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James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest Volume 12
$21.95PaperbackAdd to cartIn this volume, Michael P. Malone provides a succinct interpretive biography of James J. Hill, the “Empire Builder”-so called for his work in developing the region of the United States between the Gre
- Series: Oklahoma Western Biographies #12
- Author: Malone, Michael P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 15 1997
- ISBN10: 0806128607
- Language: English
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Tucson: The Life and Times of an American City
$24.95PaperbackAdd to cartDedicated to all those living elsewhere who would rather be in Tucson
Tucson is the first comprehensive history of a unique corner of America, a city with its roots in Indian and Spanish colonial histo
- Author: Sonnichsen, C. L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 15 1987
- ISBN10: 0806120428
- Language: English
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By: Debo, Angie
The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic
$24.95PaperbackAdd to cartHere is the story of the Choctaws, a proud and gifted tribe among the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians. It is the record of a people whose forced migration from their ancestral homes in the South to w… [more below]
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian (Paperback) #06
- Author: Debo, Angie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: January 15 1961
- ISBN10: 0806112476
- Language: English
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By: Allen, Frederick
Decent, Orderly Lynching: The Montana Vigilantes
$24.95PaperbackAdd to cartThe deadliest campaign of vigilante justice in American history erupted in the Rocky Mountains during the Civil War when a private army hanged twenty-one troublemakers. Hailed as great heroes at the t
- Author: Allen, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 446
- Publish Date: March 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0806140380
- Language: English
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Gall: Lakota War Chief
$21.95PaperbackAdd to cartCalled the “Fighting Cock of the Sioux” by U.S. soldiers, Hunkpapa warrior Gall was a great Lakota chief who, along with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, resisted efforts by the U.S. government to annex
- Author: Larson, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 27 2020
- ISBN10: 0806140364
- Language: English
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Battles and Skirmishes of the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877: The Military View
$21.95PaperbackAdd to cartThis volume offers accounts of the many battles and skirmishes in the Great Sioux War as they were observed by participating officers, enlisted men, scouts, surgeons, and newspaper correspondents. The… [more below]
- Series: Military View
- Author: Greene, Jerome a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 29 2010
- ISBN10: 0806126698
- Language: English
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By: Mercer, A. S.
Mercer: BANDITTI OF THE PLAINS or The Cattlemen’s Invasion of Wyoming in 1892
$21.95PaperbackAdd to cartIn 1894, when A. S. Mercer published this angry eyewitness account of the cattlemen’s invasion of Wyoming, the book was so thoroughly and ruthlessly suppressed that few copies of that edition remain t
- Series: Western Frontier Library #2
- Author: Mercer, A. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 15 1954
- ISBN10: 0806113154
- Language: English
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By: Foreman, Grant
The Five Civilized Tribes: Volume 8
$26.95PaperbackAdd to cartSide by side with the westward drift of white Americans in the 1830’s was the forced migration of the Five Civilized Tribes from Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. Both groups were deployed a
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian #8
- Author: Foreman, Grant
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 478
- Publish Date: March 15 1971
- ISBN10: 0806109238
- Language: English
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By: Sherow, James E.
The Chisholm Trail: Joseph McCoy’s Great Gamble Volume 3
$61.58HardcoverAdd to cartOne hundred fifty years ago the McCoy brothers of Springfield, Illinois, bet their fortunes on Abilene, Kansas, then just a slapdash way station. Instead of an endless horizon of prairie grasses, the… [more below]
- Series: Public Lands History #3
- Author: Sherow, James E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 27 2018
- ISBN10: 0806160535
- Language: English
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By: Rakove, Jack N.
A Politician Thinking: The Creative Mind of James Madison
$29.95HardcoverAdd to cartJames Madison presented his most celebrated and studied political ideas in his contributions to The Federalist, the essays that he, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay wrote in 1787-1788 to secure ratifi
- Series: Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture #14
- Author: Rakove, Jack N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: September 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0806157372
- Language: English
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By: Price, B. Byron
The Chuck Wagon Cookbook: Recipes from the Ranch and Range for Today’s Kitchen
$26.95PaperbackAdd to cartIn Cooperation with the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum
A cowboy’s life is more than steers, saddles, and spurs. There is also food, and lots of it, cooked out in the open after a rugged da
- Author: Price, B. Byron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 25 2021
- ISBN10: 0806136545
- Language: English
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By: Holliday, J. S.
The World Rushed in: The California Gold Rush Experience
$26.95PaperbackAdd to cartWhen The World Rushed In was first published in 1981, the Washington Post predicted, “It seems unlikely that anyone will write a more comprehensive book about the Gold Rush.” Twenty years later, no on
- Author: Holliday, J. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 578
- Publish Date: October 29 2018
- ISBN10: 080613464X
- Language: English
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Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command
$21.95PaperbackAdd to cartS.L.A. “Slam” Marshall was a veteran of World War I and a combat historian during World War II. He startled the military and civilian world in 1947 by announcing that, in an average infantry company,
- Author: Marshall, S. L. a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 19 2017
- ISBN10: 0806132809
- Language: English
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Quanah Parker, Comanche Chief: Volume 6
$21.95PaperbackAdd to cartThe son of white captive Cynthia Ann Parker, Quanah Parker rose from able warrior to tribal leader on the Comanche reservation. Between 1875 and his death in 1911, Quanah dealt with local Indian agent
- Series: Oklahoma Western Biographies #6
- Author: Hagan, William T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: December 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0806127724
- Language: English
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By: Ball, Eve
Indeh: The Apache Odyssey
$24.95PaperbackAdd to cart“A fascinating account of Apache history and ethnography. All the narratives have been carefully chosen to illustrate important facets of the Apache experience. Moreover, they make very interesting re
- Author: Ball, Eve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 10 2018
- ISBN10: 0806121653
- Language: English
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Ghost Towns of Arizona
$24.95PaperbackAdd to cartArizona’s ghost towns exemplify man’s courage, tenacity, and perhaps even foolishness in his search for wealth. Inevitable by-products of the development of gold, silver, copper, and other mineral dep
- Author: Sherman, James E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: February 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0806108436
- Language: English
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By: Downey, Lynn
American Dude Ranch: A Touch of the Cowboy and the Thrill of the West Volume 8
$24.95PaperbackAdd to cartViewers of films and television shows might imagine the dude ranch as something not quite legitimate, a place where city dwellers pretend to be cowboys in amusingly inauthentic fashion. But the tradit… [more below]
- Series: William F. Cody the History and Culture of the American West #8
- Author: Downey, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: March 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0806180226
- Language: English
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By: Deer, Ada
Making a Difference: My Fight for Native Rights and Social Justice Volume 19
$21.95PaperbackAdd to cart2019 National Native American Hall of Fame Inductee
This stirring memoir is the story of Ada Deer, the first woman to serve as head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Deer begins, “I was born a Menomi- Series: New Directions in Native American Studies #19
- Author: Deer, Ada
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0806168765
- Language: English
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By: Peavy, Linda
Full-Court Quest: The Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School, Basketball Champions of the World
$29.95PaperbackAdd to cartMost fans of women’s basketball would be startled to learn that girls’ teams were making their mark more than a century ago–and that none was more prominent than a team from an isolated Indian boardi
- Author: Peavy, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 498
- Publish Date: April 26 2014
- ISBN10: 0806144696
- Language: English
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Best of Covered Wagon Women
$21.95PaperbackAdd to cartThe diaries and letters of women who braved the overland trails during the great nineteenth-century westward migration are treasured documents in the study of the American West. These eight firsthand … [more below]
- Author: Holmes, Kenneth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0806139145
- Language: English




















