A fascinating collection of thirty compelling stories about events that shaped the North StarState, It Happened inMinnesota describes everything from harrowing shootouts with Sioux Indian
This is the first biography of Dell Burke, whose estate sale drew national attention when she died in 1981 at age 93. Painstakingly researched for over five years, June Willson Read’s landmark
From Doc Holliday and Big Nose Kate to Frank Butler and Annie Oakley and the lesser-known Mollie Walsh and Packer Jack Newman, this book reveals the stories behind some of the West's most famous, pass
Mary Rockwood Powers reluctantly left her comfortable life as a doctor's wife in Wisconsin in 1856, one of the many women whose destiny as a settler of the West was determined by her husband's wishes.
Fashion that was in vogue in the East was highly desirable to pioneers during the frontier period of the American West. It was also extraordinarily difficult to obtain, often impractical, and sometim
When Mollie Babcock stepped off the train in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1890, she knew she had to start a new life. She'd left her husband and their medical practice in Iowa, and with only a few hundre
Tales Behind the Tombstones tells the stories behind the deaths (or supposed deaths) and burials of the Old West's most nefarious outlaws, notorious women, and celebrated lawmen. Readers will learn th
What happens when the mighty Mississippi River overflows its banks and changes directions? What college began with gambling money? Find the answers to these questions and more in "It Happened in New O
Stagecoach robbers evolved as a consequence of the discovery of gold or silver, or some other mineral treasure, and a town would "spring forth from the earth" overnight. Roads were soon built and stag
Documents the legendary 1878 collaboration of famous sharpshooters Charlie Bassett, Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, and Bill Tilghman during which they hunted down a cattle baron who was believed to have m
This part guidebook, part history book is an up-to-date collection of photos and true stories about the most famous ghost towns of Montana—packaged with a map and more than 100 historical images.
If countless books and movies are to be believed, America’s Wild West was, at heart, a world of cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and gunslingers, scruffy settlers and mountain men—a man’s world. Here, Ch
Prodgers is a historian who has spent years researching the life of frontiersman Smith, and she has revised this edition of his memoirs to include new research that has surfaced on the life of "Yellow
The 22 women defended their native traditions and people in various arenas, including politics and diplomacy, arts and education, and healing and magic. Contributors identified only by name draw from
It Happened in San Antonio gives the reader aninsiders view of the Alamo City, bringing to life thecharacters of today and yesterday, from the earlyCanary Island residents to the ghosts of the Alamo t
Frontier Justice highlights eighteen crimes and subsequent punishments of the most interesting, controversial, and unusual executions from an era when hangings and shootings were a legal means of capi
Sarah Raymond was an unmarried woman of twenty-four who in May 1865--barely a month after the end of the Civil War--mounted her beloved pony and headed west alongside the wagon carrying her mother and
They delivered other women's babies while at nearly the same time giving birth themselves. They practiced on log cabins or in rooms over saloons. Sometimes the menfolk of the one-doctor town avoided t
This fictionalized biography tells the story of a young Cheyenne warrior named Buffalo Calf Road Woman who was the only woman to fight at the Battle of Little Bighorn. Independent scholars Rosemary Ag