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c1996., Adult, Pantheon Books Call No: TRAV 978 Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Examines the westward migration of homesteaders into the Montana and Dakota plains looking at the people who settled the area and the hardships they endured.
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2012., Age: 8-14, Scholastic Call No: J AUD PAT Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Dear AmericaSummary Note: In the "wild west" of an 1880s California gold-mining town, Angeline investigates the supposed murder of her father, a famous criminal lawyer, who she and her mother are certain is still alive. Includes historical notes and instructions for making a mask from muslin.
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-- Legends and lies: the real West2015., Henry Holt and Co. Call No: J BIO 978 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch Summary Note: "The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's documentary television series Legends and Lies: The Real West, a fascinating, eye-opening look at the truth behind the western legends we all think we know : How did Davy Crockett save President Jackson's life only to end up dying at the Alamo? Was the Lone Ranger based on a real lawman--and was he an African American? What amazing detective work led to the capture of Black Bart, the "gentleman bandit" and one of the west's most famous stagecoach robbers? Did Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid really die in a hail of bullets in South America? Generations of Americans have grown up on TV shows, movies and books about these western icons. But what really happened in the Wild West? All the stories you think you know, and others that will astonish you, are here--some heroic, some brutal and bloody, all riveting. Included are the ten legends featured in Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies docuseries --from Kit Carson to Jesse James, Wild Bill Hickok to Doc Holliday-- accompanied by two bonus chapters on Daniel Boone and Buffalo Bill and Annie Oakley. Frontier America was a place where instinct mattered more than education, and courage was necessary for survival. It was a place where luck made a difference and legends were made. Heavily illustrated with spectacular artwork that further brings this history to life, and told in fast-paced, immersive narrative, Legends and Lies is an irresistible, adventure-packed ride back into one of the most storied era of our nation's rich history"--
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-- Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier.2021., Adults, St. Martin's Press Call No: BIOG 976.9 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the 13 colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America’s “First Frontier†beyond the Appalachian Mountains commence a series of bloody battles. These violent conflicts are waged against the Native American tribes whose lands they covet, the French, and finally against the mother country itself in an American Revolution destined to reverberate around the world. This is the setting of Blood and Treasure, and the guide to this epic narrative is America’s first and arguably greatest pathfinder, Daniel Boone—not the coonskin cap-wearing caricature of popular culture but the flesh-and-blood frontiersman and Revolutionary War hero whose explorations into the forested frontier beyond the great mountains would become the stuff of legend. Now, thanks to painstaking research by two award-winning authors, the story of the brutal birth of the United States is told through the eyes of both the ordinary and larger-than-life men and women, white and red, who witnessed it."--book jacket.
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c2012., Adults, Bethany House Call No: FIC PET Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Land of the lone star Volume: #1Summary Note: A feisty young woman fights to protect her family's Texas ranch against mounting threats.
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c1985., 5.2; 5-8, Clarion Call No: J HIST 978 .02 Edition: paperback;. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Describes, in text and photographic illustrations, the duties, clothes, equipment, and day-to-day life of the cowboys who flourished in the west from the 1860's to the 1890's.
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[2020]., Adults, Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp. Call No: AW MCC Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Pinnacle western.Summary Note: "At long last, U.S. Marshal Aaron Mackey and Deputy Billy Sunday will see crime baron James Grant and his kill-crazy cronies stand trial for the mayhem and suffering they unleashed on the people of Dover Station. But as Montana Territory's statehood is approaching, murdering devils like Grant can no longer be tolerated in positions of political power. Or can they? Montana's capital of Helena follows its own set of laws--laws that not only set Grant free, but give peacekeeping authority to a sadistic murdering gunslinger like Colonel Warren Bell, Mackey's commanding officer during the war. The city's leaders prefer keeping killers like Grant and Bell under their thumbs. Mackey knows there's no controlling these bloodthirsty madmen. And if they think they're above the law, then Mackey and Billy will just have to appoint themselves judge, jury, and executioners..."--
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2017, Adults, MacMillan Audio Call No: AUD CLA Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs passing through to populate the expanding West. Before long, Dodge City's streets were lined with saloons and brothels and its populace was thick with gunmen, horse thieves, and desperadoes of every sort. By the 1870s, Dodge City was known as the most violent and turbulent town in the West. Enter Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson. Young and largely self-trained, the lawmen led the effort that established frontier justice and the rule of law in the American West, and did it in the wickedest place in the United States. When they moved on, Wyatt to Tombstone and Bat to Colorado, a tamed Dodge was left in the hands of Jim Masterson. But before long, Wyatt and Bat, each having had a lawman brother killed, returned to that threatened western Kansas town to team up to restore order again in what became known as the Dodge City War before riding off into the sunset." --from back cover.
