Western Life:

Barns, Cass G. The Sod House. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1970.

Becker, Ethel A. Klondike `98: Hegg’s Album of the 1898 Alaska Gold Rush. Portland, OR: Binfords and Mort, 1949.

Bogue, Allan G. From Prairie to Corn Belt: Farming on the Illinois and Iowa Prairies in the Nineteenth Century. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1963.

Bridger, Bobby. Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull: Inventing the Wild West. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002.

Burke, Marthy Cannary (aka Calamity Jane). Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane: By Herself. 1900.

Byrne, Bernard J. A Frontier Army Surgeon; Life in Colorado in the Eighties. NY: Exposition Press, 1962.

Carter, Robert A. Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man behind the Legend. NY: John Wiley and Sons, 2000.

Corbusier, Fanny Dunbar. Fanny Dunbar Corbusier: Recollections of Her Army Life, 1869-1908. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003.

Dale, Edward E. The Range Cattle Industry: Ranching on the Great Plains from 1865 to 1925. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1960.

Dary, David. Seeking Pleasure in the Old West. NY: Knopf, 1995.

Dykstra, Robert R. The Cattle Towns. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983.

Garrett, Pat F. Pat F. Garrett’s The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000.

Gibbens, Byrd, ed. This Is a Strange Country: Letters of a Westering Family, 1880-1906. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1988.

Gillis, Julia. So Far from Home: An Army Bride on the Western Frontier, 1865-1869. Portland: Oregon Historical Society, 1993.

Graham, Don. Kings of Texas: The 150-Year Saga of an American Ranching Empire. NY: Wiley, 2003.

Grierson, Alice Kirk. The Colonel’s Lady on the Western Frontier: The Correspondence of Alice Kirk. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989.

Hickey, Joseph V. Ghost Settlement on the Prairie: A Biography of Thurman, Kansas. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1995.

Hinckley, Ted C. The Americanization of Alaska 1867-1897. Palo Alto, CA: Pacific Books, 1972.

Hogan, Richard. Class and Community in Frontier Colorado. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1990.

Holbo, Paul S. Tarnished Expansion: The Alaska Scandal, the Press, and Congress, 1867-1871. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1983.

Holmes, Kenneth L. ed. and comp. Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1890. Glendale, CA: A.H. Clark, 1983-.

Holt, Marilyn Irvin. Children of the Western Plains: The Nineteenth-Century Experience. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2003.

Hunt, William R. North of 53b0s: The Wild Days of the Alaska-Yukon Mining Frontier, 1870-1914. NY: Macmillan, 1974.

Hutton Paul A. Phil Sheridan and His Army. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985.

Jackson, Helen Hunt. Westward to High Mountain: The Colorado Writings of Helen Hunt Jackson. Denver: Colorado Historical Society, 1994.

Jacobsen, Joel. Such Men as Billy the Kid: The Lincoln County War Reconsidered. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994.

Jones, Mary Ellen. Daily Life on the Nineteenth Century American Frontier. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.

Jones-Eddy, Julie. Homesteading Women: An Oral History of Colorado, 1890-1950. NY: Twayne, 1992.

Leckie, William H. The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the West. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003

Luebke, Frederick C., ed. European Immigrants in the American West: Community Histories. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998.

MacGregor, Greg. Overland: The California Emigrant Trail of 1841-1870 . Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1996.

Marks, Paula Mitchell. Precious Dust: The American Gold Rush Era, 1848-1900 . NY: W. Morrow, 1994.

Mighetto, Lisa, and Marcia Montgomery. Hard Drive to the Klondike: Promoting Seattle during the Gold Rush. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002.

Moynihan, Ruth B., et al, eds. So Much to Be Done: Women Settlers on the Mining and Ranching Frontier. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990.

Nichols, Jeanette P. Alaska: A History of Its Administration, Exploitation, and Industrial Development during Its First Half Century under the Rule of the United States NY: Russell and Russell, 1963.

Nolan, Frederick, W. The West of Billy the Kid. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998.

Owens, Kenneth N., ed. Riches for All: The California Gold Rush and the World. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002.

Painter, Nell Irvin. Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas after Reconstruction. NY: Knopf, 1976.

Pelzer, Louis. The Cattlemen’s Frontier: A Record of the Trans-Mississippi Cattle Industry from Oxen Trains to Pooling Companies, 1850-1890. NY: Russell and Russell, 1969.

Reschly, Steven D. The Amish on the Iowa Prairie, 1840 to 1910. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

Robertson, Pauline D. Cowman’s Country: Fifty Frontier Ranches in the Texas Panhandle, 1876-1887. Amarillo: Paramount Publishing, 1981.

Robinson, Charles N. General Cook and the Western Frontier. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001.

Roosevelt, Theodore. Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail. 1888.

Roosevelt, Theodore. The Winning of the West. 1889

Schubert, Frank N., ed. Voices of the Buffalo Soldier: Records, Reports, and Recollections of Military Life and Service in the West. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003.

Schwantes, Carlos A.. Long Day’s Journey: The Steamboat and Stagecoach Era in the Northern West. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999.

Sladen, Joseph Alton. Making Peace with Cochise: The 1872 Journal of Captain Joseph Alton Sladen. Edwin R. Sweeney, ed. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997.

Starrs, Paul F. Let the Cowboy Ride: Cattle Ranching in the American West. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

Tate, Michael L. The Frontier Army in the Settlement of the West . Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999.

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Uglow, Loyd M. Standing the Gap: Army Outposts, Picket Stations, and the Pacification of the Texas Frontier, 1866-1886. Fort Worth: Texas Christian university Press, 2001.

Utley, Robert M. Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001.

Utley, Robert M. Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers. NY: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Wallis, Michael. The Real Wild West: The 101 Ranch and the Creation of the American West. NY: St. Martin’s, 1999.

Welch, Roger L. Sod Walls; The Story of the Nebraska Sod House . Broken Bow, AZ: Purcells, 1968.

White, G. Edward. The Eastern Establishment and the Western Experience: The West of Frederic Remington, Theodore Roosevelt, and Owen Wister. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989.

Wilkins, Frederick. The Law Comes to Texas: The Texas Rangers, 1870-1901. Austin, TX: State House Press, 1999.

Worster, Donald. An Unsettled Country: Changing Landscapes of the American West. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1994.