west (united states)

A biography of Kit Carson highlighting his friendship with Native Americans and his work as a guide for John C. Fremont.

While their father is away, young Annie Oakley and her brother John help their mother during a blizzard.

Describes the journey taken by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis after leaving Illinois in 1804 to explore the unknown western region of North America where they discovered animals, and landforms, and interacted with several Native American tribes.

Nineteen poems celebrate cowboy life.

Wild Bill Hickock, Doc Holiday, Jesse James, Billy the Kid and more deceased greats of the untamed West get a last chance to undo their violent pasts in a mysterious town that's West of the Pecos and south of Eternity.

Examines the lives of men who chose to make their lives in the American frontier, drawing from letters, diaries, and memoirs to illuminate the experiences of homesteaders, outlaws and lawmen, farmers, doctors, Native Americans and others who experienced the challenges of pioneer life.

A history of the black people who participated in the development of the Western frontier in the United States, in such categories as the explorers, fur traders, early settlers, slaves, cowboys, and soldiers.

Jack Crabb, a 121-year-old man who claims to be the only white survivor of Custer's Last Stand, regales a twentieth-century historian with an account of his life as an orphan adopted and raised by the Cheyenne, and the results of his forays into the world of white men.