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A Vaquero of the Brush Country: The Life and Times of John D. Young
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3.93 avg rating — 61 ratings
"Not the best known cowboy memoir, but a distinctively Texan one. Much interpolated by editor Dobie."
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Lone Star Navy: Texas, the Fight for the Gulf of Mexico, and the Shaping of the American West
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4.47 avg rating — 19 ratings
"The West wasn't all cowboys, sometimes it was sailor boys. "
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A Dynasty of Western Outlaws
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3.92 avg rating — 53 ratings
"Wellman weaves a fascinating web, is it exaggerated? Perhaps, but it's a bold thesis. "
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The Far Southwest, 1846-1912: A Territorial History
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Such Men as Billy the Kid: The Lincoln County War Reconsidered
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4.08 avg rating — 25 ratings
"A lawyer lays bare the Lincoln Co War with clinical precision."
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Jesse James Was His Name; or, Fact and Fiction concerning the Careers of the Notorious James Brothers of Missouri
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3.59 avg rating — 29 ratings
"Ya gotta have Jesse James."
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The Decline of the Californios: A Social History of the Spanish-Speaking Californians, 1846-1890
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3.77 avg rating — 31 ratings
"Goes beyond the winners' history."
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The Book of the Navajo
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3.92 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Raven
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4.10 avg rating — 335 ratings
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Roughing It
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3.87 avg rating — 10,246 ratings
"A classic of literature and a unique first-hand picture of the West."
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Jim Bridger: Mountain Man
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The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier
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4.06 avg rating — 4,014 ratings
"Digs deep into the most American of stories, the captivity narrative."
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The Arizona Rangers
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4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings
"A lively account of tough frontier lawmen."
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The War on Powder River
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3.61 avg rating — 33 ratings
"insightful look at the dramatic clash of big-money and small ranchers. And not a whitewash of anybody."
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Coronado's Children: Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest (Barker Texas History Center Series)
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4.21 avg rating — 160 ratings
"Lost treasure!"
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Belle Starr and Her Times
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3.32 avg rating — 34 ratings
"Shirley examines Belle Starr closely, and debunks myth, while giving you food for thought about what Belle was really like."
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Bald Knobbers: Vigilantes on the Ozarks Frontier
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3.92 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Gold Dust and Gunsmoke: Tales of Gold Rush Outlaws, Gunfighters, Lawmen, and Vigilantes
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3.79 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense
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3.89 avg rating — 200 ratings
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Lone Star Lawmen: The Second Century of the Texas Rangers
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3.89 avg rating — 45 ratings
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The Lawmen: United States Marshals and Their Deputies, 1789-1989
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4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Mexican War
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3.46 avg rating — 46 ratings
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A Cowboy Detective: A True Story of Twenty-two Years with a World-Famous Detective Agency
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3.91 avg rating — 455 ratings
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Crazy Horse
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4.24 avg rating — 1,543 ratings
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And Die in the West: The Story of the O.K. Corral Gunfight
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4.04 avg rating — 93 ratings
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The Pequot War
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3.99 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Ark of Empire: The American Frontier, 1784-1803
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4.48 avg rating — 29 ratings
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A Company of Heroes: The American Frontier, 1775-1783
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4.18 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Hunted Like a Wolf: The Story of the Seminole War
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3.77 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The British at the Gates: The New Orleans Campaign in the War of 1812
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3.85 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The War of 1812
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3.62 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Western Rivermen, 1763–1861: Ohio and Mississippi Boatmen and the Myth of the Alligator Horse
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The Outlaw Years: The History of the Land Pirates of the Natchez Trace
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3.88 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Devil's Backbone, The: The Story of the Natchez Trace (Pelican Pouch Series)
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3.37 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Fearless and free: The Seminole Indian War, 1835-1842
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it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Old Hickory's War
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3.88 avg rating — 33 ratings
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A Rogue's Paradise: Crime and Punishment in Antebellum Florida, 1821-1861
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3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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To Die Game: The Story of the Lowry Band, Indian Guerrillas of Reconstruction
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4.31 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Rebellious Ranger: Rip Ford and the Old Southwest
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Quantrill's War: The Life & Times Of William Clarke Quantrill, 1837-1865
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3.87 avg rating — 89 ratings
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The Life, Times, and Treacherous Death of Jesse James
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3.31 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Law West Of Fort Smith A History Of Frontier Justice In The Indian Territory 1834-1896
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3.68 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Bill Doolin, Outlaw O.T.
