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Tom Chantry wore no gun and wished no man harm. French Williams was a ruthless cattleman more than willing to use his weapon. But Tom needed Williams to help him drive a herd north to Dodge. Setting off together on a trail alive with danger, soft-spoken Chantry and hard-bitten Williams faced storms, treachery, and Indian attacks. Now the man some call a coward and the man many call a killer have no choice but to trust each other with their lives--for...
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"Great Plains Cattle Empire chronicles the establishment of the cattle industry in the western United States, spanning the years from the Civil War to World War II." "John and Mahlon Thatcher were two of the many pioneers looking to begin a new life in the great open spaces of the West. In the 1860s, the brothers began a small mercantile in the town of Pueblo, Colorado. From a small safe in the corner of their newly created mercantile, the two Thatcher...
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"Wyoming's infamous Johnson County War exploded on the local and national consciousness in 1892 and has never lost its imaginative power. The basis for such classic novels as The Virginian and Shane, it has been re-enacted in such major motion pictures as Shane and Heaven's Gate." "Now Wyoming attorney John W. Davis retells the story of the West's greatest range war. Having scoured all the sources other writers have used, Davis has delved more deeply...
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Dee Brown is most renowned for authoring the all-time bestselling book on the West, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee", which has sold more than 5,000,000 copies in English and has had countless translations the world over. This was the first fully realized, sympathetic history of Native Americans and became an immediate classic.
Here, now, is "The American West", a brilliant account of America's most famous drama. By centering solely on three subjects,...
19) The JJ Ranch on the Purgatory River in Colorado: the Jones family and the Prairie Cattle Company
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The fascinating account of the Jones family is just one example of the stories of many families who settled the West, many of whom found their place and did not move further west as the Jones family did.