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Milo Talon (Hc Collection Series)

by Louis L'Amour

The hero of The Man from the Broken Hills is hired by a rich man to find a missing girl in fear of her life, and finds himself up against a band of killers, liars, and thieves. Reissue.

Hiking Grand Canyon National Park, 2nd (Regional Hiking Series)

Hiking Grand Canyon National Park, 2nd (Regional Hiking Series)

by Ron Adkison

This comprehensive guide features detailed descriptions all of the park's developed trails, which number fifteen hikes on the South Rim and thirteen hikes on the North Rim.

Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, over 100,000 copies sold. A myth-shattering look at the women who helped to settle the West, told through their own words and illustrated with 150 period photographs. Through these photos, plus diaries, memoirs, letters, and journals, Women of the West introduces 11 real frontier women whose words combine to re-create a place and time when resourcefulness and... (more)

Black Women of the Old West

by William Loren Katz

Black women were always part of America's westward expansion. Some escaped slavery to live with the Native Americans, while others traveled west after the Civil War to settle the new lands. They came as servants and as independent pioneers struggling to make a life in the wilderness. Brief text and extraordinary photos record many of the black women who went West to find a new life for themselves and their... (more)

The High Graders

by Louis L'Amour

When a peaceful man is killed in a gunfight, Mike Shevlin journeys to the booming gold town of Rafter to learn the truth, but his quest for vengeance threatens to bring him to the same fate. Reissue.

McKettrick's Choice (McKettrick Cowboys Trilogy)

McKettrick

McKettrick's Choice (McKettrick Cowboys Trilogy)

by Linda Lael Miller

When news came that there was trouble back in Texas . . . Holt McKettrick left a mail-order bride and his family on the spot! And he never looked back. He just prayed he'd be in time to save the man who had raised him as a son and keep his best friend from the gallows. He knew he'd encounter rustlers, scoundrels and thieves. But he'd never expected to find a woman like Lorelei Fellows. Setting fire to... (more)

Wilderness Journals of Everett Ruess

by Everett Ruess

5 1/2 X 8 1/2 In, 208 Pp, 10 < Line-Drawings, 20 Black & White Photos < "Ruess's Letters Are Stunning, Alive < With Achingly Poetic Descriptions of The < Land. We're Left With A Moving, Ghostly < Vision of A Young Artist At Odds With A < Society Growing Out of Control As He < Escapes Farther and Farther Into An < Unforgiving Wilderness. " --Backpacker < Magazine, About Everett Ruess:... (more)

Billy Gashade: An American Epic

by Loren D. Estleman

Billy Gashade is a wandering musician crossing the young United States in the late 1800s, and introducing us to its most colorful characters along the way. Calamity Jane, Billy the Kid, Chief Crazy Horse, Oscar Wilde, and many many more cross paths with Billy in this sweeping epic of American History.

American West: Twenty New Stories from the Western Writers of America

American West: Twenty New Stories from the Western Writers of America

by Loren D. Estleman

Once, there was a world where the heroes were defined by their white clothing and the bad guys always wore black. The town sheriff always gunned down the wild gunslinger while the lady in distress cowered. The Indian was to be feared, not understood, and the white man always saved the day. This was the traditional Western. But times change, as did the Western. The evolving Western is told from the point of... (more)

Panther in the Sky

by James Alexander Thom

"Thom shows how, in honest, capable hands, fictionalized biography can add verisimilitude to the life and times of this extraordinary America....The dialogue has the ring of reality about it....Thom is able to get into the thoughts and emotions of his characters...." DEE BROWN LOS ANGELES TIMES Rich, colorful and bursting with excitment, this remarkable story turns James Alexander Thom's power and passion for... (more)

The Lewis and Clark Trail

by Archie Satterfield

On orders of President Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led a group of men across some of North America's most magnificent scenery to find "the direct water communication from sea to sea." In words and many illustrations, this book tells that story of the great adventure.

McKettrick

McKettrick's Luck

by Linda Lael Miller

A new generation of McKettrick men stake claim to their land -- and the women they love . . . Like his celebrated ancestors who tamed the wilds of Arizona, Jesse McKettrick's Indian Rock ties run deep. The triple M Ranch is in his blood, along with the thrill of risk. But with his land at stake, Jesse won't get involved in Cheyenne Bridge's scheme -- despite the temptation she brings. Cheyenne grew up in... (more)

The Lance and the Shield

by Robert M. Utley, Robert Marshall Utley

"His narrative is griping....Mr. Utley transforms Sitting Bull, the abstract, romanticized icon and symbol, into a flesh-and-blood person with a down-to-earth story....THE LANCE AND THE SHIELD clears the screen of the exaggerations and fantasies long directed at the name of Sitting Bull." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Reviled by the United States government as a troublemaker and a coward, revered by his people as... (more)

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Milo Talon (Hc Collection Series)

by Louis L'Amour

Hiking Grand Canyon National Park, 2nd (Regional Hiking Series)

by Ron Adkison

Women of the West

by Cathy Luchetti

Black Women of the Old West

by William Loren Katz

The High Graders

by Louis L'Amour

McKettrick's Choice (McKettrick Cowboys Trilogy)

by Linda Lael Miller

Wilderness Journals of Everett Ruess

by Everett Ruess

Billy Gashade: An American Epic

by Loren D. Estleman

American West: Twenty New Stories from the Western Writers of America

by Loren D. Estleman

Panther in the Sky

by James Alexander Thom

The Lewis and Clark Trail

by Archie Satterfield

McKettrick's Luck

by Linda Lael Miller

The Lance and the Shield

by Robert M. Utley, Robert Marshall Utley