History of the Americas

Military historian Victor Brooks argues that the year 1943 marked a significant shift in the World War II balance of power from the Axis to Allied forces.

This anthology of first person-accounts by women who toured Yellowstone Park more than a century ago includes tales of high adventure, raucous humor, and glorious sights of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Suppressed is the book the media would prefer you not read.

Texas Jack: America's First Cowboy Star is a biography of John B.

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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.

Mark Twain's wit and wisdom is timeless.

Winner of the 2021 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards (History, Arizona | 2021 Military Writers Society of America Silver Medal for History | 2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award Bronze Winner for Western Non-FictionWhen the U.

In the 19th century, Daniel Waggoner and his son, W.

Begged, Borrowed, & Stolen is a collection of true stories detailing the different icons, historical documents, art, patents, ideas, and more that have been stolen throughout US history.

The Greatest Escape: A True American Civil War Adventure tells the story of the largest prison breakout in U.

As settlements and civilization moved West to follow the lure of mineral wealth and the trade of the Santa Fe Trail, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities the nineteenth-century Nevada and Utah.

While settlers were drawn out West by the often empty promises of the Gold Rush, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of nineteenth-century California.

Our images of the big names and places of the Old West often come from the tales of gunfights and violence that were sensationalized by dime novels and yellow journalism in the 19th century and the myths that came from those stories live on today.

From Kim Heacox, the acclaimed author of The Only Kayak and John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire, comes Rhythm of the Wild, an Alaska memoir focused on Denali National Park.

His mother was against it, but he grew up to be a cowboy anyway.

Unearth the Mysteries of Those Who Lie Beneath the Oldest Graveyards in the Golden StateIn each of California's 58 counties there are hundreds (and hundreds) of cemeteries, burial sites, and abandoned graveyards, some tucked away behind storefronts or under paved streets.

In 1869, more than twenty years after Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B.

In 1903, Theodore Roosevelt planned a tour of the mid-West and Western states.

**2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award Silver Winner for Western Biographies and Memoirs**Two Native American leaders who left a lasting legacy, Geronimo and Sitting Bull.

Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody were considered heroes and the greatest plainsmen of their time.

A collage of characters shaped the west of the nineteenth century.

Finalist for the 2020 WILLA Literary Award, Creative NonfictionInspired by her first breathtaking trip in the Grand Canyon, Harriet Hunt Burgess dedicated her life to saving land for future generations.

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.

Approached from a historical lens, learn about the great and influential families, their rise and sometimes their fall.

The Lives They Saved is the story in artifacts and oral histories of the 300,000 New Yorkers who were evacuated from Manhattan on 9/11by boat.

**Winner of the 2021 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards (History, Other)**Lawman or Outlaw?

The Pacific Coast is home to a beautiful wonderland of recreation.

Boston writer Michael Connelly captures the magic of America's return to normalcy after World War II in this intimate portrait of a city and the baseball team it loves.

The Confederacy lost the Civil War but quickly began to win the peace when a mysterious organization arose called the Ku Klux Klan.

In San Francisco, CA, in 1858, a young African American man was freed from the claims of a white man who sought to return him to slavery in Mississippi.

On August 23, 1877, a scout named Jack Bean watched 600 Nez Perce Indians head into the new Yellowstone National Park.

In a little-known mountain range in southern New Mexico is an unremarkable mountain called Victorio Peak.

America's fascination with Alaska began at the turn of the last century, when Jack London and John Muir captivated readers with their fiction and nonfiction storiesand continues today with such popular books as Into the Wild and the explosion of Alaska reality TV shows.

You've heard Doc Holliday's history, but do you know his story?

You've heard Doc Holliday's history, but do you know his story?

You've heard Doc Holliday's history, but do you know his story?

Ill-Fated Frontier is at once a pioneer adventure and a compelling narrative of the frictions that emerged among entrepreneurial pioneers and their sixty slaves, Indians fighting to preserve their land, and Spanish colonials with their own agenda.

Soldier Parrot brings a new level of research and personal grit to Civil War history with this riveting account of how Jacob Parrott, an 18-year-old, illiterate orphan from Ohio became the first soldier to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.

The Surprising Story of the Plucky Drivers, Shrewd Owners, and Ruthless Robbers Who Snubbed the RulesAs pervasive as stagecoaches (popularly known as shake-guts) were in the early years of America, it shouldn't be surprising that women who possessed a significant dose of grit and an ounce of entrepreneurial spirit engaged in one way or another in stagecoach enterprises.

These entertaining stories from Old West history include cowboys, Indians, lawmen, lawbreakers, entertainers, prostitutes, priests, and politicians.

Create your own memorable western-style Christmas through A Cowboy Christmas, a holiday collection of decor, traditions, delicious food, and the unique lifestyle of cowboys.

American Stories follows the evolution of our founding stories and myths and how they spread far and wide throughout our history.

Dangerous Shallows tells the story of a quest to solve maritime cold-cases.

When Geronimo and his warriors surrendered to the US Army, General Miles made a number of promises for the surrender terms that were in fact false.

A late-nineteenth century rogues gallery of Americas foremost murderers, bank robbers, con men, forgers, embezzlers, and pickpockets.

*Winner of the 2020 Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Nonfiction*In the 1840s and 50s, the Jicarilla Apache were the terror of the Santa Fe Trail and the Rio Arriba.

In the years following the American Civil War, many participantsgenerals, politicians, journalists, and soldiersauthored first-hand accounts of their unique experiences.

The vast space of the American West that has been designated as the state of Montana is such a diverse and varied landscape that it's been said it could easily be sliced up into several smaller states.

Spanning a thirty-year period, from the late 1800s until the 1920s, Hell Paso is the true story of the desperate men and notorious women that made El Paso, Texas the Old West's most dangerous town.