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  • Up the Trail

    How Texas Cowboys Herded Longhorns and Became an American Icon

    par Tim Lehman ...
    Collections series How Things Worked
    How did cattle drives come about—and why did the cowboy become an iconic American hero?Cattle drives were the largest, longest, and ultimately the last of the great forced animal migrations in human history. Spilling out of Texas, they spread longhorns, cowboys, and the culture that roped the two together throughout the American West. In cities like Abilene, Dodge City, and Wichita, buyers paid ... En savoir plus

    $25.99 CAD

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  • Wild Bill

    The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter

    par Tom Clavin ...
    Collections series Frontier Lawmen
    The definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City**.**In July 1865, "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, MO—the first quick-draw duel on the frontier. Thus began the reputation that made him a marked man to every gunslinger in the Wild West.James Butler Hickock was known across the f... ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Dreams of El Dorado

    A History of the American West

    par H. W. Brands ...
    **From a New York Times bestselling author, a masterful history of the American West—from the California Gold Rush to the settling of Oklahoma and beyond."Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope, this is a bravura performance from one of our master historians." —Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Blood and Thunder**In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling panoramic story of the ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

  • Deadwood

    Gold, Guns, and Greed in the American West

    par Peter Cozzens ...
    **The true story of the Black Hills gold rush settlement once described as “the most diabolical town on earth” and of its most colorful cast of characters, from Wild Bill Hickok to Calamity Jane to Al Swearingen and Sheriff Seth Bullock."In these pungent pages, you can smell the whiskey, the gunsmoke, the horse lather, the gold dust, and the mining chemicals . . . A fine non-fiction narrative that ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • Frontier Cowboys and the Great Divide

    Early Ranching in BC and Alberta

    par Ken Mather ...
    Despite being neighbouring provinces with long ranching histories, British Columbia and Alberta saw their ranching techniques develop quite differently. As most ranching styles were based on one of the two dominant styles in use south of the border, BC ranchers tended to adopt the California style whereas Alberta took its lead from Texas. But the different practices actually go back much further. ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • Cattle Kingdom

    The Hidden History of the Cowboy West

    **"The best all-around study of the American cowboy ever written. Every page crackles with keen analysis and vivid prose about the Old West. A must-read!" —Douglas Brinkley, The New York Times–bestselling author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for AmericaThe open-range cattle era lasted barely a quarter century, but it left America irrevocably changed. Cattle Kingdom ... En savoir plus

    $23.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Wild Frontier

    Atrocities During the American-Indian War from Jamestown Colony to Wounded Knee

    The real story of the ordeal experienced by both settlers and Indians during the Europeans' great migration west across America, from the colonies to California, has been almost completely eliminated from the histories we now read. In truth, it was a horrifying and appalling experience. Nothing like it had ever happened anywhere else in the world.In The Wild Frontier, William M. Osborn discusses ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $9.99 CAD Maintenant $6.99 CAD

  • The Last Indian War

    The Nez Perce Story

    par Elliott West ...
    Collections series Pivotal Moments in American History
    This newest volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series offers an unforgettable portrait of the Nez Perce War of 1877, the last great Indian conflict in American history. It was, as Elliott West shows, a tale of courage and ingenuity, of desperate struggle and shattered hope, of short-sighted government action and a doomed flight to freedom. To tell the story, West begins with the early ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • David Crockett

    The Lion of the West

    par Michael Wallis ...
    "Vivid, Comprehensible . . . cuts through decades of mythmaking." —Texas MonthlyPopular culture transformed his memory into “Davy Crockett,” and Hollywood gave him a raccoon hat he hardly ever wore. In this surprising New York Times bestseller, historian Michael Wallis has cast a fresh look at the flesh-and-blood man behind one of the most celebrated figures in American history. More than a ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Oregon Trail

    An American Saga

    par David Dary ...
    A major one-volume history of the Oregon Trail from its earliest beginnings to the present, by a prize-winning historian of the American West.Starting with an overview of Oregon Country in the early 1800s, a vast area then the object of international rivalry among Spain, Britain, Russia, and the United States, David Dary gives us the whole sweeping story of those who came to explore, to exploit, ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • The American West

    par Dee Brown ...
    Renowned storyteller Dee Brown, author of the bestselling Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, recreates the struggles of Native Americans, settlers, and ranchers in this stunning volume that illuminates the history of the old West that’s filled with maps and vintage photographs.Beginning with the demise of the Native Americans of the Plains, Brown depicts the onrush of the burgeoning cattle trade and ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Mammoth Book of the West

    New edition

    par Jon E. Lewis ...
    Collections Livre 391 - Mammoth Books
    Revised and expanded edition of Jon E. Lewis's ever-popular account of the American West. The book is at once a history and a compendium of western lore. It tells what life on the frontier was really like and gives a human portrait of the tough and sometimes violent way of life experienced by the early pioneers. The gunfighters and the cowboys, women, Indians and others, all have their part to ... En savoir plus

    $3.99 CAD