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Adventures and Tragedies on the Overland
Trail - By
Randall Parrish, book excerpt,
The Great Plains: The Romance of Western
American Exploration, Warfare, and Settlement, 1527-1870; 1907.
Adventures on the Bozeman Trail
-
By Grace Raymond Hebard and Earl Alonzo
Brininstool, book excerpt,
The
Bozeman Trail: Historical Accounts of the Blazing of the Overland Routes
Into the Northwest,
1922.
The Ashtabula,
Ohio Railroad Disaster
- The most terrible railroad disaster in U.S. History,
newspaper accounts of the great train wreck.
The
American Cowboy - By Jun Joseph Nimmo, Harper's Magazine, November, 1886.
American Horse - A Shrewd Sioux Chief
- By
Charles A. Eastman, book
excerpt,
Indian
Heroes and Great Chieftains, 1918.
The Ark on Superstition Mountains
- By Charles M. Skinner, book excerpt, Myths and Legends of Our
Own Land,
1896.
The
Arikara Tribe - Indians With Horns - By Frederick Webb Hodge, book
excerpt, Handbook of American Indians, 1906.
Bad Men of the Indian Nations -
By
Emerson
Hough, book excerpt,
The Story of the
Outlaw; A Study of the Western Desperado, 1907.
Bad Men of Texas
- By
Emerson
Hough, book excerpt,
The Story of the
Outlaw; A Study of the Western Desperado, 1907.
Banshee
of the Bad Lands -
By Charles M.
Skinner, book excerpt, Myths and Legends of Our Own Land,
1896.
The Beginnings of Dodge City
- By
Robert M.
Wright, book excerpt, Dodge City, The Cowboy Capital and the Great
Southwest, 1913.
Beginning of Settlement in the American
West -
By
Randall Parrish, book excerpt,
The Great Plains: The Romance of Western
American Exploration, Warfare, and Settlement, 1527-1870; 1907.
Ben Thompson and Other Noted
Gunmen -
By
Bat Masterson, who wrote a series of articles for
Human Life magazine in 1907 and 1908.
Bill Booth - A
Notorious Slayer - By James M. Enochs, hand written account, 1800's
Bill Bradley, Gambler
and Gentleman
-
By John A. Hill and
Jasper Ewing Brady,
book excerpt, Danger Signals, first published in
1898.
Billy the Kid -
A Fatal Shot in the Dark by Pat Garrett
-
By
Pat
Garrett,
book excerpt from The Authentic Life of Billy The Kid,
1882.
Bill Tilghman - Thirty Years a
Lawman -
By
Bat Masterson, who wrote a series of articles for
Human Life magazine in 1907 and 1908.
Blue Field, Arizona & An Indian
Scrimmage - By
John A. Hill and
Jasper Ewing Brady,
book excerpt, Danger Signals, first published in
1898.
Boone Helm - Murderer,
Cannibal & Thief - By
Emerson
Hough, book excerpt,
The Story of the
Outlaw; A Study of the Western Desperado, 1907.
Border Towns of the American West
- By
Robert M.
Wright, book excerpt, Dodge City, The Cowboy Capital and the Great
Southwest, 1913.
Buckskin Frank Leslie Marries
Belle Stowell
- Newspaper
Accounts, 1896.
Buffalo Hunting With Teddy Roosevelt
- By Theodore Roosevelt, book excerpt,
Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches; 1893.
Building Along The Santa Fe
Trail - By John Moody, book excerpt, The Railroad
Builders, A Chronicle of the Welding of the States, 1919.
Burning of Osceola - Newspaper
Accounts - Actual accounts of the
Burning of Osceola.
Camel Caravans of the American Deserts
- By James M. Guinn, book excerpt,
American Deserts
was included in
Pioneers of Los Angeles
County, 1901.
The Cattle Kings
- By
Emerson
Hough, book excerpt, The Passing of the Frontier, A
Chronicle of the Old West, 1918.
The Cattle Trails
- By
Emerson
Hough, book excerpt, The
Passing of the Frontier, A Chronicle of the Old West, 1918.
Cattle Trails of the Prairie
- By Charles Moreau Harger, Scribner's
Magazine, June, 1892.
Chief Gall - An
Aggressive Sioux Leader - By
Charles A. Eastman, book
excerpt,
Indian
Heroes and Great Chieftains, 1918.
Chief Joseph - Leader
of the Nez Perce and a True American
- By
Charles A. Eastman, book
excerpt,
Indian
Heroes and Great Chieftains, 1918.
Cochise,
Arizona Train Robbery
- By James Harvey McClintock, book excerpt, Arizona: The Youngest State,
1913.
Cowboys on the American Frontier
- By
Emerson
Hough, book excerpt, The Passing of the Frontier,
A Chronicle of the Old West, 1918.
