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Reviews, Wild West Reviews
The Frontier Army in the Settlement of the West, by Michael L. Tate, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1999, $34.95. When most of us consider the army that made its presence felt in the Rockies and the Plains more than a century ago,...
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Reviews, Wild West Reviews
Across the Northern Frontier: Spanish Explorations in Colorado, by Phil Carson, Johnson Books, Boulder, Colo., 1998, $27.50, $18 paper. New Mexico was the northernmost province of New Spain, but there were Spaniards who ventured to the...
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Reviews, Wild West Reviews
The Old Santa Fe Trail, by Stanley Vestal, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1996, $14 paperback. Originally published in 1939, this very readable account of the 175-year-old Santa Fe Trail is being made available again in a...
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Reviews, Wild West Reviews
Pacific Destiny: The Three-Century Journey to the Oregon Country, by Dale L. Walker, Forge, New York, 2000, $27.95. Oregon Country–basically everything from present-day western Wyoming and Montana to the Pacific Ocean–was...
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Reviews, Wild West Reviews
A Cowboy of the Pecosby Patrick Dearen, Republic of Texas Press, 1997,$12.95 paperback. Buffalo hunters used to say that “when a bad man dies, he goes either to hell or the Pecos.” Charles Goodnight, of GoodnightLoving Trail...
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Reviews, Wild West Reviews
The Mountain Men: The Dramatic History and Lore of the First Frontiersmen, by George Laycox, Lyons & Burford, Publishers, New York, 1996, $16.95 paperback. Why are we still fascinated by the mountain men of the early 1800s? The best...
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Reviews, Wild West Reviews
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...
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Reviews, Wild West Reviews
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...
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Reviews, Wild West Reviews
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...
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American History Reviews, Reviews
INTO THE AMERICAN WOODS: NEGOTIATORS ON THE PENNSYLVANIA FRONTIER, by James H. Merrell, W.W. Norton, 463 pages, 27.95. When historians focus on the broad sweep of history, they often overlook the contributions of less-prominent figures....
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American History Reviews, Reviews
SEVEN TRAILS WEST , by Arthur King Peters (Abbeville Press, 252 pages, $39.95). With the aid of more than two hundred historic and contemporary photographs and maps, Peters presents an account of life on the seven major”trails”...
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American History Reviews, Reviews
THE REAL WILD WEST: THE 101 RANCH AND THE CREATION OF THE AMERICAN WEST, by Michael Wallis, St. Martin’s Press, 652 pages, $35.00. This vividly illustrated and colorfully written work examines how a mammoth, working cattle ranch...
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American History Reviews, Reviews
THE KLONDIKE QUEST: A PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY 1897-1899, by Pierre Berton, Boston Mills Press, 240 pages, $34.95. Niagara author Pierre Berton, who was born in the Yukon, takes readers on a visual journey of the Klondike Gold Rush. The more...
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Mag: America's Civil War Reviews, Reviews
The Approaching Fury: Voices of the Storm, 1820-1861, by Stephen B. Oates, HarperCollins, New York, 1997, $28. The vast pantheon of Civil War literature is graced with titles focusing on the underlying causes of America’s bloodiest...
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American History Reviews, Reviews
THE LONG HUNT: DEATH OF THE BUFFALO EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI, by Ted Franklin Belue (Stackpole Books, 288 pages, $22.95). The focus of most histories of the North American bison–popularly known as “buffalo”–is the...
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Reviews
DEATH VALLEY MEMORIES, (Cottonwood Productions, $19.95). The stories of existence in southeastern California’s Death Valley–thus-named after many prospectors died crossing the area during the 1849 gold rush–are recounted...
