This is the big novel that some day was bound to some day come out of our proud Western tradition. It is the story of a lonely marshal who was as much outside the law as the terrorists he was hired to destroy, and of the town he tried to rid of violence. Drawing on events known to have happened on the Southwest frontier of the 1880s, Oakley Hall not only has brought to life one of the most vivid periods of out national history, but has done it with...

Describes the exploits of some of the men in the Old West, including John Wesley Hardin, Billy the Kid, "Doc" Holliday, and James Butler Hickok, who earned reputations for being deadly with a gun.

Discusses the life of Jesse James, from his beginnings as a teenage guerrilla soldier for the Confederates, through his career as a robber with the James-Younger gang, to his murder at the hands of a former gang member.

A profile of the versitile frontiersman known as Buffalo Bill.

Presents the life and accomplishments of the Apache leader who was caught between tribal traditions and new settlers' encroachment into Apache territory.

Profiles the life and exploits of William Hickok, the legendary Western sharpshooter known as Wild Bill.

Tales of intrigue in this book include unusual unsolved crimes, legends of lost treasure, spine-tingling ghost stories, well-documented sea creature sightings, and more. Based on historic accounts from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, author Lynn Bragg recounts fifteen myths and mysteries from Washington's past, verifying some tales from multiple accounts and exposing some stories for what may have really occurred. Readers will be riveted...

Its 1883 in Johnson County, in the old Dakota Territorya rugged, wide-open landscape of rolling, red earth, prairie, and cattle as far as the eye can see. But the land is closing, the Beef Bonanza is ending, and the free-range cattlemen are stuck watching a way of life disappear in a blaze of drought and gunfire. An action-packed western from one of the masters of the genre, Oakley Halls The Bad Lands blends roundups and rustlers, whorehouses and...

Tales of intrigue in this book include unusual unsolved crimes, unidentified flying objects, spine-tingling ghost stories, well-documented sea creature sightings, and more. Based on historic accounts from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Montana Myths and Legends recounts several myths and mysteries from the Big Sky State's past, verifying some tales from multiple accounts and exposing some stories for what may have really occurred. From...