Less a coffee table book and more a serious scholarly study, Dempsey’s book is still an attractive work filled with plates of striking Blackfoot...
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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...
Four and twenty photographs
The photography in this volume is so good, it stands on its own. Each photo seems to draw you into the moment, no matter the subject. Each one...
New indians, Old Wars
Cook-Lynn, a professor of Native American Studies and a Crow Creek Sioux, says it is time for Native American Studies to leave behind the myths of...
The Gambler and the Bug boy
Pre-WWII Los Angeles is the stuff of legend. Yet, somehow, this fascinating story of gambling and corruption has not yet been told. Fortunately,...
Frontier Justice in the Wild West
If you have a taste for the gruesome side of frontier life, then this is the book for you. From 1854 to 1910, more than 1,000 men and two women were...
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...
True tales of the Prairies & Plains
David Dary has gathered an entertaining and disparate collection of stories under the geographical theme of the Plains. Divided into five thematic...
For the Love of a Horse
These true tales begin with Evans’ first horse, Cricket, a $10 steel bay that accompanied Evans across the Texas plain in search of rabbits. Among...
Legacy of the Tetons: Homesteading in Jackson Hole
In the story of Mormon Row near Jackson Hole, Wyoming, all of the classic Western settlers’ tribulations played havoc on the May and Moulton...
Seven Trails West
If a student of the exploration and expansion of the American West were to have only one book to cover it all, this big volume would be the one to...
The Cherokee Trail of Tears
Duane King expertly recounts this tragic tale with historic maps, diaries, military accounts and oral traditions. What he does best, however, is...