Univ. of Oklahoma
The Book of Archives and Other Stories from the Mora Valley, New Mexico
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This collection of 42 short stories covers the period from 1835 until the present day, with the first half of the book written in English ...Read Review
Wil Usdi: Thoughts from the Asylum, A Cherokee Novella
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This book presents the lightly fictionalized biography of William Holland Thomas – an Appalachian frontier boy adopted by the Cherokee Tribe, who became an ...Read Review
American Mythmaker: Walter Noble Burns and the Legends of Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp and Joaquin Murrieta
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In the 1920s, Walter Noble Burns was America’s most popular chronicler of the Old West. His background as a newspaper reporter gave ...Read Review
The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane
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How did Missouri farm girl Martha Canary become Calamity Jane, one of the most infamous Wild West heroines? The name Calamity Jane typically ...Read Review
The Wister Trace: Assaying Classic Western Fiction (2nd ed.)
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The first edition of The Wister Trace was published in 1987. This second edition is the author’s update analyzing American western writing. He ...Read Review
The Dig: In Search of Coronado’s Treasure
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Jim Hunt is desperate for a change. After losing his archeology scholarship, his girlfriend walks out on him and their infant daughter. Without ...Read Review
Torn by War
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Mary Adelia Byers was only fifteen when she began keeping a diary in 1862. Her home in Batesville, Arkansas lay on the western edge ...Read Review
Deep Trails in the Old West: A Frontier Memoir
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Born in 1860, John Menham Wightman came to Cimarron, New Mexico, at the age of eleven. Seventy years – and several name changes later – Frank ...Read Review
Child of the Fighting Tenth
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This re-released memoir recounts the early life of author Forrestine “Birdie” Cooper Hooker, growing up in the frontier West. The daughter of an ...Read Review
Jedediah Smith: No Ordinary Mountain Man
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The term “mountain man” conjures up visions of doggedly independent and fiercely combative men more than capable of adapting and thriving in areas ...Read Review
