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Lions of the West: heroes and villains of the westward expansion
Par Robert Morgan. 2011
Profiles of ten men--Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, John "Johnny Appleseed" Chapman, David "Davy" Crockett, Sam Houston, James Polk, Winfield Scott,…
Kit Carson, Nicholas Trist, and John Quincy Adams--who led the nineteenth-century westward expansion that many believed was America's destiny. 2011The Esperanza fire: arson, murder, and the agony of Engine 57
Par John N. Maclean. 2013
The author of The Thirtymile Fire (DB 66035) investigates the October 2006 wildfire in Southern California that killed five U.S.…
Forest Service firefighters. Follows the trial of a local man that resulted in the first-ever murder conviction for setting a wildland fire. Some strong language. 2013The searchers: the making of an American legend
Par Glenn Frankel. 2013
Relates the 1836 abduction of nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker by Comanches and her 1860 rescue, which was the basis for…
Alan LeMay's novel The Searchers (DB 69294) and the 1956 film of the same name directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne. Violence and some strong language. Bestseller. 2013Annie Oakley
Par Rachel A Koestler-Grack. 2010
Biography of the renowned sharpshooter (1860-1926), who toured with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. Discusses Annie's difficult childhood on the…
Ohio frontier, her love of hunting, and the exhibition skills that made her the most famous woman in the country--and even impressed Chief Sitting Bull. For grades 6-9. 2010Davy Crockett
Par Judy L Hasday. 2010
Biography of American hunter, militiaman, frontiersman, and politician Davy Crockett (1786-1836). Relates his adventures in Tennessee and his decision to…
join Texas's fight for independence from Mexico, which led to Crockett's death at the Alamo. For grades 6-9. 2010Crazy Horse (Legends of the Wild West Ser.)
Par Jon Sterngass. 2010
Portrait of the Lakota Sioux warrior (ca. 1842-1877), about whom little is known. Describes his resistance to efforts to force…
his people onto reservations, his role in famous battles at Rosebud Creek and the Little Bighorn, and the importance of horses to the Plains Indians. For grades 6-9. 2010Geronimo
Par Jon Sterngass. 2010
Biography of the Chiricahua Apache war leader and shaman (1829-1909), who was a hero to his people but was vilified…
by white settlers. Discusses Geronimo's capture and long imprisonment by the U.S. government and his hatred of Mexicans for the massacre of his family. For grades 6-9. 2010The floor of heaven: a true tale of the last frontier and the Yukon gold rush
Par Howard Blum. 2011
Chronicles the discovery of gold in 1890s Alaska and the Canadian Klondike through the lives of three of the participants:…
cowboy-turned-Pinkerton-detective Charlie Siringo; George Carmack, who lived with a local tribe and became rich from mining; and con man Jefferson "Soapy" Smith. 2011The killing of Crazy Horse
Par Thomas Powers. 2010
Investigates the death of Sioux warrior Crazy Horse in 1877, after he surrendered to the U.S. Army. Describes the tensions…
between whites and Native Americans at the time and discusses critical events, including General George Custer's defeat and the discovery of gold in the Black Hills. Spur Award. 2010Driven West: Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears to the Civil War
Par A. J. Langguth. 2010
Professor posits that regional disagreements surrounding the removal of the Cherokees from the South--known as the Trail of Tears--by President…
Andrew Jackson fueled the states' rights debates that led to the Civil War. Discusses antebellum politics, including the 1830 Indian Removal Act, slavery, and the Mexican War. 2010Nothing daunted: the unexpected education of two society girls in the West
Par Dorothy Wickenden. 2011
New Yorker editor documents her grandmother Dorothy Woodruff's 1916 adventure out West with her friend and fellow Smith College graduate…
Rosamond Underwood. Using letters the two women wrote after they became teachers in Elkhead, Colorado, and her own research, Wickenden describes everyday life among the poor Rocky Mountain homesteaders. 2011Sitting Bull
Par Ronald A Reis. 2010
Biography of Sioux Indian chief Sitting Bull (1831-1890), who witnessed the settling of the West by white pioneers who displaced…
his people. Highlights Sitting Bull's 1876 victory over General George Custer's cavalry at the Little Big Horn. For grades 6-9. 2010Bird Cloud: a memoir
Par Annie Proulx. 2011
Pulitzer Prize-winning author reminisces about building her dream house on Bird Cloud, her 640-acre Wyoming prairie ranch. Describes the geography,…
fauna, flora, and original inhabitants of her adopted state, as well as the cost overruns of new construction. 2011Colossus: Hoover Dam and the making of the American century
Par Michael Hiltzik, Michael A. Hiltzik, Michael A Hiltzik. 2010
Pulitzer Prize winner examines the 1931-1935 Depression-era construction of the Hoover Dam, which tamed the Colorado River and created Lake…
Mead. Describes the technical problems, labor practices, and personalities involved during the planning and building stages. Discusses the project's impact on the West. 2010A shovel of stars: the making of the American West, 1800 to the present
Par Ted Morgan. 1996
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist describes the expansion of the United States from the creation of the Northwest Territory in 1787 to…
statehood for Alaska and Hawaii in 1959. Focuses on accounts of ordinary people of all races and their struggle to survive. Sequel to Wilderness at Dawn (DB 41714). 1995The Sundance Kid: the life of Harry Alonzo Longabaugh
Par Donna B. Ernst. 2009
Descendants of Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, who was known as the Sundance Kid, present new information on the infamous outlaw, from…
his early years in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, to his supposed death in San Vicente, Bolivia. They correct historical inaccuracies like Sundance's alleged participation in the 1897 Belle Fourche bank robbery. 2009Life in the saddle (The Western Frontier Library Series #21)
Par Frank Collinson. 1997
Englishman Frank Collinson went to Texas in 1872 at age seventeen to work on a ranch. He lived the rest…
of his life in the southwestern United States, and at age seventy-nine he began writing articles for "Ranch Romances" about the Old West he knew and loved. In "Life in the Saddle," editor Mary Whatley Clarke has arranged his published articles, his letters, and transcriptions of his conversations. Violence and some strong languageUp the trail from Texas (Landmark books)
Par J. Frank Dobie. 1955
In simple, yet colorful prose, J. Frank Dobie tells the story of life on the early cattle drives. He dispels…
the myth of cowboys as romantic figures, "dressed in silk and silver." Instead, he introduces the reader to a number of men who drove herds from Texas to Kansas, demonstrating the variety in their personalities and describing their hardships and achievementsLife of Tom Horn, government scout and interpreter
Par Tom Horn. 1973
Tom Horn, an army scout and interpreter during the Apache wars, was hanged like a common criminal in 1903, many…
think mistakenly. His own account of his life begins when he was a runaway Missouri farm boy and provides a firsthand look at the military both great and small, at the wily Geronimo, the renegade Natchez, and old Chief Nana of the Apaches. Violence, for adult readersThe jump-off creek
Par Molly Gloss. 1989
Oregon, 1895. Recent widow Lydia Sanderson travels from Pennsylvania to Oregon, where she homesteads on a sparse mountain. The harshness…
and difficulty of pioneer life is further complicated by squatters, loneliness, and isolation