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Nothing Like It In the World
by Stephen E Ambrose
Nothing Like It In the World was written by Stephen Ambrose, a writer of historical literature books, and is a #1 New York Times Bestseller about the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. The book is about the period of the railroad from 1863 to 1869. The railroad spanned from Omaha, Nebraska to Sacramento, California.
Life Among the Apaches
by John C Cremony
Originally published in 1868, Life Among the Apaches is John Cremory’s intriguing first-person account of pre-reservation Apache life and culture. Written from genuine personal experiences with the Apaches, it has all of the face-paced action and excitement of a novel along with the authenticity of an ethnographic and historical document.
The Big Burn
by Timothy Egan
On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno. Forest rangers had assembled nearly ten thousand men—college boys, day workers, immigrants from mining camps—to fight the fire. But no living person had seen anything like those flames, and neither the rangers nor anyone else knew how to subdue...
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian
by Wallace Stegner
In this book Wallace Stegner recounts the sucesses and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest. A prophet without honor who had a profound understanding of the American West, Powell warned long ago of the dangers economic exploitation would pose to the West and spent a good deal of his life overcoming Washington politics in getting his message across....
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The Indian Frontier Of the American West 1846-1890
by Robert M Utley
The dramatic events of the final half-century of conflict between Indians and whites in the American West.
