Cummings, alias Big Nose Kate, traversed the West she saved letters from her...
Guilford, CT : TwoDot Books, 2008. — 160 p., illustrated. During the gold rush, women worked alongside men panning and digging for gold and silver in the mountains of Colorado, California, and all the way up to Alaska. While many books have been written about the frontier women who ran brothels and boarding houses in mining towns, none have told the true stories of ladies who...
Guilford, CT : TwoDot Books, 2016. — 224 p., b&w illustrations. 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 long for more polished...
Foreword by David A. Sanchez. — Guilford, CT : TwoDot Books, 2008. — 156 p. Moving portraits of twelve courageous women who taught―and tamed―the Wild West. If countless books and movies are to be believed, America's Wild West was, at heart, a world of cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and gunslingers, scruffy settlers and mountain men—a man's world. Here, Chris Enss, in the latest of...
Guilford, CT : TwoDot Books, 2016. — 128 p., illus. Desperate to strike it rich during the Gold Rush, men sacrificed many creature comforts. Only after they arrived did some of them realize how much they missed female companionship. Complete with actual advertisements from both women seeking husbands and males seeking brides, Hearts West includes twelve stories of courageous mail...
Guilford, CT : TwoDot Books, 2020. — 232 p., illus., tables, maps. In 1869, more than twenty years after Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony made their declaration of the rights of woman at Seneca Falls, New York, the men of the Wyoming Territorial Legislature granted women over the age of 21 the right to vote in general elections. And on September 6, 1870, a grandmother...
Guilford, CT : TwoDot Books, 2013. — 168 p., illus. Desperate to strike it rich during the Western Gold Rushes and eager for the free land afforded them through the Homestead Act, men went west alone and sacrificed many creature comforts. Only after they arrived at their destinations did some of them realize how much they missed female companionship. One way for men living on...
Guilford, CT: TwoDot Books, 2007. — 224 p., illus. A crumbling headstone in the cemetery at Bodie, California, memorializes Rosa May, a prostitute still known for caring for the sick. In Deadwood, South Dakota, Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok, infamous to the end, lie interred side by side, per Jane's last request. And at the top of Lookout Mountain in Colorado lies the...
Guilford, CT : TwoDot Books, 2006. — 144 p., illustrated. “NO WOMEN NEED APPLY.” These four discouraging words of admonition often greeted female physicians looking for jobs in the frontier-era West. Despite the dire need for medical help, it seemed most trappers, miners, and emigrants would rather suffer and die than be treated by a female doctor. Nevertheless dozens of highly...
TwoDot, 2021. — 216 p. Isabella Bird was a proper Victorian lady, a minster’s daughter, a writer who traveled the globe. She was expected to marry a man of means and position instead she was drawn to a gruff mountain man, a desperado named Jim Nugent. The unlikely pair met in Estes Park, Colorado in 1873. Jim was enchanted by Isabella and she was infatuated with him. In a...
Foreword by Peter Sherayko. — Guilford, CT: TwoDot Books, 2010. — 170 p. : ill. “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 More than a hundred books and articles have been written about Cody the frontiersman and...
Guilford, CT : TwoDot Books, 2017. — 184 p., ill. The true story of Kate Warne and the other women who served as Pinkertons, fulfilling the adage, “Well-behaved Women Seldom Make History.” Most students of the Old West and American law enforcement history know the story of the notorious and ruthless Pinkerton Detective Agency and the legends behind their role in establishing...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. — 276 p. This exhaustive bibliographical reference will be the first stop for anyone looking for Calamity Jane in print, film, or photograph - and wanting to know how reliable those sources may be. Richard W. Etulain, renowned western-U.S. historian and the author of a recent biography of this charismatic figure, enumerates and assesses the...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. — 402 p. Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane. Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed this original Wild West woman as an adventuresome, gun-toting hellion. Although Calamity Jane has probably been written about more than any other woman of the nineteenth-century American West, fiction and legend have largely obscured...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. — 448 p. Even before he was shot and killed in 1881, Billy the Kid’s charisma and murderous career were generating stories that belied his brief life - and that only multiplied, growing to legendary proportions after his death at age twenty-one. In Thunder in the West , Richard W. Etulain takes the true measure of Billy, the man and the...
Texas A&M University Press, 2001. — 330 p. Drawing on a wealth of contemporary accounts, including several first-person stories, Jo Ella Powell Exley follows Cynthia Ann-Parker - a descendant of Elder John Parker - last of the great Comanche war chiefs - through her life in the Indian camp and eventually her recapture by her birth family. She also tells the dramatic story of...
The History Press, 2009. — 224 p. Blood, guts, dust, and hatred—this is the real history of the American West, from the initial penetration of the region by settlers and prospectors in the 1840s through the end of the Indian Wars in the 1890s. It explains the history of white-Indian conflict from the military point of view, showing how the U.S. used its army to wage terrible...
Broadway Books, 2016. — 432 p. At the dawn of the nineteenth century, as Britain, France, Spain, and the United States all jockeyed for control of the vast expanses west of the Mississippi River, the stakes for American expansion were incalculably high. Even after the American purchase of the Louisiana Territory, Spain still coveted that land and was prepared to employ any...
Helena, MT: Farcountry Press, 2002. - 114 pgs. When hardy migrants started settling the West in the 1800s, they followed the dusty trails and wagon-wheel ruts of those who came before them. Forts sprang up along these paths to provide weary travelers and railroad workers with food and other supplies, as well as protect them from Indian raids. Though not all "forts" in Wyoming were...
Roaring Brook Press, 2016. — 288 p. Everyone knows the name Buffalo Bill, but few these days know what he did or, in some cases, didn't do. Was he a Pony Express rider? Did he serve Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn? Did he scalp countless Native Americans, or did he defend their rights? This, the first significant biography of Buffalo Bill Cody for younger readers in...
Texas Christian University Press, 1997. — 190 p. Black Frontiersman is Flipper's autobiographical account of his service with the Tenth U.S. Cavalry in Texas and Oklahoma and his years as a civilian that followed - one of only a handful of such accounts by a black American. Although Flipper's years on the western frontier have been well documented by historians, this revised and...
McFarland & Company, 2016. — 256 p. This rereading of the history of American westward expansion examines the destruction of Native American cultures as a successful campaign of "counterinsurgency." Paramilitary figures such as Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett "opened the West" and frontiersmen infiltrated the enemy, learning Indian tactics and launching "search and destroy"...
Baraka Books, 2016. — 448 p. Long before the Davy Crocketts, the Daniel Boones and Jim Bridgers, the French had pushed far west and north establishing trade and kin networks across the continent. They founded settlements that would become great cities such as Detroit, Saint Louis, and New Orleans, but their history has been largely buried or relegated to local lore or confined...
Utah State University Press, 2011. — 310 p. Transference of orientalist images and identities to the American landscape and its inhabitants, especially in the West - in other words, portrayal of the West as the “Orient” - has been a common aspect of American cultural history. Place names, such as the Jordan River or Pyramid Lake, offer notable examples, but the imagery and its...
Princeton University Press, 2017. — 310 p. How American westward expansion was governmentally engineered to promote the formation of a white settler nation. Westward expansion of the United States is most conventionally remembered for rugged individualism, geographic isolationism, and a fair amount of luck. Yet the establishment of the forty-eight contiguous states was hardly a...
University of Texas Press, 2013. — 112 p. The folklore of Texas' Big Bend region was still in the making during Walter Fulcher's lifetime. Born in Lampasas County in 1887, he worked on the Martin Ranch near Sheffield when a young man. There he witnessed events in the last outlaw activities of the Black Jack Ketchum gang. He also listened to legends told almost as gossip, and some...
Edited by Roger L. Nichols. — University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. — 176 p. Repeated clashes between American fur traders and the Plains Indians following the War of 1812 lent urgency to demands that the United States government protect its territory in the West. To remedy the situation, Secretary of War John C. Calhoun planned a military occupation of the upper Mississippi and...
Arcadia Publishing, 2011. — 144 p. Jolie Anderson's collection of wild west tales focuses on the early frontier history of Colorado's plains and includes a look at some of the state's early pioneers like the "59ers" who promoted the state through travel guides and newspapers, exaggerating tales of gold discovery and even providing inaccurate maps to promote settlement in the...
Penguin Press, 2021. — 304 p. Between 1840 and 1910, hundreds of thousands of men and women traveled deep into the underdeveloped American West, lured by the prospect of adventure and opportunity, and galvanized by the spirit of Manifest Destiny. Alongside this rapid expansion of the United States, a second, overlapping social shift was taking place: survival in a settler...
Comstock Publishing, 1988. — 404 p. This book grew out of a manuscript left by Andrew Garcia (1853-1943). Bennett Stein edited the manuscript to tell Garcia s story of the 1877 Nez Perce War, the end of the buffalo herds, and other historic events in western life.
Foreword by Albert S. Broussard. — University of Oklahoma Press, 2016. — 256 p. Who were the black cowboys? They were drovers, foremen, fiddlers, cowpunchers, cattle rustlers, cooks, and singers. They worked as wranglers, riders, ropers, bulldoggers, and bronc busters. They came from varied backgrounds - some grew up in slavery, while free blacks often got their start in Texas...
