The truth about the OK Corral Gun Fight and other events in which Wyatt Earp and his brothers participated. This is the story compiled from the files of the "Tombstone Epitaph" for the years 1880-1882, as told by this newspaper's early editors. 65 pages. View More...
This book is about cattleman Peter French and his contemporaries who developed the great stock ranches in Southeastern Oregon in the late 19th century. View More...
Cattleman Leonard Stiles, during his career with the legendary King Ranch and as a field inspector in the special division of the Texas Rangers, collected more than one thousand branding irons. These clever, rustic, and artistic iron signatures appear as detailed drawings, with fascinating stories of how they were designed and why, the ranches and historic cattle drives with which they were associated, and how rustlers attempted to alter their appearance. 164 pages, indexed. View More...
The mid-1950s were good years for the buzzards in Arizona, when the Southwest saw its worst drought in centuries. It was not a good time for an upstart cowboy to try to make a go of ranching, but John Duncklee did-and succeeded. Transfixed by the rodeo at Madison Square Garden, young Duncklee decided to forego an Ivy League education and instead worked his way through the University of Arizona as a horse wrangler. After serving in the Navy, he returned to Arizona to lease the O Bar J Ranch on the bajada of the Sierrita Mountains southwest of Tucson. His account of those years is both a testame... View More...
"Every man has a place to fill in the making of America. The Gunfighter has been no exception." This compilation covers some of the best known gunfighters in Old West American history, as well as some that are lesser known. Full color illustrations of paintings done by the author accompany each Gunfighter covered in the book. 48 pages. View More...
Known as the Cowboy Poet, Abilene resident Sam Davis, died Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 2019. Somehow that makes his poetry book even more meaningful. The poem, written in "The Night Before Christmas" style, is about a cowboy heading home for Christmas. Illustrations (pencil sketches) by Debra H Warr. 42 pages View More...
This book is a reprint of an extremely scarce, out-of-print 1931 edition, with added section of rare photographs of frontiersmen with whom Captain Thomas H. Rynning came in conflict. Capt. Rynning was without a doubt one of the most colorful and exciting personalities of the American West. His life-story, as told to Al Cohn and Joe Chisholm, is as fascinating a tale as ever came out of the Frontier era; an era in which run-of-the-mill heroes stood little chance. He was a cowboy, an Indian fighter, an officer in the Roosevelt Rough Riders, penitentiary warden and captain of the Arizona Rangers.... View More...
Texas Cattle Drive follows the adventures of a 15-year-old cowhand on the famous Chisholm Trail through Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, as he battles stampedes, rustlers, angry Comanche braves, territorial Kansas farmers, and half a continent's worth of dust. This fictional account draws from the personal accounts of cowhands who drove cattle from the plains of Texas to the railheads of the Midwest in the 1800's to capture the American drive towards success and riches.
