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  • Mystic Sails, Texas Trails

    Captain Grimes, Shanghai Pierce, Range Wars, and Raising Texas

    by Robert Davant, Mickey Herskowitz ...
    Series series Huntsville History
    This four-generation saga, written with Mickey Herskowitz, begins with Richard Grimes, who became a sea captain at the astonishing age of 21, and made the first of his fortunes carrying passengers from Mystic Seaport, Connecticut, to the West Indies. In 1821, he heard of the land grants being developed in the territory west of New Orleans and the port of Matagorda. It was the final year of Spanish ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • Wondrous Times on the Frontier

    America During the 1800s

    by Dee Brown ...
    A lively history of the nineteenth-century American West from the #1 New York Times –bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee ."Glorious . . . Do not miss a page." — Rocky Mountain NewsFrontier life, Dee Brown writes, "was hard, unpleasant most of the time," and "lacking in almost all amenities or creature comforts." ... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Who Was Davy Crockett?

    by Gail Herman, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by Robert Squier ...
    Series series Who Was?
    Davy Crockett, the King of the Wild Frontier, is a man of legend. He is said to have killed his first bear when he was three years old. His smile alone killed another, and he skinned a bear by forcing him to run between two trees. Fact or fiction? Find out the real story of this folk hero, who did love to hunt bears, served as a congressman for Tennessee, and fought and died at the Alamo. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Gold!

    The Story of the 1848 Gold Rush and How It Shaped a Nation

    by Fred Rosen ...
    A riveting true account of gold rush fever in mid-nineteenth-century America, rich with the thrilling exploits of daring fortune seekers and dangerous outlawsAmerica was never the same after January 24, 1848. It was on that day that a carpenter named James Marshall discovered a tiny nugget of gold while building a sawmill at Sutter's Fort, just east of Sacramento, California. Marshall's find ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Life of John Wesley Hardin

    by John Wesley Hardin, Damian Stevenson ...
    John Wesley Hardin was the only Wild West outlaw to write his autobiography. This new 2018 edition of his prison-penned memoirs includes an introduction and footnotes by author and translator Damian Stevenson (‘On the Shortness of Life’) which help shed light on this most enigmatic of Old West legends. ... Read more

    $1.40 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Which Way to the Wild West?

    Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About America's Westward Expansion

    by Steve Sheinkin ...
    Illustrated by Tim Robinson ...
    New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Honor recipient Steve Sheinkin welcomes young readers to the thrilling, tragic, and downright wild historic adventure of America’s westward expansion in Which Way to the Wild West? Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn’t Tell You About America’s Westward Expansion, featuring illustrations by Tim Robinson.1805: Explorer William Clark reaches the Pacific ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Our Land Before We Die

    by Jeff Guinn ...
    In Our Land Before We Die, Jeff Guinn traces the little-known history of the runaway slaves who fled to the Florida Everglades to live alongside the Seminole Indians. Deeply rooted in tribal oral history, and based on extensive interviews with descendants, this book describes the incredible circumstances of a people who sought shelter in the shadow of a tribe whose land and welfare already hung in ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Autobiography of Calamity Jane

    by Calamity Jane ...
    A short memoir of Calamity Jane. The Autobiography of Calamity Jane also Martha Canary.Always on the move across the northern plains, Calamity Jane was more camp follower than a scout. A mother of two, she found employment as waitress, laundress, or dance hall girl and was more likely to be wearing a dress than buckskin. She was hard to ignore after a few drinks, and she exploited the aura of fame ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gold Rush Stories

    49 Tales of Seekers, Scoundrels, Loss, and Luck

    by Gary Noy ...
    From the author of Hellacious California!, deeply human stories of the California Gold Rush generation, full of brutality, tragedy, humor, and prosperity.In less than ten years, more than 300,000 people made the journey to California, some from as far away as Chile and China. Many of them were dreamers seeking a better life, like Mifflin Wistar Gibbs, who eventually became the first African ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bowie

    A Novel of the Life of Jim Bowie

    by Randy Lee Eickhoff, Leonard C. Lewis ...
    Jim Bowie, the descendant of Highland Scots, grew up riding alligators and working the field on the Texas frontier. Taught three languages and a sense of honor, he went on to live a life filled with brawls and battles, loves and loses. This is his story, as told by those who, whether they loved or hated him, were united by their awe of this amazing frontiersman.At the Publisher's request, this ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Trail Drivers of Texas

    Interesting Sketches of Early Cowboys...

    Edited by J. Marvin Hunter ...
    Series series Texas Classics
    "For 60 years, [it] has been considered the most monumental single source on the old-time Texas trail drives north to Kansas and beyond." — The Dallas Morning NewsThese are the chronicles of the trail drivers of Texas—those rugged men and, sometimes, women—who drove cattle and horses up the trails from Texas to northern markets in the late 1800s. Gleaned from members of the Old Time Trail Drivers' ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Larger Than Life: The Exploits of the Miner and Adventurer David E. Buel

    by Edward Slagle ...
    As a sheriff he proved himself to be absolutely fearless, and turned one of the most lawless regions in California into one of the safest. A special agent for the federal government who knew him when Buel was in charge of an Indian reservation later said of him, "He was an honest Indian Agent—the rarest work of God that I know of." He was one of the founding fathers of three towns and one of the ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus