The Meek Cutoff is perhaps the most infamous of all Oregon Trail branches. In 1845, following mountain man Stephen Meek, settlers in over 200 wagons took a more direct route across Oregon's High Deser
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 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 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 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 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 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 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
