To write this excellent biography of John Muir, Donald Worster zealously ransacked the letters and journals of the great, self-taught naturalist....
A Passion for Nature The Life of John Muir (Nonfiction)
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The Chouteaus: First Family of the Fur Trade
This is the story of several generations of the Chouteau family in the fur trade, starting with brothers Auguste and Pierre founding St. Louis in...
At Sword’s Point
This excellent book (with Part II to follow) continues Clark’s “Kingdom in the West” series. The volumes will surely become the definitive history...
Bad Fruits of the Civilized Tree (Nonfiction)
In her book, Izumi Ishii demolishes the simplistic stereotype of the Indian (in her case, the Cherokee) as a congenital drunkard. True, abuse of...
The Training Ground (Nonfiction)
Although the subtitle of Martin Dugard’s excellent book is “Grant, Lee, Sherman and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-48” and the author protests that...
The Civil War in Arizona (Nonfiction)
Publication in recent years of books on the invasion of New Mexico and Arizona have finally dispelled the nonsense that the Far West was uninvolved...
The Comanche Empire (Nonfiction)
Hamalainen moves the Comanches up a notch in terms of their resistance to invaders, beyond that of Apaches and Sioux. He claims that their...
Dolly & Zane Grey: Letters From a Marriage (Nonfiction)
Zane Grey was the most important Western novelist, writing the best-selling Riders of the Purple Sage (1912). Candace Kant has done a scholarly,...
Arc of the Medicine Line (Nonfiction)
Here is the story of the mapping of the “Medicine Line,” the segment of the U.S.-Canada border across the Great Plains (named so by the Indians...
Stricken Field: The Little bighorn Since 1876 (Nonfiction)
This is the first full history of the most famous battleground in the West, the Little Bighorn. After re-sketching the dramatic events of the...
Dave Rust: A Life in the Canyons (Nonfiction)
This well-written book gives us a detailed (almost day-by-day) account of the 33-year career of a rugged outdoorsman of whom most of us have never...
Hard Road West (Nonfiction)
Meldahl, a geologist, has personally inspected the entire 2,000-mile Overland Trail to Gold Rush California while, at the same time, collecting...