A Century of Railroad Building - By John Moody, book excerpt, The Railroad
Builders, A Chronicle of the Welding of the States, 1919.
City of the Saints
- By John Muir, book excerpt, Steep Trails, 1918.
Combatants of the Civil War
- By William Charles Henry Wood, book excerpt, 1921.
Coming of
the Argonauts - By Zoeth Skinner Eldredge, book except, The
Beginnings of San Francisco From the Expedition of Anza, 1912.
Completion of the
Railroad - By William Francis Bailey, book
excerpt, The Story of the First Trans-Continental
Railroad: Its Projectors, Construction and History, 1906.
Crazy Horse - A Sacred
Hero - By
Charles A. Eastman, book
excerpt,
Indian
Heroes and Great Chieftains, 1918.
Dalton Raid in Coffeyville, Kansas
- Newspaper accounts of the
Dalton Gang attempted robbery in Coffeyville.
Death Scenes of Desperadoes
- By
Emerson
Hough, book excerpt,
The Story of the
Outlaw; A Study of the Western Desperado, 1907.
Desert
Outlaws - By
Emerson
Hough, book excerpt,
The Story of the
Outlaw; A Study of the Western Desperado, 1907.
The Desperado of the Plains
- By
Emerson
Hough, book excerpt,
The Story of the
Outlaw; A Study of the Western Desperado, 1907.
The Discovery Of Gold In California
- By John A. Sutter,
Hutchings’ California Magazine in November, 1857.
Doc Holliday - By
Bat Masterson, who wrote a series of articles for
Human Life magazine in 1907 and 1908.
Dodge City, Kansas Historical Accounts - From miscellaneous
newspapers, actual testimonies, letters, and book excerpts.
Dodge - A
Story of the Old Hell-raising Trail's End Where the Colt Was King - By
By William MacLeod Raine in 1925
Dull Knife - Northern
Cheyenne Chief - By
Charles A. Eastman, book
excerpt, Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains, 1918.
A Fight Between Deputy Marshals and the Miller Gang
- Newspaper article, Cherokee Advocate,
Claremore, Indian
Territory, February 5, 1898.
The First
Homestead
- B y
Addison Erwin Sheldon,
book excerpt, History and
Stories of Nebraska, 1913.
First Train Robbery
On The Pacific Coast
- Excerpt from the Third
Biennial Report of the Nevada Historical Society, 1913.
The Frontier In History
-
By
Emerson
Hough, book excerpt, The Passing
of the Frontier, A Chronicle of the Old West, 1918.
Frontier Wars - By
Emerson
Hough, book excerpt,
The Story of the
Outlaw; A Study of the Western Desperado, 1907.
Ghosts Of The National Capitol
- By the Philadelphia Press, 1898.
The Governor's Right Eye -
By Charles M. Skinner, book excerpt, Myths and
Legends of Our Own Land,
1896.
Gunplay Maxwell - Various newspaper accounts of
gunfighter/outlaw Gunplay
Maxwell's exploits in
Utah.
Harlots of the Barbary
Coast - By Herbert Asbury, book excerpt,
The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco
Underworld, 1933.
Hell-Raising Dodge -
By William MacLeod Raine, article, Dodge - A Story of the Old Hell-raising Trail's End Where the Colt Was King,
1925.
Heroines on the
Plains - By William
Worthington Fowler, book
excerpt, Woman On The American Frontier:
A Valuable And Authentic History, 1877.
Heroines in the Rocky
Mountains
- By William Worthington Fowler, book
excerpt, Woman On The American Frontier: A
Valuable And Authentic History, 1877.
Heroines of the Southwest
- By William Worthington Fowler,
book
excerpt, Woman On The American Frontier: A Valuable And Authentic History,
1877.
The Imitation Desperado
- By
Emerson
Hough, book excerpt,
The Story of the
Outlaw; A Study of the Western Desperado, 1907.
In a Trapper's Bivouac
- By
Colonel Henry Inman and
William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody,
book excerpt, The Old Santa Fe Trail,
1898.
Incidents of the Fur Trade -
By
Randall Parrish, book excerpt,
The Great Plains: The Romance of Western
American Exploration, Warfare, and Settlement, 1527-1870; 1907.
Indian Troubles During
Construction of the Railroad - By William Francis
Bailey, book excerpt, The Story of the First Trans-Continental
Railroad: Its Projectors, Construction and History, 1906.
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The Indian Wars
- By
Emerson
Hough, book excerpt, The Passing
of the Frontier, A Chronicle of the Old West, 1918.
The Invasion of Oklahoma -
By James Cox, book excerpt, My Native Land, 1903.
