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The gun, like the axe and the plow, was an essential tool in the exploration and settlement of the trans-Mississippi West....

The New Wild West is the definitive account of what's happening on the ground and what happens to a community when the energy industry is allowed to set up in a town with little regulation....

Bizarre occultists try to use a legendary monster to enact their revenge and only a hard-drinking gunslinger can stop them! Its Hell on Wheels ...

On the trail west with his trusty horse and dog, the hapless gunslinger stops a mean, hungry bear from making lunch out of the legendary Buffalo Bill Cody. In turn, Cody grubstakes Dooley for the purchase of a silver mine in the lawless, violent boomtown of Leadville, Colorado....

In this lively narrative, business history writer Joe Dobrow traces the origins of modern American marketing to the late 19th century when three charismatic individuals launched an industry that defines our national culture....

"Doc Holliday was a dentist whom necessity had made a gambler; a gentleman whom disease had made a frontier vagabond; a philosopher whom life had made a caustic wit..." So says famous wild west Sheriff Wyatt Earp, of his long time friend and compadre, Doc Holliday....

When an EMP decimates the world’s power grid, the Arizona desert is plunged back into the lawless era of the Old West....

Mavis Gallant Award-winning author Jack Todd—an American expat living in Canada—pens an epic work of historical fiction based partly on his own relatives....

One of the most important and memorable events of the United States' westward push across the frontier came with the discovery of gold in the lands that became California in January, 1848....

In a court of law, it takes 12 jurors to convict a killer. Two of them are Jensens. It all started when those Jensen boys, Ace and Chance, got roped into jury duty. It should have ended when justice was served with the killer dancing on the end of a rope....

James Butler Hickok, better known as "Wild Bill" Hickok was a folk hero of the American Old West known for being a lawman, gunfighter, gambler, and showman....

A savage frontier beckons The Regulators Owen Ripley and his crew of Civil War veterans are unwilling to return to their civilian lives. Instead ...

First Book of the Smash top 100 Old West Series Set in a panorama of the American West as its portrait is first being painted, The Platte River ...

Like Geronimo in the southwest during the same era, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse were warriors and leaders of different groups of Lakota (Sioux)....

As a young man Monte Calhoun was as wild as they come, thinking the measure of a man was how hard he could drink and how straight he can shoot. But several years of schooling back East have changed him. Monte has become The No-Gun Man....

The United States Camel Corps was a military experiment in the 1850s that brought camels from Egypt and Turkey to Texas and California. The cast of characters in this story is larger than life and includes U.S. Army and Navy officers, explorers, writers, politicians, and diplomats....

Men from more than two dozen tribal peoples actively participated in the Civil War by fighting for one side or the other. Recent estimates are that more than 28,000 Indians served as Civil War soldiers....

Chuck Parson and Norman Wayne Brown are noted experts on the life and times of John Wesley Hardin. They have written numerous books and magazine ...

This third book of the series finds Gabe and Ben enjoying a peaceful life until once again they are called to come to the aid of people in need of ...

The Chronicles of Bannock County by Bo Carson is a captivating non-fiction book set in Bannock County, Idaho during the late 19th and early 20th ...