Local history

Virginia played an important role during World War I, supplying the Allied forces with food, horses and steel in 1915 and 1916.

Indiana State Police Captain Matt Leach led the hunt for John Dillinger during the violent early 1930s.

Abraham Lincoln's presidency was bookended by a pair of dramatic railroad trips through the state of New York.

Virginia saw significant action during the War of 1812, from the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair to the defense of Norfolk against British invaders.

Ohio sent eight presidents to the White House--one Whig and seven Republicans--from 1841 to 1923: William Harrison, U.

In an era of unique baseball stadiums, the Polo Grounds in New York stood out from the rest.

On a September night in 1958, three New Orleans college students went looking for a gay man to assault.

Life was harsh and dangerous for the prospectors of the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898-1899.

The Texas land grants were one of the largest public land distributions in American history.

The 1813 storming of Fort Mims by Creek Indians brought to light the careers of Andrew Jackson, David Crockett and Sam Houston.

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In his day, theater actor and manager Jack Langrishe (1825-1895) was about as well known in the West as General Grant was in the East.

The African American presence in St.

In December 1883, five outlaws attempted to rob the A.

Western movies are full of images of swaggering outlaws brought to justice by valiant lawmen shooting them down in daring gunfights before riding off into the sunset.

What can be learned from another retelling of the Tombstone saga?

The Battle of the Little Big Horn was the decisive engagement of the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877.

Lieutenant Colonel Edward J.

The traditional narrative of the American West tells of a frontier settled by pioneers emigrating from the east to the Pacific coast.

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The Arizona Territory is known for saloons, gunfights, outlaws and strong women.

The story of American repertory theatre actress Jolly Della Pringle (1870-1952) is an odyssey of travel, adventure, drama, romance and many changes in fortune.

Drawing on a rare family archive and archival material from the Osage Nation, this book documents a unique relationship among white settlers, the Osage and African Americans in Oklahoma.

For the Mexican government to go to war with its more powerful northern neighbor in 1846 was folly.

In the years before World War I, Montana cowboy Fred Barton was employed by Czar Nicholas II to help establish a horse ranch--the largest in the world--in Siberia to supply the Russian military.

In June 1876 the 7th U.

Depictions of the American west in literature, art and film perpetuate romantic stereotypes of the pioneers--the gold-crazed '49er, the intrepid sodbuster.

The battle that unfolded at the Little Big Horn River on June 25, 1876, marked a watershed in the history of the Plains Indians.

In 1893, Georgian horsemen from the Caucasus immigrated to the United States where for more than 30 years they performed in circuses and Wild West shows under the billing of "e;Russian Cossacks.

As business interests have commercialized the American West and publishers and studios have created compelling imagery, the expectations of readers and moviegoers have influenced perceptions of the cowboy as a hero.

In 1933, Genevieve Yost, Kansas State Historical Society cataloger, published a "e;History of Lynching in Kansas.

California was the mining center of the West for half a century.

The Civil War in 1861 found Southerners a minority throughout the West.

In February of 1897 a family of six--four generations, including twin infant sons and their aged great-grandmother--was brutally murdered in rural North Dakota.

For the first time, the true story of "e;The Yellow Rose of Texas"e; is told in full, revealing a host of new insights and perspectives on one of America's most popular stories.

This book explores the role and influence of drink and drugs (primarily opium) in the Old West, which for this book is considered to be America west of the Mississippi from the California gold rush of the 1840s to the closing of the Western Frontier in roughly 1900.

This is the first biography of the legendary officer Cipriano Baca, scion of a prestigious Spanish lineage tracing their heritage to the first settlers in Nuevo Mexico.

Part of the self-image of Phoenix is that the city has no history and that anything of importance happened yesterday.

This book presents a comprehensive history of the seven Apache tribes, tracing them from their genetic origins in Asia and their migration through the continent to the Southwest.

Long before television and radio commercials beckoned to potential buyers, the medicine show provided free entertainment and promised cures for everything from corns to cancer.

Many factors--political, economic, sociological--contributed to the United States' westward expansion across the continent.

A comprehensive filmography, this book is composed of lengthy entries on about 75 films depicting legendary New Mexico outlaw Billy the Kid--from the lost Billy the Kid (1911) to the blockbuster Young Guns (1988) to the direct-to-video 1313: Billy the Kid(2012) and everything in between.

The legend of Doc Holliday is now well past a century old.

This critical study analyzes major concepts in the travel literature of Mark Twain and notes how his oeuvre (including his classic works of fiction) revolves around travel as a central issue.

Homesteading was a way of life for the many families living along the Kansas/Colorado Line.

New Mexico is a land of crisis; steps must be taken to improve the lives of its residents.

After spontaneously hosting a birthday pub crawl through London's finest alehouses, Thomas J.

A few years ago the Dorset Federation of Womens Institutes organised a Local History Competition.

Filling a long-standing gap both in women's history and in the material history of class culture, this book is a unique and necessary reassessment of the social and cultural scene during the inter-war period in England.

Filling a long-standing gap both in women's history and in the material history of class culture, this book is a unique and necessary reassessment of the social and cultural scene during the inter-war period in England.