The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Old West

The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Old West
Author: Mike Flanagan
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 488
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780028629452

Little known lore about pioneers, easy to understand explanations of land agreements, fascinating adventures of Native Americans, and photos the people of the ole West.

Tour Guide to the Old West

Tour Guide to the Old West
Author: Alice Cromie
Publisher: Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Company
Total Pages: 488
Release: 1977
Genre: Travel
ISBN:

Tour Guide to Old Western Forts

Tour Guide to Old Western Forts
Author: Herbert M. Hart
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1980
Genre: Travel
ISBN:

A comprehensive guide to over one thousand forts, camps, and posts in the western United States; includes detailed historical background accompanied by more than 250 photos and drawings.

A Guide to the Indian Wars of the West

A Guide to the Indian Wars of the West
Author: John Dishon McDermott
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780803282469

A rich and detailed look at the wars that the United States conducted against its native population from 1860 to 1890 explores the fundamental circumstances of events, investigates the different responses of tribes to the conflict, and much more. Original. UP.

The Great Plains Guide to Buffalo Bill

The Great Plains Guide to Buffalo Bill
Author: Jeff Barnes
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2014-02-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0811712931

"Anyone interested in the history of the West will enjoy this latest book by Jeff Barnes. He carefully examines the accounts of William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody's life--some true, some fictional, and others in between--and places them within the context of the Great Plains, and America as a whole, guiding readers to sites associated with Buffalo Bill and the momentous times in which he lived. It's an entertaining and helpful guide to both past and place." --Steve Friesen, director of the Buffalo Bill Museum • Guide to residences, forts, battlefields, and other sites that interpret Buffalo Bill's life on the Great Plains • Locations in Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Wyoming • Helpful maps pinpoint locations • Dozens of photographs from both past and present • Includes directions, visitor information, related sites, and recommended reading

Frontier Forts and Outposts of New Mexico

Frontier Forts and Outposts of New Mexico
Author: Donna Blake Birchell
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2019
Genre: History
ISBN: 1467140783

Life in early New Mexico was often perilous. Geographic isolation attracted outlaws and ruffians, and skirmishes often arose between the indigenous tribes and settlers. In response, the U.S. government set up military forts and outposts to protect its new citizens. These strongholds include Fort Craig, where logs were made to look like cannons to fool Confederate troops. Kit Carson, John Pershing and Billy the Kid all called Fort Stanton home, before it became the first federal tuberculosis sanatorium and later a detention center for German prisoners of war. Author Donna Blake Birchell relates little-known yet highly important Civil War battles, the tragedies of the Navajo and Mescalero Apache internments and other dramatic frontier stories.

The Great Plains Guide to Custer

The Great Plains Guide to Custer
Author: Jeff Barnes
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2012
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0811708365

"Very comprehensive and authoritative." --Robert M. Utley, author of Cavalier in Buckskin "Jeff Barnes has really done his research. . . . Highly recommended." --James Donovan, author of A Terrible Glory Guide to forts, military posts, battlefields, and other sites that interpret George Armstrong Custer's decade of operations on the Great Plains Locations in Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Montana Extended section on Little Bighorn Each entry includes directions, amenities, contact information, and recommended reading

Fortress America

Fortress America
Author: J. E. Kaufmann
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2007-09-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0306816342

From the earliest colonial settlements to Cold War bunkers, the North American continent has been home to thousands of forts and fortress structures. Fortress America surveys the broad sweep of fortifications throughout North America-from seacoast forts of the late eighteenth century to wooden inland forts built to defend against Native American, English, French, or Spanish attack; from Civil War-era coastal and inland waterways forts to the Great Plains' forts of the Old West; from World War II subterranean bunkers to Cold War concrete missile silos. The text of Fortress America is complemented with never-before-published photographs, and extraordinary drawings, cut-aways, and diagrams illustrating the design and structure of American forts.