Western History


Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West
The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang
The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West
Children happily played "cowboys and Indians" but stopped short of "masters and slaves. ...more
Patty Limerick

Why did we so consistently look at the West through the sights of a rifle?
Dan Flores, American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains

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