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"Because of the unrestrained slaughter of cougars on Buckskin Mountain, the deer population has increased so fast that they begin to starve. But when Thad Eburne, chief forest ranger, hears the government's plan to open a massive deer hunt to hundreds of indiscriminate hunters, he worries that it will only worsen man's dangerous meddling with nature. Then, when Eburne decides to save a deer herd from a cattleman bent on selling illegal deer meat for...
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A history of the powerful Potawatomi tribe. They were persistent enemies of the Miamis. Pictures and biograpies of their leading chiefs, marks their trails, locates their chief villages, and tells the story of many events that much to do with American history.
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"Along the notorious Rogue River, gold seekers, crazed by the discovery of nuggets that made them rich overnight, are at war with one another. The river itself swarms with salmon, bringing along with them another kind of wealth and violent fighting between the fishermen and the fish-packing monopoly. Into this scene comes Keven Bell, returning to face life after being handicapped by a disfiguring wound he received in World War I. Keven teams up with...
6) Wyoming
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A certified classic by the master of Western fiction Zane Grey.
With cattle rustling on the rise in the cattle town of Randall, Wyoming, newcomers Martha Ann Dixon and Andrew Bonning join the ranchers in their fight to protect their livestock.
"Take this hombre's gun, Tenderfoot," the foreman snapped while keeping the rustler covered. Young Andy yanked the weapon out from under the man's belt. "Now tie his hands behind his back." The excitement...
With cattle rustling on the rise in the cattle town of Randall, Wyoming, newcomers Martha Ann Dixon and Andrew Bonning join the ranchers in their fight to protect their livestock.
"Take this hombre's gun, Tenderfoot," the foreman snapped while keeping the rustler covered. Young Andy yanked the weapon out from under the man's belt. "Now tie his hands behind his back." The excitement...
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Originally published in 1952, Tom Lea's The Wonderful Country opens as mejicano pistolero Martín Bredi is returning to El Puerto (El Paso) after a fourteen-year absence. Bredi carries a gun for the Chihuahuan warlord Cipriano Castro and is on Castro's business in Texas. Fourteen years earlier-shortly after the end of the Civil War-when he was the boy Martin Brady, he killed the man who murdered his father and fled to Mexico where he became Martín...
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Marshal of Sundown, first published in 1937, is a classic tale of the Old West by Jackson Gregory (1882-1943), author of more than 40 western and detective novels. From the dust-jacket: The least likely candidate for marshal of Sundown was Jim Torrance ... a man wanted throughout the Southwest for every crime from bank robbing to murder. And Sundown already had a marshal ... tough Rufe Biggs, owned body and soul by the man responsible for all the...
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The full story of the Montana cattle industry, from the earliest days of the fur traders down to the latest Miles City Roundup, written by a man who knows the northwestern rangeland and its history without a map.
One of the essential works on Montana Range Books by one whose family and personal work was intimately involved with the association. Robert Athearn notes it is a fine book dealing with the entire history of the West from the fur trade to...
12) A cowman's wife
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A Cowman's Wife is the true account of the author's experience as co-owner of Old Camp Rucker Ranch, a 22,000 acre spread north of Douglas, Arizona that she purchased with her husband in 1919. It chronicles a woman's view of cattle ranching in Northern Arizona, with all the hardships of the 1920's and 1930's, Native Americans, Mexicans, wolves, and horse thieves. She also tells of the pleasures of ranch life: spectacular sunsets, mountain scenery,...
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Phantly Roy Bean, Jr. (1825-1903), self-styled "Law West of the Pecos," was an eccentric American saloonkeeper and Justice of the Peace in Val Verde County, Texas. According to legend, he held court in his saloon along the Rio Grande on a desolate stretch of the Chihuahuan Desert of southwest Texas. Southwestern historian and folklorist, C. L. Sonnichsen, lived near Judge Bean's house for several years and decided to pen this biography, first published...
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Bulletin volume 159
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Many of the Smithsonian Institution's early studies, published since 1881 in such official publications as the Bureau of American Ethnology's reports and bulletins, have remained major sources of information on North American Indians.
Describing how Blackfoot and Plains Indians obtained, cared for, and trained the horses that became integral to their culture, this book charts the importance of horses to Blackfoot transportation, hunting, warfare,...
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Big Spring: The Casual Biography Of A Prairie Town is a non-fiction book written by Philips Shine. The book provides a detailed account of the history of a prairie town called Big Spring. The author takes the readers on a journey through time, starting from the early days of the town's establishment to the present day. The book is divided into several chapters, each covering a specific period in the town's history. The author describes the town's...
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A lady, the desert, the army and the Apaches
This is the account of the life of a young army wife who followed her husband-a second lieutenant of infantry-after the turbulent years of the American Civil War, in which he had served, to what was considered the wildest and most remote of frontier outposts in the American south west. Life within the Army in Arizona came as something of a cultural shock to this gentle lady of New England who knew nothing...
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Beyond the wide Missouri lay the prairie - "the biggest clearing on the Almighty's footstool." And every few hundred miles, holding to the rivers and wooded bottoms, were the outposts of the white civilization - the military forts of the U.S. Army. Father, mother and comforter to the settlers, trading points for the trappers and buffalo hunters, rallying points for the scouts.
Awaiting the reader of this sentimental journey into the days of "Boots...
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"We are dealing here with a living literature," wrote Morris Edward Opler in his preface to Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians. First published in 1942, this is another classic study by the author of Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians. Opler conducted field work among the Chiricahuas in the American Southwest, as he had earlier among the Jicarillas. The result is a definitive collection of their myths. They range from an...
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First published in 1962, this is a wonderful biography of General Nelson A. Miles (1839-1925), one of America's most celebrated generals. Author Virginia W. Johnson covers General Miles' career; from his service in the Civil War and his incredible success in the Indian Wars-including the capture of Geronimo and Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces-to serving as the Commanding General of the Army during the Spanish-American War.
The Unregimented General...
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