Wild West

Meet the death-defying motorcycle trick riders in the carnival's Devil's Tub, a man who keeps an alligator in his bathtub, a Chinese launder in Coney Island in search of love....

From roots to canopy, a lush, verdant history of the making of California....

Orphaned at a young age, revenge and bloodshed are all Colton Sutton has ever known....

Starting in our nation's earliest years, thousands of free African Americans were building hundreds of settlements in the Northwest Territory. This groundbreaking work of research reveals the lost history of the nation's first Great Migration....

His name conjures images of the Wild West–of gunfights, gambling halls, and a legendary friendship with Wyatt Earp–but before Doc Holliday was a Western legend, he was a Southern Son....

In 1878, Elder Joseph Standing traveled into the Appalachian mountains of North Georgia, seeking converts for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Sixteen months later, he was dead, murdered by a group of 12 men....

Here Estleman applies his incomparable narrative panache to this novelization of a real-life romance that never was....

Fort Worth has been called The City Where the West Begins, Cowtown, and the silent partner in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex....

Mary Jemison (1743-1833) was a Scots-Irish colonial frontierswoman in Pennsylvania and New York, who was kidnapped as a youth and adopted into a Seneca family. In her old age, Jemison told her story to the minister James E Seaver, who published it in 1824....

The New Wild West is the definitive account of what's happening on the ground and what happens to a community when the energy industry is allowed to set up in a town with little regulation....

Welcome to the Western "Desert Bloodline" by Ken Cannon, a captivating Western novel that will transport you to a world of untamed landscapes, ...

One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible motion pictures....

How the West Was Drawn explores the geographic and historical experiences of the Pawnees, the Iowas, and the Lakotas during the European and American contest for imperial control of the Great Plains during the 18th and 19th centuries....

James Butler Hickok, better known as "Wild Bill" Hickok was a folk hero of the American Old West known for being a lawman, gunfighter, gambler, and showman....

The cowboy is an iconic figure in American culture. With his hat, boots, and trusty horse, the cowboy rides in at a moment of crisis to intervene against the forces of evil. In the 20th century, the cowboy of the Wild West took center stage in the realm of popular literature....

On June 25, 1876, five troops of the U. S. Seventh Cavalry, under command of General George Armstrong Custer, rode into the valley of the Little Big Horn River....

Roger Brinkman thought his home was safe. He was wrong. Life changed abruptly while Roger was away at school. When a band of thugs impersonating ...

Here are tales of adventurers, gifted and determined, who enriched our lives as they lived theirs with spirit and grit....

The nation's greatest manhunt began the morning of January 3, 1951, with the routine investigation of an abandoned car, mired in the mud near Tulsa...

Many Americans view Andrew Jackson as a frontiersman who fought duels, killed Indians, and stole another man's wife....