Here is an excellent biography to shelve alongside Robert Utley’s volume, The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull, and Kingsley...
Gall: Lakota War Chief (Nonfiction)
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Richard H. Dillon
Nez Perce Country (Nonfiction)
The latest volume in Nebraska’s Bison Books series is a history of the Nez Perce Indians in the Columbia Plateau, which covers parts of Idaho,...
Indian war veterans
As an ex-WWII private first class, I applaud Greene’s editing of these memoirs. Greene shoots down the commonly-held belief that Indian War soldiers...
The Fabric of America
Geography furnishes us with the underpinnings of history. This book merges those two disciplines and adds a third: biography. We follow the...
Cowboy Life: The Letters of George Philip
Philip was a lawyer and U.S. attorney whose letters to his children comprise reminiscences of his interesting early years (1897-1903) as a cowboy in...
Tascosa: Its Life and Gaudy Times
We have long needed this detailed account of the heyday of the old Texas cattle hamlet. Tascosa grew from a handful of placitas founded by New...
Passion and Principle
Authors have written excellent books on John C. Fremont (Allan Nevins, Ferol Egan) and even one (Pamela Herr) on his wife. Because of their devotion...
Passion and Principle
Authors have written excellent books on John C. Fremont (Allan Nevins, Ferol Egan) and even one (Pamela Herr) on his wife. Because of their devotion...
California Badmen
All too often, writers dealing with the history of crime in the Old West neglect California once they are done covering Joaquin Murrieta and...
California Badmen
All too often, writers dealing with the history of crime in the Old West neglect California once they are done covering Joaquin Murrieta and...
The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War
The Civil War was traumatic to most Americans, but it was a double whammy to the Cherokees. Already badly split into warring factions over...
A People at War
This is not, exactly, a history of the homefront during the Civil War. Its subtitle, “Civilians and Soldiers in America’s Civil War,” includes the...