Drawn from fragments of historical fact, Matthiessen's masterpiece depicts the fortunes and misfortunes of Edgar J. Watson, a real-life entrepreneur and outlaw who appeared in the lawless Florida Everglades around the turn of the...
Frontier and pioneer life
- Auteur:Matthiessen, PeterSommaire:
- Auteur:L'Amour, LouisSommaire:
Tack Gentry has been away for a year when he returns to the familiar buildings of his uncle John Gentry's G Bar ranch. To his amazement, the ranch has a new owner, who is unimpressed when Tack explains that his uncle was a Quaker, didn'...
- Auteur:Heit, JasonSommaire:
In Jason Heit's gritty new novel-in-stories, Prairie settlers discover that their greatest challenge in a new land is each other. Kaidenberg's Best Sons is an unvarnished view of the lives of settlers in the early days of immigration to...
- Auteur:Glover, RuthSommaire:
- Auteur:Russell, OsborneSommaire:
In 1834, Osborne Russell joined an expedition from Boston, which proceeded to the Rocky Mountains to capitalize on the lucrative salmon and fur trade. Beginning at the age of twenty, he detailed the life of a trapper in his journal and...
- Auteur:Brand, Max.Sommaire:
The day Jingo rode into Tower Creek, the town was busy celebrating its twentieth anniversary. The big event of the festival was a high-stakes poker game in Joe Slade's saloon with Wally Rankin holding most of the chips. But it didn't...
- Auteur:Diaz, HernanSommaire:
A young Swedish immigrant finds himself penniless and alone in California. The boy travels East in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great current of emigrants pushing West. Driven back again and again, he meets...
- Auteur:Carter, SarahSommaire:
Sarah Carter’s "Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies" examines the goals, aspirations, andchallenges met by women who sought land of their own. Supporters of British women...
- Auteur:Andra-Warner, ElleSommaire:
The early history of the Hudson’s Bay Company comes alive in these true tales of fur-trade wars, incredible wilderness journeys, hardships and danger. Founded by the extraordinary adventurers and renegades Radisson and des Groseilliers...
- Auteur:Mulford, Clarence, E.Sommaire:
Hopalong Cassidy, the iconic western cowboy hero conceived by Clarence Mulford, was immortalized in a highly popular film series starring William Boyd from 1935-1948. A tough-talking and violent character in print, Hopalong Cassidy was...
- Auteur:Heitzmann, KristenSommaire:
Joe and Arie, a young Amish couple, try to get through their first summer on their farm with the help of Joe's younger sister Nancy and brother Steven.
- Auteur:MINIFIE, James M.Sommaire:
Based on his own boyhood experiences and the stories his father told, Minifie recounts the perils and pleasures of growing up on the Canadian prairies prior to and during the "dust bowl" period of the 1930's. He later...
- Auteur:Raney, MartySommaire:
A practical guide to self-sufficient and sustainable living from the star of Homestead Rescue. Do you wish for a more resilient, sustainable, and empowered way of providing for your family in uncertain times? Are you worried about...
- Auteur:Siringo, Charles A.Sommaire:
History of the American outlaw Billy the Kid.
- Auteur:L'AMOUR, LouisSommaire:
The Healey Dramatic Company is an itinerant theatrical troupe struggling to stay one step ahead of the bill collector as it travels from mining camps to cow towns. When the troupe decides to head to their next show during a snowstorm,...
- Auteur:Cotton, Ralph W.Sommaire:
Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack thought he'd seen every kind of dispicable act of cruelty and murder that any man could exact on another. He thought wrong. When he stumbles upon the butchered remains of a scalp-taking massacre, he's choked...
- Auteur:Jonusas, SusanSommaire:
In 1873 the people of Labette County, Kansas made a grisly discovery. Buried by a trailside cabin beneath an orchard of young apple trees were the remains of countless bodies. Below the cabin itself was a cellar stained with blood. The...
- Auteur:Cotton, Ralph W.Sommaire:
Fast Larry Shaw is a deadly Old West gunman who has taken to the bottle as of late. When he is out drinking and carousing one night, a band of fiends raid his home, robbing and murdering his beloved family. Now Fast Larry is wholly...
- Auteur:BRAND, MaxSommaire:
A typical early 20th century western. It's a tale of a tough guy who gets involved with an evil man with an angel daughter for whom the tough guy falls. His efforts to recover hers and her father's gold mine claims is the...
- Auteur:Rozum, Molly P.Sommaire:
An exploration of modern regionalism and senses of place developing among generations of settler colonial society on North America's northern grasslands.