Dead Run: The Murder of a Lawman and the Greatest Manhunt of the Modern American West 9781250042699, 9780312681883, 9781250023421, 1250042690

Run, River, Run: A Naturalist's Journey Down One of the Great Rivers of the West 9780816548231

The Green River runs wild, free and vigourous from southern Wyoming to northeastern Utah. Edward Abbey wrote in these pa

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Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West 0525561668, 9780525561668

"Elucidating, captivating...Murder at the Mission is narrative history at its very best.” —Hampton Sides, New York

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Skull in the Ashes : Murder, a Gold Rush Manhunt, and the Birth of Circumstantial Evidence in America 9781609382131, 9781609381882

On a February night in 1897, the general store in Walford, Iowa, burned down. The next morning, townspeople discovered a

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The Greatest Beer Run Ever 9780062995483

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Making a Modern U.S. West: The Contested Terrain of a Region and Its Borders, 1898-1940 (History of the American West) 9781496229557, 9781496228611, 2021007076, 149622955X

To many Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the West was simultaneously the greatest symbol of American

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Voices of the American West 9781555918019, 9781555917159

“...A collection of narratives and photographs that begins a dialogue about the convergence of past, present and future

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American Crucifixion: The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church 1610393139, 9781610393133

On June 27, 1844, a mob stormed the jail in the dusty frontier town of Carthage, Illinois. Clamorous and angry, they wer

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And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank 9780593687109, 9780679764236, 2003048274, 0593687108

The definitive account of one of American history’s most repellent and most fascinating moments, combining investigative

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African American women of the Old West

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Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion (History of the American West) 2022013275, 9781496233585, 9781496234445, 1496233581

In Continental Reckoning renowned historian Elliott West presents a sweeping narrative of the American West and its vita

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