Tom Quirk is a professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia and the author of Berg...

On a cold, rainy dawn in late November 1872, Lieutenant Frazier Boutelle and a Modoc Indian nickn...

Frontier Comrades examines LGBTQ+ experience in the American West through six accounts of lesbian...

Told from the unique perspective of a woman, mother, environmentalist, cowboy, and rancher, this ...

Daniel Mains examines water infrastructure, economic growth, the urban environment, and citizensh...

B.J. Hollars and his daughter, Ellie, set out to explore Montana's legendary Dinosaur Trail, lear...

Bohemians West is a revelatory biography of an early twentieth century radical romance between Ch...

Guns, Furs, and Gold offers a new and riveting narrative of the American West by exploring the in...

Where Blackbirds Fly offers a journey into the human heart through fierce narratives of intimacy ...

The story of a Nebraska-born writer that provides a unique view on how a woman with a strong voic...

Phoebe Apperson Hearst tells the story of Hearst’s world and examines the opportunities and chall...

Fish Cars and Fish Culture

Ruin and Restoration in Trump's New America

Around the Bend

As the United States and the Soviet Union went from exploring space to living in it, a space stat...

After practicing law for four years, then selling his practice for ¿fear of becoming rich,¿ Helge...

Frederick Manfred (1912¿94) grew up on a farm in Iowa with six brothers, attended Calvin College ...

Originally published in 1920, TALES OF THE TEPEE grew out of Edward Everett Dale's close associat...

Soon after the assassination of President Lincoln in April 1865, newspaper editor Josiah Gilbert ...

A bona fide classic, originally published in 1872, 'Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada' is still...

'The History of Wyoming' explains detailed information of territorial and state developments. Thi...

In 1822 Elijah Mounts, barely eighteen, shoulders his rifle and walks from his uncle's Missouri f...

Long before laughter was prescribed for illness, Anne Ellis wrote with unexpected humor of her ex...

'We pray the God of mercy to deliver us from our present Calamity,' wrote Patrick Breen on the fi...

Originally published: New York: Little, Brown and Co.. 2008.

James Chisholm's journal exudes the smell of sagebrush and scenic panoramas, of torrential rain s...

Bad Company begins with Joaquin Murieta, whose myth started in the early 1850s and who remains Ca...

Portrays births, weddings, and deaths on the trail and the strategies of men and women desperatel...

A powerful narrative of the bloody prologue to the Civil War, 'War to the Knife' covers the 1854 ...

Because the French had befriended the Indians, the latter soon felt discontent with the victoriou...

A favorite of President Andrew Jackson and the daughter of Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri...

'Even before the start of spring training, Herzog had said, 'If Rich Billings is the starting cat...

James Josiah Webb left Independence, Missouri, in the summer of 1844 and headed down the Santa Fe...

This classic history is filled with colorful pathmarkers like Jedediah Smith, John C. Fremont, an...

One of the first known novels by a Native American woman, 'Cogewea' (1927) is the story of a half...

More Bison Books by Ralph Moody are: 'The Dry Divide'; 'The Home Ranch'; 'Horse of a Different Co...

Volume 2 of 'Kit Carson Days' begins with Carson carrying the news of the conquest of California ...

Mabel Barbee Lee has written a rousing tale of early days in Cripple Creek, Colorado. She speaks ...

Reprint. Originally published: 1st ed. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1977.

Included are Nebraska folk customs as well as studies of the origins of American cowboy and folk ...

'This is the fascinating story of the great Cripple Creek gold mines. But it is not told with fan...

Dan Aadland is a former teacher who ranches and breeds horses near Absarokee, Montana. He is the ...

In the latest in his series of light-hearted stories, A. B. Guthrie transplants Midbury, Montana,...

During the depression days of the early 1930s the Jordan family--Len Jordan, his wife Grace, and ...

'Helldorado' offers cinematic images of wagon trains crossing the Great Plains, of Phoenix and De...

The March Of The Mounted Riflemen, First published in 1940, is important as the only complete rec...

Originally published in 1911 by the Bureau of American Ethnology, 'The Omaha Tribe' is an irrepla...

From the earliest Spanish explorations in the late 1500s through the present, California's histor...