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Rapunzel's Revenge

by Nathan Hale, Dean Hale, Shannon Hale

Once upon a time, in a land you only think you know, lived a little girl and her mother . . . or the woman she thought was her mother. Every day, when the little girl played in her pretty garden, she grew more curious about what lay on the other side of the garden wall . . . a rather enormous garden wall. And every year, as she grew older, things seemed weirder and weirder, until the day she finally climbed... (more)

Cowboys of the Wild West

by Russell Freedman

Introduces readers to the proud young men who inspired a legend -- the trail-driving cow herders of the late nineteenth century.

Mountain Man

by Vardis Fisher

Tailored after the actual "Crow Killer" John Johnson, Sam Minard is a mountain man who seeks the freedom that the Rocky Mountains offers trappers. After his beloved Indian wife is murdered, Sam Minard becomes obsessed with vengeance, and his fortunes become intertwined with those of Kate Bowden, a widow who faces madness. This remarkable frontier fiction captures that brief season when the romantic myth of the far... (more)

Upstairs Girls: Prostitution In The American West

Upstairs Girls: Prostitution In The American West

by Michael Rutter

The Bonehunters' Revenge: Dinosaurs and Fate in the Gilded Age

The Bonehunters' Revenge: Dinosaurs and Fate in the Gilded Age

by David Rains Wallace

When dinosaur fossils were first discovered in the Wild West, they sparked one of the greatest scientific battles in American history. Over the past century it has been known by many names -- the Bone War, the Fossil Feud -- but the tragic story of the competition for fame and natural treasure between Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh, two leading paleontologists of the Gilded Age, remains prophetic of... (more)

Etta: A Novel

by Gerald Kolpan

Beautiful, elusive, and refined, Etta Place captivated the nation at the turn of the last century as she dodged the law with the Wild Bunch, led by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Her true identity and fate have remained a mystery that has tantalized historians for decades. Now, for the first time, Gerald Kolpan envisions this remarkable woman’s life in a stunning debut novel. Kolpan imagines that Etta Place... (more)

The Confidential Life of Eugenia Cooper: Woman of the West

The Confidential Life of Eugenia Cooper: Woman of the West

by Kathleen Y'Barbo

This Wild West adventure just might be the life she was meant to live. The future is clearly mapped out for New York socialite Eugenia “Gennie” Cooper, but she secretly longs to slip into the boots of her favorite dime-novel heroine and experience just one adventure before settling down. When the opportunity arises, Gennie jumps at the chance to experience the Wild West, but her plans go awry when she is drawn... (more)

Blood and Thunder

An Epic of the American West

by Hampton Sides

Praise for Blood and Thunder “Kit Carson’s role in the conquest of the Navajo during and after the Civil War remains one of the most dramatic and significant episodes in the history of the American West. Hampton Sides portrays Carson in the larger context of the conquest of the entire West, including his frequent and often lethal encounters with hostile Native Americans. Unusually, Sides gives full voice to... (more)

Roses for Mama

by Janette Oke

The incomparable Janette Oke paints an inspiring portrait of faith and love in this moving story of a pioneer family's struggle to stay together -- and the incredible power of prayer. Angela Peterson's family moves west because her mother has not been well and the doctor says the cooler, clear air might be easier on her lungs. So the family sell their farm and load everything in three wagons. They find a new life... (more)

The Border Trilogy: Book 1

All the Pretty Horses

by Cormac McCarthy

The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy , All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood. ... (more)

Telegraph Days: A Novel

by Larry McMurtry

I've come to think that in times of crisis human beings don't have it in them to be rational. The Yazee gang was riding down upon us, six abreast. We all ran outside and confirmed that fact. The sensible thing would have been to run and hide -- but did we? Not at all. The narrator of Larry McMurtry's newest book is spunky Nellie Courtright, twenty-two years old and already wrapping every man in the West around... (more)

Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait

by Karen Holliday Tanner

In Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait, Karen Holliday Tanner, a distant cousin, reveals the real man behind the legend. Shedding light on Holliday's early years in a prominent Georgia family during the Civil War and Reconstruction, she examines the elements that shaped his destiny: his birth defect, the death of his mother and estrangement from his father, and the diagnosis of tuberculosis, which led to his journey... (more)

Winnetou (Continuum Impacts)

by Karl Friedrich May

This is the story of a young Apache chief told by his white friend and bloodbrother Old Shatterhand. Some goldseeker thugs murder Winnetou, the only Native American chief who could have united the various quarreling tribes. His death foreshadows the death of his people.

Wild Bunch Women

by Michael Rutter

Explore the lives of the pistol-packing, hell-raising, high-spirited gals who hung out with Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch outlaw gang.

The Headless Horseman

by Mayne Reid

Texas in the 19th century. The War with Mexico is still a recent memory, marauding Comanches are a daily threat for new settlers of the Lone Star State. Louise Poindexter, a beautiful newcomer, is courted by two men - the arrogant and vindictive Cassius Calhoun and the dashing but poor mustanger Maurice Gerald. Calhoun plots to eliminate his rival when tragedy strikes: Louise's brother, the young Henry Poindexter... (more)

Tales Behind the Tombstones

by Chris Enss

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

by Dee Brown, Dee Alexander Brown

Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling history The New York Times called "Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking...Impossible to put down" Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. A national bestseller... (more)

Little big man : a novel

by Thomas Berger

The story of Jack Crabbe, raised by both a white man and a Cheyenne chief. As a Cheyenne, Jack ate dog, had four wives and saw his people butchered by General Custer's soldiers. As a white man, he participated in the slaughter of the buffalo and tangled with Wyatt Earp.

The real Billy the Kid : with new light on the Lincoln County War

The real Billy the Kid : with new light on the Lincoln County War

by Miguel Antonio Otero

Miguel Antonio Otero served as the first Hispanic governor of the U.S. Territory of New Mexico, from 1897 to 1906. He was appointed to the office by President William McKinley. Long after his retirement from politics, Governor Otero wrote and published his memoirs in three volumes, a major contribution to New Mexico history. But he also published a biography in 1936 titled The Real Billy the Kid . His aim in that... (more)

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by Nathan Hale, Dean Hale, Shannon Hale

by Russell Freedman

by Vardis Fisher

by Michael Rutter

by David Rains Wallace

by Gerald Kolpan

by Kathleen Y'Barbo

An Epic of the American West

by Hampton Sides

by Janette Oke

by Cormac McCarthy

by Larry McMurtry

by Karen Holliday Tanner

by Karl Friedrich May

by Michael Rutter

by Mayne Reid

by Chris Enss

by Dee Brown, Dee Alexander Brown

by Thomas Berger

by Miguel Antonio Otero

by Pat F. Garrett