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  • Charlie Siringo's West

    An Interpretive Biography

    Charlie Siringo (1855–1928) lived the quintessential life of adventure on the American frontier as a cowboy, Pinkerton detective, writer, and later as a consultant for early western films. Siringo was one of the most attractive, bold, and original characters to live and flourish in the final decades of the Wild West. His love of the cattle business and of cowboy life was so great that in 1885 he ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Texas Crossings

    The Lone Star State and the American Far West, 1836–1986

    “Texas is not a place, it is a commotion!” exclaimed one early visitor to the state, underscoring the mobility and “get-ahead” spirit that have always characterized Texas and its people. In these thought-provoking essays, Howard R. Lamar looks specifically at the “crossings” that have characterized Texas history to see what effect these migrations to and through Texas have had on Texas, the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • On the Overland Trails with William Clark

    A Teamster's Utah War, 1857–1858

    The Utah War remains an understudied but important moment in western history as the United States wrestled with its political future. There are few primary accounts from this war, but one of the best comes from William Clark, a young teamster hired by Russell, Majors and Waddell, the West’s greatest freighters. Clark’s narrative, “A Trip Across the Plains in 1857,” was not published until 1922 and ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Cruise of The Portsmouth, 1845-1847: A Sailor's View of the Naval Conquest of California

    The Cruise of the Portsmouth, 1845–1847 offers a vivid firsthand account of naval life during a critical period in America's expansionist era. Written from the perspective of an officer aboard the USS Portsmouth, this narrative chronicles the ship's voyage from the eastern seaboard around Cape Horn to the Pacific, where it played a significant role in the events leading up to and during the ... Read more

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    The Lion of the West

    "Vivid, Comprehensible . . . cuts through decades of mythmaking." —Texas MonthlyPopular culture transformed his memory into “Davy Crockett,” and Hollywood gave him a raccoon hat he hardly ever wore. In this surprising New York Times bestseller, historian Michael Wallis has cast a fresh look at the flesh-and-blood man behind one of the most celebrated figures in American history. More than a ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • They Called Him Wild Bill

    The Life and Adventures of James Butler Hickok

    His contemporaries called him Wild Bill, and newspapermen and others made him a legend in his own time. Among western characters only General George Armstrong Custer and Buffalo Bill Cody are as readily recognized by the general public. In writing this biography, Joseph G. Rosa has expressed the hope that "Hickok emerges as a man and not a legend."For this comprehensive revision of his earlier ... Read more

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  • Bloody Bill Longley

    The Mythology of a Gunfighter, Second Edition

    by Rick Miller ...
    Series series A.C. Greene Series
    William Preston Bill Longley (1851-1878), though born into a strong Christian family, turned bad during Reconstruction in Texas, much like other young boys of that time, including the deadly John Wesley Hardin. He went on a murderous rampage over the last few years of his life, shotgunning Wilson Anderson in retribution for Andersons killing of a relative; killing George Thomas in McLennan County; ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Wild West

    History, myth & the making of America

    On 14 May 1804, one Captain Meriwether Lewis and his companion William Clark led a thirty-three-man expedition to the new lands of Louisiana. 8,000 miles and two years later, after rafting up the Missouri and crossing the Rocky Mountains, they reached the far side of the world, the Pacific Ocean.Fredrick Nolan explores the first US settlers of the American West, including the remarkable stories of ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Oatman Massacre: A Tale of Desert Captivity and Survival

    A Tale of Desert Captivity and Survival

    by Brian McGinty ...
    The Oatman massacre is among the most famous and dramatic captivity stories in the history of the Southwest. In this riveting account, Brian McGinty explores the background, development, and aftermath of the tragedy.Roys Oatman, a dissident Mormon, led his family of nine and a few other families from their homes in Illinois on a journey west, believing a prophecy that they would find the fertile ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Andersonville

    A Story of Rebel Military Prisons

    by John McElroy ...
    "It is well that war is so terrible, or we would grow too fond of it."- Robert E. Lee.The infamous Andersonville prison was only in operation for little more than one year, from 1864 into 1865, but in that short time became the largest city in Georgia and the fifth largest city in the Confederate States of America. It also became America’s deadliest prison. Of the almost forty thousand captured ... Read more

    $7.04 CAD

  • The Gunfighters

    How Texas Made the West Wild

    **Named a Best Book of 2025 by Bloomberg“One hell of a good read.” —The New York Times“One of the most important books written on the American West in many years.” —True West MagazineFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Big Rich and Forget the Alamo comes an epic reconsideration of the time and place that spawned America’s most legendary gunfighters, from Jesse James and Billy the Kid ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Unsettled Ground

    The Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in the American West

    **"By turns moving, evenhanded and lyrical in its evocation of time and place."—**Seattle TimesIn this rigorously researched and incisively written account, historian and journalist Cassandra Tate challenges generations of received wisdom about the 1847 killing of Marcus and Narcissa Whitman and eleven others at their Presbyterian mission on Cayuse land near present-day Walla Walla.Far from a ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD