Wild West Reviews
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Cowgirls, Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, Calif., 1996, $22.95 paper.Ah, cowgirls! Where would cowboys be without them? Probably back in the saddle again. Sure, there was Dale Evans riding next to Roy Rogers in the movies and Annie Oakley shooting …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Roadside History of Idaho, by Betty Derig, Mountain Press Publishing Company, Missoula, Mont., 1996, $30 cloth, $18 paper.Meriwether Lewis and William Clark entered what is now Idaho on August 12, 1805, and the next year, on their return trip …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
The Shirley Letters: From the California Mines, 1851-1852,edited with introduction by Marlene Smith-Baranzini, Heyday Books, Berkeley, Calif., 1998, $12.95 paperback.Here once again are the 23 letters that were written in 1851-52 by Louise ("Dame Shirley") Clapp, the wife of …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Journals of Forty-Niners: Salt Lake to Los Angeles, edited by LeRoy R. Hafen and Ann W. Hafen, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1998, $15 paperback.During the California Gold Rush 150 years ago, many gold seekers rushed west on the …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
THE LAST GUNFIGHTER: JOHN WESLEY HARDINJOHN WESLEY HARDIN: DARK ANGEL OF TEXASJOHN WESLEY Hardin had lain amoldering in his grave for a century until the 100th anniversary of his death neared onAugust 19, 1995. The centennial sparked renewed …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Rush for Riches: Gold Fever and the Making of California, by J.S. Holliday, Oakland Museum of California and University of California Press, Berkeley, 1999, $45 hardcover, $25 softcover.In 1981, J.S. Holliday came out with the golden classic The World …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
LITTLE BIG HORN TRADING CARDSI can just see it now: Two kids from Hardin, Mont.–or New Rumley, Ohio, for that matter–are doing some card trading. Firstkid: "I'll give you a Captain Frederick Benteen, a Lieutenant J.J. Crittenden and a …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Lawmen of the Old West: The Good Guys, by Del Cain, Republic of Texas Press, an imprint of Wordware Publishing, Plano, Texas, 2000, $16.95 paperback.Author Del Cain makes a point of looking beyond such well-known lawmen as Wyatt Earp, …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
CHEIF JOSEPH AND THE NEZ PERCES: A PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORYThe 1,500-mile flight–and sometimes fight–in 1877 of Chief Joseph and other discontented Nez Perce who had been pushed to the limit ranks as one of the most extraordinary events of the …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Wyoming's Territorial Sheriffs, by Ann Gorzalka, High Plains Press, Glendo, Wyo., 1998, $14.95.Wyoming became a territory on July 25, 1868, and a state on July 10, 1890. During the territorial years, it had 55 sheriffs, beginning with Seth M. …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
The People of Geronimo vs. the United States, by Michael Lieder and Jake Page, Random House, New York, 1997, $25.95.The people of Geronimo are also the people of Mangas Coloradas, Cochise, Victorio and Juh, of course. Mainly because of …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
MEN WITH CUSTER: BIOGRAPHIES OF THE 7TH CAVALRYWhen it comes to the Little Bighorn, far more ink than blood has been spilled. How and when some 210 soldiers under George Armstrong Custer's direct command died remains a mystery because …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
The Trail of Tears Across Missouri, by Joan Gilbert, the University of Missouri Press, Columbia, 1996, $8.95 paperback.Most of the Indians of the Southeast were forced to give up their homes and move west beginning in the early 1830s. …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Outlaws: The Illustrated History of the James-Younger Gang, by Marley Brant, Black Bell Press/Elliott & Clark Publishing, Montgomery, Ala., 1997, $29.95.When it comes to Old West personalities, Jesse James is probably No. 1 in the minds, if not the …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Massacre on the Lordsburg Road: A Tragedy of the Apache Wars, by Marc Simmons, Texas A&M University Press, College Station, 1997, $27.95.One of the last tragic episodes of the terrible Apache wars happened in southwestern New Mexico Territory on …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
IT HAPPENED IN NEW MEXICOWant to quickly learn more about New Mexico's history–or review some things you might already know–without tacklingthick textbooks or encyclopedias? Well, hombre, this entertaining 118-page book could be for you–that is, as long as you …
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