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.
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 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.
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.
*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.
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.
As the anchor titles in a new ';Time Machine' Lyons Press baseball series, The Ultimate Cleveland Indians Time Machine presents a timeline format that not only includes the Indians' greatest momentsincluding World Series appearances and individual achievementsbut would focus also on some very unusual seasons and events, such as the team's 20-134 season of 1899 (the absolute worst in baseball history), the Crybabies of 1940 (who received this nickname after complaining about their manager to such as extent that fans even turned on them), or the infamous ';Ten Cent Beer Night of 1974' (when thousands of drunken fans stormed the field and forced the team to forfeit).
The Santa Fe Trail's role as the major western trade route in the early to mid-nineteenth century made it a critical part of America's Westward expansion and the stories of its heyday include some of the greatest adventures in the history of the Old West.
The SS Portland was a solid and luxurious ship, and its loss in 1898 in a violent storm with some 200 people aboard was later remembered as ';New England's Titanic.
Dramatic, highly readable, and painstakingly researched, The Great Desert Escape brings to light a little-known escape by 25 determined German sailors from an American prisoner-of-war camp.
From Farmer and Sailor to Mountain Man, Crow Killer, and Town Sheriff,One man's reputation lives past all othersWhen it came to western mountain men, no one on earth ever matched the physical prowess or will to survive of John ';Liver-Eating' Johnson.
As settlements and civilization moved West to follow the lure of mineral wealth and the trade of the Santa Fe Trail, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Southwest.
Throughout the development of the American West, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest.
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.
Throughout the Gold Rush years and beyond, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of nineteenth-century Colorado.
A modern-day explorers guide to the Old WestFrom the famed Oregon Trail to the boardwalks of Dodge City to the great trading posts on the Missouri River to the battlefields of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars, there are places all over the American West where visitors can relive the great Western migration that helped shape our history and culture.
The Revenger: The Life and Times of Wild Bill Hickok examines Wild Bill's life in the context of 19th Century American history, from his birth, through his early manhood, and to his eventual demise.
One of the most colorful parts of American History is the time of train robberies and the daring outlaws who undertook them in the period covering from just after the Civil War to 1924.
A book of brief essays, illustrative art, and photography from often obscure historical and ethnological studies of Apache history, life, and culture in the last half of the nineteenth century.
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.
Calling the Brands tells the story of the, range detectives, stock detectives, and inspectors, who usually worked completely alone, courageously capturing or killing livestock rustlers in order to assure the survivability of the ranchers.
An insiders look at the iconic drink and its role in shaping the American WestDistilleries are the new microbreweries, cropping up all over the West and producing brands that emulate the predecessors that were made in copper stills by emigrants and served in saloons and dance halls.
A collection of folktales highlighting famous and not-so-famous Southwestern ghosts, mysterious happenings, powers of darkness, and wonders of the invisible world.
A fascinating collection of thirty-two compelling stories about events that shaped the Mount Rushmore State, It Happened in South Dakota describes everything from Lewis and Clark raising an American flag on the Missouri to the continuing creation of a monument to Crazy Horse.
It Happened in Arizona features thirty-six episodes from Arizona's historyfrom the thirteenth-century creation of the Hohokam's irrigation canals to the building of the Hoover Dam, and fromexplorations of the Grand Canyon to a stagecoach robbery.
