Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.)
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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 2: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1850
$21.95 Add to cartThe women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner pa… [more below]
- Series: Coverd Wagon Women #2
- Author: Holmes, Kenneth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 01 1996
- ISBN10: 080327274X
- Language: English
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Hard Road West: History and Geology Along the Gold Rush Trail
$21.00 Add to cartIn 1848 news of the discovery of gold in California triggered an enormous wave of emigration toward the Pacific. Lured by the promise of riches, thousands of settlers left behind the forests, rain, an… [more below]
- Author: Meldahl, Keith Heyer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0226519627
- Language: English
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Frontier Teachers: Stories of Heroic Women of the Old West
$22.95 Add to cartIf 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, C
- Author: Enss, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493064770
- Language: English
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The Buffalo Hunters: The Story of the Hide Men
$21.95 Add to cartIn 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 g… [more below]
- Author: Sandoz, Mari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: December 01 2008
- ISBN10: 080321880X
- Language: English
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Wild Bunch Women
$12.95 Add to cartExplore the lives of the pistol-packing, hell-raising, high-spirited gals who hung out with Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch outlaw gang.
- Author: Rutter, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0762725850
- Language: English
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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 4: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1852: The California Trail
$18.95 Add to cartIn 1852 a record number of women helped keep the wagons rolling over the perilous western trails. The fourth volume of Covered Wagon Women is devoted to families headed for California that year. Diari… [more below]
- Series: Covered Wagon Women #4
- Author: Holmes, Kenneth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 303
- Publish Date: April 01 1997
- ISBN10: 080327291X
- Language: English
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African American Women of the Old West
$26.83 Add to cartThe brave pioneers who made a life on the frontier were not only male–and they were not only white. The story of African-American women in the Old West is one that has largely gone untold until now. … [more below]
- Author: Wagner, Tricia Martineau
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0762739002
- Language: English
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Kit Carson’s Autobiography
$14.95 Add to cart“Notice is hereby given to all persons, that Christopher Carson, a boy about 16 years old, small of his age, but thick-set; light hair, ran away from the subscriber, living in Franklin, Howard County,
- Series: Bison Book S
- Author: Carson, Kit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 01 1966
- ISBN10: 0803250312
- Language: English
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It Happened on the Oregon Trail
$16.95 Add to cartIt Happened on the Oregon Trail 2 takes readers on a rollicking, behind-the-scenes look at some of the characters and episodes from the Oregon Trail’s storied past. Including both famous tales, and fa… [more below]
- Series: It Happened in
- Author: Wagner, Tricia Martineau
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0762772204
- Language: English
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Texas Jack: America’s First Cowboy Star
$26.95 Add to cartTexas Jack: America’s First Cowboy Star is a biography of John B. “Texas Jack” Omohundro, the first well-known cowboy in America. A Confederate scout and spy from Virginia, Jack left for Texas within … [more below]
- Author: Kerns, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1493055410
- Language: English
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The Black West: A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States
$23.95 Read moreThis entirely new edition of a famous classic has glorious new photographs–many never before seen–as well as revised and expanded text that deepens our understanding of the vital role played by Afri… [more below]
- Author: Katz, William Loren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: September 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1682752267
- Language: English
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Hell on Wheels: Wicked Towns Along the Union Pacific Railroad
$18.99 Read moreOvernight settlements, better known as “Hell on Wheels,” sprang up as the transcontinental railroad crossed Nebraska and Wyoming. They brought opportunity not only for legitimate business but also for… [more below]
- Author: Kreck, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1555919480
- Language: English
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The Cowboy President: The American West and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt
$16.95 Add to cartThe Cowboy President: The American West and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt reveals how Roosevelt’s time spent in the Western Dakota Territory helped him recover from an overwhelming personal loss, b… [more below]
- Author: Blake, Michael F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 2018
- ISBN10: 149303071X
- Language: English
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Bedside Book of Bad Girls: Outlaw Women of the American West
$14.95 Add to cartFeatures twenty-one of the West’s gun-slinging bad girls, from serial killer Kate Bender to Elizabeth Potts and Ellen Watson, the first women hanged in Nevada and Wyoming. Meet these fascinating chara… [more below]
- Series: Bedside Reader
- Author: Rutter, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 159
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1560374624
- Language: English
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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 3: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1851
$18.95 Add to cartThe wagon trains to California greatly decreased in 1851 as reports of deadly cholera on the trail the year before and strikeouts in gold prospecting became known. Those who did go west–about 2,160 m… [more below]
- Series: Covered Wagon Women #3
- Author: Holmes, Kenneth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 291
- Publish Date: August 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0803272871
- Language: English
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The Greatest Mountain Men Stories Ever Told
$19.95 Add to cartLong the dominant icon embodying the spirit of America’s frontier past, the image of the cowboy no longer stands alone as the ultimate symbol of independence and self-reliance. The great canvas of the… [more below]
- Series: Greatest
- Author: Underwood, Lamar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1493032879
- Language: English
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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849
$19.95 Add to cartThe women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner pa… [more below]
- Series: Covered Wagon Women #1
- Author: Holmes, Kenneth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0803272774
- Language: English
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When the Night Bells Ring
$15.99 Add to cart“I soon found myself consuming page after page of compelling narrative of likeable characters and horrific circumstance.” –Ginger Nuts of Horror
“When the Night Bells Ring is delightfully creepy . .- Author: Kaplan, Jo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0744306108
- Language: English
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When the Night Bells Ring
$25.99 Read moreDon’t awaken what sleeps in the dark.
In a future ravaged by fire and drought, two climate refugees ride their motorcycles across the wasteland of the western US, and stumble upon an old silver mine. D
- Author: Kaplan, Jo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0744306116
- Language: English
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God’s Country
$17.00 Add to cart“Mr. Everett is successful combining heart with rage. . . . The novel sears.” ―David Bowman, The New York Times Book Review
This ‘comic and fierce’ novel spoofs the classic Western format with t- Author: Everett, Percival
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0807016292
- Language: English
