Twodot: 177 books
Buffalo Calf Road Woman
The Story of a Warrior of the Little Bighorn
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
Winner of the Western Heritage Award for "Outstanding Western Novel" 2005As the Cheyenne fought that June day in 1876, warrior Comes in Sight faced grave danger. His horse had been shot out from under him, and he was left stranded on the battlefield. Suddenly, a rider galloped through enemy fire, pulled...
Cowgirl Dreams
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
From her ranch home in Montana in the 1920s, Nettie Brady dreamed of joining the rodeo circuit and becoming a star. Defying her mother's wishes and trading her skirts for trousers--and riding the range with her brothers and taking on the occasional half-ton steer in local rodeos--Nettie bucked convention...
The Lost Frontier
Momentous Moments in the Old West You May Have Missed
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West goes beyond the tales everyone knows of the OK Corral and the Dead Man’s Hand to focus on the gunfights, massacres, and daring deeds that are the stars of local historians but not featured in general histories of the old west. These...
Outlaw Tales of New Mexico
True Stories of the Land of Enchantment's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits , and Cutthroats
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
True stories of the Land of Enchantment's most infamous crooks, culprits, and cutthroats.
The Life and Death of Kid Curry
Tiger of the Wild Bunch
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Harvey "Kid Curry" Logan was an outlaw, gunfighter and infamous member of the Butch Cassidy gang. With more than fifteen killings attributed to him, and given his involvement in the Butch Cassidy gang, "Kid Curry" was as renowned a figure as you were likely to find west of the...
by Michael Rutter
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
How much of what we know about the history of the Old West is true? In this new book, author Michael Rutter looks at the legend and lore behind such notorious figures as Billy the Kid and Calamity Jane and the stories of famous gun fights and battles, telling what really happened. Truth may be stranger...
How the West Was Worn
Bustles And Buckskins On The Wild Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
Fashion that was in vogue in the East was highly desirable to pioneers during the frontier period of the American West. It was also extraordinarily difficult to obtain, often impractical, and sometimes the clothing was just not durable enough for the men and women who were forging new homes for themselves...
by Bonnie Tsui
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
This exciting new volume profiles several substantiated cases of female soldiers during the American Civil War, including Sarah Rosetta Wakeman (aka Private Lyons Wakeman, Union); Sarah Emma Edmonds (aka Private Frank Thompson, Union); Loreta Janeta Velazquez (aka Lieutenant Harry T. Buford, Confederate);...
Westlake Girl
My Oregon Frontier Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Westlake Girl: My Oregon Frontier Childhood is the true story of a spirited girl coming of age in an isolated village on the Oregon coast from 1928 to 1936. It portrays the artless feminist strivings of a capable girl who dreamed of a career in the Coast Guard on the merit of her skills as a boat...
Follow the Dream
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
In this sequel to Cowgirl Dreams, Nettie Brady, now Nettie Moser, is working with her husband Jake to prepare for a busy rodeo season when she's offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to travel to London to perform with the Tex Austin Wild West Troupe. When fate once again interferes with her dreams,...
Dare to Dream
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
At the start of the 1940s, Montana cowgirl Nettie Brady Moser has overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles on the journey toward her dream of being a professional rodeo rider. In the 1920s, she struggled against her family's expectations and social prejudice against rodeo cowgirls. During the Great...
Prairie Bride; or, the Squatter's Triumph
A Reprint Of The Classic Beadle Dime Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
A fight breaks out over a claim in this action-filled homesteading story. The hardships of covered wagon life, the danger of the prairie fire, and the romance of the young bride's new home made this a best-seller in 1869.
One of the things that made dime novels so popular was the lurid cover...
Lady Rode Bucking Horses
The Story of Fannie Sperry Steele, Woman of the West
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
The Lady Rode Bucking Horses depicts an era of the American West when capturing renegade horses from the hills above the homestead served as training ground for extraordinary horsemanship. It documents the life of the outstanding girl who outrode them all at stampedes and roundups and the woman she...
Cowgirl Up!
A History of Rodeo Women
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
When someone says "Cowgirl Up!" it means rise to the occasion, don't give up, and do it all without whining or complaining. And the cowgirls of the early twentieth century did it all, just like the men, only wearing skirts and sometimes with a baby waiting behind the chutes. Women learned to rope...