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Seeking Pleasure in the Old West
This text focuses on the culture of the Old West, about how the mountain men, Indians, and Cowboys had fun - no matter what the circumstances.
The Oregon Trail: An American Saga
Drawing on period diaries, company and expedition reports, and newspaper accounts, an in-depth history of the Oregon Trail follows the route used by fur traders, missionaries, …
Frontier Medicine
In this intriguing narrative, David Dary charts how American medicine has evolved since 1492, when New World settlers first began combining European remedies with the traditional …
Stories of Old-Time Oklahoma
Do you know how Oklahoma came to have a panhandle? Did you know that Washington Irving once visited what is now Oklahoma? Can you name the official state rock, or list the courses …
The Santa Fe Trail
The full story of the Santa Fe Trail, from the arrival of the Spanish, the founding of Santa Fe in 1610 and the arrival of the first French and American traders, the establishment …
The Overland Mail
In the development of the American West, no two decades were so full of romance and change as the years from the California gold rush of 1849 to the completion of the first …
A Texas Cowboy's Journal
In this earliest known day-by-day journal of a cattle drive from Texas to Kansas, Jack Bailey, a North Texas farmer, describes what it was like to live and work as a cowboy in the …
Red Blood and Black Ink
This text chronicles the story of journalism in the Old West - from the freewheeling days of the early 1800s to the small-town weeklies and busy city newsrooms of the 1920s. It …
True Tales of the Prairies and Plains
Ever wonder why cowboys sing? Or where Henry Starr's treasure is buried? Or what legend lies behind the origin of the word ""rawhide""? The prairies and plains are bursting with …
True Tales of Old-time Kansas
Authentic history, delightfully told is the way Ray A. Billington, renowned historian of the Old West, described this collection. David Dary, award-winning chronicler of life on …
Cowboy Culture
A nationwide bestseller--with more than 65,000 copies in print since publication by Alfred A. Knopf in 1981, this fascinating chronicle of cowboy life and legend is now available …
Santa Fe Trail
A prize-winning historian of the Old West brings to life the people who laid down the Santa Fe Trail and opened commerce with Spanish America. He uses first-hand accounts and …