Old Army Press, 1976. — 192 p. A fine book. In the twenty-two chapters that comprise the background and the campaign narrative, the author is at his best when he moves away from the Washington scene to detail the field operations. But it is the second part of the book—seven chapters labeled “Facets”—that moves Centennial Campaign into the realm of the exceptional. Here Dr. Gray...
Foreword by Robert M. Utley. — Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. — xviii, 446 p. : ill., maps. — (First Bison Book Printing). "Easily the most significant book yet published on the Battle of the Little Bighorn."—Paul L. Hedren, Western Historical Quarterly (Paul L. Hedren Western Historical Quarterly) " [Gray]has applied rigorous analysis as no previous historian...
University of Nebraska Press, 2007. — 293 p. In the late nineteenth century, the Texas Rangers and Canada?s North-West Mounted Police were formed to bring the resource-rich hinterlands at either end of the Great Plains under governmental control. Native and rural peoples often found themselves squarely in the path of this westward expansion and the law enforcement agents that led...
Savas Beatie, 2012. — 440 p. Indian War Veterans: Memories of Army Life and Campaigns in the West, 1864-1898 presents the first comprehensive collection of veteran (primarily former enlisted soldiers’) reminiscences. The vast majority of these writings have never before seen wide circulation. Now in paperback, Indian War Veterans addresses soldiers’ experiences throughout the...
Savas Beatie, 2012. — 440 p. Indian War Veterans: Memories of Army Life and Campaigns in the West, 1864-1898 presents the first comprehensive collection of veteran (primarily former enlisted soldiers’) reminiscences. The vast majority of these writings have never before seen wide circulation. Now in paperback, Indian War Veterans addresses soldiers’ experiences throughout the...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011. — 352 p. 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 ended a year and two-thousand miles...
TwoDot, 2021. — 164 p. Lawman or Outlaw? At times, the black-hatted “villains” and white-hatted “good guys” of the Old West were one and the same. Often it was difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish who was who. Sheriff Wyatt Earp stole horses and ran brothels. Albuquerque’s first town marshal, Milton Yarberry, was accused of murder and subsequently “jerked to Jesus.”...
Simon & Schuster, 2012. — 416 p. On the afternoon of October 26, 1881, in a vacant lot in Tombstone, Arizona, a confrontation between eight armed men erupted in a deadly shootout. The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral would shape how future generations came to view the Old West. Wyatt Earp, DOC Holliday, and the Clantons became the stuff of legends, symbolic of a frontier populated...
Simon & Schuster, 2012. — 416 p. On the afternoon of October 26, 1881, in a vacant lot in Tombstone, Arizona, a confrontation between eight armed men erupted in a deadly shootout. The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral would shape how future generations came to view the Old West. Wyatt Earp, DOC Holliday, and the Clantons became the stuff of legends, symbolic of a frontier populated...
Texas A&M University Press, 2018. — 420 p. In The Woolly West , historian Andrew Gulliford describes the sheep industry’s place in the history of Colorado and the American West. Tales of cowboys and cattlemen dominate western history - and even more so in popular culture. But in the competition for grazing lands, the sheep industry was as integral to the history of the American...
University of Texas Press, 2021. — 256 p. Every place is a product of the stories we tell about it - stories that do not merely describe but in fact shape geographic, social, and cultural spaces. Lone Star Vistas analyzes travelogues that created the idea of Texas. Focusing on the forty-year period between Mexico’s independence from Spain (1821) and the beginning of the US...
University of California Press, 2011. — 279 p. Spanning the period between Spanish colonization and the early twentieth century, this well-argued and convincing study examines the histories of Spanish and American conquests, and of ethnicity, race, and community in southern California. Lisbeth Haas draws on a diverse body of source materials (mission and court archives, oral...
Da Capo Press, 2004. — 458 p.
This is the story of the amazing and uncommon life of George Bent - a "halfbreed" born to a prominent white trader and his Indian wife-whose lifetime spanned one of the most exciting epochs in our nation's history. Raised as a Cheyenne but educated in white schools, George Bent fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War, became a Cheyenne warrior...
Dover Publications, 2020. — 192 p. Long before the American Revolution, fur trappers were traveling thousands of miles into the remote wilderness in their quest for beaver pelts, the frontier's most valuable commodity. These hardened, unsettled men were at the forefront of the Western expansion, hunting amid the Central Rockies by the 1830s and occasionally wandering all the...
University of Virginia Press, 2007. — 262 p. Most treatments of slavery, politics, and expansion in the early American republic focus narrowly on congressional debates and the inaction of elite "founding fathers" such as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. In Slavery, Freedom, and Expansion in the Early American West, John Craig Hammond looks beyond elite leadership and...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. — 288 p. 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 a mere footnote in the many chronicles of...
Casemate, 2014. — 2730 p. Gordon Harper’s remarkable book, Fights on the Little Horn: Unveiling the Mysteries of Custer’s Last Stand (Casemate Publishing, 2014) was conceived, researched, compiled, and written over a fifty-year period. After becoming fascinated with the story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Gordie (as he was known) discovered that many of the stories,...
Casemate, 2014. — 408 p. This remarkable book synthesizes a lifetime of in-depth research into one of America’s most storied disasters, the defeat of Custer’s 7th Cavalry at the hands of the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, as well as the complete annihilation of that part of the cavalry led by Custer himself. The author, Gordon Harper, spent countless hours on the battlefield itself...
Skyhorse, 2021. — 144 p. They were the first white men to penetrate the continent, and they soon lost their identity, becoming something completely new and different. The popular legends of the mountain men were generated from a surprisingly short period in American history. From the first forays up the Missouri River in the early 1800s to the final Rendezvous at Horse Creek in...
St. Martin's Press, 2015. — 384 p. In this thrilling narrative history of George Armstrong Custer's death at the Little Bighorn, award-winning historian Thom Hatch puts to rest the questions and conspiracies that have made Custer's last stand one of the most misunderstood events in American history. While numerous historians have investigated the battle, what happened on those...
St. Martin's Press, 2015. — 384 p. In this thrilling narrative history of George Armstrong Custer's death at the Little Bighorn, award-winning historian Thom Hatch puts to rest the questions and conspiracies that have made Custer's last stand one of the most misunderstood events in American history. While numerous historians have investigated the battle, what happened on those...
Texas University Press, 2015. — 186 p. To a large degree, the story of Texas’ secession from Mexico has been undertaken by scholars of the state. Early twentieth century historians of the revolutionary period, most notably Eugene Barker and William Binkley, characterized the conflict as a clash of two opposing cultures, yet their exclusive focus on the region served to...
University of Nebraska Press, 2022. — 282 p. In the nineteenth century, white Americans contrasted the perceived purity of white, middle-class women with the perceived eroticism of women of color and the working classes. The Latter-day Saint practice of polygamy challenged this separation, encouraging white women to participate in an institution that many people associated with...
Yale University Press, 2013. — 400 p. In this lively account of Arizona’s Rim Country War of the 1880s—what others have called "The Pleasant Valley War"—historian Daniel Justin Herman explores a web of conflict involving Mormons, Texas cowboys, New Mexican sheepherders, Jewish merchants, and mixed-blood ranchers. Their story, contends Herman, offers a fresh perspective on...
Cornell University Press, 2003. — 312 p. A fascinating, thought-provoking book. Hietala shows that it was not destiny but design and aggression that enabled the United States to control Texas, New Mexico, and California. Historian Hietala has examined an impressive array of primary and secondary materials... His handling of the relationship between the domestic and foreign...
University of Nebraska press, 2022. — 320 p. Childbirth defines families, communities, and nations. In Birthing the West , Jennifer J. Hill fills the silences around historical reproduction with copious new evidence and an enticing narrative, describing a process of settlement in the American West that depended on the nurturing connections of reproductive caregivers and the...
Yale University Press, 2008. — 288 p. Published in 2000 to critical acclaim, The American West: A New Interpretive History quickly became the standard in college history courses. Now Robert V. Hine and John Mack Faragher offer a concise edition of their classic, freshly updated. Lauded for their lively and elegant writing, the authors provide a grand survey of the colorful...
2nd Edition — Yale University Press, 2017. — 520 p. The newly revised second edition of this concise, engaging, and unorthodox history of America’s West has been updated to incorporate new research, including recent scholarship on Native American lives and cultures. An ideal text for course work, it presents the West as both frontier and region, examining the clashing of different...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. — 302 p. During the nineteenth century, the U.S. military built numerous forts across the country as it stationed more and more troops west of the Mississippi. When most people think about military forts in the American West, they imagine imposing strongholds, meccas of defense enclosed by high, palisaded walls. This popular view, however, is...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. — 464 p. When the Revolutionary War ended in 1783, the newly independent United States savored its victory and hoped for a great future. And yet the republic soon found itself losing an escalating military conflict on its borderlands. In 1791, years of skirmishes, raids, and quagmire climaxed in the grisly defeat of American militiamen by a...
A Lisa Drew Book/Scribner, 2006. — 320 p. A gripping and provocative tale of violence, alcohol, and taxes, The Whiskey Rebellion pits President George Washington and Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton against angry, armed settlers across the Appalachians. Unearthing a pungent segment of early American history long ignored by historians, William Hogeland brings to...
