Eyewitness to the Old West: Firsthand Accounts of Exploration, Adventure, and Peril

by Richard Scott (Editor)

A collection of over 150 vignettes from the journals and diaries of people who lived or traveled in the Old West, these accounts begin with the sixteenth-century collisions between the Spaniards and the Indians and conclude with Black Elk's mournful description of the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1890. Storytellers include explorers, missionaries, India leaders, a poet, an artist, and a future president.

Genres: Nonfiction, History

433 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 5, 2002

Reviews

[Hayley]

This is an insightful anthology of hard, trying times that the Westerners before us lived through. Scott did an exceptional job of choosing exciting stories through dozens of diaries, journals, books, and newspaper clippings.

[Deb]

Short stories of every thing Wild West.