Twodot: 177 books
by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
From "Roughing it with the Men" to "Below the Border in Wartime" Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Out Trail features seven tales from her adventures in the West from fishing at Puget Sound to hiking the Bright Angel trail at the Grand Canyon. Though she was best known at the time for...
The Promise of the West
Young Pioneers on the Overland Trails
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Driven by the promise of prosperity and opportunity on the frontier, thousands of men and women traveled west in the mid-1800s to forge a new life. Accompanying them were their children, wide-eyed and excited about the adventures that awaited them as they headed toward the setting sun. Little did...
It Happened in the Old West
Remarkable Events that Shaped History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
These are the stories of what happened in the West as the trickle then flood of Easterners and immigrants first began to flow into the plains, deserts, and mountains between the Pacific Ocean and the Mississippi River and, finally, far north into The Last Frontier. While some events would have happened...
Idaho's Remarkable Women
Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Idaho's Remarakble Women 2 tells the history of the Gem State through the stories of fifteen pioneering women, all born before 1900, who made a profound impact on Idaho. Meet Sacajawea, Lewis and Clark's Shoshone guide; Jo Monaghan, who lived as a man for nearly forty years; Margaret Cobb Ailshie,...
The Revenger
The Life and Times of Wild Bill Hickok
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
The Revenger: The Life and Times of Wild Bill Hickok examines Wild Bill’s life in the context of 19th Century American history, from his birth, through his early manhood, and to his eventual demise. Woven into his life story are the significant role played by the Civil War in the development of...
by James A. Crutchfield
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Colorado has historical high points as grand as its magnificent mountains. In this book, author James A. Crutchfield scales thirty-eight of these historical summits. From a prehistoric bison hunt to a mad scramble for a fortune in gold It Happened in Colorado is a window into the Centennial State's colorful past.
Outlaw Women
America's Most Notorious Daughters, Wives, and Mothers
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West’s most egregiously badly behaved female outlaws is a great addition to Western author Robert Barr Smith’s books on the American frontier. Pulling together stories of ladies caught in the acts of mayhem, distraction, murder, and highway...
Dead Man's Hand
The Saga of Doc Holliday
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2019
You’ve heard Doc Holliday’s history, but do you know his story?
Dead Man’s Hand brings John Henry Holliday to Tombstone, Arizona, the richest silver boomtown in the country, where he’s caught up in a secretive plot to stop a gang of cattle rustlers and stage robbers before they start...
Cowboys, Mountain Men, and Grizzly Bears
Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of the Wild West
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2010
From slaughters, shootouts, and massacres to maulings, lynchings, and natural disasters, Cowboys, Mountain Men, and Grizzly Bears cuts to the chase of what draws people to the history and literature of the Wild West. Matthew P. Mayo, noted author of Western novels, takes the fifty wildest episodes...
Prairie Man
The Struggle between Sitting Bull and Indian Agent James McLaughlin
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
One week after the infamous June 1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn, when news of the defeat of General George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry troops reached the American public, Sitting Bull became the most wanted hostile Indian in America. He had resisted the United States’ intrusions into...
Outlaw Tales of Colorado
True Stories of the Centennial State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, and Cutthroats
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of Colorado, with compelling legends of the Centennial State's most despicable desperadoes. Ride with horse thieves and cattle rustlers, duck the bullets of murderers, plot strategies with con artists, and hiss at lawmen turned outlaws.
Amazing Girls of Arizona
True Stories Of Young Pioneers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
From the Diary of Anne Frank to Anne of Green Gables, young women love to read stories about real girls who faced incredible challenges and shared indelible truths about the human spirit.
Jan Cleere has compiled a wonderful collection of such stories, for a wide range of readers from ten-year-old...
Gold
Firsthand Accounts from the Rush That Made the West
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The Gold Rush era was an amazing time in our country’s history. California had just been occupied during the Mexican-American War and wasn’t officially a U.S. territory yet when gold was discovered in 1848. Suddenly the whole world was electrified by the news and tales of men digging vast amounts...
Outlaw Tales of South Dakota
True Stories Of The Mount Rushmore State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, And Cutthroats
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of South Dakota. Ride with horse thieves and cattle rustlers, stagecoach, and train robbers. Duck the bullets of murderers, plot strategies with con artists, hiss at lawmen turned outlaws. A refreshing new perspective on some of the most infamous reprobates of the Great Plains.