Biography: arts and entertainment

Gold had just been discovered in California at the close of the Mexican War when Kit Carson started east from Los Angeles with dispatches.

Comanche, first published in 1935 and beautifully illustrated by the book's author Barron Brown, is an account of the U.

First published in 1935, this book by famous film actress Mary Pickford is an essay on death and her belief in an afterlife and the undying human spirit.

First published in 1962, this is a wonderful collection of humorous articles on feminine topics written by actress and stuntwoman-turned-writer Cynthia Hobart Lindsay.

One of Hollywood's greatest stars recalls her fabulous life: at nine, scrubbing floors in a Kansas City school; at twenty, motion picture stardom and marriage to Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

Dale Van Every's soaring adventure saga of the untamed Kentucky wilderness, a savage woman and the young frontiersman who set out to conquer them both.

Kings Will Be Tyrants by Ward Hawkins is a 1959 novel about fighting in Cuba.

The fabulous XIT Ranch has been celebrated in song, story, and serious history.

This book, first published in 1940, is the unmissable biography of Frank Winfield Woolworth (1852-1919), the American entrepreneur behind the F.

HE DISCOVERED GARBO AND GABLE.

The difficult early years.

She puts salt in the pepper shaker and pepper in the salt shaker because then if she gets mixed up, she's right.

Originally published in 1952, Tom Lea's The Wonderful Country opens as mejicano pistolero Martin Bredi is returning to El Puerto (El Paso) after a fourteen-year absence.

"e;We are dealing here with a living literature,"e; wrote Morris Edward Opler in his preface to Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians.

"e;I am Shanghai Pierce, Webster in Cattle, by God, Sir.

First published in 1951, this book recounts the nostalgic antics of hell-raising pistol shooters of the 1930's.

First published in 1931, this is the complete history of Santa Fe, New Mexico written by Santa Fe native, Ruth Laughlin.

A major novel of the Indian wars in the far West, told from both points of view-the Apache's and the white man's.

In his old age, Plenty-Coups (1848-1932), the last hereditary chief of the Crow Indians, told the moving story of his life to Frank B.

First published in 1926, this book by William Bleasdell Cameron is the gripping account of his experiences of captivity following the Frog Lake Massacre of the North-West Rebellion of April 2, 1885, of which he was the only male survivor.

First published in 1948, this autobiography from Burl Ives, whom Carl Sandberg calls "e;the greatest folk ballad singer of them all,"e; is as fresh and wholesome as a summer's breeze out of an Illinois cornfield.

Rudolph Valentino (1895-1926) was an early pop icon and a sex symbol of the 1920s, having starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle, and The Son of the Sheik, and he became known as the "e;Latin lover"e; or simply "e;Valentino.

Sensible, Entertaining Answers To Everyone's Problems-Including YoursA fresh new look at: The common-sense approach to marriage Getting older The importance of sex in marriage The battle of the bottle Teenagers and sex And much more.

SHOW BIZ' "e;LAST TYCOON"e;At eighteen he was president of a $2-million-a-year construction company.

Originally published in 1949, this book is a gripping collection of reminiscences on the death of the great Indian chief, Crazy Horse, by the military men who were present on that fateful day on September 5, 1877 at old Fort Robinson, Nebraska: Jesse M.

General George Crook spent his entire military career, with the exception of the Civil War years, on the frontier.

In 1921 there burst upon the New York social scene the famous Morgan twins, Thelma and Gloria, whose names in the decade that followed came to spell glamour and excitement in that magic world of the "e;international set.

In his foreword, Jim Bishop says of Jackie Gleason that when the comedian read the manuscript for the Fust time "e;he did not ask that anything be either omitted or altered.

Originally published in 1925, in THE DEER STALKER, Zane Grey readers will find all they have come to expect from their favorite Western author-swift action, magnificent descriptions of the desert and canyon country, plus the added valiant effort of a ranger's struggle to save the doomed herd of deer on the Buckskin range.

Jesse James is Dead!

From 1832 to 1891 the states from the Great Lakes west to Oregon and south to Mexico saw scenes of massacre, bloody rout, ambush, fire, and pillage as the great Indian tribes-Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Sioux, Arapaho, Modoc, and Apache-fought desperately to turn back the invading white men.

The epic journey of the Sager children by covered wagon from Missouri to Oregon in 1848.

Jack Paar, America's midnight maverick, has become the most talked-about, most controversial personality in television by speaking out frankly and frequently-and letting the ratings fall where they may.

First published in 1962, on the suggestion of his readers throughout his expansive writing career, this is the self-penned biography of Upton Sinclair, author of hundreds of novels, plays, homilies, diatribes and pamphlets.

In this electrifying bestseller, the shrewd and voluble trial lawyer Louis Nizer, who made a long career of representing famous people in famous cases, recounts some of his significant civil and criminal cases.

When Robert Benchley died in 1945, his obituaries read like love-letters from the world.

First published in 1954, in this quintessential autobiography Ben Hecht recounts his childhood, education, and career as journalist, playwright, and screenwriter, describes famous political and literary acquaintances, and examines U.

Along the notorious Rogue River, gold seekers, crazed by the discovery of nuggets that made them rich overnight, are at war with one another.

First published in 1936, this book is a collection of sixteen stories recounting James ("e;Uncle Jimmie"e;) McKenna's tales of prospecting, Indian Fights, exploration, town life and all the characters from the early days of the Black Range, the Mogollons, and the rest of the Gila Country of southwest New Mexico.

Following on from her successful 1949 memoir "e;With a Feather on My Nose,"e; here we have a further biography, first published in 1959, from famous Broadway and early silent film actress Billie Burke, best known as Glinda the Good Witch of the North in The Wizard of Oz and widow of Broadway producer Florenz Ziegfeld of Ziegfeld Follies fame.

Originally published in 1936, this classic collection of Canadian yarns harkens to a simpler time, a time when we were closer to the natural world around us.

A young English couple sail to the new land where fortunes like plums are for the taking.

This 1960 novel by acclaimed author John H.

Originally published in 1929, this book details the famous silent actor and sex symbol Rudolph Valentino and his lover Natacha Rambova's travels back to Europe in 1923.

The autobiography of Ted Macauley, award-winning newspaper reporter, columnist, and sports journalist.

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Actor.

The autobiography of Dame Beryl Grey, now in paperback.

Bryony Kimmings creates multi-platform art works which aim to provoke change.

James Dean.