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Sam Bass was the notorious Texas outlaw who robbed trains, stages and stores from the Dakota Territory to the Mexican Border. He was not a killer and so became a folk hero. This book is an account of his life and his death, shot by Texas rangers in a bank robbery at Round Rock, in 1878.

In 1832, Washington Irving, recently returned from seventeen years'' residence abroad and eager to explore his own country, embarked on an expedition to the country west of Arkansas set aside for the Indians. A Tour on the Prairies is his absorbing account of that journey, which extended from Fort Gibson to the Cross Timbers in what is now Oklahoma. First published in 1835, it has remained a perennial favorite, retaining its original freshness, vigor, and vividness to this day.

When Abbie Morgan arrived with her husband Ed in the Alaskan village of Kulukak in 1931 to teach in the school, many of the Eskimos had never before seen a foreign woman. This is the story of her two years in a harsh, but beautiful, environment and of the way she adapted to it and its people.

In this portion of her trilogy of first-hand accounts of life with the General, Elizabeth Bacon Custer covers the period from 1867 to 1869. This was the time that Custer and the Seventh Cavalry engaged in extensive military activity against the Plains Indians.

Of all firsthand accounts of lawlessness in the old Southwest, none is more fascinating than Pat F. Garrett's The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid. First published in 1882, a year after Sheriff Garrett killed the Kid, it is at once the most authoritative biography of William H. Bonney and the foundation of the Billy the Kid legend.

In 1872, Isabella Bird, daughter of a clergyman, set off alone to the Antipodes 'in search of health' and found she had embarked on a life of adventurous travel. In 1873, wearing Hawaiian riding dress, she rode her horse through the American Wild West, a terrain only newly opened to pioneer settlement. The letters that make up this volume were first published in 1879. They tell of magnificent, unspoiled landscapes and abundant wildlife, of encounters with rattlesnakes, wolves, pumas and grizzly bears, and her reactions to the volatile passions of the miners and pioneer settlers. A classic account of a truly astounding journey.

First published in 1889, this is an account of what it was like to be an ordinary cavalryman on the post-Civil War frontier. McConnell gives the inside story of his fellow enlisted men and the officers reporting on their heavy drinking, their disorganisation, their boredom and their thievery.

Among the famous ranch brands of Texas are the T Anchor, JA, Diamond Tail, 777, Bar C, and XIT. And the greatest of these was XIT--The XIT Ranch of Texas. It was not the first ranch in West Texas, but after its formation in the eighteen-eighties it became the largest single operation in the cow country of the Old West and covered more than three million acres, all fenced. The state of Texas patented this huge rectangle of land, at the time considered by many to be part of "the great American desert," to the Capitol Freehold Land and Investment Company of Chicago, in exchange for funds to erect the state capitol building in Austin. This "desert" became a legend in the cattle business, and it remains today a memory to thousands who recall the era when mustangs and longhorns grazed beneath the brand of the XIT. The development and operation of this pastoral enterprise and its relation to the history of Texas is the subject of this great and widely discussed book by J. Evetts Haley, now made available to readers every- where. It is the story of a wild prairie, roamed by Indians, buffalo, mustangs, and antelope, that became a country of railroads, oil fields, prosperous farms, and carefully bred herds of cattle. The XIT Ranch of Texas is the epic account of a ranching operation about which many know a little but only a few very much. It is the one volume that, more than any other, portrays the early-day cattle business of the West.

At the age of 79 Collinson began writing and this work is a collection of letters, articles and transcriptions of his conversations about the Old West. Collinson tells of the last days of Buffalo hunting on the Plains, the clashes of hunters, cowboys and Indians, and the nature of violence.

This account, the second in Elizabeth Custer's trilogy of her life with the General, focuses on the period following the Civil War, when the Custers were stationed in Louisiana, Texas, and Kansas. She portrays the aftermath of the Civil War in Texas and an army officer's home life of the time.

Long out of print, the autobiography of the cavalry leader, offering a day-to-day account of his campaigns and telling of the horrors of Indian warfare. First published in the USA and imported for distribution.

In 1894, when A. S. Mercer published this angry eyewitness account of the cattlemen's invasion of Wyoming, the book was so thoroughly and ruthlessly suppressed that few copies of that edition remain today.Although historians have since questioned some of Mercer's conclusions about the Johnson County range war, they have never controverted the facts of the cattlemen-homesteader struggle as he grimly reported them. With the intention of "executing" alleged rustlers and terrorizing the homesteaders, a band of fifty-two cattlemen and hired gunmen invaded Johnson Country, Wyoming, in April 1892. After besieging and killing "the bravest man in Johnson County," the raiders in turn found themselves besieged by the homesteaders and finally in the protective custody of the Untied States cavalry. Further legal and illegal maneuvering permitted the invaders to go unpunished, but the cattlemen never again attempted to retain their hold over the range with organized mob violence.In this new edition of The Banditti of the Plains the original text has been followed with the utmost fidelity, even including the illustrations. An informed and interesting foreword by William H. Kittrell has been added to the book.

Traces the career of Dallas Stoudenmire, a gunman from East Texas who became city marshal of El Paso in 1881, with orders to clean up the town. Stoudenmire was involved in some sensational shootings, including the town's most famous gunfight in which four dead men in five seconds set a record.