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Cowboy Western and 1 1 New 2016 March Products Alias Frank Canton Here for the first time is the complete life story of the controversial lawman Frank Canton, born Joe Horner, who, after conviction and imprisonment for armed robbery, escaped to change his name and transform himself into an ambitious, hard-working peace officer pursuing... Item # Media Type SRP UOK612900S Books $24.95 American Fur Trade Vol. 2 The American Fur Trade of the Far West is the premier history of its subject. Its publication in 1902 invited historians and general readers to look more closely at the intricate connections of the fur trade with the development of North America. Item # Media Type SRP UNE326321S Books $24.95 Army Regulars on the Western Frontier, 1848-1861 Deployed to posts from the Missouri River to the Pacific in 1848, the United States Army undertook an old mission on frontiers new to the United States: occupying the western territories; suppressing American Indian... Item # Media Type SRP UOK613312H Books $24.95 Boots and Saddles The honeymoon of Elizabeth Bacon and George Armstrong Custer was interrupted in 1864 by his call to duty with the Army of the Potomac. She begged to be allowed to go along, thus setting the pattern of her future life. From that time on, she accompanied General Custer on all of his major... Item # Media Type SRP UOK611192S Books $14.95 Bravos of the West Bravos of the West is a panoramic history of the development of the West after the Lewis and Clark expedition. Appearing, exiting, and reappearing in this history are trappers, traders, prospectors, gunslingers, missionaries, soldiers, and scientists. Item # Media Type SRP UNE328222S Books $29.95 Desert Between the Mountains On July 24, 1847, a band of Mormon pioneers who had crossed the Great Plains and hauled their wagons over the Rocky Mountains descended into the Salt Lake valley. They settled alongside the Indians there in an immense, self-contained region covering more than 220,000 square miles aptly... Item # Media Type SRP UOK613186S Books $19.95 Elizabeth Bacon Custer Georger Armstrong Custer’s death in 1876 at the Battle of the Little Big Horn left Elizabeth Bacon Custer a thirty-four-year- old widow who was deeply in debt. By the time she died fifty-seven years later she had achieved economic security, recognition as an author... Item # Media Type SRP UOK612501H Books $19.95 Empires, Nations, and Families: A New History of the North American West, 1800-1860 Pulitzer Prize nominee and winner of the Bancroft Prize—historical writing’s most prestigious award—Empires, Nations, and Families is an epic work of American History that fills in the blanks on the... Item # Media Type SRP UNE322405H Books $45.00 Encyclopedia of the Great Plains The Great Plains is a vast expanse of grasslands stretching from the Rocky Mountains to the Missouri River and from the Rio Grande to the coniferous forests of Canada--an area more than eighteen hundred miles from north to south and more than five hundred miles from east to west. Item # Media Type SRP UNE324787H Books $75.00

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Alias Frank CantonHere for the first time is the complete life story of the controversial lawman Frank Canton, born Joe Horner, who, after conviction and imprisonment for armed robbery, escaped to change his name and transform himself into an ambitious, hard-working peace officer pursuing...

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UOK612900S Books $24.95

American Fur Trade Vol. 2The American Fur Trade of the Far West is the premier history of its subject. Its publication in 1902 invited historians and general readers to look more closely at the intricate connections of the fur trade with the development of North America.

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UNE326321S Books $24.95

Army Regulars on the Western Frontier, 1848-1861Deployed to posts from the Missouri River to the Pacific in 1848, the United States Army undertook an old mission on frontiers new to the United States: occupying the western territories; suppressing American Indian...

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UOK613312H Books $24.95

Boots and SaddlesThe honeymoon of Elizabeth Bacon and George Armstrong Custer was interrupted in 1864 by his call to duty with the Army of the Potomac. She begged to be allowed to go along, thus setting the pattern of her future life. From that time on, she accompanied General Custer on all of his major...

Item # Media Type SRP

UOK611192S Books $14.95

Bravos of the WestBravos of the West is a panoramic history of the development of the West after the Lewis and Clark expedition. Appearing, exiting, and reappearing in this history are trappers, traders, prospectors, gunslingers, missionaries, soldiers, and scientists.

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UNE328222S Books $29.95

Desert Between the MountainsOn July 24, 1847, a band of Mormon pioneers who had crossed the Great Plains and hauled their wagons over the Rocky Mountains descended into the Salt Lake valley. They settled alongside the Indians there in an immense, self-contained region covering more than 220,000 square miles aptly...

Item # Media Type SRP

UOK613186S Books $19.95

Elizabeth Bacon CusterGeorger Armstrong Custer’s death in 1876 at the Battle of the Little Big Horn left Elizabeth Bacon Custer a thirty-four-year-old widow who was deeply in debt. By the time she died fifty-seven years later she had achieved economic security, recognition as an author...

