Describes the origin, building, and significance of the Pacific Railroad.

Golden Spike (024-005-00190-5)

History

UTLEY, Robert M.

Americas

United States Government Printing

Relates the history of the Apache Indians and of the Apache Wars of the 1800's.  The Apache Wars ended with the surrender of their leader Geronimo.  The parts played by Apaches Geronimo and Cochise, United States Army officers, Oliver Otis Howard, George Crook, and Nelson A. Miles, and many others are given in the narrative.  Today the ruins of Fort Bowie, Arizona, stand as a monument commemorating the struggle of the Indians to maintain their way of life in the face of the white man's determination to conquer the wilderness.

Clash of Cultures: Fort Bowie and the Chiricahua Apaches (024-005-00661-3)

S/N 024-005-00661-3

Interior Dept., Nationa Park Svc., Div. of Pubns

US Government Printing Office

Describes the historic features to be seen at Fort Union and exposes a cross section of the entire sweep of 19th century history in the Southwest.  As a base of operations for both military and civilian ventures in New Mexico for 40 years, 1851 to 1891, Fort Union played a key role in shaping the destiny of the Southwest.  Also includes appendix 1: Commanding Officers of Fort Union, 1859-61; Appendix 2: Regiments whose components were assigned to Fort Union.

Fort Union National Monument (024-005-00893-4)

Claitor's Pub Division

From The Lone Ranger to Lonesome Dove, the Texas Rangers have been celebrated in fact and fiction for their daring exploits in bringing justice to the Old West. In Lone Star Justice, best-selling author Robert M. Utley captures the first hundred years of Ranger history, in a narrative packed with adventures worthy of Zane Grey or Larry McMurtry. The Rangers began in the 1820s as loose groups of citizen soldiers, banding together to chase Indians and Mexicans on the raw Texas frontier. Utley shows how, under the leadership of men like Jack Hays and Ben McCulloch, these fiercely independent fighters were transformed into a well-trained, cohesive team. Armed with a revolutionary new weapon, Samuel Colt's repeating revolver, they became a deadly fighting force, whether battling Comanches on the plains or storming the city of Monterey in the Mexican-American War. As the Rangers evolved from part-time warriors to full-time lawmen by 1874, they learned to face new dangers, including homicidal feuds, labor strikes, and vigilantes turned mobs. They battled train robbers, cattle thieves and other outlaws--it was Rangers, for example, who captured John Wesley Hardin, the most feared gunman in the West. Based on exhaustive research in Texas archives, this is the most authoritative history of the Texas Rangers in over half a century. It will stand alongside other classics of Western history by Robert M. Utley--a vivid portrait of the Old West and of the legendary men who kept the law on the lawless frontier.

Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers

Oxford University Press

Hailed as "a rip-snortin', six-guns-blazin' saga of good guys and bad guys who were sometimes one and the same," Robert M. Utley's Lone Star Justice captured the colorful first century of Texas Ranger history. Now, in the eagerly anticipated conclusion, Lone Star Lawmen, Utley once again chronicles the daring exploits of the Rangers, this time as they bring justice to the twentieth-century West. Based on unprecedented access to Ranger archives, this fast-paced narrative stretches from the days of the Mexican Revolution (where atrocities against Mexican Americans marked the nadir of Ranger history) to the Branch Davidian saga near Waco and the recent bloody standoff with "Republic of Texas" militia. Readers will find in these pages one hundred years of high adventure. Utley follows the Rangers as they pursue bank robbers, bootleggers, moonshiners, and "horsebackers" (smugglers who used mule trains to bring liquor across the border). We see these fearless lawmen taming oil boomtowns, springing the ambush of Bonnie and Clyde, facing down angry lynch mobs, and tracking the "Phantom Killer" of Texarkana. Utley also highlights the gradual evolution of this celebrated force, revealing that while West Texas Rangers still occasionally ride the range on horseback and crack down on smugglers and rustlers, East Texas Rangers--who work mostly in big cities--now ride in high-powered cars and contend with kidnappers, forgers, and other urban criminals. But East or West, today's Rangers have become sophisticated professionals, backed by crime labs and forensic science. Written by one of the most respected Western historians alive, here is the definitive account of the Texas Rangers, a vivid portrait of these legendary peace officers and their role in a changing West.

Lone Star Lawmen: The Second Century of the Texas Rangers

Watercolors recreate the barracks, schools, churches, stores, and officers' quarters that were a part of old Texas forts, and are accompanied by brief histories of the ten forts depicted

If These Walls Could Speak: Historic Forts of Texas

Arts & Photography

Salvant, J. U.

History & Criticism

Univ of Texas Pr

Indian, Soldier and Settler: Experiences in the Struggle for the American West

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

University of Washington Press

Recounts the role of the Ghost Dance religion in the final confrontation between the Sioux nation and the army of Wounded Knee Creek

The Last Days of the Sioux Nation (The Lamar Series in Western History)

Yale University Press

This fascinating account tells what the Sioux were like when they first came to their reservation and how their reaction to the new system eventually led to the last confrontation between the Army and the Sioux at the Battle of Wounded Knee Creek. A classic work, it is now available with a new preface by the author that discusses his current thoughts about a tragic episode in American history that has raised much controversy through the years. Praise for the earlier edition: "History as lively and gripping as good fiction.” “One of the finest books on the Indian wars of the West.”--Montana “A well-told, easily read account that will be the standard reference for this phase of the Indian ‘problem.’”--American Historical Review “A major job . . . magnificently researched.”--San Francisco Chronicle “By far the best treatment of the complex and controversial relationship between the Sioux and their conquerors yet presented and should be must reading for serious students of Western Americana.”--St. Louis Dispatch (on the earlier edition) Winner of the Buffalo Award

The Last Days of the Sioux Nation: Second Edition (The Lamar Series in Western History)

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Books by UTLEY, Robert M.

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Golden Spike (024-005-00190-5)

Clash of Cultures: Fort Bowie and the Chiricahua Apaches (024-005-00661-3)

Fort Union National Monument (024-005-00893-4)

Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers

Lone Star Lawmen: The Second Century of the Texas Rangers

If These Walls Could Speak: Historic Forts of Texas

If These Walls Could Speak: Historic Forts of Texas

Indian, Soldier and Settler: Experiences in the Struggle for the American West

The Last Days of the Sioux Nation (The Lamar Series in Western History)

The Last Days of the Sioux Nation: Second Edition (The Lamar Series in Western History)