Wild West

Tell Sackett knew that gold spelled trouble faster than anything except a woman, and he had a lot of gold....

They called him Mickey Free. His kidnapping started the longest war in American history, and both sides - the Apaches and the white invaders - blamed him for it....

Mild-mannered sheep farmer Albert Stark is fed up with the harsh life of the American frontier, where it seems everything and anything can kill you....

A gripping and utterly transporting novel that maps the legacy of violence in the American west with rare emotional acuity....

Steeped in legend and shrouded in folklore, the real David Crockett, American frontiersman and cultural icon, finally emerges in this engrossing biography....

In a real-life version of Little Big Man comes Indian captive narrative of Herman Lehmann. He was captured as a boy in 1870 and lived for nine years among the Apaches and Comanches....

From one of the bestselling western novelists of all time, comes another classic story....

Many of the most well-known lawmen of the American Wild West had multiple criminal charges to their name. Some were murderers, some were thieves, and many were corrupt - in fact, sometimes it was difficult to tell who was on which side of the law....

From 1875 to 1881, James B. Gillett served as one of the Texas Rangers, the lawmen of the Old West. Looking back 40 years later, he tells of the Mason County War, dangerous missions into Mexico....

Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Frémont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America's first great political couple....

While people still romanticize the Wild West, many Americans are still all too familiar with the fate of the Donner Party....

A Rocky Mountain winter has left Breck reeling from the carnage unleashed by bloodthirsty trapper Judd Carnahan - and readying a quest for vengeance as ruthless as their prey....

The "settling" of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a history grounded primarily in economic reality....

Fantastical and humorous, The Place of Dead Roads continues William S. Burroughs' exploration of society's controlling forces....

The explosive and bloody true history of Texas Rangers Company F, hard men who risked their lives to bring justice to a lawless frontier....

Scott Miles and his son Billy are on their way to a new life in New Mexico, but fate deals them a bad hand in the deceptive currents of the Missouri River....

Restless cowpoke Perley Gates wanted nothing more than to track down the grandfather who abandoned. What he found was the crazy old sidewinder barely hanging on after a Sioux massacre. The old man's dying wish was to give Perley clues to the whereabouts of a buried fortune in gold....

A new novel about an iconic American criminal of the old West: legendary outlaw Billy the Kid....

Gunslinger tells Brett Favre's full, definitive story for the first time, drawing on more than 500 interviews, including many from the people closest to Favre. Jeff Pearlman charts Favre's journey....

A galloping true tale of frontier justice featuring audacious outlaws and intrepid heroes, Shot All to Hell is a riveting slice of Wild West history that continues to fascinate today....