Twodot: 177 books
The Golden Elixir of the West
Whiskey and the Shaping of America
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
An insider's look at the iconic drink and its role in shaping the American West
Distilleries are the new microbreweries, cropping up all over the West and producing brands that emulate the predecessors that were made in copper stills by emigrants and served in saloons and dance halls. This...
Wildest Lives of the Wild West
America through the Words of Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, and Other Famous Westerners
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
By and about the greatest celebrities of frontier America, these are the stories of their adventures told in their own words through excerpts from autobiographies, articles they wrote, newspaper interviews, private journals, personal letters, and court testimony. These glimpses into the worlds of...
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The Hard-Rock Life of Pioneer May Arkwright Hutton
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
An adventurous single woman who knew how to cook, twenty-three-year-old May Arkwright moved — alone — to the remote valleys of northern Idaho in 1883. She opened a one-table restaurant for the silver prospectors near Wallace, serving her homemade berry pies and hot dishes. Before long, she was...
The Cowboy President
The American West and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
The Cowboy President: How the American West Transformed Theodore Roosevelt details how his time spent in the Western Dakota Territory helped him recover from an overwhelming personal loss, but more importantly, how it transformed him into the man etched onto Mount Rushmore, a man who is still rated...
Calling the Brands
Stock Detectives in the Wild West
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Calling the Brands tells the story of the, "range detectives," "stock detectives," and "inspectors," who usually worked completely alone, courageously capturing or killing livestock rustlers in order to assure the survivability of the ranchers. The detectives and inspectors...
Pioneer Doctor
The Story of a Woman's Work
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
When Mollie stepped off the train in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1890, she knew she had to start a new life. She'd left her husband and his medical practice behind in Iowa, and with only a few hundred dollars in her pocket and a great deal of pride, she set out to find a new position as a physician. She...
Southern Son
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?
His name conjures images of the Wild West, of gunfights and gambling halls and a legendary friendship with Wyatt Earp, but before Doc Holliday was a Western legend, he was a Southern Son. The story begins in Civil War Georgia,...
Altitude Adjustment
A Quest for Love, Home, and Meaning in the Tetons
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Aware that her youth is slipping by, Mary Beth Baptiste decides to escape her lackluster, suburban life in coastal Massachusetts to pursue her lifelong dream of being a Rocky Mountain woodswoman. To the horror of her traditional, ethnic family, she divorces her husband of fifteen years, dusts off...
Cowgirls
Stories of Trick Riders, Sharp Shooters, and Untamed Women
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009
From Jo Monaghan, the Southern-belle-debutant turned Idaho cattlewoman, to Fanny Sperry Steele, the Bucking Horse Champion of the World, the Wild West was populated with untamed women who worked and played as men did in the saddles of their favorite bucking broncos. This book brings together their...
Adventures in Yellowstone
Early Travelers Tell Their Tales
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
After its establishment in 1872, Yellowstone National Park was sufficiently famous that numerous people risked bear maulings, Indian attacks, and geyser burns just to glimpse its wonders. A surprising number of those who survived wrote about their adventures. The best of these stories are collected...
The Stories of Yellowstone
Adventure Tales from the World's First National Park
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Covering the time period from 1807, when John Colter first discovered the wonders of the Yellowstone Plateau to the 1920s when tourists sped between luxury hotels in their automobiles, these tales of Wonderland come from the letters, journals, and diaries kept by early visitors and later tourists....
by R. Michael Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
During the 1800s trains carried the nation's wealth throughout the east, but no one thought to rob a speeding train until 1866. In 1870 the first western train was robbed in Nevada and within hours a second train was robbed. Railroads made every alteration to their cars and changed every procedure...
by R. Michael Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Stagecoach robbers evolved as a consequence of the discovery of gold or silver, or some other mineral treasure, and a town would "spring forth from the earth" overnight. Roads were soon built and stage lines began operating. A "pitching Betsy" would take out bullion and dust and...
Dance with the Devil
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?
Dance with the Devil is the story of a how a gentleman becomes an outlaw, how an outlaw becomes a lawman, and how a Southern son named John Henry becomes a legend called Doc Holliday. The year is 1873, and the West is wild....