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Frontier and pioneer life
- Author:Raney, MartySummary:
- Author:Siringo, Charles A.Summary:
History of the American outlaw Billy the Kid.
- Author:L'AMOUR, LouisSummary:
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,...
- Author:Cotton, Ralph W.Summary:
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...
- Author:Jonusas, SusanSummary:
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...
- Author:Cotton, Ralph W.Summary:
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...
- Author:BRAND, MaxSummary:
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...
- Author:Rozum, Molly P.Summary:
An exploration of modern regionalism and senses of place developing among generations of settler colonial society on North America's northern grasslands.
- Author:Hobson, Richmond P.Summary:
Three cowhands with a dream of owning a cattle ranch make a heroic pioneer trek across uncharted mountain ranges to open up the frontier grasslands in northern British Columbia during the early 1930s.
- Author:Morgan, LaelSummary:
In the boomtowns of the Alaska-Yukon stampedes, where gold dust was common currency, the rarest commodity was an attractive woman, and her company could be costly. Author Lael Morgan takes you into the heart of the gold rush demimonde,...
- Author:Caldwell, ClaireSummary:
Poetry that explores what it means to be a woman—a settler woman—in the wilderness.
- Author:Howard, IreneSummary:
Gold Dust on His Shirt is an evocative telling of the experience of a Scandinavian immigrant family of hard-rock miners at the turn of the century and up to World War II. Based on fascinating historical research, these are tales of...
- Author:Blevins, WinfredSummary:
Blevins offers a tribute to the "first Westerners" who explored the Great American West. Stories include those of John Colter, who escaped captivity by the Blackfeet Indians, and Hugh Glass, who was mauled by a grizzly bear and crawled...
- Author:Bonham, FrankSummary:
A collection of 2 stories. "Sergeant Forson's Dirty-Shirt Army" is set in eastern Oregon, at a forgotten outpost left behind by the regular Army during the War between the States. Fort Haney is now home to a troop of fifty-seven men,...
- Author:Monson, MarianneSummary:
Tells the stories of women pioneers who endured unimaginable hardships to settle the West. All of them overcame obstacles, broke barriers, and changed the world--inspiring examples for the modern woman.
- Author:Mather, KenSummary:
Despite being neighbouring provinces with long ranching histories, British Columbia and Alberta saw their ranching techniques develop quite differently. As most ranching styles were based on one of the two dominant styles in use south...
- Author:Marsh, James B.Summary:
This account of one mountain man's life at the height of the nineteenth-century fur industry follows Rose as he overcomes adversity, learns from those around him, and becomes one of the most successful trappers of the Rockies.
- Author:Wheeler, Richard S.Summary:
To launch his own newspaper, Sam Flint must face competition from the corrupt editor of the Silver City Democrat.
- Author:Wheeler, Richard S.Summary:
As newspaper editor of the Payday Pioneer, Sam Flint finds himself in the middle of an all-out war for control of the town, putting his life on the line for what he believes in.
- Author:Dick, LyleSummary:
In this newly revised edition of the widely praised original, published in 1989, Lyle Dick revisits the Abernethy district of Saskatchewan and his microhistorical analysis of the development of this prairie community. Between 1882 and...