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UOK612501H Books $19.95

Empires, Nations, and Families: A New History of the North American West, 1800-1860Pulitzer Prize nominee and winner of the Bancroft Prize—historical writing’s most prestigious award—Empires, Nations, and Families is an epic work of American History that fills in the blanks on the...

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UNE322405H Books $45.00

Encyclopedia of the Great PlainsThe Great Plains is a vast expanse of grasslands stretching from the Rocky Mountains to the Missouri River and from the Rio Grande to the coniferous forests of Canada--an area more than eighteen hundred miles from north to south and more than five hundred miles from east to west.

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UNE324787H Books $75.00

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Forts of the WestThe number and variety of forts and posts, together with changes of location, name, and designation, have posed perplexing problems for students of western history. Now Robert W. Frazer has prepared a systematic listing of all presidios and military forts, which were ever, at any time and in...

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UOK6111250S Books $19.95

Frontiersmen in BlueFrontiersmen in Blue is a comprehensive history of the achievements and failures of the United States Regular and Volunteer Armies that confronted the Indian tribes of the West in the two decades between the Mexican War and the close of the Civil War. Between 1848 and 1865 the...

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UNE329550S Books $27.00

Fur Trade of the American WestThe whole system is traced out from the Green River rendezvous or the Fort Union post to the trading houses of St. Louis and the auctions in New York and Europe. Such factors as capital formation, shifting commercial institutions, the role of advanced market information, and the...

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UNE329732S Books $21.95

Fur Trade on the Upper MissouriBy beginning where the standard works leave off and carrying the story up to its logical conclusion in 1865, this book fills a definite void in the history of the fur trade in the American West. Set in the upper Missouri country, which was bypassed by settlement until the 1860s, it focuses primarily upon...

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UOK612566S Books $24.95

General Crook and the Western FrontierGeneral George Crook was one of the most prominent soldiers in the frontier West. General William T. Sherman called him the greatest Indian fighter and manager the army ever had.

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UOK613358H Books $24.95

Great Sioux War Orders of BattleLasting nearly two years, the Great Sioux War pitted almost one-third of the U.S. Army against Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyennes. By the time it ended, this grueling war had played out on twenty-seven different battlefields scattered across five states, resulted in hundreds of casualties, cost millions...

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UOK614322S Books $19.95

Horses Activity Fun KitRound up a stable of activities! The kit contains 36 stickers including many that shine, 12 tattoos and stencils, 3 different coloring books including a stained glass edition, an 11 x 16 1/2 Color Your Own poster, Learning About Horses — a fact-filled book that features 12 more stickers, and crayons.

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DOP645906H Books $16.95

Indians, Infants & InfantryDuring the years of the Indian uprisings in the West, Elizabeth Burt followed her husband, Major Andrew Burt, from one lonely outpost to another, with their three small children, a crate of chickens, and a cow in tow.

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UNE328157S Books $22.00

Jedediah Smith: No Ordinary Mountain ManMountain man and fur trader Jedediah Smith casts a heroic shadow. He was the first Anglo-American to travel overland to California via the Southwest, and he roamed through more of the West than anyone else...

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UOK614196S Books $19.95

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Jim BeckwourthDismissed as a “gaudy liar” by most historians and often discredited by writers who deprecated his mixed blood, James Pierson Beckwourth was one of the giants of the early West, certainly deserving to rank alongside Kit Carson, Bill Williams, Louis Vasquez, and Jim Bridger.

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UOK611555S Books $19.95

John Charles FremontAs an explorer, John Charles Frémont led five expeditions into the American West--two of them disastrous. He was also one of California’s first two senators (1850), America’s first Republican candidate for president (1856), a Civil War general, and the territorial governor of Arizona (1878-83).

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UOK613135S Books $19.95

Mormon ResistanceIn 1857 President Buchanan quietly sent new officials to rule the Utah Territory and replace Brigham Young as the territorial governor. With no official announcement, the new leaders were accompanied by a twenty-five-hundred-member troop under the leadership of Col. Albert Sidney...

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UNE327357S Books $29.95

My Army Life and the Fort Phil Kearney MassacreFirst published in 1910, Frances C. Carrington’s My Army Life and the Fort Phil Kearney Massacre recounted the author’s adventures as an army wife on the Great Plains, but also sought to set the record straight on her...

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UNE326443S Books $18.95

My Horse Coloring BookThis delightful and educational coloring book features over 40 charming and educational illustrations documenting the care and training of horses, including: what to look for when buying a horse or pony, grooming techniques, the care and cleaning of tack, basic first aid for horses, and many other activities.