Simon & Schuster, 2010. — 320 p. A gripping and sensational tale of violence, alcohol, and taxes, The Whiskey Rebellion uncovers the radical eighteenth-century people’s movement, long ignored by historians, that contributed decisively to the establishment of federal authority. In 1791, on the frontier of western Pennsylvania, local gangs of insurgents with blackened faces began...
Eakin Press, 1994. — 174 p. Texas' most famous fighting man, James (Jim) Bowie, a descendant of the fierce natives of the Scottish Highlands, gets the full treatment in Clifford Hopewell's biography, the first in almost half a century. In addition to hundreds of secondary sources, Hopewell researched all the scarce original documents on Bowie in existence including newspaper...
Guilford, Connecticut: TwoDot Books, 2001. — 151 p. Sacagawea tells readers of her extraordinary life with the Corps of Discovery with a combination of oral traditions, scholarly research, historical anecdotes, and images from a multitude of collections. Sacagawea, meaning “Bird Woman,” was born a Shoshone girl around 1789. At about age eleven, she was taken from her tribe and...
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2000. — xii, 256 p., illus., maps. — (Missouri Biography Series, Book 1). Celebrated as one of America's frontier heroes, Daniel Boone left a legacy that made the Boone name almost synonymous with frontier settlement. Nathan Boone, the youngest of Daniel's sons, played a vital role in American pioneering, following in much the same steps...
Indiana University Press, 1998. — 440 p. Recounts the arrival in Ohio of Iroquois-speaking Indians, the entry of white fur traders and missionaries, the slaughter and expulsion of the Indians, and active settlement by New Englanders and others.
W. W. Norton & Company, 2022. — 464 p. A fresh history of the West grounded in the lives of mixed-descent Native families who first bridged and then collided with racial boundaries. Often overlooked, there is mixed blood at the heart of America. And at the heart of Native life for centuries there were complex households using intermarriage to link disparate communities and...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2022. — 464 p. A fresh history of the West grounded in the lives of mixed-descent Native families who first bridged and then collided with racial boundaries. Often overlooked, there is mixed blood at the heart of America. And at the heart of Native life for centuries there were complex households using intermarriage to link disparate communities and...
University of Nebraska Press, 2011. — 628 p. To most people living in the West, the Louisiana Purchase made little difference: the United States was just another imperial overlord to be assessed and manipulated. This was not, as Empires, Nations, and Families makes clear, virgin wilderness discovered by virtuous Anglo entrepreneurs. Rather, the United States was a newcomer in a...
University of Nebraska Press, 2011. — 628 p. To most people living in the West, the Louisiana Purchase made little difference: the United States was just another imperial overlord to be assessed and manipulated. This was not, as Empires, Nations, and Families makes clear, virgin wilderness discovered by virtuous Anglo entrepreneurs. Rather, the United States was a newcomer in a...
University of North Texas Press, 2017. — 672 p. Established in Waco in 1968, the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum honors the iconic Texas Rangers, a service which has existed, in one form or another, since 1823. They have become legendary symbols of Texas and the American West. Thirty-one Rangers, with lives spanning more than two centuries, have been enshrined in the Hall of...
University of Alberta Press, 2008. — 474 p.
This eclectic and carefully organised range of essays - from women's history and settler societies to colonialism and borderlands studies - is the first collection of comparative and transnational work on women in the Canadian and US West. It explores, expands, and advances the aspects of women's history that cross national borders....
Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. — 256 p. — (Investigating History's Mysteries). In this series, private investigators pick up where the historians left off, taking on a series of major cold cases in history, starting with the mishandling of evidence relating to the life and times of Billy the Kid. Cold Case: Billy the Kid tackles the myths and legends about the misadventures and...
University of California Press, 1992. — 561 p. Founding the Far West is an ambitious and vividly written narrative of the early years of statehood and statesmanship in three pivotal western territories. Johnson offers a model example of a new approach to history that is transforming our ideas of how America moved west, one that breaks the mold of "regional" and "frontier"...
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2007. — (Modern War Studies) — 376 p., maps, illus. In 1847 General Winfield Scott boldly led a small but undaunted army from the Mexican coast all the way to the Halls of Montezuma, routing Mexican forces at every turn while pacifying the countryside. Scott's military campaign—America's first ever in a foreign country—helped pave the way...
Yale University Press, 2020. — 314 p. Martha Jane Canary, popularly known as Calamity Jane, was the pistol-packing, rootin’ tootin’ "lady wildcat" of the American West. Brave and resourceful, she held her own with the men of America’s most colorful era and became a celebrity both in her own right and through her association with the likes of Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill...
Texas A&M University Press, 2014. — 224 p. Photographs of Texas’ frontier past are valuable as both art and artifact. Recording not only the lives and surroundings of days gone by, but also the artistry of those who captured the people and their times on camera, the rare images in Lens on the Texas Frontier offer a documentary record that is usually available to only a few...
TwoDot, 2022. — 280 p. William Lewis Manly was a forty-niner, explorer, and humanitarian whose story most people have never heard. Born in Vermont, William Lewis Manly was drawn out west by the lure of gold. Previous scholarship claims that the Yankee frontiersman floated only 290 miles down the Green River to the Uinta Basin, but author Michael D. Kane’s research of primary...
TwoDot, 2022. — 280 p. William Lewis Manly was a forty-niner, explorer, and humanitarian whose story most people have never heard. Born in Vermont, William Lewis Manly was drawn out west by the lure of gold. Previous scholarship claims that the Yankee frontiersman floated only 290 miles down the Green River to the Uinta Basin, but author Michael D. Kane’s research of primary...
Guilford, CT: TwoDot Books, 2011. — 232 p. : ill. On May 17, 1876, Elizabeth Bacon Custer kissed her husband George goodbye and wished him good fortune in his efforts to fulfill the Army’s orders to drive in the Native Americans who would not willingly relocate to a reservation. Adorned in a black taffeta dress and a velvet riding cap with a red peacock feather that matched...
Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishers, 2016. — 504 p. — e-ISBN 978-1-4766-2310-8. Whether the subjugation of the indigenous peoples of the American West was necessary to achieve our so-called “Manifest Destiny,” is a question to which there can never be a fully satisfactory answer, but we might ask ourselves if there was not a less costly means to achieve the same end? If we...
Louisiana State University Press, 2010. — 296 p. Historians have long believed that the "frontier" shaped Texas plantation society, but in this detailed examination of Texas's most important plantation region, Sean M. Kelley asserts that the dominant influence was not the frontier but the Mexican Republic. The Lower Brazos River Valley made replication of eastern plantation...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. — 396 p. The inclusion of the Ninth Cavalry and three other African American regiments in the post–Civil War army was one of the nation’s most problematic social experiments. The first fifteen years following its organization in 1866 were stained by mutinies, slanderous verbal assaults, and sadistic abuses by their officers. Eventually, a number...
Texas Tech University Press, 2020. — 208 p. In 1838 Texas vice president Mirabeau B. Lamar, flush from the excitement of a successful buffalo hunt, gazed from a hilltop toward the paradise at his feet and saw the future. His poetic eye admired the stunning vista before him, with its wavering prairie grasses gradually yielding to clusters of trees, then whole forests bordering...
Wiley-Blackwel, 2015. — 288 p. Unique in scope and comprehensive in coverage, this textbook is the first to place religion at the center of an examination of the history of the American West. Covering more than 200 years of history from pre-contact to the present, it details the relationship between the region and religion and the influence they had on one another. The narrative...
Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. — 448 p. The open range cattle era lasted barely a quarter-century, but it left America irrevocably changed. These few decades following the Civil War brought America its greatest boom-and-bust cycle until the Depression, the invention of the assembly line, and the dawn of the conservation movement. It inspired legends, such as that...
Barakaldo Books, 2020. — 420 p. An epidemic of cattle rustling in southern Wyoming in the 1890s and the desperate straits of stockmen set the stage for this saga of Tom Horn, a former Pinkerton detective, an expert hunter and dead shot, and one of the most mysterious and controversial figures in the history of the Old West. Some radicals in the powerful Wyoming Stock Growers...
Countryman Press, 2017. — 288 p. In 1869, Civil War veteran and amputee Major John Wesley Powell led an expedition down the uncharted Colorado River through the then-nameless Grand Canyon. This is the story of what started as a geological survey, but ended in danger, chaos, and blood. The men were inexperienced and ill-equipped, and they faced unimaginable peril. Along the way...
Routledge, 2018. — 198 p. The American West and the World provides a synthetic introduction to the transnational history of the American West. Drawing from the insights of recent scholarship, Janne Lahti recenters the history of the U.S. West in the global contexts of empires and settler colonialism, discussing exploration, expansion, migration, violence, intimacies, and ideas....
University of Oklahoma Press, 2022. — 362 p. At the center of American history is a hole—a gap where some scholars’ indifference or disdain has too long stood in for the true story of the American Midwest. A first-ever chronicle of the Midwest’s formative century, The Good Country restores this American heartland to its central place in the nation’s history. Jon K. Lauck, the...
