Expedition to the Southwest : An 1845 Reconnaissance of Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, & Oklahoma

J. W. Abert
Paperback - $23.95

Lieutenant James William Abert (1820-97) of the United States Army Topographical Engineers received orders in 1845 to explore the Canadian River region of the southern plains -- an area covering present-day Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma. ...

From Fort Laramie to Wounded Knee

Charles W. Allen
Paperback - $48.95

From Fort Laramie to Wounded Knee is Charles W. Allen's (1851-1942) account of life on the northern Plains during an exceptionally turbulent era in its history. Richard E. Jensen is senior research anthropologist at the Nebraska State Historical Soci ...

Crazy Horse and Custer : The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors

Stephen E. Ambrose
Paperback - $27.95

On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States 7th Cavalry rode toward the banks of the Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where 3,000 Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great warriors would soon be fore ...

Undaunted Courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West

Stephen E. Ambrose
Prebound - $46.95

From the bestselling author of "D-Day" comes the definitive book on the most momentous expedition in American history--and one of the greatest adventure stories of all time. "An adventure filled with high romance and personal tragedy, involving the g ...

Undaunted Courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West

Stephen E. Ambrose
Hardcover - $47.95

In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River to the Rockies, over the mountains, down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean, and back. Lewis was the perfect cho ...

Undaunted Courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West

Stephen E. Ambrose
Paperback - $27.95

From the bestselling author of "D-Day" comes the definitive book on the most momentous expedition in American history--and one of the greatest adventure stories of all time. "An adventure filled with high romance and personal tragedy, involving the g ...

The Real Deadwood

John Ames
Paperback - $17.95

A fascinating and accessible loot at the true history behind the people and places that populate HBO's popular hit series "Deadwood"

Sitting Bull's Boss : Above the Medicine Line with James Morrow Walsh

Ian Anderson
Paperback - $30.95

No Native American in U.S. history has provoked more emotion and interest than Sitting Bull. His often-misunderstood role in the Battle of the Little Big Horn and his subsequent self-imposed exile in Canada, above the Medicine Line, has rarely been e ...

Eating Up the Santa Fe Trail : Recipes and Lore from the Old West

Saml P. Arnold
Paperback - $26.95

Venture back in time along the Santa Fe Trail with Sam Arnold, a renowned food historian and owner of the famous Fort restaurant in Morrison, Colorado, as he re-creates the food and drink of the early West. A must for the professional chef, historian ...

How the West Was Lost : The Transformation of Kentucky from Daniel Boone to Henry Clay

Stephen Aron
Paperback - $48.95

"A first-rate piece of work and a fine read." -- Alan Taylor, University of California, Davis

"This excellent history of early Kentucky resonates with the most important questions in the history of the early republic, frontier, and economic develop ...