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DOP628064S Books $4.99

Ned Wynkoop and the Lonely Road from Sand CreekWhen Edward W. Wynkoop arrived in Colorado Territory during the 1858 gold rush, he was one of many ambitious newcomers seeking wealth in a promising land mostly inhabited by American...

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UOK615188S Books $19.95

Powder River Expedition JournalsLt. Col. Richard Irving Dodge’s journals, written with utter candor for his eyes only, are the fullest firsthand account we possess of Gen. George Crook’s Powder River Expedition against the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, which culminated in Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie’s resounding destruction...

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UOK612983H Books $29.95

Saga of Hugh GlassBefore his most fabulous adventure (celebrated by John G. Neihardt in The Song of Hugh Glass and by Frederick Manfred in Lord Grizzly), Hugh Glass was captured by the buccaneer Jean Lafitte and turned pirate himself until his first chance to escape. Soon he fell prisoner to the Pawnees...

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UNE325834S Books $15.95

Sagebrush SoldierSagebrush Soldier is an account of military life during the Indian Wars in the late nineteenth-century West. Private William Earl Smith describes daily camp life, battle scenes, and the behavior of famous men - Ranald Mackenzie and George Crook - in public and private poses.

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UOK613335S Books $19.95

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Stagecoach WestStagecoach West is a comprehensive history of stagecoaching west of the Missouri. Starting with the evolution of overland passenger transportation, Moody moves on to paint a lively and informative picture of western stagecoaching, from its early short runs through its rise with the gold rush,...

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UNE328245S Books $23.95

Tenting on the PlainsFrom the time of her husband’s death at the Battle of the Little Big Horn until her own death fifty-seven years later, at the age of ninety, Mrs. George Armstrong Custer devoted herself to defending or embellishing her husband’s reputation.

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UOK612668S Books $24.95

Voices from the Oregon TrailIt’s 1848, and brave families band together in covered wagons to head west. Each spread introduces a different speaker to tell his or her part of the story: there’s Carl Hawks, son of the wagon train leader; Louisa Bailey, the newlywed; Chankoowashtay, a Sioux brave; and more. Like its acclaimed predecessor Colonial Voices, this book...

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RAH373775H Books $17.99

Washita: The U.S. Army & the Southern Cheyennes, 1867-1869On November 27, 1868, the U.S. Seventh Cavalry under Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer attacked a Southern Cheyenne village along the Washita River in present-day western Oklahoma....

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UOK613885S Books $19.95

Westering ManJoseph Walker (1798-1876) had probably the longest and most distinguished career of any frontiersman in American history. This first biography of this great frontier hero is based on years of research and many previously unpublished and neglected sources. It gives a rousing and...

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UOK611934S Books $24.95

With Golden Visions Bright Before Them: Overland West Vol 2During the mid-nineteenth century, a quarter of a million travelers—men, women, and children—followed the “road across the plains” to gold rush California. This magnificent...

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UOK614284H Books $34.95

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Alias Frank Canton........................................................................................................ 1American Fur Trade Vol. 2.............................................................................................1Army Regulars on the Western Frontier, 1848-1861..................................................... 1Boots and Saddles.........................................................................................................1Bravos of the West........................................................................................................ 1Desert Between the Mountains......................................................................................1Elizabeth Bacon Custer................................................................................................. 1Empires, Nations, and Families.....................................................................................1Encyclopedia of the Great Plains...................................................................................1Forts of the West........................................................................................................... 2Frontiersmen in Blue......................................................................................................2Fur Trade of the American West....................................................................................2Fur Trade on the Upper Missouri...................................................................................2General Crook and the Western Frontier.......................................................................2Great Sioux War Orders of Battle.................................................................................. 2Horses Activity Fun Kit...................................................................................................2Indians, Infants & Infantry..............................................................................................2Jedediah Smith..............................................................................................................2Jim Beckwourth............................................................................................................. 3John Charles Fremont................................................................................................... 3Mormon Resistance.......................................................................................................3My Army Life and the Fort Phil Kearney Massacre....................................................... 3My Horse Coloring Book................................................................................................3Ned Wynkoop and the Lonely Road from Sand Creek..................................................3Powder River Expedition Journals.................................................................................3Saga of Hugh Glass.......................................................................................................3Sagebrush Soldier......................................................................................................... 3Stagecoach West...........................................................................................................4Tenting on the Plains.....................................................................................................4Voices from the Oregon Trail.........................................................................................4Washita..........................................................................................................................4Westering Man..............................................................................................................4With Golden Visions Bright Before Them...................................................................... 4