Verso, 2018. — 304 p. In the pantheon of American icons, the cowboy embodies the traits of “rugged individualism,” independent, solitary, and stoical. In reality, cowboys were grossly exploited and underpaid seasonal workers, who responded to the abuses of their employers in a series of militant strikes. Their resistance arose from the rise and demise of a “beef bonanza” that...
University of Nebraska Press, 1998. — 498 p. — (With an Introduction by David J. Wishart). The story of the American fur trade has been told many times from different viewpoints, but David Lavender was the first to place it within the overall contest for empire between Britain and the United States. Rather than offering a simple hagiography of men like Jedediah Smith, Kit...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1967. — 290 p. Negro soldiers who wanted to remain in the United States Army after the Civil War were organized into the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry Regiments. Their service in controlling hostile Indians on the Great Plains during the next twenty years was as invaluable as it was unrecognized.
Simon & Schuster, 2020. — 320 p. 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, bestselling author of Ty Cobb , sorts out facts from folklore and paints a brilliant portrait of the celebrated outlaw of the...
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. — 219 p. Commonly known as Custer's Last Stand, the Battle of Little Bighorn may be the best recognized violent conflict between the indigenous peoples of North America and the government of the United States. Incorporating the voices of Native Americans, soldiers, scouts, and women, Tim Lehman's concise, compelling narrative...
The History Press, 2015. — 128 p. While many lionize Billy the Kid, the man who killed him, Sheriff Patrick Floyd Garrett, has a rarely told but riveting true story all his own. His adventurous life spawned many a far-fetched, exciting legend. In 1896, Garrett s investigation of the still-unsolved murder of Albert J. Fountain on the White Sands led to nothing but a gunfight and...
University of Nebraska Press, 2012. — 334 p. In 1863, at the height of the Civil War, Frederick Douglass promised African Americans that serving in the military offered a sure path to freedom. More than 180,000 black men heeded his call to defend the Union, only to find that the path to equality would not be so straightforward. Drawing on eye-opening firsthand accounts,...
University Press of Colorado, 2002. — 232 p. In this examination of more than 175 lynchings, Stephen J. Leonard illustrates the role economics, migration, race, and gender played in the shaping of justice and injustice in Colorado. One of the first comprehensive studies of the phenomenon in a Western state, Lynching in Colorado provides an essential complement to recent studies...
Michigan State University Press, 2019. — 378 p. The late antebellum period saw the dramatic growth of the United States as Euro-American settlement began to move into new territories west of the Mississippi River. The journals and letters of businessmen Nehemiah and Henry Sanford, written between 1839 and 1846, provide a unique perspective into a time of dramatic expansion in the...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. — 536 p. An accessible and authoritative overview of the scholarship that has shaped our understanding of one of the most iconic battles in the history of the American West. Combines contributions from an array of respected scholars, historians, and battlefield scientists. Outlines the political and cultural conditions that laid the foundation for the...
University of Nebraska Press, 2020. — 390 p. Never Caught Twice presents the untold history of horse raiding and stealing on the Great Plains of western Nebraska. By investigating horse stealing by and from four Plains groups - American Indians, the U.S. Army, ranchers and cowboys, and farmers - Matthew S. Luckett clarifies a widely misunderstood crime in Western mythology and...
University of Nebraska Press, 2020. — 390 p. Never Caught Twice presents the untold history of horse raiding and stealing on the Great Plains of western Nebraska. By investigating horse stealing by and from four Plains groups - American Indians, the U.S. Army, ranchers and cowboys, and farmers - Matthew S. Luckett clarifies a widely misunderstood crime in Western mythology and...
With a Preface by "Buffalo Bill" (General W. F. Cody) — Rand, McNally & Company Publishers, 1893. — 370 p. Alexander Majors (1814–1900) was a US frontiersman, who along with William Hepburn Russell and William B. Waddell founded the Pony Express, based in Kansas City, Missouri. In 1848 Alexander Majors started hauling overland freight on the Santa Fe Trail. On his first trip,...
Two Dot, 2021. — 297 p. Where is the head of Pancho Villa really buried? Did Butch Cassidy die the way mainstream history says he did? Was the real Davy Crocket a hero of historic proportions during the Battle of the Alamo or a sniveling coward? Is the Lost Dutchman Mine real or a total farce? These questions and many more will be explored in the exciting book, Stand Off at...
Countryman Press, 2017. — 256 p. 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 skills on the western frontier. But when the journey was over, Colter stayed behind, spending four more years...
Dover Publications, 2009. — 112 p. A legendary lawman, buffalo hunter, Indian fighter, and newspaper columnist, Bat Masterson served as sheriff of Ford County, Kansas, ruled Dodge City, and became an eyewitness to the heyday of the Old West's most notorious outlaws. His thrilling collection of mini-biographies reveals fascinating details about a host of legendary gunslingers,...
ABC-CLIO, 2014. — 202 p. This comprehensive narrative history of the California Gold Rush describes daily life during this historic period, documenting its wide-reaching effects and examining the significant individuals and organizations of the time. It is easy to see the vestiges of the California Gold Rush in the state's modern culture. The San Francisco 49ers football team...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. — 370 p. Fort Bowie, in present-day Arizona, was established in 1862 at the site of the famous Battle of Apache Pass, where U.S. troops clashed with Apache chief Cochise and his warriors. The fort’s dual purpose was to guard the invaluable water supply at Apache Spring and to control Indians in the developing southwestern region. Douglas C....
Fort Laramie: National Park Service, Historic Resources Study, 2003. — 608 p. This report is one of three parts comprising a Historic Resources Study for Fort Laramie National Historic Site. The scope of the study encompasses the fur trade era, the military era, and the years subsequent to army occupation up to the eve of its acquisition by the National Park Service in 1938. A...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. — 784 p. »The drums they roll, upon my soul, for thats the way we go,» runs the chorus in a Harrigan and Hart song from 1874. «Forty miles a day on beans and hay in the Regular Army O!» The last three words of that lyric aptly title Douglas C. McChristians remarkable work capturing the lot of soldiers posted to the West after the Civil War....
Chelsea House Publications, 2009. - 64 p. With the expansion of the country came the expansion of what people wore on a day-to-day basis in the wild frontier of the West. Having moved away from established towns and trade routes, early settlers in the American West made their own clothes out of necessity. With the eventual introduction of familiar fabrics and clothing items,...
Simon & Schuster, 2013. — 192 p. In Oh What a Slaughter , Larry McMurtry has written a unique, brilliant, and searing history of the bloody massacres that marked - and marred - the settling of the American West in the nineteenth century, and which still provoke immense controversy today. Here are the true stories of the West's most terrible massacres - Sacramento River,...
Simon & Schuster, 2013. — 192 p. In Oh What a Slaughter , Larry McMurtry has written a unique, brilliant, and searing history of the bloody massacres that marked - and marred - the settling of the American West in the nineteenth century, and which still provoke immense controversy today. Here are the true stories of the West's most terrible massacres - Sacramento River,...
Texas University Press, 2004. — 312 p. One of the least known but most important battles of the Texas Revolution occurred not with arms but with words, not in Texas but in New Orleans. In the fall of 1835, Creole mercantile houses that backed the Mexican Federalists in their opposition to Santa Anna essentially lost the fight for Texas to the Americans of the Faubourg St....
University of Arkansas Press, 2019. — 346 p. In Arkansas Travelers , historical geographer Andrew J. Milson takes readers on an enthralling tour with William Dunbar, Thomas Nuttall, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, and George William Featherstonhaugh as they explored the Arkansas frontier in the early nineteenth century. Each of these travelers wrote about the treacherous rivers,...
University of California Press, 2002 - 315 p. ISBN10: 0520227441 ISBN13: 9780520227446 (eng)
Although Mexico lost its northern territories to the United States in 1848, battles over property rights and ownership have remained intense. This turbulent, vividly narrated story of the Maxwell Land Grant, a single tract of 1.7 million acres in northeastern New Mexico, shows how...
The University Press of Kentucky, 1957. — 280 p. In Kentucky, the first frontier beyond the Appalachians, Arthur K. Moore finds a unique ground for examining some of the basic elements in America's cultural development. There the frontier mind acquired definite form, and there emerged the forces that largely shaped the American West. Moore reveals the Kentucky frontiersman as a...
Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 2002. — xvi, 335 p. : 34 b&w illus. 5 maps. The Savage Frontier series is an exhaustive study of the frontier battles during the ten-year period of the Republic of Texas. Native Americans and Anglo settlers clashed often in their territorial disputes. This series chronicles the companies of Texas Rangers, Texas Militia men, ad hoc...
University of North Texas Press, 2007. — 448 p. 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 House Fight, prompting what would...
A Shannon Ravenel Book, 2011. — 496 p. The bestselling historian and biographer of Boone turns his storytelling genius to the lives of ten American legends, each caught in the act of securing America’s past. From Thomas Jefferson’s birth in 1743 to the California gold rush in 1849, America’s Manifest Destiny comes to life in the skilled hands of a writer fascinated by the way...
A Shannon Ravenel Book, 2011. — 496 p. The bestselling historian and biographer of Boone turns his storytelling genius to the lives of ten American legends, each caught in the act of securing America’s past. From Thomas Jefferson’s birth in 1743 to the California gold rush in 1849, America’s Manifest Destiny comes to life in the skilled hands of a writer fascinated by the way...
