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Billy the Kid

a short and violent life
1989
Examines the career of the young outlaw whose life and death were an expression of the violence prevalent on the American frontier.

Billy the Kid

1996
The life story of Billy the Kid, the outlaw of the Old West, from his childhood and participation in the Lincoln County Range War to his death at the hands of Pat Garrett.

The Harvey girls

the women who civilized the West
1997
The story of the young women who served as waitresses in the Fred Harvey restaurants on the Santa Fe Railroad.

The Harvey girls

women who opened the West
1989
The story of the pioneering women who worked as waitresses at Fred Harvey's restaurants along the railway from the 1880s through the 1950s.

Death comes for the archbishop

1993
The literal and spiritual journey of two French priests who come to the American Southwest as missionaries in the mid-1800s.

Mexicano resistance in the Southwest

"the sacred right of self-preservation"
1981

The Dalton gang

1995
A biography of the Dalton brothers, four lawmen-turned-outlaws whose careers in crime were cut short after an overly ambitious double bank robbery in Kansas. Also includes a glossary and a further reading list.

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