This definitely must be one of the most readable books ever written about the California gold rush and its direct effect on the growth of this...
GOLD! The Story of the 1848 Gold Rush and How it Shaped a Nation
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CHASING THE RODEO
I just love this type of history! What a read! Cowboys are the icon of Western Americana, and rodeos are pure Cowboy ropin’, stompin’, buckin’...
WILD OPEN SPACES: WHY WE LOVE WESTERNS
Western stories, films and TV shows stand for some very specific ideals: individualism, honor, courage and loyalty. Add the high principles to...
All Aboard for Santa Fe
“It is an axiom of the West that its mysterious charm cannot be evaded. By many it is compared to a disease—a slow fever, with the sensation of...
Voice for Freedom
She was one of the guiding lights of Arizona literature, the territory’s first female office holder and she helped cinch Arizona’s statehood. But...
Buffalo Bill’s America
Even Don Russell, who explored Buffalo Bill Cody’s military life in great detail in his 1960 biography on Cody, caved in when it came to answering...
HEARTS WEST: TRUE STORIES OF MAIL-ORDER BRIDES ON THE FRONTIER
Personal ads are not only a craze of modern dating. All throughout the 1800s, females were in scarce supply on the frontier, and men begged decent...
TO SAVE THE WILD BISON
I had no idea. I mean, anyone who knows American history is aware of the important and symbolic role the buffalo played in both the white and Indian...
Spanning Washington: Historic Bridges of the Evergreen State
You don’t have to know trestles and trusses from cantilevers to enjoy this extra-illustrated and surprisingly interesting book. Perhaps the Pacific...
UNBRIDLED: THE WESTERN HORSE IN FICTION AND NONFICTION
Only on the Western Plains did the horse reach its most typical American development. In fact, would there have been a West as we know it without...
Kid Exhumation Nixed
Nobody is going to dig up Billy the Kid. Nor his Mom. And anyone who still wonders if young Billy was killed 123 years ago by Sheriff Pat Garrett—as...
A Cowboy’s Cowboy-song Singer
Everybody loves the Westerns Channel—beloved reruns of famous Westerns, with TV legends Gene Autry and Hopalong Cassidy, and classic cowboys like...