Here are the true stories of the West's most terrible massacres-Sacramento River, Mountain Meadows, Sand Creek, Marias River, Camp Grant, and Wounded Knee, among others. These massacres involved Americans killing Indians, but also Indians killing Americans and, in the case of the currently hugely controversial Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857, Mormons slaughtering a party of American settlers, including women and children. McMurtry's evocative descriptions...

As the Blackfoot prepare for war, led by a legendary prophet preaching the destruction of the white settlers, Preacher, the mountain man, sets out to expose the would-be messiah as a fraud and save a desperate people from certain massacre.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes an eye-opening history of the American conquest of the West—"a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy" (The New York Times Book Review).
In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed by Mexico. Fueled by the new ideology of “Manifest...

Describes the various articles of clothing worn by cowboys and others who lived in the western United States during the nineteenth century.

A loud ping over the intercom awoke Huber from his fitful siesta. The fasten seat belt sign illuminated overhead. Still half asleep Huber buckled himself in. He scanned the rows ahead and behind him before a sickening realization hit him. Everyone was gone. The plane was empty.

Many people don't realize that before he became the world's most famous Old West entertainer and entrepreneur, Buffalo Bill Cody had an amazing life of adventure on the Great Plains. He was a well-known scout and guide, knew all of the old frontiersmen and many Native Americans, and participated in the Great Sioux War of 1876. Drawing on his experiences and knowledge, Cody and Colonel Henry Inman wrote this classic of the years of westward expansion.

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"A deeply-researched, dramatic, and character-driven narrative account of the violent struggle between Union and Confederate forces to claim the American West during the Civil War"--