Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressDuring the decades from 1820 to 1870, the American frontier expanded two thousand miles across the trans-Mississippi West. In Texas the
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressWriter Alan Minskoff and photographer Paul Hosefros took to the back roads of Idaho for fifteen months, interviewing and photographing m
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho PressImprisoned in Paradise exposes the United States’s little-known World War II rendition of Japanese Latin Americans, inc
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressBecause a man's status in his tribe was based on deeds in combat, Crow history revolves around stories of intertribal warfare. During th
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressOver a century before Columbus will venture across the Atlantic Ocean, a storm battered Basque whaling galleon drops anchor off the east
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressCaptivity narratives have been a standard genre of writings about Native Americans of the East for several centuries. Until now, the Wes
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Idaho’s backcountry wilderness is renowned for its stark beauty. Remarkably, some of the state’s most beautiful sites are easily access
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressThis is the storyof Diamondfield Jack Davis, a young cowboy hired in 1895 by a wealthy cattle company. When two of the sheepherders Dav
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressGregroy Michno, author of several critically acclaimed books on America's Indian wars, gives readers the first comprehensive look at the
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressMs. Goeres-Gardner has presented an impressively researched and meticulously documented examination of the history of legal executions i
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressVeteran treasure hunter and folklorist W.C. Jameson presetns twenty-six colorful, inriguing and mysterious stories about fortunes lost a
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressEven the "Good War" had its critics. Sixteen months before Pearl Harbor, Garet Garrett wrote, "If this country should come awake one mor
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressIn response to the Great Depression FDR rolled out the collection of sweeping reforms known as the New Deal - and few dared to oppose th
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho PressIn the 1980s, a community in northern Idaho unwittingly became the home to the Aryan Nations, one of the most virulent
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press"It requires but little if any, stretch of the imagination to regard Omaha as a cesspool of iniquity, for it is given up to lawlessness
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressThis book includes 368 pages of maps, photographs and technical data on the history of railroading in California. There are detailed rep
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressFed by the purest water from a natural spring near Sun Valley Idaho, Silver Creek has become a destination for the serious fly fisherman
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressToday, Kansas is a peaceful place. Most residents have forgotten that the state was the scene of some of the most violent incidents in W
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressThe story of the Weisers, a group of Northern Shoshoni people, who fled white persecution and remained undetected in west central Idaho
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressThis 352-page, triple indexed reference book covers nearly 500 names in the two north Pacific coast states. All known common carrier ste
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressThe years 1830-1870 were years of expansion west as the U.S. Government encouraged patriots to civilize its great untamed wilderness. B
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho PressHistorian Carlos A. Schwantes studies the forces that shaped the history of the labor movement on either side of the fo
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressThe dust around the site of the Sand Creek Massacre settled long ago. The blood spilled there no longer stains the groud. But the echo
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressThis book features information and travel directions for sixty of Colorado's ghost towns and mining camps. There is an informal history
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressThis book combines a collection of the most compelling and beautiful photographs ever made of early Idaho people, places and events with
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press"When everybody thinks alike, everyone is likely to be wrong." The ten words quoted above are, according to Humphrey B. Neill, a potent
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressAfter booming with the discovery of gold and silver in the last century, Telluride went bust and slept for decades only to revive and en
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressTold on winter nights around bunkhouse stoves the tall tales of Paul Bunyan and his mighty blue ox Babe, have become part of the America
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressThis book explains how to build the right kind of fire for the best results with a minimum of time and effort. Tempting recipes for hung
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressSettle into your four-wheel-drive vehicle or a chair and take off for the mining camps of Colorado! This book is an illustrated history
