A collection of over 150 vignettes from the journals and diaries of people who lived or traveled in the Old West, these accounts begin with the sixteenth-centur

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The history of America is, at its core, the story of the American West. In this new volume from the Western Writers of America, readers are taken deep into the

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