On a cold, rainy dawn in late November 1872, Lieutenant Frazier Boutelle and a Modoc Indian nickn...

'[This] may be the finest state history ever written. . . . Required reading for anyone with pret...

Elizabeth M. Campbell is the granddaughter of Georg von Trapp. A graduate of Middlebury College, ...

'Oh how I do wish I could have a little help in maintaining my home. I shall dread the cold winte...

When pregnant Rosie Carpe, her fatherless five-year-old son in tow, arrives in Guadeloupe looking...

In Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book American readers, gardeners, and food lovers will find everythin...

This mesmerizing novel is about a sixteen-year-old girl who lives in a rectory and works in a dan...

Francis Parkman, America's greatest narrative historian, immortal for The Oregon Trail (1849), de...

Francis Parkman, America's greatest narrative historian, immortal for The Oregon Trail (1849), de...

Originally published: Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, c2003.

Winner of the National Christopher Award

Beyond the flinty glitz of a Hollywood-imagined American West of two-dimensional characters are t...

Joe Wilkins was born and raised on the Big Dry of eastern Montana, and make no mistake--those sag...

On May 3, 1887, an earthquake struck near the U.S.-Mexico border. Forty-three people died in Bavi...

Striped Reckoning charts the shocking history of exotic big cats in the United States and chronic...

This collection covers eight years of unrest, personal and communal, beginning with stubborn patr...

Cliff Swallow Societies

A Decent Excuse for an Indian War

As the United States and the Soviet Union went from exploring space to living in it, a space stat...

After practicing law for four years, then selling his practice for ¿fear of becoming rich,¿ Helge...

Frederick Manfred (1912¿94) grew up on a farm in Iowa with six brothers, attended Calvin College ...

'Jesse James,' said Carl Sandburg, 'is the only American bandit who is classical, who is to this ...

Lured by 'the astonishing accounts of the vast deposits of gold in California,' Alonzo Delano (18...

One of the more complex and widespread rituals practiced by Native American groups focused on the...

A bona fide classic, originally published in 1872, 'Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada' is still...

In 1822 Elijah Mounts, barely eighteen, shoulders his rifle and walks from his uncle's Missouri f...

In 1874, Fort Robinson was founded amid the piney ridges of northwest Nebraska to stem the attack...

The American cowboy emerges from these pages as a recognizable human being with little resemblanc...

'[Abel's] story is a tragic one, but leaving it untold would be a greater tragedy. Native America...

'An approved text, Center for Editions of American Authors, Modern Language Association of Americ...

For the residents of the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, mainstream medical care is often...

Originally published: New York: Little, Brown and Co.. 2008.

In the middle of a successful academic career, art historian Janet Catherine Berlo found herself ...

'In North America there is one large animal that belongs almost entirely to the realm of towering...

The overland trails in the 1860s witnessed the creation of stage stations to facilitate overland ...

By zealous research, keen observation, and wide-ranging and deeply probing commentary, Mari Sando...

James Josiah Webb left Independence, Missouri, in the summer of 1844 and headed down the Santa Fe...

Susan Kushner Resnick is the author of Sleepless Days: One Woman¿s Journey through Postpartum Dep...

Three years before the civic-minded Carol Kennicott came to life in Main Street, Una Golden was c...

A young man in modern America is terrorized by visions of an earlier, primitive life. Across the ...

Dan Aadland is a former teacher who ranches and breeds horses near Absarokee, Montana. He is the ...

Originally published: Emmaus, Pa.: Rodale, c2003.

Kit Carson was shown on the cover of an old dime novel slaying six Indians with one hand while pr...

Reprint. Originally published: Pirates on the west coast of New Spain, 1575-1742. Glendale, Calif...

This is the spirited story of Esther Burnett Horne, an accomplished and inspiring educator in Ind...

In June 1846 Susan Shelby Magoffin, eighteen years old and a bride of less than eight months, set...

Remininscences of army wives constitute a distinct genre of the literature of the American West. ...

Nephew to Sitting Bull, chief of the Sioux, Pte San Hunka (White Bull) was a famous warrior in hi...