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  American West: People, Places, and Ideas, The

Suzan Campbell

Highlights of the Rockwell Museum of Western Art and Native American collection.

Paper

1889921130

$24.95

MOUNTAIN

     
  American West: The Invention of a Myth, The

David Murdoch

An examination of American Western history that claims our frontier heritage is more myth than history.

Paper

0874173698

$19.95

UNP

     
  Biographies of Western Photographers

Carl Mautz

A reference guide to photographers working in the 19th-century American West. More than 15,000 photographers. Essay on imprints found on early photos.

Cloth

0962194077

$50.00

MAUTZ

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  By Grit & Grace: Eleven Women Who Shaped the American West

Glenda Riley and Richard W. Etulain

Women of the nineteenth-century West played prominent and influential roles, helping to shape the evolution of the region.

Paper

1555912591

$17.95

FULCRUM

     
  C.M. Russell Postcard Book, The

Reproduced in full-color, these beautiful postcards can be shared with friends and family or kept bound as a treasured memento.

Paper

1560443588

$8.95

GLOBE

     
  Color of Horses

Dr. Ben K. Green

A standard reference for race tracks, farms, and ranches worldwide including descriptions of various horse breeds and their characteristics, and the two main color categories.

Paper

0878424377

$20.00

MOUNTAIN

     
  Courts & Lawyers of the Frontier

Charles L. Convis

Elfego Baca, Roy Bean, Rufus Cook, Thomas Egan, Daniel Frost, Temple Houston, William Ide, Thomas L. Kane, Abraham Lincoln, Buckey O'Neill, Wells Spicer, and 14 others.

Paper

1892156113

$7.95

PIONEER

     
  Cowboy Kind, The

Darrell Arnold

Separates myth from reality, letting the words and photos of ranch people reveal the heart and soul of contemporary cowboy life.

Paper

0878424407

$18.00

MOUNTAIN

     
  Cowboys of the Wild West

Russell Freedman

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

Paper

0395548004

$9.95

HOUGHTON

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  Cowboy's Trial Guide to Westerns

Richard Farmesworth

Cloth

0963358227

$59.95

PSP

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  Daughters of the West

Anne Seagraves

Rough, tough and in skirts! This action-packed book brings to life the colorful women of the Old Wild West, from horse-trading ladies to gutsy cowgirls who rode in rodeos.

Paper

0961908858

$11.95

WESANNE

     
  Dictionary of the American West

Win Blevins

Over 5,000 terms and expressions from Aarigaa! to Zopilote.

Paper

1570613044

$19.95

PGW

     
  Dogs & Masters

Charles L. Convis

Billy, Shep, Stickeen, Scotch, Prunes, Bummer and Lazarus, Thornburgh, Sultan, Cerf Vola, Bruno, Fetch, Dick, King, and 16 others.

Paper

1892156008

$7.95

PIONEER

     
  Entertainers

Charles L. Convis

Adah Menken, Dora Hand, Lotta Crabtree, James Corbett, Jack Johnson, Eddie Foy, Oscar Wilde, Banjo Dick Brown, Lily Langtry, and 17 others.

Paper

096519549X

$7.95

PIONEER

     
  Explorers of the Old West

Charles L. Convis

One of the series of True Tales of the Old West, with stories of both men and women who came west before the influx of settlers.

Paper

189215613X

$7.95

PIONEER

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  Field Guide to Horses

Kindrie Grove

Clear descriptions of 150 breeds of horses common in North America and Europe. From work horse to pony, and from lineage to key identifying features, this book is perfect for horse lovers or for the family road trip. 175 color illustrations.

Paper

1551051885

$12.95

LPP

     
  Frontier Preachers & Prophets

Charles L. Convis

One of the series of True Tales of the Old West. Photos.

Paper

1892156121

$7.95

PIONEER

NEW TO CATALOG

     
  Frontier Vigilantes

Charles L. Convis

Hill Beachy, Frank Eaton, James "Kid" Hall, Juanita, Charles Woodward, and 19 others.

Paper

1892156075

$7.95

PIONEER

     
  Frontiersmen

Charles L. Convis

Josiah Wilbarger, Bigfoot Wallace, Caleb Greenwood, William Manly, Yellowstone Kelly, Snowshoe Thompson, John Bozeman, and 21 others.

Paper

1892156024

$7.95

PIONEER

     
  Gamblers

Charles L. Convis

Jim Bowie, Poker Alice, Wild Bill Hickok, Canada Bill Jones, Doc Holliday, Madame Mustache, Soapy Smith, and 21 others.

Paper

1892156032

$7.95

PIONEER

     
  Ghost Stories of the Old West

Dan Asfar

The era of America history known as the Old West has yielded ample material for tales of the supernatural. Battles between the Army and natives, heartbreaking losses of the pioneers, and wild outlaw days.

Paper

1894877179

$10.95

LPP

NEW TITLE

     
  Ghost Towns of the American West

Raymond Bial

Explores the history of our ghost towns, once mining camps, lumber camps, and cowboy towns. Photographs help tell stories of once-bustling, muddy streets, large mercantile stores, and short-lived dreams of gold, fertile land, or a good place to call home.

Cloth

1618065571

$16.00

HOUGHTON

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  Gilded Girls: Women Entertainers of the Old West

JoAnn Chartier and Chris Enss

Stories of 15 women who sang, danced, acted in plays, performed equestrienne feats, and captured the hearts of the miners and homesteaders of the Frontier West.

Paper

0762726792

$14.95

GLOBE

NEW TITLE

     
  Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Paul Hutton

A powerful illustrated narrative of one of the Old West's most mythic events.

Paper

1555911846

$19.95

FULCRUM

     
  Heart of the Trail: The Stories of Eight Wagon Train Women

Mary Barmeyer O'Brien

Firsthand accounts of eight individual women's private dreams plus the mundane details of covered wagon life. B&W photos.

Paper

1560445629

$9.95

GLOBE

     
  High-Spirited Women of the West

Anne Seagraves

Profiles of ten courageous women who helped shape history and left conventional roles behind are featured in this inspiring and entertaining book. First place winner of the PNWBA 1999 book awards.

Paper

0961908831

$11.95

WESANNE

     
  Hollywood West: Lives of Film Legends Who Shaped It, The

Richard W. Etulain and Glenda Riley

Trace the Hollywood Western through the lives and works of its greatest screen legends.

Paper

1555914349

$17.95

FULCRUM

     
  Horse Stories, Riding with the Wind

Gayle Bunney

This varied collection of stories is taken from the author's experiences with horses and the people who own and work with them. Anyone who enjoyed the Horse Whisperer or the Man Who Listens to Horses will enjoy these stories.

Paper

1551051249

$11.95

LPP

     
  Horses & Riders

Charles L. Convis

Jim Bonham, Marcus Whitman, Billy the Kid, Bill Cody, Robert Haslam, Portugee Phillips, Comanche, Starface, Jack Best, and 14 others.

Paper

0965195473

$7.95

PIONEER

     
  Into the Western Winds: Pioneer Boys Traveling the Overland Trails

Mary O'Brien Barmeyer

Chronicles the overland journeys of nine pioneer boys who went west by covered wagon in the mid-1800s.

Paper

0762710209

$9.95

GLOBE

     
  Lawman and the Lady

Terra Lee Mattera

After the turbulent gold rush, courageous lawmen, doctors, ranchers, merchants and ordinary people helped law and order take root in towns such as Sonora in this novel.

Paper

0972157409

$14.99

CODYBEN

     
  Lawmen

Charles L. Convis

Seth Bullock, Elfego Baca, Jeff Milton, Bass Reeves, Burton Mossman, Bill Tilghman, Buckey O'Neill, and 16 others.

Paper

1892156040

$7.95

PIONEER

     
  Lewis & Clark: Doctors in the Wilderness

Bruce C. Paton, M.D.

A vivid account of the dangers, emergencies, and doctoring on America's most famous expedition of discovery.

Paper

1555910556

$18.95

FULCRUM

     
  Love Untamed: Romances of the Old West

JoAnn Chartier & Chris Enss

In these pages you'll meet a soiled dove who longed for a fairy-tale romance but instead fell for an ailing miner, a quiet schoolmarm who risked life and limb for her adventuresome husband, and many others.

Paper

0762711426

$10.95

GLOBE

     
  Meriwether Lewis

Richard Dillon

Reprint of a biography of Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Paper

0944220169

$18.95

GREAT WEST

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  Miners

Charles L. Convis

Grosch Brothers, Stuart Brothers, Shorty Harris, Nellie Cashman, Ed Schiffelin, Kate Carmack, Jacob Breyfogle, Jimmy Dayton, and 17 others.