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3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Long Death
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4.27 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Boots and Saddles: Or, Life in Dakota with General Custer
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3.86 avg rating — 393 ratings
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The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Negro Cavalry in the West
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3.94 avg rating — 138 ratings
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The Apache Indians
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3.45 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains (Volume 34) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)
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3.88 avg rating — 64 ratings
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With the Border Ruffians: Memories of the Far West, 1852-1868
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4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Saga of Tom Horn: The Story of a Cattlemen's War
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3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Bent's Fort
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4.32 avg rating — 97 ratings
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The Alamo
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3.62 avg rating — 194 ratings
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Taming the Nueces Strip: The Story of McNelly's Rangers
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4.31 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Fort McKavett: A Texas frontier post
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3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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"With His Pistol in His Hand": A Border Ballad and Its Hero
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3.81 avg rating — 349 ratings
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I'll Die Before I'll Run: The Story of the Great Feuds of Texas
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The Last Chance: Tombstone's Early Years
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3.92 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Comanche Moon
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3.98 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Indian Lover: Sam Houston and the Cherokees
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4.26 avg rating — 19 ratings
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A Texas Cowboy; or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony
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3.88 avg rating — 369 ratings
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The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid: A Faithful & Interesting Narrative (The Western Frontier Library Series)
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3.43 avg rating — 879 ratings
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BOY CAPT BEING TRUE (The Garland library of narratives of North American Indian captivities)
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4.18 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879: The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians
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4.17 avg rating — 5,322 ratings
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Texas History Movies
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3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier
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4.03 avg rating — 1,374 ratings
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Walker: The True Story of the First American Invasion of Nicaragua
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The Great Range Wars: Violence on the Grasslands (Bison Book S)
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3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Life of Buffalo Bill: Or, the Life and Adventures of William F. Cody, As Told by Himself
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3.79 avg rating — 868 ratings
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Encyclopedia of Western Gunfighters
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3.89 avg rating — 38 ratings
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We Pointed Them North: Recollections of a Cowpuncher
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4.27 avg rating — 502 ratings
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Whiskey Peddler: Johnny Healy, North Frontier Trader
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3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Gunfighter: Man or Myth?
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3.61 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Buffalo Hunters: The Story of the Hide Men
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4.04 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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4.26 avg rating — 101,969 ratings
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The Oregon Trail
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3.56 avg rating — 3,700 ratings
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Halfbreed: The Remarkable True Story Of George Bent -- Caught Between The Worlds Of The Indian And The White Man
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4.16 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Six Years With the Texas Rangers: 1875-1881
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4.14 avg rating — 1,160 ratings
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A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee
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3.62 avg rating — 902 ratings
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Ten Texas Feuds (Historians of the Frontier and American West Series)
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Shotgun for hire;: The story of "Deacon" Jim Miller, killer of Pat Garrett
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José María de Jesús Carvajal: The Life and Times of a Mexican Revolutionary
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Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers
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3.85 avg rating — 184 ratings
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The Governor's Hounds: The Texas State Police, 1870-1873 (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture)
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Forth to the Wilderness: The First American Frontier, 1754-1774
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Tularosa: Last of the Frontier West
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The Romantic and Notorious History of Brown's Park
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Frontier Defense in the Civil War: Texas' Rangers and Rebels (Volume 40)
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Ballots and Bullets: The Bloody County Seat Wars of Kansas
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Texas' Last Frontier: Fort Stockton and the Trans-Pecos, 1861-1895 (Volume 10) (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University)
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"Wild Bill" Hickman and the Mormon Frontier
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Ogallala: A Century on the Trail
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Captain Bill McDonald, Texas Ranger: A Story of Frontier Reform
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4.39 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Background to Glory: The Life of George Rogers Clark
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3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings
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General Stand Watie's Confederate Indians
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Fullerton's Rangers: A History of the New Mexico Territorial Mounted Police
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The Mason County Hoo Doo War, 1874-1902 (A.c. Greene Series)
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Dallas Stoudenmire: El Paso Marshal (Volume 53) (The Western Frontier Library Series)
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Jeff Milton: A Good Man with a Gun
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The Cattlemen: From the Rio Grande across the Far Marias
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Adobe and Iron
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