The American West

  • The American West: A New Interpretive History
    The American West: A New Interpretive History
    By Robert V. Hine, John Mack Faragher

    ... of writers churning out copy at the astounding rate of a thousand words per hour , a complete story every three days . ... fighting Kit Carson , or big Jim Bowie , with a chip on his shoulder to match the massive knife in his belt .

  • The American West
    The American West
    By Christine Hatt

    This series takes a look at history by using original documents as the starting pont for studying important events or periods in the past.

  • The American West
    The American West
    By Anne McEvoy

    A look at what was worn by pioneers and settlers as well as Native Americans as the West opened up.

  • The American West: A Treasury of Stories, Legends, Narratives, Songs and Ballads of Western America
    The American West: A Treasury of Stories, Legends, Narratives, Songs and Ballads of Western America
    By William Targ

    This is a new release of the original 1946 edition.

  • The American West: Cowboys
    The American West: Cowboys
    By Grayson Wyatt

    Another cowboy decided: 'That pretty girl's got a nose that's too long' and proceeded to snick off pieces of it with ... A cowboy, for example, once treated a skin disease by sprinkling kerosene on the hide of some cows - a widely ...

  • The American West
    The American West
    By Dee Brown

    "Beginning with the demise of the Native Americans of the Plains, Brown depicts the onrush of the burgeoning cattle trade and the waves of immigrants who ultimately "settled" the land....

  • The American West
    The American West
    By Gordon Morris Bakken, Brenda Gail Farrington

    The American West

  • The American West: People, Places, and Ideas
    The American West: People, Places, and Ideas
    By Suzan Campbell, Kathleen E. Ash-Milby

    The Great American West--a place familiar yet exotic, one that symbolizes the American spirit and character. What defines the West? The splendidly varied works of the Rockwell Museum of Western...

  • The American West: Images of Past and Present
    The American West: Images of Past and Present
    By Timothy Newark, Tim Newark

    A history of the American West in word and pictures.

  • The American West: A New Interpretive History
    The American West: A New Interpretive History
    By Robert V. Hine, John Mack Faragher

    Following in the tradition of Hine's earlier acclaimed work, The American West: An Interpretive History, this volume will be an essential resource for scholars, students, and general readers.

  • The American West
    The American West

    Wie sah das Leben an der "Frontier" aus, wer war Daniel Boone und wer war Sitting Bull? Viel Wissenswertes rund um The American West findet sich in dem gleichnamigen Buch und auf der beiliegenden CD.

  • The American West: The Invention of a Myth
    The American West: The Invention of a Myth
    By David Hamilton Murdoch

    Americans have chosen to invest one small part of their history, the settlement of the western wilderness, with extraordinary significance. The lost frontier of the 1800s remains not merely a...

  • The American West: An Interpretive History
    The American West: An Interpretive History
    By Robert V. Hine

    The American West: An Interpretive History

  • The American West: Living the Frontier Dream
    The American West: Living the Frontier Dream
    By Roberta Wiener, James A. Arnold

    This well-researched and compelling record of pioneer life contrasts our myths of the frontier with the harsh realities faced by the typical settler.

  • The American West: A Treasury of Stories, Legends, Narratives, Songs and Ballads of Western America
    The American West: A Treasury of Stories, Legends, Narratives, Songs and Ballads of Western America
    By William Targ

    Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their ...