Paper

0965195481

$7.95

PIONEER

     
  More than Petticoats: Remarkable Oregon Women

Gayle C. Shirley

Paper

1560446684

$12.95

GLOBE

     
  Mountain Men

Charles L. Convis

John Colter, Jim Beckwourth, Mike Fink, Hiram Scott, Joe Meek, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Peg Leg Smith, Miles Goodyear, Jim Kirker, and 17 others.

Paper

0965195449

$7.95

PIONEER

     
  Old West Riverboaters

Charles L. Convis

Joseph LaBarge, Lewis and Clark, Grant Marsh, Henry Miller Shreve, the Yellowstone, and 18 others.

Paper

1892156091

$7.95

PIONEER

     
  Outlaw Tales of Utah

Michael Rutter

Meet the Wild Bunch, a notorious group of rustlers, bandits, and wannabe outlaws who tore up the Wild West in the late 1800s, then sought refuge between heists hanging out and hiding out in Utah.

Paper

0762724277

$10.95

GLOBE

     
  Outlaws

Charles L. Convis

Joaquin Murieta, Paula Angel, Clay Allison, Bill Miner, Kate Bender, Black Jack Ketchum, Bill Dalton, Lame Johnny, Jack Slade, and 16 others.

Paper

1892156016

$7.95

PIONEER

     
  Outlaws & Lawmen of the West

M.A. Macpherson

Read all about the most famous outlaws and the detectives, rangers, and lawmen who helped put a stop to them, one way or another.

Paper

1551051648

$10.95

LPP

     
  Outlaws & Lawmen of the West, Volume 2

Dan Asfar

Stories of the cut-throat world of the outlaws of the Old West and the peace officers who tended to be man killers with itchy trigger fingers as well.

Paper

1551053381

$10.95

LPP

     
  Outlaws and Gunslingers: Tales of the West's Most Notorious Outlaws

Alton Pryor

Western outlaws terrorized the country during the late 1800s and early 1900s. the background, activities and outcome of 27 of the West's fastest draw artists are documented.

Paper

0966005368

$9.95

STAGECOACH

     
  Pioneer Children

Charles L. Convis

Walt Coburn, Abigail Gardner, Patty Reed, Harry Roberts, Sager Orphans, Emeline Trimble, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and 14 others.

Paper

1892156105

$7.95

PIONEER

     
  Pioneer Women

Charles L. Convis

Tamsen Donner, Eilley Bowers, Josephine Meeker, China Polly, Virginia Dare, Elizabeth Markham, Juliet Brier, Mary Walker, and 20 others.

Paper

0965195457

$7.95

PIONEER

     
  Pony Express: A Photographic History, The

Bill and Jan Moeller

Following the 2,000-mile Pony Express Trail from Independence, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, the Moellers photographed sites, remnants, and reconstructions of Pony Express stations.

Paper

0878424709

$22.00

MOUNTAIN

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  Ranchers & Cowboys

Charles L. Convis

Charles Goodnight, Oliver Loving, Isom Dart, Agnes Morley, Bob Fudge, Andy Adams, Print Olive, Ed Lemmon, Amby Cheney, and 15 others.

Paper

0965195465

$7.95

PIONEER

     
  Road of Her Own: Women's Journeys in the West

Edited by Marlene Blessing

Gathers a richly talented chorus of women storytellers to share their true stories of discovery, loss, adventure, and more all played out in the vast reaches of the American West.

Paper

1555913075

$24.95

FULCRUM

     
  Roses of the West

Anne Seagraves

Roses captures the spirit of the West. From the dignity of America's first lady governor, to the talent of Emma Nevada and the dedication of Montana's cattle queen, this book is about strong women and the people they touched as they blazed new trails for others to follow.

Paper

0961908866

$12.95

WESANNE

     
  Saga of the Pony Express, The

Joseph J. Di Certo

Separating truth from myth, this book covers the route, the horses, the hard-driving supervisors, and the talented young riders such as Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody.

Paper

0878424520

$17.00

MOUNTAIN

     
  Sand

Will James

A fictional story about a hero's long duel with the horse, Sand, and how "the little grain of sand within him" starts to grow.

Paper

0878423532

$16.00

MOUNTAIN

     
  Scorpion: A Good Bad Horse

Will James

Join an outlaw and a horse with wicked ways in this tale of the Old West.