John
Heath & the Bisbee Massacre - Newspaper accounts and
witness testimony.
Joseph Slade - Hanged By Vigilantes - By
Emerson
Hough, book excerpt,
The Story of the
Outlaw; A Study of the Western Desperado, 1907.
The Land of the Desperado
-
By
Emerson
Hough, book excerpt,
The Story of the
Outlaw; A Study of the Western Desperado, 1907.
Knights of the Lash: Old Time Stage
Drivers of the West Coast
- By Major Ben C. Truman
in 1898.
Lawrence Massacre
- By Reverend Richard Cordley, based on a letter written in 1863.
The Legend Of Devil's Point
- By Bret Harte, book excerpt, The Luck of the Roaring Camp and other Tales,
1871.
Linking the Oceans By Railroad - By John Moody, book
excerpt, The Railroad
Builders, A Chronicle of the Welding of the States, 1919.
Little Crow - Leader
of the Santee Uprising - By
Charles A. Eastman, book
excerpt,
Indian
Heroes and Great Chieftains, 1918.
Little Wolf -
Courageous Leader of the Cheyennes
- By
Charles A. Eastman, book
excerpt,
Indian
Heroes and Great Chieftains, 1918.
Loving's
Bend - By Edgar Beecher
Bronson, book excerpt, The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier,
1910.
Luke Short - A Dandy
Gunfighter -
By
Bat Masterson, who wrote a series of articles for
Human Life magazine in 1907 and 1908.
Mines of Idaho &
Montana - By
Emerson
Hough, book
excerpt, The Passing
of the Frontier, A Chronicle of the Old West, 1918.
Modern Bad Men - By
Emerson
Hough, book excerpt,
The Story of the
Outlaw; A Study of the Western Desperado, 1907.
Mormon Joe - The Robber
- By
John A. Hill and
Jasper Ewing Brady,
book excerpt, Danger Signals, first published in
1898.
Mountain Meadows
Massacre - Several historic accounts, including:
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Rumored Massacre on the Plains, Los Angeles Star, October 3,
1857
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Massacre of Arkansas and
Missouri Emigrants, Los Angeles Star, October 10, 1857
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The Immigrant Massacre, Daily Alta, San Francisco, October 17, 1857
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M urders At Mountain
Canon Confirmed, Daily Alta, San
Francisco, October 27, 1857
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The Federal Government and the Mormons,
San Francisco Evening Bulletin, October 27, 1857
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The Mormon Murderers, San Francisco Evening Bulletin, October 28, 1857
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The Federal Government and the Mormons,
San Francisco Evening Bulletin, October 27, 1857
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The Mormons and the Late Massacre,
San Francisco Evening Bulletin, November 5, 1857
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Killing of Immigrants -- Mormons Falsely Accused,
Western Standard, San Francisco, November 6, 1857
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Brigham Young's Tactics,
Daily Alta, San Francisco,
San Francisco, Wed., December 23, 1857
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The Utah Expedition, New York Times,
February 4, 1858
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Special
Report Of The Mountain Meadow Massacre, by J. H. Carleton, Brevet Major,
United States Army,
May 25, 1859
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Surviving Children of the Murdered fix the Crime
upon the Mormons, San
Francisco Evening Bulletin, May 31,
1859.
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The
Massacre At Mountain Meadows,
Harper's Weekly, August 8, 1859
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Mountain Meadow Massacre: Statement
of one of the Few Survivors, Daily Arkansas Gazette, September
1, 1875, Nancy Sophrona Huff Cate
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Mountain Meadows Massacre,
an 1889 Account by Hubert Howe Bancroft,
book excerpt, History of Utah, 1540-1886, published 1889.
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Survivor of a Massacre: Mrs. Betty Terry, Arkansas Gazette, September
4, 1938
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Martha Elizabeth Baker Terry Personal
Account, date unknown
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Mountain Meadow Massacre Related by Rebecca Dunlap Evans, Fort Smith
Elevator, August 20, 1897
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The Mountain Meadows Massacre: An Episode on the Road to Zion,
by
Sara Frances "Sallie" Baker
Mitchell, The American Weekly,
September, 1940
A Midnight Adventure in Nevada
- By
Major Benjamin Cummings Truman, excerpted from the book
Occidental Sketches, San Francisco News
Co., 1881.
The Mines
- By
Emerson
Hough, book excerpt, The Passing
of the Frontier, A Chronicle of the Old West, 1918.
* Note:
These historic texts are generally not verbatim, as we have taken the liberty
of correcting errors, such as misspellings, dates, incorrect names,
etc., as well as making format changes, and in some cases, replacing
archaic words, in order to make the text more readable to the modern
reader. We have also replaced a number of offensive terms. Additionally,
some articles
have been truncated.
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