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  • The Perfect Fence

    Untangling the Meanings of Barbed Wire

    by Lyn Ellen Bennett, Scott Abbott ...
    Series series Connecting the Greater West Series
    Barbed wire is made of two strands of galvanized steel wire twisted together for strength and to hold sharp barbs in place. As creative advertisers sought ways to make an inherently dangerous product attractive to customers concerned about the welfare of their livestock, and as barbed wire became commonplace on battlefields and in concentration camps, the fence accrued a fascinating and troubling ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Wyatt Earp

    A Vigilante Life

    by Andrew C. Isenberg ...
    This acclaimed biography separates history from myth to reveal the man behind the enduring Western legend.In popular culture, Wyatt Earp is the hero of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, and a beacon of rough cowboy justice in the tumultuous American West. The subject of dozens of films, he has been invoked in battles against everything from organized crime in the 1930s to al ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • On The Border With Crook

    Enriched edition. An Eyewitness Memoir of the Indian Wars, Crook's Campaigns, and Native Resistance on the 19th-Century Frontier

    by John Gregory Bourke ...
    In "On The Border With Crook," John Gregory Bourke offers a compelling eyewitness account of the Indian Wars in the American West, specifically focusing on General George Crook's campaigns during the late 19th century. Bourke employs a vivid and engaging narrative style, blending meticulous observation with personal experience, bringing to life the tumultuous atmosphere of the borderlands. His ... Read more

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  • The Land of Little Rain

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Beauty of Southwest Wilderness

    by Mary Austin, Sabrina Hendricks ...
    Mary Austin's "The Land of Little Rain" is a lyrical exploration of the natural beauty and stark realities of the high desert of California. Through a series of evocative essays, Austin masterfully intertwines the landscape's physicality with its cultural and spiritual significance to native peoples and settlers alike. Her keen observations render the region's flora and fauna not merely as ... Read more

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  • Rivers in the Desert

    William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles

    by Margaret Leslie Davis ...
    The rise and fall of William Mulholland, and the story of L.A.'s disastrous dam collapse: " A dramatic saga of ambition, politics, money and betrayal" ( Los Angeles Daily News).Rivers in the Desert follows the remarkable career of William Mulholland, the visionary who engineered the rise of Los Angeles as the greatest American city west of the Mississippi. He sought to transform the sparse and ... Read more

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  • When Law Was in the Holster: The Frontier Life of Bob Paul

    The Frontier Life of Bob Paul

    by John Boessenecker ...
    One of the great lawmen of the Old West, Bob Paul (1830–1901) cast a giant shadow across the frontiers of California and Arizona Territory for nearly fifty years. Today he is remembered mainly for his friendship with Wyatt Earp and his involvement in the stirring events surrounding the famous 1881 gunfight near the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. This long-overdue biography fills crucial gaps in ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Rainbow Bridge to Monument Valley

    Making the Modern Old West

    by Thomas J. Harvey ...
    The Colorado River Plateau is home to two of the best-known landscapes in the world: Rainbow Bridge in southern Utah and Monument Valley on the Utah-Arizona border. Twentieth-century popular culture made these places icons of the American West, and advertising continues to exploit their significance today. In Rainbow Bridge to Monument Valley, Thomas J. Harvey artfully tells how Navajos and Anglo ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Frank Little and the IWW

    The Blood That Stained an American Family

    by Jane Little Botkin ...
    Franklin Henry Little (1878–1917), an organizer for the Western Federation of Miners and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), fought in some of the early twentieth century’s most contentious labor and free-speech struggles. Following his lynching in Butte, Montana, his life and legacy became shrouded in tragedy and family secrets. In Frank Little and the IWW, author Jane Little Botkin ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Californio Lancers

    The 1st Battalion of Native Cavalry in the Far West, 1863–1866

    by Mr. Tom Prezelski ...
    Series series Frontier Military Series
    More than 16,000 Californians served as soldiers in the Union Army during the Civil War. One California unit, the 1st Battalion of Native Cavalry, consisted largely of Californio Hispanic volunteers from the “Cow Counties” of Southern California and the Central Coast. Out-of-work vaqueros who enlisted after drought decimated the herds they worked, the Native Cavalrymen lent the army their ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Father of Route 66

    The Story of Cy Avery

    by Susan Croce Kelly ...
    If it weren’t for Cy Avery’s dreams of better roads through his beloved Tulsa, the United States would never have gotten Route 66. This book is the story of Avery, his times, and the legendary highway he helped build.In this engaging biography of a remarkable man, Susan Croce Kelly begins by describing the urgency for “good roads” that gripped the nation in the early twentieth century as cars ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Imagined Frontiers

    Contemporary America and Beyond

    by Carl Abbott ...
    We live near the edge—whether in a settlement at the core of the Rockies, a gated community tucked into the wilds of the Santa Monica Mountains, a silicon culture emerging in the suburbs, or, in the future, homesteading on a terraformed Mars. In Imagined Frontiers, urban historian and popular culture scholar Carl Abbott looks at the work of American artists who have used novels, film, television, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • As Far as the Eye Could Reach

    Accounts of Animals along the Santa Fe Trail, 1821–1880

    by Phyllis S. Morgan ...
    Travelers and traders taking the Santa Fe Trail’s routes from Missouri to New Mexico wrote vivid eyewitness accounts of the diverse and abundant wildlife encountered as they crossed arid plains, high desert, and rugged mountains. Most astonishing to these observers were the incredible numbers of animals, many they had not seen before—buffalo, antelope (pronghorn), prairie dogs, roadrunners, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD