Outlaws, Explorers, and Pioneers | Wasatch County Library

1) Men to match my mountains: the opening of the Far West 1840-1900

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Stone, Irving

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Mainstream of America

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Covers "California, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado."

2) Black cowboys of the Old West: true, sensational, and little-known stories from history

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Wagner, Tricia Martineau

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The word cowboy conjures up vivid images of rugged men on saddled horses, men lassoing cattle, riding bulls, or brandishing guns in a shoot-out. White men, as Hollywood remembers them. What is woefully missing from these scenes is their counterparts: the black cowboys who made up one-fourth of the wranglers and rodeo riders. This book tells their story. When the Civil War ended, black men left the Old South in large numbers to seek a living in the...

3) West like lightning: the brief, legendary ride of the Pony Express

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DeFelice, Jim

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Compact Disc, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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The #1 New York Times–bestselling coauthor of American Sniper details the history of the nineteenth-century express mail service that spanned the American west.
On the eve of the Civil War, three American businessmen launched an audacious plan to create a financial empire by transforming communications across the hostile territory between the nation's two coasts. In the process, they created one of the most enduring icons...

4) Outlaw women: the Wild West's most notorious daughters, wives, and mothers

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Smith, Robert B

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"This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West's most egregiously badly behaved female outlaws is a great addition to Western author Robert Barr Smith's books on the American frontier. Pulling together stories of ladies caught in the acts of mayhem, distraction, murder, and highway robbery. It includes famous names like Belle Starr and lesser known characters as well. The book also contains archival illustrations and photographs"--Provided...

5) Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest

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Poling-Kempes, Lesley

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Ladies of the Canyons is the true story of remarkable women who left the security and comforts of genteel Victorian society and journeyed to the American Southwest in search of a wider view of themselves and their world. Educated, restless, and inquisitive, Natalie Curtis, Carol Stanley, Alice Klauber, and Mary Cabot Wheelwright were plucky, intrepid women whose lives were transformed in the first decades of the twentieth century by the people and...

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7) One man's West

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Lavender, David Sievert

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8) Wild Bill: the true story of the American frontier's first gunfighter

Author

Clavin, Tom

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Frontier Lawmen

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"The first thing you will notice about this engaging and delightful biography is that [Narrator Johnny Heller] sounds like a character actor who moseyed off the set of an old-fashioned oater. His voice is a little scratchy, a little seasoned and perfectly suits this biography of larger-than-life Bill Hickok and his pals, from Calamity Jane to Buffalo Bill Cody and General Custer." —The Berkshire Edge

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9) Butch Cassidy: a biography

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Patterson, Richard M

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10) Whirlwind on the Outlaw trail: Sheriff John T. Pope

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Weston, Dale B

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11) The outlaw trail: a history of Butch Cassidy and his Wild Bunch

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Kelly, Charles

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12) The wild bunch at Robbers Roost

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Baker, Pearl Biddlecome

13) Robbers Roost recollections

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Baker, Pearl

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Pearl Baker's memories of Robber's Roost capture the sounds and smells, the hard work, the cowboy lingo, and the excitement of ranch life while running cattle in the rugged southern Utah terrain that was home to Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch,

14) Trials of the earth: the true story of a pioneer woman

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Hamilton, Mary Mann

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"This first-hand account of a woman pioneer trying to make a life for herself in the untamed American South of the late 19th century describes how she cared for her children while surviving floods, tornadoes, fires and wild animals."

15) Aloha rodeo: three Hawaiian cowboys, the world's greatest rodeo, and a hidden history of the American West

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Wolman, David

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In the spirit of The Boys in the Boat comes the captivating true story of the Hawaiian cowboys who changed rodeo and the West forever. In August 1908, three unknown riders arrived in Cheyenne, Wyoming, their hats adorned with wildflowers, to compete in the world's greatest rodeo. They had travelled 3,000 miles from Hawaii, where their ancestors had herded cattle for generations, to test themselves against the toughest riders in the West. Dismissed...

16) The Mormon Rebellion: America's first civil war, 1857-1858

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Bigler, David L

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17) Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West

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"Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs passing through to populate the expanding West. Before long, Dodge City's streets were lined with saloons and brothels and its populace was thick with gunmen, horse thieves, and desperadoes of every sort. By the 1870s, Dodge City was known as the most violent...

18) Mormon country

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Stegner, Wallace Earle

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Chronicles the establishment of the Mormon country in the dry lands between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada, discussing how the religion's followers formed their own tight knit community.

19) Old Spanish Trail, Sante Fe to Los Angeles : with extracts from contemporary records

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Hafen, Leroy R., 1893

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20) Tomboy bride: a woman's personal account of life in mining camps of the West

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Backus, Harriet Fish

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Pruett

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A Colorado favorite, Tomboy Bride presents the first-hand account of a young pioneer woman and her life in a rough and tumble mining town of the Old West. In 1906 at the age of twenty, Harriet Fish hopped on a train from Oakland, California, to the San Juan Mountains of Colorado in search of a new life as the bride of assayer George Backus. Together, the couple ventured forth to discover mining town life at the turn of the twentieth century, adjusting...