The Civil War was traumatic to most Americans, but it was a double whammy to the Cherokees. Already badly split into warring factions over...
The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War
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Richard H. Dillon
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...
Fort Concho and the Texas Frontier
In 1952, Haley’s excellent Fort Concho was published in a short press run that guaranteed it would become not only a classic of Texana but a rare...
California Desperadoes
Between WWI and II, writers such as Stuart Lake and Walter Noble Burns penned popular, but careless, studies of Western outlaws and lawmen. They did...
A Fate Worse Than Death
The title of this book is a bit misleading, but the subtitle, “Indian captivities in the West, 1830-1885,” clears up the subject matter. The phrase...
Frontiers
These Yale colleagues have excellently converted a college textbook into a concise, readable history, reminding me of narrative historians Ray...
The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War
Richards, who writes well for a professor, retells the rather familiar story of the California Gold Rush’s aftermath, but he tells it from an...
Lone Star Lawman
Robert Utley really has had his work cut out for him in following up on his 19th-century Texas Rangers book with this story of the Rangers of recent...
The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War
Richards, who writes well for a professor, retells the rather familiar story of the California Gold Rush’s aftermath, but he tells it from an...
Lone Star Lawman
Robert Utley really has had his work cut out for him in following up on his 19th-century Texas Rangers book with this story of the Rangers of recent...
Camino del Norte
Despite its Spanish title, this book is mostly about the I-35 corridor and the Texas cities along this north-south highway: San Antonio, Austin,...
From Lead Mines to Gold Fields
Taylor was an old codger who began to write his reminiscences at age 80 and was still at it when 103 years old! But the old-timer was gifted with...