Syracuse University Press, 2008. — 296 p. Illustrations The Frontiers of Femininity Trains Through the Plains The Great Plains Landscape of Victorian Women Travelers Peak Practices Englishwomen’s Heroic Adventures in the Nineteenth-Century American West Gender, Nature, Empire Women Naturalists in Nineteenth-Century British Women’s Travel Literature (with Jeanne Kay Guelke)...
Texas A&M University Press, 2001. — 352 p. What was it really like to be a Texas Ranger in 1887–88? Deconstructing myths, reconstructing realities, this gritty, day-to-day portrayal, written by Private A. T. Miller, Company B, Frontier Battalion, yields a complex vision of the passing West and its lawmen. A Private in the Texas Rangers takes us for a tumultuous ride along the...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018. — 272 p. In this book, Larry E. Morris complements the compelling story he began with The Fate of Corps , named a History Book Club selection and a Choice magazine Outstanding Academic Title. Illustrating how Thomas Jefferson’s vision of a sea-to-sea empire gave rise to the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Morris in turn shows how the expedition...
Yale University Press, 2005. — 320 p. The story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition has been told many times. But what became of the thirty-three members of the Corps of Discovery once the expedition was over? The expedition ended in 1806, and the final member of the corps passed away in 1870. In the intervening decades, members of the corps witnessed the momentous events of the...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012. — 270 p. Although a host of adventurers stormed west in 1806 after Lewis and Clark’s safe return, seven of them left unique legacies because of their monumental journeys, their lionhearted spirit in the face of hardship, and the way their paths intertwined time and again. The Perilous West tells this riveting story in depth for the first...
Pegasus Books, 2021. — 304 p. In September 1868, the undermanned United States Army was struggling to address attacks by Cheyenne and Sioux warriors against the Kansas settlements, the stagecoach routes, and the transcontinental railroad. General Sheridan hired fifty frontiersmen and scouts to supplement his limited forces. He placed them under the command of Major George...
Gibbs Smith, 2019. — 240 p. 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 famous frontiersmen and women are no more true than the tale of Paul Bunyan. The tall tales won’t tell you, for instance, that David Crockett was a congressman, and Daniel Boone a Virginia...
DK Publishing Inc., 2001. — 64 p. — ISBN 0-7894-7937-0 (hc), ISBN 0-7894-7938-9 (lib. bdg.) Discover the saga of the American West - from the adventures of Lewis and Clark to the massacre at Wounded Knee. Here is an original and exciting new guide to the fascinating story of the American West. Superb colour illustrations offer a unique and revealing "eyewitness" view of this...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2018. — 280 p. Best known for his role in the arrest and killing of Crazy Horse and for the book he wrote, The Indian Sign Language , Captain William Philo Clark (1845–1884) was one of the Old Army’s renaissance men, by turns administrator, fighter, diplomat, explorer, and ethnologist. As such, Clark found himself at center stage during some of the...
Scribner, 2020. — 352 p. In The Three-Cornered War Megan Kate Nelson reveals the fascinating history of the Civil War in the American West. Exploring the connections among the Civil War, the Indian wars, and western expansion, Nelson reframes the era as one of national conflict - involving not just the North and South, but also the West. Against the backdrop of this larger series...
Illustrator: R. Gregory Christie — Carolrhoda Books, 2009. — 40 p. Read about the fascinating life of Bass Reeves, who escaped slavery to become the first African American Deputy U.S. Marshal west of the Mississippi. Sitting tall in the saddle, with a wide-brimmed black hat and twin Colt pistols on his belt, Bass Reeves seemed bigger than life. Outlaws feared him. Law-abiding...
University of North Texas Press, 2003. — 184 p.
When interpreter Toussaint Charbonneau, a French Canadian fur trader living among the Hidatsas, and his Shoshone Indian wife, Sacagawea, joined the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804, they headed into country largely unknown to them, as it was to Thomas Jefferson's hand-picked explorers. There is little doubt as to the importance...
University of North Carolina Press, 2016. — 254 p. As a fledgling republic, the United States implemented a series of trading outposts to engage indigenous peoples and to expand American interests west of the Appalachian Mountains. Under the authority of the executive branch, this Indian factory system was designed to strengthen economic ties between Indian nations and the...
Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1987. — 236 p. The Voyageur is the authoritative account of a unique and colorful group of men whose exploits, songs, and customs comprise an enduring legacy. French Canadians who guided and paddled the canoes of explorers and fur traders, the voyageurs were experts at traversing the treacherous rapids and dangerous open waters of the canoe...
Louisiana State University Press, 2009. — 216 p. In Bleeding Borders , Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel offers a fresh, multifaceted interpretation of the quintessential sectional conflict in pre-Civil War Kansas. Instead of focusing on the white, male politicians and settlers who vied for control of the Kansas territorial legislature, Oertel explores the crucial roles Native...
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. — vi, 194 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations. The fascinating story of the most notorious detective agency in US history. Between 1865 and 1937, Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency was at the center of countless conflicts between capital and labor, bandits and railroads, and strikers and state power. Some...
ABDO Publishing, 2015. — 48 p. — (Daily Life in US History). A look at life during the California gold rush. Gold! A Miner’s Life. Faces of the Gold Rush. Daily Life. Impacts. A Day in the Life. Stop and Think. Learn More. About the Author.
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 392 p. It was November 1806. The explorers had gone without food for one day, then two. Their leader, not yet thirty, drove on, determined to ascend the great mountain. Waist deep in snow, he reluctantly turned back. But Zebulon Pike had not been defeated. His name remained on the unclimbed peak-and new adventures lay ahead of him and his...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2018. — 312 p. In the late 1880s, Pleasant Valley, Arizona, descended into a nightmare of violence, murder, and mayhem. By the time the Pleasant Valley War was over, eighteen men were dead, four were wounded, and one was missing, never to be found. Valley of the Guns explores the reasons for the violence that engulfed the settlement, turning...
St. Martin's Press. 2024. — 382 p. A thrilling true saga of legendary Texas figure Judge Roy Bean and his brothers - and their violent adventures in Wild West America. Roy Bean was an American saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace in Texas, who called himself "The Only Law West of the Pecos". He and his three brothers set out from Kentucky in the mid 1840s, heading into the...
St. Martin's Press, 2022. — 400 p. The explosive and bloody true history of Texas Rangers Company F, made up of hard men who risked their lives to bring justice to a lawless frontier. Between 1886 and 1888, Sergeant James Brooks, of Texas Ranger Company F, was engaged in three fatal gunfights, endured disfiguring bullet wounds, engaged in countless manhunts, was convicted of...
College Station, Texas A & M University Press, 2007. — 150 p. "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 important―and until now it...
University of North Texas Press, 2013. — 402 p. — ISBN 978-1-57441-257-4 The Sutton-Taylor Feud of DeWitt, Gonzales, Karnes, and surrounding counties began shortly after the Civil War ended. The blood feud continued into the 1890s when the final court case was settled with a governmental pardon. Of all the Texas feuds, the one between the Sutton and Taylor forces lasted longer...
McFarland, 2009. — 217 p. Running from New Orleans to St. Louis in the summer of 1870, the race between the Robert E. Lee and the Natchez remains the world's most famous steamboat race. This book tells the story of the dramatic contest, which was won by the stripped-down, cargoless Robert E. Lee after three days, 18 hours, and 14 minutes of steaming through day, night and fog....
The University Press of Kentucky, 1994. — 252 p. — ISBN 978-0-8131-2657-9 " Among the darkest corners of Kentucky's past are the grisly feuds that tore apart the hills of Eastern Kentucky from the late nineteenth century until well into the twentieth. Now, from the tangled threads of conflicting testimony, John Ed Pearce, Kentucky's best known journalist, weaves engrossing...
Sunstone Press, 1985. — 98 p. The history of any state is largely determined by the lives and actions of its residents and particularly its leading citizens. This book presents a sampling of Hispanic men and women whose influences on New Mexico events and history transcended the moment and became lasting contributions to the American Southwest. It includes portraits of Juan de...
Greenwood, 2022. — 316 p. Daily Life in the American Wes t details the lives of American Indians, miners, cowboys, immigrants, and settlers who, together, populated the unique region that is the American West. Daily Life in the American West combines the credibility and coverage of a history textbook with a close and nuanced view of the amazing peoples who struggled to make a...
Greenwood, 2022. — 316 p. Daily Life in the American Wes t details the lives of American Indians, miners, cowboys, immigrants, and settlers who, together, populated the unique region that is the American West. Daily Life in the American West combines the credibility and coverage of a history textbook with a close and nuanced view of the amazing peoples who struggled to make a...
University Press of Colorado, 2016. — 312 p. The West, especially the Intermountain states, ranks among the whitest places in America, but this fact obscures the more complicated history of racial diversity in the region. In "Making the White Man’s West", author Jason E. Pierce argues that since the time of the Louisiana Purchase, the American West has been a racially contested...
University Press of Colorado, 2016. — 312 p. The West, especially the Intermountain states, ranks among the whitest places in America, but this fact obscures the more complicated history of racial diversity in the region. In "Making the White Man’s West", author Jason E. Pierce argues that since the time of the Louisiana Purchase, the American West has been a racially contested...
