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The floor of heaven: a true tale of the last frontier and the Yukon gold rush
Par Howard Blum. 2011
Chronicles the discovery of gold in 1890s Alaska and the Canadian Klondike through the lives of three of the participants:…
cowboy-turned-Pinkerton-detective Charlie Siringo; George Carmack, who lived with a local tribe and became rich from mining; and con man Jefferson "Soapy" Smith. 2011The killing of Crazy Horse
Par Thomas Powers. 2010
Investigates the death of Sioux warrior Crazy Horse in 1877, after he surrendered to the U.S. Army. Describes the tensions…
between whites and Native Americans at the time and discusses critical events, including General George Custer's defeat and the discovery of gold in the Black Hills. Spur Award. 2010Driven West: Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears to the Civil War
Par A. J. Langguth. 2010
Professor posits that regional disagreements surrounding the removal of the Cherokees from the South--known as the Trail of Tears--by President…
Andrew Jackson fueled the states' rights debates that led to the Civil War. Discusses antebellum politics, including the 1830 Indian Removal Act, slavery, and the Mexican War. 2010Nothing daunted: the unexpected education of two society girls in the West
Par Dorothy Wickenden. 2011
New Yorker editor documents her grandmother Dorothy Woodruff's 1916 adventure out West with her friend and fellow Smith College graduate…
Rosamond Underwood. Using letters the two women wrote after they became teachers in Elkhead, Colorado, and her own research, Wickenden describes everyday life among the poor Rocky Mountain homesteaders. 2011Never say die: the myth and marketing of the new old age
Par Susan Jacoby. 2011
Social critic and author of The Age of American Unreason (DB 66150) paints a pessimistic, yet realistic, overview of old…
age. Combines social, economic, and historical analyses as well as personal experience to portray the issues--with special attention to Alzheimer's disease--that aging baby boomers will encounter. 2011Sitting Bull
Par Ronald A Reis. 2010
Biography of Sioux Indian chief Sitting Bull (1831-1890), who witnessed the settling of the West by white pioneers who displaced…
his people. Highlights Sitting Bull's 1876 victory over General George Custer's cavalry at the Little Big Horn. For grades 6-9. 2010Writer recounts visiting a nursing home with her therapy dog, Hannah, a Labrador retriever. Describes effects of Hannah's presence, which…
soothed residents and elicited personal accounts of life, love, and growing older. Interweaves patients' experiences with those of author's family and meditations on aging. River Teeth Literary NF Prize. 2005Bird Cloud: a memoir
Par Annie Proulx. 2011
Pulitzer Prize-winning author reminisces about building her dream house on Bird Cloud, her 640-acre Wyoming prairie ranch. Describes the geography,…
fauna, flora, and original inhabitants of her adopted state, as well as the cost overruns of new construction. 2011Colossus: Hoover Dam and the making of the American century
Par Michael Hiltzik, Michael A. Hiltzik, Michael A Hiltzik. 2010
Pulitzer Prize winner examines the 1931-1935 Depression-era construction of the Hoover Dam, which tamed the Colorado River and created Lake…
Mead. Describes the technical problems, labor practices, and personalities involved during the planning and building stages. Discusses the project's impact on the West. 2010A shovel of stars: the making of the American West, 1800 to the present
Par Ted Morgan. 1996
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist describes the expansion of the United States from the creation of the Northwest Territory in 1787 to…
statehood for Alaska and Hawaii in 1959. Focuses on accounts of ordinary people of all races and their struggle to survive. Sequel to Wilderness at Dawn (DB 41714). 1995Stages of senior care: your step-by-step guide to making the best decisions
Par Lori Hogan, Paul Hogan. 2010
Guide for families who are making decisions about senior care. Evaluates available options, including retirement communities, adult day-care centers, assisted-living…
facilities, nursing homes, hospice, and in-home caregivers. Discusses bereavement and covers funerals, finances, and estate planning. 2010Time magazine columnist describes the family dynamics that come into play when parents age. Discusses the "twilight transition," the time…
when the family in which siblings grew up ends and they become the oldest generation in a clan. Russo uses case studies from her research to highlight salient topics. Some strong language. 2010The Sundance Kid: the life of Harry Alonzo Longabaugh
Par Donna B. Ernst. 2009
Descendants of Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, who was known as the Sundance Kid, present new information on the infamous outlaw, from…
his early years in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, to his supposed death in San Vicente, Bolivia. They correct historical inaccuracies like Sundance's alleged participation in the 1897 Belle Fourche bank robbery. 2009Life in the saddle (The Western Frontier Library Series #21)
Par Frank Collinson. 1997
Englishman Frank Collinson went to Texas in 1872 at age seventeen to work on a ranch. He lived the rest…
of his life in the southwestern United States, and at age seventy-nine he began writing articles for "Ranch Romances" about the Old West he knew and loved. In "Life in the Saddle," editor Mary Whatley Clarke has arranged his published articles, his letters, and transcriptions of his conversations. Violence and some strong languageUp the trail from Texas (Landmark books)
Par J. Frank Dobie. 1955
In simple, yet colorful prose, J. Frank Dobie tells the story of life on the early cattle drives. He dispels…
the myth of cowboys as romantic figures, "dressed in silk and silver." Instead, he introduces the reader to a number of men who drove herds from Texas to Kansas, demonstrating the variety in their personalities and describing their hardships and achievementsLife of Tom Horn, government scout and interpreter
Par Tom Horn. 1973
Tom Horn, an army scout and interpreter during the Apache wars, was hanged like a common criminal in 1903, many…
think mistakenly. His own account of his life begins when he was a runaway Missouri farm boy and provides a firsthand look at the military both great and small, at the wily Geronimo, the renegade Natchez, and old Chief Nana of the Apaches. Violence, for adult readersThe jump-off creek
Par Molly Gloss. 1989
Oregon, 1895. Recent widow Lydia Sanderson travels from Pennsylvania to Oregon, where she homesteads on a sparse mountain. The harshness…
and difficulty of pioneer life is further complicated by squatters, loneliness, and isolationIn recounting the chase, trial, capture and execution of Henry Plummer's notorious band of robbers by vigilantes, the author wanted…
to show how justice was carried out in Montana Territory without the sanction of constitutional lawProspecting for gold: from Dogtown to Virginia City, 1852-1864
Par Granville Stuart. 1977
As a miner, Indian fighter, trader and cattle baron, Granville Stuart lived every phase of frontier life. This book contains…
his journals (1852-1864) which cover his experiences in California, including an account of the Rogue River War, and his move to Montana to prospect for gold. In 1860, Stuart became a permanent resident of Deer Lodge, MT and played a major role in Montana becoming a U.S. Territory. Stuart also served as Montana's first public librarianU-bet: a greenhorn in old Montana
Par John R Barrows. 1990
Ubet was the name the author's father gave to the stagestop he established at the end of the Judith Basin…
in 1879. Barrows reminisces about his initiation as a cowboy at the famous DHS ranch under Granville Stuart. His humorous yarns and accurate descriptions of cowboy life in central Montana in the 1880's show how rapidly the territory changed from Indian-buffalo country to a land of ranches and rich farms