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By Lewis Nordyke. 1955
In February 1877, forty cattlemen met in Graham, Texas to discuss concerted action against rustlers. They were tough, independent men,…
but no individual could beat the growing menace alone. The organization they founded, the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, became one of the most powerful elements in the industry, and it is the focal point in this book. The author brings history alive with individual stories of the colorful men, pioneer doings, natural challenges, and wild cattleBy Stephen L. Moore. 2015
By Rod Beemer. 2015
Bank robbers wreaked havoc in the Sunflower State. After robbing the Chautauqua State Bank in 1911, outlaw Elmer McCurdy was…
killed by lawmen but wasn't buried for sixty-six years. His afterlife can be described only as bizarre. Belle Starr's nephew Henry Starr claimed to have robbed twenty-one banks. The Dalton gang failed in their attempt to rob two banks simultaneously, but others accomplished this in Waterville in 1911. Nearly four thousand known vigilantes patrolled the Sunflower State during the 1920s and 1930s to combat the criminal menace. One group even had an airplane with a .50-caliber machine gun. Join author Rod Beemer for a wild ride into Kansas's tumultuous bank heist history. Some strong language and some violenceBy Melissa L. Sevigny. 2016
Science writer and Native Arizonan Sevigny mixes history, natural science, and memoir to examine what it means to make a…
home in the American Southwest at a time when its most essential resource, water, is over exploited and undervaluedBy University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio. 1973
Italians have been in Texas almost from the very beginning. They were with Coronado during his trip across the High…
Plains in 1541 and many were present during the Texas war for independence. This is the story of these men and of the later men and women who contributed much to Texas cultureBy Daniel N Vichorek. 1987
A history of homesteading in Montana. The first section shows the challenge of the physical environment and the methods by…
which the homesteaders faced these challenges. The second part profiles homestead families from selected Montana counties. Volume 15 of the Montana Geographic SeriesBy Mark Herbert Brown. 1956
With the eye of an artist and the perspective of an historian, L. A. Huffman, frontier photographer of Miles City,…
MT, caught and preserved the spirit of life on the unfenced Montana ranges in the days before barbed wireBy Frank Bird Linderman. 1985
Linderman's own story up to 1930. He was 16 when in 1885 he left Chicago for the Flathead Lake country…
in northeastern Montana. There, as a trapper, he initiated a lifelong friendship with Indians that provided material for more than a dozen booksBy Larry S Thompson. 1985
No. 9 in the Montana Geographic Series. The book features a special group of early Montana explorers who made careful…
observations of Montana wildlife, landscape, geography, geology, and plant life, and recorded these observations prior to the creation of Montana Territory in 1864By Rodney Frey. 1987
Through his long and close association with the Crow Reservation in Montana, Frey aptly discusses tribal history and gives a…
vivid description of current Reservation life. Crow society is alive and vibrant, far from vanishing. This resilience the author attributes to the Crow world view that recognizes the individual member as part of a greater whole; clan, society, and cosmosBy Eleanor Macdonald Banks. 1950
A saga of the American West, based on the life of the author's father, Henry Macdonald. The only child of…
a Scotch Presbyterian minister, he was orphaned and ran away from Canada to enlist in the Civil War. After the war he went West and became, among other things, a sheep raiserThis sportsman's classic is a first-person account of three hunting trips to western North Dakota, southern Montana, and northern Wyoming…
in 1880, 1881, and 1882. Filled with the heady success of these ventures, Shields wrote about the breadth and quality of the great west and its grandeur of wildlife and scenery. For high school and adult readersBy Dorothy M Johnson. 1983
The Bozeman Trail, charted in 1863, was the main road that passed through the prime hunting grounds of the Sioux…
Indians to reach the rich gold mines of Montana. Johnson's narrative tracks the perils and adventures of numerous characters who travelled the Bozeman Trail, some finding fortune in gold, some a better way of life in farming, and some meeting death at the hands of Indians, poverty and starvationBy Parker Anderson. 2016
Prescott. Tells the stories of some of the swindlers, con men and outlaws that lived in or passed through Arizona's…
first capital from the mid-1800s to the early 1920s. Includes Jenny Shultz, Prescott's first murdered woman, and Joseph Drew, the area's only publicly known member of the Prescott Ku Klux Klan. Some violenceBy Edith Eudora Kohl, Margie Ammons, Margie Walsh, Pbj Inc.. 2017
In this third book of the Conquering the Wild West trilogy, Edith Kohl describes her dramatic, true-life experiences in helping…
to settle the American West. Her adventures take her into the Judith Basin of Montana during the early 1900s where she started her fourth newspaper and fought the big grain trusts which were robbing the farmers of profits. Edith fought for the farmers with the help of several U.S. senators and became involved with the American Society of Equity, now known as The Farm BureauBy James W. Hulse. 2017
A chronicle of the smaller towns and byways of Nevada. This mosaic represents "the other Nevada," beyond Las Vegas, Reno,…
and Carson City. Much of the terrain of rural Nevada has not changed at all, while others have adapted to technological revolutions of recent times. Hulse states that there is no single "other" Nevada but several subcultures with distinct featuresIn this collection of short, comic rants, the author explores various aspects of life in the remote, high-desert of Nevada's…
Great Basin. Adventure, humor, and irreverence abound along with some environmental perspective from an ecocritic. 2017By Margaret M. Wheat. 1967
Gained from her 20 years of painstaking work with the Paiutes, this book describes how they survived the harsh Nevada…
climate. Recounting the Paiutes' methods for basket weaving, hunting, fishing, and working with rabbit skins, it serves as a vital reference on early Paiute culture. They are an old, proud and a reserved race, and acceptance of outsiders is not freely given. 1967By Mark Scott-Nash. 2016
Summiting Colorado 14ers--14,000-foot peaks--is a popular activity, but the potential of a mountaineering accident casts a dark shadow on what…
is otherwise a positive experience for hikers and mountaineers. This book explores the disturbingly easy ways that hikers become stranded, severely injured, or killed on the 14ers. The author describes mountaineering accidents and the subsequent rescue attempts, and gives mountaineers helpful information for avoiding such disasters. 2016By Michael M. Geary. 1999
Located at an elevation of 8,369 feet, Grand Lake is Colorado's largest natural body of water and has been attracting…
people to its shores for thousands of years. This account focuses on the people and events that have influenced the human history of Grand Lake and its immediate vicinity. 1999