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Texas: from the frontier to spindletop
Par James L Haley. 1991
The village horse doctor: west of the Pecos
Par Ben K Green. 1971
Doc Green was the first veterinarian to set up a practice in the trans-Pecos country of Texas--and the territory he…
covered was 420 miles north and south by 360 miles east and west. This is the story of the animals he treated with his canny mix of science and horse senseOff the beaten trail
Par William Edward Syers. 1972
Great roundup: the story of the Texas and Southwestern cowmen
Par Lewis Nordyke. 1955
In February 1877, forty cattlemen met in Graham, Texas to discuss concerted action against rustlers. They were tough, independent men,…
but no individual could beat the growing menace alone. The organization they founded, the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, became one of the most powerful elements in the industry, and it is the focal point in this book. The author brings history alive with individual stories of the colorful men, pioneer doings, natural challenges, and wild cattleTexas rising: the epic true story of the Lone Star Republic and the rise of the Texas Rangers, 1836-1846
Par Stephen L. Moore. 2015
Notorious Kansas bank heists: gunslingers to gangsters (True Crime Ser.)
Par Rod Beemer. 2015
Bank robbers wreaked havoc in the Sunflower State. After robbing the Chautauqua State Bank in 1911, outlaw Elmer McCurdy was…
killed by lawmen but wasn't buried for sixty-six years. His afterlife can be described only as bizarre. Belle Starr's nephew Henry Starr claimed to have robbed twenty-one banks. The Dalton gang failed in their attempt to rob two banks simultaneously, but others accomplished this in Waterville in 1911. Nearly four thousand known vigilantes patrolled the Sunflower State during the 1920s and 1930s to combat the criminal menace. One group even had an airplane with a .50-caliber machine gun. Join author Rod Beemer for a wild ride into Kansas's tumultuous bank heist history. Some strong language and some violenceMythical river: chasing the mirage of new water in the American Southwest
Par Melissa L. Sevigny. 2016
Science writer and Native Arizonan Sevigny mixes history, natural science, and memoir to examine what it means to make a…
home in the American Southwest at a time when its most essential resource, water, is over exploited and undervaluedThe Italian Texans
Par University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio. 1973
Italians have been in Texas almost from the very beginning. They were with Coronado during his trip across the High…
Plains in 1541 and many were present during the Texas war for independence. This is the story of these men and of the later men and women who contributed much to Texas cultureMontana's homestead era
Par Daniel N Vichorek. 1987
A history of homesteading in Montana. The first section shows the challenge of the physical environment and the methods by…
which the homesteaders faced these challenges. The second part profiles homestead families from selected Montana counties. Volume 15 of the Montana Geographic SeriesBefore barbed wire
Par Mark Herbert Brown. 1956
With the eye of an artist and the perspective of an historian, L. A. Huffman, frontier photographer of Miles City,…
MT, caught and preserved the spirit of life on the unfenced Montana ranges in the days before barbed wireMontana adventure: the recollections of Frank B. Linderman
Par Frank Bird Linderman. 1985
Linderman's own story up to 1930. He was 16 when in 1885 he left Chicago for the Flathead Lake country…
in northeastern Montana. There, as a trapper, he initiated a lifelong friendship with Indians that provided material for more than a dozen booksMontana's explorers
Par Larry S Thompson. 1985
No. 9 in the Montana Geographic Series. The book features a special group of early Montana explorers who made careful…
observations of Montana wildlife, landscape, geography, geology, and plant life, and recorded these observations prior to the creation of Montana Territory in 1864The world of the Crow Indians: as driftwood lodges
Par Rodney Frey. 1987
Through his long and close association with the Crow Reservation in Montana, Frey aptly discusses tribal history and gives a…
vivid description of current Reservation life. Crow society is alive and vibrant, far from vanishing. This resilience the author attributes to the Crow world view that recognizes the individual member as part of a greater whole; clan, society, and cosmosWandersong
Par Eleanor Macdonald Banks. 1950
A saga of the American West, based on the life of the author's father, Henry Macdonald. The only child of…
a Scotch Presbyterian minister, he was orphaned and ran away from Canada to enlist in the Civil War. After the war he went West and became, among other things, a sheep raiserHunting in the Great West: rustlings in the Rockies : hunting and fishing by mountain and stream
Par G. O. Shields. 1988
This sportsman's classic is a first-person account of three hunting trips to western North Dakota, southern Montana, and northern Wyoming…
in 1880, 1881, and 1882. Filled with the heady success of these ventures, Shields wrote about the breadth and quality of the great west and its grandeur of wildlife and scenery. For high school and adult readersThe bloody Bozeman: the perilous trail to Montana's gold
Par Dorothy M Johnson. 1983
The Bozeman Trail, charted in 1863, was the main road that passed through the prime hunting grounds of the Sioux…
Indians to reach the rich gold mines of Montana. Johnson's narrative tracks the perils and adventures of numerous characters who travelled the Bozeman Trail, some finding fortune in gold, some a better way of life in farming, and some meeting death at the hands of Indians, poverty and starvationWicked Prescott (Wicked Ser.)
Par Parker Anderson. 2016
Prescott. Tells the stories of some of the swindlers, con men and outlaws that lived in or passed through Arizona's…
first capital from the mid-1800s to the early 1920s. Includes Jenny Shultz, Prescott's first murdered woman, and Joseph Drew, the area's only publicly known member of the Prescott Ku Klux Klan. Some violenceWoman of the cavalcade: an epic true story (Conquering the Wild West - Edith Kohl's Trilogy Ser.)
Par Edith Eudora Kohl, Margie Ammons, Margie Walsh, Pbj Inc.. 2017
In this third book of the Conquering the Wild West trilogy, Edith Kohl describes her dramatic, true-life experiences in helping…
to settle the American West. Her adventures take her into the Judith Basin of Montana during the early 1900s where she started her fourth newspaper and fought the big grain trusts which were robbing the farmers of profits. Edith fought for the farmers with the help of several U.S. senators and became involved with the American Society of Equity, now known as The Farm BureauA Great Basin mosaic: the cultures of rural Nevada (Shepperson Series in Nevada History Ser.)
Par James W. Hulse. 2017
A chronicle of the smaller towns and byways of Nevada. This mosaic represents "the other Nevada," beyond Las Vegas, Reno,…
and Carson City. Much of the terrain of rural Nevada has not changed at all, while others have adapted to technological revolutions of recent times. Hulse states that there is no single "other" Nevada but several subcultures with distinct featuresIn this collection of short, comic rants, the author explores various aspects of life in the remote, high-desert of Nevada's…
Great Basin. Adventure, humor, and irreverence abound along with some environmental perspective from an ecocritic. 2017