True stories about Indian home life, Indian warfare, the Pony Express, and Overland Stage.

"In 2014, James Harman made a fascinating discovery thanks to some of his cousins: his great-grandfather Robert Slothower had written a life-story manuscript. The legacy of his words, passed down from generation to generation, is presented here by his great-grandson James Harman (Jay). This book, the cautiously edited and illustrated version of that manuscript, represents a challenging life met with great courage. The son and grandson of Civil War...

This is a book that should be read by all Americans! The author, Edith Eudora Ammons Kohl, not only participated in the difficult, perilous settling of America's West, but she also captured the sights, sounds and events involved in her book, "The Sodbreakers." Her writings are priceless, historic depictions. Thanks to her writing style in "The Sodbreakers," you will have a greater appreciation for the personal sacrifice, hard work and suffering she...

A woman's view of homesteading 1914-1922.

John Colter was a crack hunter with the Lewis and Clark expedition before striking out on his own as a mountain man and fur trader. A solitary journey in the winter of 1807-1808 took him into present-day Wyoming. To unbelieving trappers he later reported sights that inspired the name of Colter's Hell. It was a sulfurous place of hidden fires, smoking pits, and shooting water. And it was real. John Colter is known to history as probably the first white...

Some of the legendary gunmen of the Old West were lawmen, but more, like Billy the Kid and Jesse James, were outlaws. Tom Horn (1860-1903) was both. Lawman, soldier, hired gunman, detective, outlaw, and assassin, this darkly enigmatic figure has fascinated Americans ever since his death by hanging the day before his forty-third birthday. In this masterful historical biography, Larry Ball, a distinguished historian of western lawmen and outlaws, presents...