Fame and Infamy
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A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn -- The Last Great Battle of the American West
by James Donovan  
Publisher Comments In June of 1876, on a desolate hill above a winding river called the Little Bighorn, George Armstrong Custer and all 210 men under his direct command were annihilated by almost 2,000 Sioux and Cheyenne. The news of this devastating loss caused a public...
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The Real Deadwood
by John Ames Publisher Comments A fascinating and accessible loot at the true history behind the people and places that populate HBO's popular hit series "Deadwood"...
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Draw
by James Reasoner Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-304)....
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Journal of a Trapper
by Osborne Russell Publisher Comments 'Reader, if you are in search of a Classical and Scientific tourist, please to lay this Volume down, and pass on, for this simply informs you what a Trapper has seen and experienced. But if you wish to peruse a Hunter's rambles among the wild regions of...
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And Die in the West: The Story of the O.K. Corral Gunfight
by Paula Marks Publisher Comments The gunfight at the O.K. Corral has excited the imaginations of Western enthusiasts ever since that chilly October afternoon in 1881 when Doc Holliday and the three fighting Earps strode along a Tombstone, Arizona, street to confront the Clanton and...
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Alias Frank Canton
by Robert Dearment Publisher Comments Here for the first time is the complete life story of the controversial lawman Frank Canton, born Joe Homer, who, after conviction and imprisonment for armed robbery, escaped to change his name and transform himself into an ambitious, hard-working peace...
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Jesse James Was His Name: Or, Fact and Fiction Concerning the Careers of the Notorious James Brothers of Missouri
by William A Jr Settle Publisher Comments "Jesse James," said Carl Sandburg, "is the only American bandit who is classical, who is to this country what Robin Hood or Dick Turpin is to England, whose exploits are so close to the mythical and apocryphal." For this definitive study no significant...
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Doc Holliday
by John Myers Myers Review "Adds an authentic shaft of light to the dark history of gun play in the West."-Chicago Sunday Tribune(Chicago Sunday Tribune)...
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Jesse James : Last Rebel of the Civil War (02 Edition)
by T.j. Stiles
Publisher Comments In this brilliant biography T. J. Stiles offers a new understanding of the legendary outlaw Jesse James. Although he has often been portrayed as a Robin Hood of the old west, in this ground-breaking work Stiles places James within the context of the...
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Pat Garrett: The Story of a Western Lawman
by Leon Metz
Review "Metz...reveals a talent for characterization worthy of a novelist. This well-documented biography is a valuable addition to the record of southwestern history. It catches the flesh-and-blood Garrett just in time; before he and the Kid recede forever...
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Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend
by Casey Tefertiller Publisher Comments Quite impressive. I doubt if there has been or will be a more deeply researched and convincing account. — Evan Connell, author Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn The book to end all Earp books— the most complete, and most...
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Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend
by Gary L Roberts Publisher Comments He was a dentist from the South believed to have gone west because of tuberculosis, a man who went on to become a gambler, a faro dealer, and one of the most feared (and fearless) gunfighters of his time--a close friend of Wyatt Earp and a key...
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Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer
by John Mack Faragher Publisher Comments Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History for 1993 In the first and most reliable biography of Daniel Boone in more than fifty years, award-winning historian Faragher brilliantly portrays America’s famous frontier hero. Drawing from...
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A Complete Life of General George A. Custer, Volume 1: Through the Civil War
by Frederick Whittaker Publisher Comments In the election year of 1876 the Battle of the Little Big Horn was horrifyingly fresh to opinion makers, who divided along political lines in assigning blame. The late General George A. Custer, who had been a Democrat with aspirations to high office, was...
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Butch Cassidy: A Biography (Bison Book)
by Richard Patterson Publisher Comments Separating mythology from actual events in the life of Butch Cassidy has been made extremely difficult by the many stories told about him. After an exhaustive search of reminiscences, newspapers, and books, Patterson has compiled the definitive biography...
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The Earp Brothers of Tombstone: The Story of Mrs. Virgil Earp
by Frank Waters Publisher Comments The Earp Brothers of Tombstone and the famous fight at the O. K. Corral are well known to American history and even better known to American legend. This composite biography of Wyatt, Morgan, Virgil, James, and Warner Earp is based on the recollections...
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The Billy the Kid Reader
by Frederick Nolan Publisher Comments More than a century's worth of essential writing on America's most famous...
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Outlaw Tales of California: True Stories of the Golden State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, and Cutthroats
by Chris Enss Publisher Comments From Sacramento to Los Angeles, San Francisco to Nevada City, the frontier towns of California were populated by some of the toughest and most dangerous characters in the West. Tom Bell, the flat-nosed, felon doctor had his “Catch me if you can...
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Triggernometry
by Eugene Cunningham Publisher Comments In this now classic volume, Eugene Cunningham collects - in his "gallery" - biographies of nearly a score of master gunfighters, including such notables as John Wesley Hardin, Billy the Kid, Dallas Stoudenmire, Sam Bass, Wild Bill Hickok, Butch Cassidy...
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Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride
by Michael Wallis Publisher Comments From the best-selling author of Route 66 comes this long-awaited biography of one of America's most legendary folk heroes. Award-winning historian Michael Wallis has spent several years re-creating the rich, anecdotal saga of Billy the Kid (1859-1881), a...
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