University of Arizona Press, 2015. — 384 p. 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 Klauber, and Mary Cabot Wheelwright were...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1986. — 352 p. One of the most outstanding officers the U.S. Army ever produced, John Gregory Bourke (1846-1896), lied about his age to enlist in the Union Army, where he won the Medal of Honor for gallantry in action at the Battle of Stone River. He later served in the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Apache campaigns, making his fame in battle against Geronimo....
University Press of Kentucky, 1967. — 447 p. Religion is viewed here as the great cultural force which introduced and preserved civilization in the era of westward expansion from 1776 to the eve of the Civil War. In this first major study of religion in the South, Mr. Posey surveys the work of the seven chief denominations-Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Disciples of Christ,...
Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2004. — 128 p. At the foot of the Huachuca Mountains, the U.S. Army founded one of the most crucial military posts for American expansion into the southwest frontier. Soldiers had been stationed in the region for decades, but in 1877 Fort Huachuca became the symbolic cornerstone of America’s western domain. The Native American...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. — 624 p. The journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied rank among the most important firsthand sources documenting the early-nineteenth-century American West. Published in their entirety as an annotated three-volume set, the journals present a complete narrative of Maximilian’s expedition across the United States, from Boston almost to the...
University of North Carolina Press, 2008. — 320 p. Introducing a new model for the transnational history of the United States, Raul Ramos places Mexican Americans at the center of the Texas creation story. He focuses on Mexican-Texan, or Tejano, society in a period of political transition beginning with the year of Mexican independence. Ramos explores the factors that helped...
Harper Collins, 2012. — 276 p. The author, a historian reveals the long forgotten history of America's largest slave uprising, the New Orleans slave revolt of 1811 that nearly toppled New Orleans and changed the course of American history. In this narrative, he offers new insight into American expansionism, the path to Civil War, and the earliest grassroots push to overcome...
University of Nebraska Press, 2018. — 216 p. More than any other nonhuman species, it was the sea otter that defined the world's largest oceanscape prior to the California gold rush. In addition to the more conventional aspects of the sea otter trade, including Russian expansion in Alaska, British and American trading in the Pacific Northwest, and Spanish colonial ventures along...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2003. — 152 p. Known for his ability to make history come vividly to life, Reasoner strips away the dime novel legends and Hollywood myths to show us how the gunfighters of the Old West really lived, killed, and were killed. Praised for his “well-researched” and “lively, suspenseful” novels, James Reasoner now proves that truth can be even more...
University of Illinois Press, 2007. — 232 p. Exploring the cultural interactions on the southern rim of the Great Basin in the last half of the nineteenth century. When Mormon ranchers and Anglo-American miners moved into centuries-old Southern Paiute space during the last half of the nineteenth century, a clash of cultures quickly ensued. W. Paul Reeve explores the dynamic nature...
Texas University Press, 2007. — 248 p. Could the British have stopped Manifest Destiny in its tracks in 1836? A Scottish doctor named James Grant was the agent who tried to make it happen, and Texas was the stage on which the secret battle was fought. On the eve of the Texas uprising, only two things stood in the way of American ambitions to reach the Pacific Ocean: the British...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 138 p. In 1824 and 1830, over one hundred thousand acres across Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska were set aside as a home for descendants of Native American women and white traders and trappers. The treaties that established these so-called Half Breed Tracts left undefined exactly who held claim to the land, and by the end of the 1850s, settlers and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 138 p. In 1824 and 1830, over one hundred thousand acres across Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska were set aside as a home for descendants of Native American women and white traders and trappers. The treaties that established these so-called Half Breed Tracts left undefined exactly who held claim to the land, and by the end of the 1850s, settlers and...
Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. — 304 p. It has always been understood that the 1848 discovery of gold in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada influenced the battle over the admission of California to the Union. But now, in this revelatory study, award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards makes clear the links between the Gold Rush and many of the regional crises in the lead-up to the...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. — 360 p. Most Americans know that the state of Texas was once the Republic of Texas―an independent sovereign state that existed from 1836 until its annexation by the United States in 1846. But few are aware that thousands of Americans, inspired by Texas, tried to establish additional sovereign states outside the borders of the early...
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. — 472 p.
In this second volume of interviews conducted by Nebraska judge Eli S. Ricker, he focuses on white eyewitnesses and participants in the occupying and settling of the American West in the nineteenth century. In the first decade of the twentieth century, as the Old West became increasingly distant and romanticized in popular...
Skyhorse, 2015. — 371 p. This frontier classic is one of the best books written about the world’s greatest cattle trail, the Chisholm Trail, a trail that was approximately eight hundred miles long, running from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas. It is a comprehensive book about the cattle drives of our western frontier and the interesting characters associated with them....
Regnery History, 2014. — 424 p. The Real Custer takes a good hard look at the life and storied military career of George Armstrong Custer — from cutting his teeth at Bull Run in the Civil War, to his famous and untimely death at Little Bighorn in the Indian Wars. "James Robbins's The Real Custer: From Boy General to Tragic Hero is a well-written four-hundred page epic adventure...
Wiley, 2007. — 544 p. In DOC Holliday: The Life and Legend , the historian Gary Roberts takes aim at the most complex, perplexing, and paradoxical gunfighter of the Old West, drawing on more than twenty years of research - including new primary sources - in his quest to separate the life from the legend. DOC Holliday was a study in contrasts: the legendary gunslinger who made...
Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2016. — 250 pages : 71 illustrations. During the 1860s, the Missouri River served as a natural highway, through snags and rapids, from St. Louis to Fort Benton for steamboats bringing Yankees and Rebels and their families to the remote Montana territory. The migration transformed the Upper Missouri region from the isolation of the fur trade...
Yale University Press, 2013. — 368 p. — (The Lamar Series in Western History). The California Gold Rush began in 1848 and incited many “wagons west.” However, only half of the 300,000 gold seekers traveled by land. The other half traveled by sea. And it’s the story of this second group that interests Malcolm Rohrbough in his authoritative new book, The Rush to Gold. He examines...
Third edition. — Indiana University Press, 2008. — 696 p. — (A History of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier). The first American frontier lay just beyond the Appalachian Mountains and along the Gulf Coast. Here, successive groups of pioneers built new societies and developed new institutions to cope with life in the wilderness. In this thorough revision of his classic account,...
University of Texas Press, 2021. — 288 p. In the nineteenth century, Texas’s advancing western frontier was the site of one of America’s longest conflicts between white settlers and native peoples. The Texas Hill Country functioned as a kind of borderland within the larger borderland of Texas itself, a vast and fluid area where, during the Civil War, the slaveholding South and...
With Preface by Mr. Daniel Kosharek and Foreword by Jennifer Nez Denetdale — University of Oklahoma Press, 2019. — 184 p. In the aftermath of the Civil War, New Mexico Territory endured painful years of hardship and ongoing strife. During this turbulent period, a U.S. military officer stationed in the territory assembled an album of photographs, a series of still shots taken by...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1979. — 266 p. In this classic of western Americana, George Frederick Ruxton, who died in St. Louis in 1848 at the youthful age of twenty-seven, brilliantly brings to life the whole heroic age of the Mountain Men. The author, from his intimate acquaintance with the trappers and traders of the American Far West, vividly recounts the story of two of the...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. — 392 p. The 1783 Treaty of Paris, which officially recognized the United States as a sovereign republic, also doubled the territorial girth of the original thirteen colonies. The fledgling nation now stretched from the coast of Maine to the Mississippi River and up to the Great Lakes. With this dramatic expansion, argues author Bethel...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. — 392 p. The 1783 Treaty of Paris, which officially recognized the United States as a sovereign republic, also doubled the territorial girth of the original thirteen colonies. The fledgling nation now stretched from the coast of Maine to the Mississippi River and up to the Great Lakes. With this dramatic expansion, argues author Bethel...
TwoDot, 2024. — 210 p. This book celebrates the history and culture of the western horse, its ability to capture the popular imagination, and the means by which it has come to symbolize the American West. Beginning in the 1500s, The Western Horse delves into the origins and variations of the western breeds, their role in the expansion and settlement of the West, and the lawless...
TwoDot, 2024. — 210 p. This book celebrates the history and culture of the western horse, its ability to capture the popular imagination, and the means by which it has come to symbolize the American West. Beginning in the 1500s, The Western Horse delves into the origins and variations of the western breeds, their role in the expansion and settlement of the West, and the lawless...
University of Nebraska Press, 2010. — 368 p.
Covering more than two centuries, "The Beaver Men" recounts the beginning of the beaver trade along the St. Lawrence to the last great rendezvous of traders and trappers on Ham’s Fork, in what is now Wyoming, in 1834. "The Beaver Men" is the third in Mari Sandoz’s trilogy of books narrating the history of the American West in...
2nd Edition. — Bison Books, 2008. — 392 p. — (Introduction by Michael Punke). In 1867, conservative estimates put the number of buffaloes in the trans-Missouri region at fifteen million. By the end of the 1880s, that figure had dwindled to a few hundred. The destruction of the great herds is the theme of "The Buffalo Hunters". Mari Sandoz's vast canvas is charged with colour...
Utah State University Press, 1998. — 216 p. The essays published here come from two series he wrote for the Tribune, and they include some of the longest feature articles ever printed in that paper. Schindler prepared one series in conjunction with Utah's 1996 statehood centennial, giving readers a dramatic and kaleidoscopic overview of Utah history. During the same period and...
John Wiley & Sons, 2002. — 542 p. From the mysteries of the ancient Anasazi to the technological marvels of Silicon Valley, the American West has been a place where legends are made. In this authoritative, single-volume reference, you'll discover the full scope of Western U.S. history and learn the true stories of the people, places, cultures, and events that have been the...
University of Illinois Press, 2018. — 264 p. The completion of the Transcontinental Telegraph in 1861 completed telegraphy's mile-by-mile trek across the West. In addition to linking the coasts, the telegraph represented an extraordinary American effort in many fields of endeavor to know, act upon, and control a continent. Merging new research with bold reinterpretation, James...
University of Illinois Press, 2018. — 264 p. The completion of the Transcontinental Telegraph in 1861 completed telegraphy's mile-by-mile trek across the West. In addition to linking the coasts, the telegraph represented an extraordinary American effort in many fields of endeavor to know, act upon, and control a continent. Merging new research with bold reinterpretation, James...
Anchor Books, 2007. — 624 p.
In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed by Mexico. Fueled by the new ideology of “Manifest Destiny,” this land grab would lead to a decades-long battle between the United States and the Navajos, the fiercely resistant rulers of a huge swath of mountainous...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. — 416 p. The image of the famous “last stand” of the Seventh U.S. Cavalry under General George Armstrong Custer has transmogrified into myth. We imagine the solitary Custer standing upright to the end, his troops formed into groups of wounded and dying men around him. In To Hell with Honor , Larry Sklenar analyzes and interprets the widely...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. — 416 p. The image of the famous “last stand” of the Seventh U.S. Cavalry under General George Armstrong Custer has transmogrified into myth. We imagine the solitary Custer standing upright to the end, his troops formed into groups of wounded and dying men around him. In To Hell with Honor , Larry Sklenar analyzes and interprets the widely...
Oxford University Press, 1988. — 300 p. When President George Washington ordered an army of 13,000 men to march west in 1794 to crush a tax rebellion among frontier farmers, he established a range of precedents that continues to define federal authority over localities today. The "Whiskey Rebellion" marked the first large-scale resistance to a law of the U.S. government under...
Reprint edition. — Open Road Media, 2024. — 616 p. In The Fatal Environment , historian Richard Slotkin demonstrates how the myth of frontier expansion and subjugation of Native Americans helped justify the course of America’s rise to wealth and power. Using Custer’s Last Stand as a metaphor for what Americans feared might happen if the frontier should be closed and the...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. — 650 p. In The Fatal Environment , historian Richard Slotkin demonstrates how the myth of frontier expansion and subjugation of Native Americans helped justify the course of America’s rise to wealth and power. Using Custer’s Last Stand as a metaphor for what Americans feared might happen if the frontier should be closed and the "savage"...
McFarland, 2015. — 256 p. Depictions of the American west in literature, art and film perpetuate romantic stereotypes of the pioneers - the gold-crazed ’49er, the intrepid sodbuster. While ennobling the woodsman, the farmwife and the lawman, this tunnel vision of American history has shortchanged the whaler, the assayer, the innkeeper and the inventor. The westward advance of the...
Mockingbird Books, 2016. — 246 p. Roy Bean was one of the most colorful characters to inhabit the state of Texas, and he chose one of the state's most Godforsaken places as his personal dominion - the empty, dusty plains west of the Pecos River's junction with the Rio Grande, out near… well, not really near anyplace to speak of. Sandwiched between the banks of the Rio Grande...
Penguin Books, 1992. — 496 p. In Beyond the Hundredth Meridian , Wallace Stegner recounts the sucesses 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 understanding of the American West,...
Vintage, 2003. — 544 p. 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 much more complicated and significant figure. Raised in a...
Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2012. — 280 p., ills. During the Battle of the Little Bighorn, 17 Canadians stood by Lieutenant-Colonel Custer’s side. There were 17 Canadians present when Lieutenant-Colonel George Armstrong Custer made his last stand in the battle at Little Bighorn River in 1876. Some had served in the Civil War, some were close friends or admirers of Custer, and some...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2019. — 344 p. Growing up, Jerry Thompson knew only that his grandfather was a gritty, "mixed-blood" Cherokee cowboy named Joe Lynch Davis. That was all anyone cared to say about the man. But after Thompson’s mother died, the award-winning historian discovered a shoebox full of letters that held the key to a long-lost family history of passion,...
New Edition — Indiana University Press, 2016. — 208 p. 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 on the western frontier. As the story...
New Edition — Indiana University Press, 2016. — 208 p. 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 on the western frontier. As the story...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2015. — 368 p. By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while also devastating the lives and villages of Mexicans in Texas. In response, Mexico threw open its northern territories to American farmers in hopes that cotton could bring...
Frontline Books, 2021. — 248 p. — ISBN 978 1 52678 233 5. Without doubt it was one of the toughest jobs. Faced with ruthless criminal, trigger-happy gunslingers and assorted desperados, the lawmen of the Old West tried, and sometimes died, in their efforts to bring some semblance of order to their towns and communities. There were Marshals, City Marshals and Constables who were...
Frontline Books, 2021. — 248 p. The ‘Wild West,' or American Frontier as it is also known, developed in the years following the American Civil War. However, this period of myth-making cowboys, infamous gunslingers, not always law-abiding lawmen, and saloon madams, is as much the product of fiction writers and film makers as reality. The outlaw came into his, or indeed her, own...
Henry Holt and Co., 2003. — 368 p. The years 2003–2006 mark the bicentennial of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s famous transcontinental journey between the Missouri and the Columbia River systems. They never did find the fabled Northwest Passage, but over twenty-eight months, the Corps of Discovery traveled more than eight thousand miles through eleven future states, named...
Universal Publishers, 2017. — 242 p. For the first time, this ground-breaking book tells the forgotten story of the true genesis of the June 25, 1876 disaster along the Little Bighorn, "Custer's Last Stand." The failure of the southern column to continue to advance north after the battle of the Rosebud set the stage for the annihilation of George Armstrong Custer and his five...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 520 p. Published in 2008, Massacre at Mountain Meadows was a bombshell of a book, revealing the story of one of the grimmest episodes in Latter-day Saint history, when settlers in southwestern Utah slaughtered more than 100 members of a California-bound wagon train in 1857. In this much-anticipated sequel, Richard E. Turley Jr. and Barbara Jones...
University of Nebraska Press, 2021. — 416 p. Through an evaluation of Oregon’s exclusionary laws, Leveraging an Empire examines the process of settler colonialism in the evolving region of the Pacific Northwest between the years 1841 and 1859. Oregon laws - through nuanced emphases and new articulations - related to national issues of slavery, immigration, land ownership,...
Texas Christian University Press, 2001. — 234 p. After the Civil War, the United States Army faced a tremendous challenge on the Texas frontier. Military authorities had to overcome major obstacles in mobility and communications, and they had to learn a far different kind of warfare to defeat the Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche Indians. Large military posts have been examined in...
Henry Holt & Company, 1997. — 400 p. Early in the nineteenth century, the mountain men emerged as a small but distinctive group whose knowledge and experience of the trans-Mississippi West exted the national consciousness to continental dimensions. Though Lewis and Clark blazed a narrow corridor of geographical reality, the West remained largely terra incognita until trappers and...
Henry Holt & Company, 1997. — 400 p. Early in the nineteenth century, the mountain men emerged as a small but distinctive group whose knowledge and experience of the trans-Mississippi West exted the national consciousness to continental dimensions. Though Lewis and Clark blazed a narrow corridor of geographical reality, the West remained largely terra incognita until trappers and...
New York: Berkley Books, 2003. - 370 p. From The Lone Ranger to Lonesome Dove, the Texas Rangers have been celebrated in fact and fiction for their daring exploits in bringing justice to the Old West. In Lone Star Justice, best-selling author Robert M. Utley captures the first hundred years of Ranger history, in a narrative packed with adventures worthy of Zane Grey or Larry...
Quill, 1963. — 393 p. Focuses on the English and Spanish territorial claims and the Indian raids which threatened the stability of the new American nation shortly after the Revolution. This book is a genealogical gold mine for researchers whose ancestors hail from Kentucky and Tennessee. The exploration and settlement of the Eastern half of the eventual United States is a...
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988. — 245 p. The only comprehensive work on one of the most important battles of the Indian Wars of the West. The fight on Rosebud Creek took place just days before General George Armstrong Custer and his Seventh Cavalry was decimated by the same warriors that forced General George Crook to withdraw from the Rosebud. Here in the words of...
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1963. — 366 p. "A tall man, with long black hair, smooth face, dark eyes (inclining to turn his head a little to one side, as much as to say, 'I can tell you about it'), a harum-scarum, don't-care sort of man, full of life and fun." That's how a contemporary described Joe Meek." Born in Virginia, Joe Meek became a trapper, Indian fighter,...
