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Patrick Connor's War
By David E. Wagner
The summer of 1865 marked the transition from the Civil War to Indian war on the western plains. With the rest of the country’s attention still focused on the East, the U.S. Army began an often forgotten campaign against the...
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Patrick Connor's War (Collector's Edition)
By David E. Wagner
The summer of 1865 marked the transition from the Civil War to Indian war on the western plains. With the rest of the country’s attention still focused on the East, the U.S. Army began an often forgotten campaign against the...
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Murder of a Landscape
By Khaled J. Bloom
Between 1896 and 1919, air pollution from large-scale copper smelting in northern California’s Shasta County severely damaged crops and timber in a 1,000-square-mile region, completely devastating a core area of 200 square miles....
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The Nauvoo Legion in Illinois
By Richard E. Bennett, Susan Easton Black, Donald Q. Cannon
When the Mormons established their theocratic city of Nauvoo on the banks of the Mississippi in 1839, they made self-defense a priority, having encountered persecution, violence, and forcible expulsion elsewhere. Organized under...
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Gettysburg to Great Salt Lake
By John Gary Maxwell
Following distinguished Civil War service that took one of his legs and rendered an arm useless, General George R. Maxwell was sent to Utah Territory and charged—first as Register of Land, then as U.S. marshal—with bringing the...
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Hancock's War
By William Y. Chalfant
When General Winfield Scott Hancock led a military expedition across Kansas, Colorado, and Nebraska in 1867, his purpose was a show of force that would curtail Indian raiding sparked by the Sand Creek massacre of 1864. But the...
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Hancock's War (Collector's Edition)
By William Y. Chalfant
When General Winfield Scott Hancock led a military expedition across Kansas, Colorado, and Nebraska in 1867, his purpose was a show of force that would curtail Indian raiding sparked by the Sand Creek massacre of 1864. But the...
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Horace Plunkett in America
By Lawrence M. Woods
When Horace Plunkett left Britain for the American West in 1879, seeking relief for lung problems, he launched a ranching career in Wyoming that influenced the cattle industry and altered the course of his own life. Previous...
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So Rugged and Mountainous (Collector's Edition)
by Will Bagley
The story of America’s westward migration is a powerful blend of fact and fable. Over the course of three decades, almost a million eager fortune-hunters, pioneers, and visionaries transformed the face of a continent—and...
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On the Western Trails
Edited by Susan M. Erb
A cooper and farmer from Ontario, Canada, Washington Peck (1801–89) spent decades traveling across the western frontier before finally settling in Washington Territory. Peck’s chronicle of his itinerant life offers fresh insight...
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Dodge City
By Wm. B. Shillingberg
The most famous cattle town of the trail-driving era, Dodge City, Kansas, holds a special allure for western historians and enthusiasts alike. Wm. B. Shillingberg now goes beyond the violence for which the town became notorious,...
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California Odyssey
By William R. Goulding, Edited by Patricia A. Etter, Foreword by Howard R. Lamar
In 1849, William R. Goulding and the Knickerbocker Exploring Company struck out for California on the southern route—a road less traveled. This rare first-person diary of the southern Gold Rush trails, introduced and annotated by...
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Mormon Convert, Mormon Defector
By Polly Aird
Peter McAuslan heeded Mormon missionaries spreading the faith in his native Scotland in the mid-1840s. The uncertainty his family faced in a rapidly industrializing economy, the political turmoil erupting across Europe, the...
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At Standing Rock and Wounded Knee
Edited and annotated by Thomas W. Foley, Foreword by Michael F. Steltenkamp
During the turbulent final years of the Indian Wars, a young Catholic priest entered service as a missionary to the Sioux Indians in Dakota Territory. Father Francis M. Craft rode a three-hundred-mile circuit on the Standing Rock...
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Military Register of Custer’s Last Command
By Roger L. Williams
Issued in a limited edition of 500 copies.
With so much written about the actual battle at the Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876, Roger L. Williams has now compiled a wealth of data concerning the men of the 7th Cavalry...
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Fort Laramie
By Douglas C. McChristian, Foreword by Paul L. Hedren
Of all the U.S. Army posts in the West, none witnessed more history than Fort Laramie, positioned where the northern Great Plains join the Rocky Mountains. From its beginnings as a trading post in 1834 to its abandonment by the...
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