Fast with a gun, Montana Territory Sheriff Henry Plummer is the right man for hunting down the road agents swarming the bullion-toting coach lines....

Tap McCoy, an aging buckaroo, tells about his travels from ranch to ranch as he earns his living the cowboy way. With a keen sense of humor and...

Imagine the thrill for a professor of Western history to discover a box of letters dating from 1870-72. As Daniel Tyler cautiously opened the...

One of the most famous journalists of his day, Amos Jay Cummings wrote firsthand accounts of the Westward movement in 1873. A Forrest Gump of the...

Rottenberg is to be commended for rescuing Jack Slade from relative obscurity. Slade has, indeed, slipped through the cracks of history and into...

This well-documented and skillfully written biography chronicles Walter P. Lane’s journal through some of the most defining moments in American West...

Hunting is as much a part of the American story as any aspect of this country’s development. This work focuses on big-game hunting in the 19th...

The Texas Rangers earned the condemnatory nickname Los Diablos Tejanos (the Texas Devils) during the Mexican-American War because of their brutality...