Cloth

0878424350

$30.00

MOUNTAIN

     
  Scouts

Charles L. Convis

Will Comstock, Amos Chapman, Seminole Negroes, Frank Grouard, Al Sieber, White-Man-Runs-Him, and 19 others.

Paper

1892156059

$7.95

PIONEER

     
  Smoky, the Cowhorse

Will James

This is a fictional story of a horse from his first hours on the prairie sod to his final years out to pasture.

Paper

087842413X

$16.00

MOUNTAIN

     
  Soiled Doves: Prostitution in the Early West

Anne Seagraves

Tells of the grey world of prostitution and the women who participated in the oldest profession. Colorful, if not socially acceptable, these ladies of easy virtue were a definite part of the early West.

Paper

096190884X

$11.95

WESANNE

     
  Soldiers

Charles L. Convis

Caspar Collins, Patrick Connor, Myles Keogh, Anson Mills, John Grattan, Lyman Kidder, George Custer, Edward Canby, Fred Beecher, and 19 others.

Paper

0965195422

$7.95

PIONEER

     
  Stories of Young Pioneers In Their Own Words

Violet T. Kimball

A collection of memoirs, letters, and journal entries of children who were between ages six and nineteen when they made the overland journey.

Paper

0878424237

$14.00

MOUNTAIN

     
  Teamsters, Packers & Bullwhackers

Charles L. Convis

One of the series of True Tales of the Old West, this book has 19 stories of men who moved things in the Old West. Photos.

Paper

1892156148

$7.95

PIONEER

NEW TO CATALOG

     
  Think Harmony with Horses: An In-depth Study of Horse/Man Relationship

Ray Hunt

To unite the horse and rider into one working unit of both mind and body is Ray Hunt's philosophy. Photos.

Cloth

0914330152

$14.95

GIVEITAGO

     
  Toward the Setting Sun: Pioneer Girls Traveling the Overland Trails

Mary Barmeyer O'Brien

Tells of nine covered wagon girls traveling different westward routes with their families to Ca, Or, Wa, or SD.

Paper

1560448415

$9.95

GLOBE

     
  True Unity: Willing Communication Between Horse and Human

Tom Dorrance

"Natural Horsemanship, as it is sometimes called, became a hot topic around the stables after the 1987 publication of ...True Unity" This edition is the twelfth printing. Photos.

Cloth

1884995098

$21.95

QUILL

     
  Wagons West: Trail Tales 1848

Robert Shellenberger

An exploration as to why people moved west to California and Oregon by wagon train and abandoning family, friends, position, perhaps forever.

Paper

0962304832

$10.95

HERITAGEWB

     
  Western Places, American Myths: How We Think About the West

Gary J. Hausladen, editor

Twelve scholars from several disciplines consider popular perceptions about the West in order to interpret the region's geography.

Cloth

0874175313

$49.94

UNP

     
  Wild Women of the Old West

Glenda Riley & Richard W. Etulain, editors

Nine thrilling biographies of some of the "wildest" women of the frontier West the stories of their sensational lives and exploits.

Paper

1555912958

$17.95

FULCRUM

     
  With Badges & Bullets: Lawmen & Outlaws in the Old West

Richard W. Etulain and Glenda Riley

Those profiled here: Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid to Belle Starr and Doc Holliday, remain larger than life.

Paper

1555914330

$17.95

FULCRUM

     
  Women of the West

Bobbie Kalman & Jane Lewis

19th century photos and detailed text describe women at the homestead, on the ranch, and in the workforce, leisure time and clothing styles, and immigrant, African American, and Native American women.

Paper

0778701123

$7.95

CRABTREE

     
  Women Who Charmed the West

Anne Seagraves

Legendary actresses of the past are brought front and center in this lively, entertaining book. From the Victorian era of the 1800s through the turn of the century, famous stars provided the glitz and glitter of yesterday's stage.

Paper

0961908823

$11.95

WESANNE

     
  Writers of the Old West

Charles L. Convis

George Catlin, Cabeza de Vaca, George Bird Grinnell, Brewster Higley, Francis Parkman, Polly Pry, Dame Shirley, and 20 others.

Paper

1892156083

$7.95

PIONEER

     
  Writing Western History

Glenda Riley

This volume examines the different currents of writing on the history of the American West for the last century.

Paper

0874175178

$19.95

UNP