University of Nebraska Press, 1996. — 304 p. — (Whit an Introduction by Marc Simmons). The Santa Fe Trail was one of the two great overland highways originating in Missouri in the nineteenth century. Several decades before settlers streamed over the Oregon Trail, traders were heading southwest. The caravans carried the wares of Yankee commerce; they returned loaded with buffalo...
Two Dot, 2010. — 200 p. The word cowboy conjures up vivid images of rugged men on saddled horses—men lassoing cattle, riding bulls, or brandishing guns in a shoot-out. White men, as Hollywood remembers them. What is woefully missing from these scenes is their counterparts: the black cowboys who made up one-fourth of the wranglers and rodeo riders. This book tells their story....
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 448 p. On September 11, 1857, a band of Mormon militia, under a flag of truce, lured unarmed members of a party of emigrants from their fortified encampment and, with their Paiute allies, killed them. More than 120 men, women, and children perished in the slaughter. "Massacre at Mountain Meadows" offers the most thoroughly researched account of...
Pen and Sword Military, 2023. — 280 p. This book provides a new perspective on the Battle of the Little Big Horn and the death of G. A. Custer, with startling insights into the darker personalities of Sherman and Sheridan. Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer died at the hands of Native Americans by the banks of the Little Bighorn in Montana 25th June 1876. This is an established...
Pen and Sword Military, 2023. — 280 p. This book provides a new perspective on the Battle of the Little Big Horn and the death of G. A. Custer, with startling insights into the darker personalities of Sherman and Sheridan. Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer died at the hands of Native Americans by the banks of the Little Bighorn in Montana 25th June 1876. This is an established...
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023. — 368 p. No figure in the Old West lived or shaped its history more fully than Charlie Siringo, as Nathan Ward reveals in his colorful portrait of this epic era and one of its primary protagonists. Born in Matagorda, Texas in 1855, Charlie went on his first cattle drive at age twelve and spent two decades living his boyhood dream as a cowboy. As...
Austin: Encino Press, 1971. — 152 p. The distinguished historian tells the story of the men who tried to maintain law and order in the no-man's land of the Texas frontier. Contents: Foreword Acknowledgments They Rode Straight Up to Death: A Preface I. Texas: A Conflict of Civilizations II. Out of the Revolution III. The Rangers and the Republic IV. From Cherokee to Comanche V....
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. — 496 p.
Frontier - the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled across the Plains, it was the East that marked the frontier—the boundary between complex Native cultures and the first colonizing Europeans.
Here is the older, wilder, darker history of a time...
University of Nebraska Press, 2023. — 704 p. In Continental Reckoning renowned historian Elliott West presents a sweeping narrative of the American West and its vital role in the transformation of the nation. In the 1840s, by which time the United States had expanded to the Pacific, what would become the West was home to numerous vibrant Native cultures and vague claims by...
University of Nebraska Press, 2023. — 704 p. In Continental Reckoning renowned historian Elliott West presents a sweeping narrative of the American West and its vital role in the transformation of the nation. In the 1840s, by which time the United States had expanded to the Pacific, what would become the West was home to numerous vibrant Native cultures and vague claims by...
University Press of Kansas, 1998. — 446 p. Deftly retracing a pivotal chapter in one of America's most dramatic stories, Elliott West chronicles the struggles, triumphs, and defeats of both Indians and whites as they pursued their clashing dreams of greatness in the heart of the continent. The Contested Plains recounts the rise of the Native American horse culture, white...
University Press of Kansas, 1998. — 446 p. Deftly retracing a pivotal chapter in one of America's most dramatic stories, Elliott West chronicles the struggles, triumphs, and defeats of both Indians and whites as they pursued their clashing dreams of greatness in the heart of the continent. The Contested Plains recounts the rise of the Native American horse culture, white...
Texas University Press, 2000. — 336 p. In this lively yet systematic commentary, a Welshman surveys the American Southwest with the steady, perceptive eye of a stranger who has grown to appreciate it. He finds in its history and topography signs that nature still holds its own against the human hand. "One is aware that such immense landscapes must exist—but until one views them...
TwoDot, 2020. — 304 p. His name conjures images of the Wild West, of gunfights and gambling halls and a legendary friendship with the lawman Wyatt Earp, and he is probably most famous for his time in Tombstone. But Doc Holliday’s story is a much richer than that one sentence summary allows. His was a life of travel across the west - from Georgia to Texas, from Dodge City to Las...
University of South Carolina Press, 1995. — 192 p. In the 1820s a series of gold strikes from Virginia to Alabama caused such excitement that thousands of miners poured into the region. This southern gold rush, the first in U.S. history, reached Georgia with the discovery of the Dahlonega Gold Belt in 1829. The Georgia gold fields, however, lay in and around Cherokee territory....
The History Press, 2021. — 176 p. The legendary Buffalo Soldiers, four army regiments of former slaves, were vital in taming the American frontier. The Tenth Cavalry of African American troopers rode across the Colorado plains to battle the Cheyennes and rescue wounded, starving soldiers at Beecher Island on the Arikaree River. Under the cover of darkness, the Ninth Cavalry...
McFarland, 2017. — 242 p. Fort William Henry and Fort Phil Kearny were both military outposts of the North American frontier. Both lasted but briefly - about two years from construction until their walls went up in flames. And both saw what were termed "massacres" by Indians outside their walls. This book reexamines the traumatic events at both forts. The Fort William Henry...
The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2013. — 336 p. In the mid-1800s, Andrew Dawson, self-exiled from his home in Scotland, joined the upper Missouri River fur trade and rose through the ranks of the American Fur Company. A headstrong young man, he had come to America at the age of twenty-four after being dismissed from his second job in two years. His poignant sense of isolation is...
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1980. — xvii, 160 p. In 1950 the National Park Service appointed G. Hubert Smith, an anthropologist, ostensibly to assess the proposed location of the La Verendrye National Monument, which had been created largely through the influence of the historian Orrin G. Libby. Smith's report rebutted and rejected Libby's arguments. Smith's work...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. — 256 p. When Mackay and Evans returned to Spanish St. Louis in 1797, they were hailed as “the two most illustrious travelers in the northern parts of this continent.” Ironically, though the findings of Mackay and Evans were responsible for much of the early success of Lewis and Clark in their expedition, the adulation that followed Lewis and...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. — 256 p. When Mackay and Evans returned to Spanish St. Louis in 1797, they were hailed as “the two most illustrious travelers in the northern parts of this continent.” Ironically, though the findings of Mackay and Evans were responsible for much of the early success of Lewis and Clark in their expedition, the adulation that followed Lewis and...
University of New Mexico Press, 2013. — 328 p. This thoughtful examination of a century of travel writing about the American West overturns a variety of popular and academic stereotypes. Looking at both European and American travelers’ accounts of the West, from de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America to William Least Heat-Moon’s Blue Highways, David Wrobel offers a counter...
University of New Mexico Press, 2013. — 328 p. This thoughtful examination of a century of travel writing about the American West overturns a variety of popular and academic stereotypes. Looking at both European and American travelers' accounts of the West, from de Tocqueville's Democracy in America to William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways, David Wrobel offers a counter...
Westholme Publishing., 2008. — 392 p. An Acclaimed Biography of the Greatest American Indian Leader. Sitting Bull's name is still the best known of any American Indian leader, but his life and legacy remain shrouded with misinformation and half-truths. Sitting Bull's life spanned the entire clash of cultures and ultimate destruction of the Plains Indian way of life. He was a...
Skyhorse Publishing Inc., 2018. — 352 p. 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 nephew and the husband of their only sister....
Skyhorse Publishing Inc., 2018. — 352 p. 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 nephew and the husband of their only sister....
ABC-CLIO, 2002. — 380 p. Not long ago, the story of the American West was an uncomplicated tale. Its theme was "The Winning of the West", and its plot simply followed Euro-Americans as they galloped across the continent. But throughout the last two decades, historians like Scott C. Zeman have begun to examine the story and separate the myths from the facts.Today the history of the...
Издатель не указан, год не указан. — 102 с. Бурк был капитаном армии Соединенных Штатов, и плодовитым автором дневников, он написал несколько книг об американском Старом Западе, в том числе об этнологии его коренных народов. Он был награжден медалью Почета за свои действия в качестве кавалериста в армии Союза во время Гражданской войныв США. Основываясь на его службе во время...
М.; Петроград: Государственное издательство, 1923. — 142 с. Материалом для настоящей повести послужил дневник Вилльяма Коди и описание его жизни, составленное его сестрой Еленой Ветмор. Вилльям Коди вырос и жил в то время, которое очень разнится от нашего времени с его колоссальными завоеваниями техники и ума. Новопоселенцы на западе Америки должны были ежедневно, ежечасно...
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М.: Яуза, Эксмо, 2013. — 527 с. — ISBN: 978-5-699-61825-5. Уникальная энциклопедия, не имеющая себе равных. Всё о самых знаменитых стрелках Дикого Запада, живших «по закону револьвера»: «Бог создал людей сильными и слабыми, а полковник Кольт уравнял их шансы». Неприукрашенная правда о прославленных героях вестернов, чьи имена вошли в легенду, – от Хоакина Мурьеты, Джесси...
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