west (u.s.)

Fictional diary of a fourteen-year-old girl accompanying a cattle drive along the Chisolm Trail in 1878.

Reprints Grace Hebard's 1933 biography of Sacagawea, the Shoshone Native American who served as a guide on the Lewis and Clark expedition, which describes her personal traits, her contributions to the expedition, and the careers of her sons.

Draws from diaries, journals, company and expedition reports, and newspaper articles to trace the history of the Oregon Trail, telling of the traders, missionaries, mountain men, voyageurs, farm families, gold-seekers, and others who made their way west along the cross-country route.

The people of the town of Plainsville always do the same thing, wear the same thing, and eat the same thing until one day Sheriff Julius decides to do something different.

Collection of essays from America's foremost western writers about horses and life on the ranges of the American West.

Rev. ed. of: The American Heritage history of the great West. 1965. A history of the exploration and conquest of the West from 1763 to the twilight of the frontier in the twentieth century.

When Yellow Sky's marshall, Jack Potter, returns from San Antonio with his bride, Scratchy Wilson is looking for a gunfight.

A nomadic gunfighter defends a farm family from a malevolent cattleman and his armed minion. The outsider is as quick to capture the devotion of a young boy as he is to shoot a gun.