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2017., Adults, St. Martin's Press Call No: HIST 978.176 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs passing through to populate the expanding West. Before long, Dodge City's streets were lined with saloons and brothels and its populace was thick with gunmen, horse thieves, and desperadoes of every sort. By the 1870s, Dodge City was known as the most violent and turbulent town in the West. Enter Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson. Young and largely self-trained men, the lawmen led the effort that established frontier justice and the rule of law in the American West, and did it in the wickedest place in the United States. When they moved on, Wyatt to Tombstone and Bat to Colorado, a tamed Dodge was left in the hands of Jim Masterson. But before long Wyatt and Bat, each having had a lawman brother killed, returned to that threatened western Kansas town to team up to restore order again in what became known as the Dodge City War before riding off into the sunset. The true story of their friendship, romances, gunfights, and adventures, along with the remarkable cast of characters they encountered along the way (including Wild Bill Hickock, Jesse James, Doc Holliday, Buffalo Bill Cody, John Wesley Hardin, Billy the Kid, and Theodore Roosevelt) has gone largely untold--lost in the haze of Hollywood films and western fiction, until now"--
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c2010., Ages 4-8, Schwartz & Wade Books Call No: PB ISA Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Having moved to Montana from Tennessee in the 1830s, fearless Angelica Longrider--also known as Swamp Angel--changes the state's landscape, tames a wild horse, and captures some desperadoes.
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c1982., Ages 3-6, Crabtree Call No: J HIST 640 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Early settler life seriesSummary Note: Discusses what it was like to live in different regions of the country, the various duties of a housewife, and the social life of the early settlers.
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[1979]., Adults, Time-Life Books Call No: HIST 978 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Old West (Alexandria, Va.)Summary Note: Examines life in the American West as the frontier era ended and describes how the Old West was depicted in literature.
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c1992., 5-8, Millbrook Press Call No: J HIST 973 Edition: A Millbrook Press library ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: American albums from the collections of the Library of CongressSummary Note: Describes and illustrates the exploration of the American frontier from 1776 to the late nineteenth century, through a variety of images created during that period.
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-- McNelly's Texas Rangers and the rise of frontier justice.2023., Adults, St. Martin's Press Call No: HIST 363.209764 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In turbulent 1870s Texas, the revered and fearless Ranger Leander McNelly led his men in one dramatic campaign after another, throwing cattle thieves, desperadoes, border ruffians, and other dangerous criminals into jail or, if that's how they wanted it, six feet under. They would stop at nothing in pursuit of justice, even sending 26 Rangers across the border to retrieve stolen cattle—taking on hundreds of Mexican troops with nothing but their Sharps rifles and six-guns. The nation came to call them 'McNelly’s Rangers.' Set against the backdrop of 200 years of thrilling Texas Rangers history, this page-turner takes readers into the tough life along the Texas border that was tamed by a courageous, yet doomed, captain and his team of fearless men. It was one hell of a ride!" --publisher's website.
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c1982., Ages 3-6, Crabtree Call No: J FOOD 641.3 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Early settler life seriesSummary Note: Discusses the food eaten by the early settlers and tells how it was prepared.
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c1977., Adults, Time-Life Books Call No: HIST 978.2 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The Old WestSummary Note: Portrays the people and times, the drama and danger of the developing frontier in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century United States.
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Ã2015., Arcturus Pub. Call No: J HIST 978 .02 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The wild west
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2018., Ages 7-10, Scholastic Inc. Call No: G TAR Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: I survived. Volume: #16Summary Note: When John Hale's parents moved from Chicago to a farm in the Dakota Territory in the late 1880s, he was not happy (too hot in summer, too cold in winter, and that is just the beginning); but after a year, and now eleven, he has settled in and made some friends at school--but when a sunny day in January 1888 turns abruptly into a deadly blizzard he will need all his strength and courage to survive what became known to history as The Children's Blizzard.
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1998., Adult, Bantam Books Call No: FIC DON Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Twenty-nine-year-old spinster Elizabeth Middleton moves to the New York wilderness on the basis of a promise from her father that she will be allowed to open a school, but she soon discovers her father has other plans in mind for her and she must find the courage to follow her heart.
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-- Lady is mine.[2022]., Adults, Tyndale House Publishers Call No: FIC RIV Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1875, Kathryn Walsh arrives in a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas where she relaunches her uncle's newspaper, pitting herself against the town's most powerful men until she finds an ally in the local saloon owner who believes in what she stands for.
