Great Texas Books offers low-cost downloads of Texas histories, memoirs, biographies, journals, and reports in e-book formats. Our editions are superior to similar texts available elsewhere because we meticulously convert, proof, edit, and design each book. Our books are not exact reproductions of the original text; they are entirely new editions designed for the 21st century reader of e-books. There is no better exploration of Texas cowboy life than Charles Siringoâ€™s. What sets his memoir apart is his candid account of the personality, habits, and values that brought him to the range. His difficult, dirt-poor childhood, his free-spending ways, his driving wanderlust, his love of whisky, guns, horses, and star-topped boots, his distinctly situational ethics, his aversion to manual laborâ€”and equal aversion to educationâ€”compose a package that belongs on the back of the horse. Siringo tells a great story, and he does it without any of the obvious embellishment that characterize the memoirs of some of his contemporaries. He is too open about his own flaws and failings for the words to be anything other than the truth. And his candor is perfectly complemented by a wry wit that spices his stories perfectly. Tales of the Chisholm Trail and of Billy the Kid are highlights of the book, but it is Siringoâ€™s earliest yearsâ€”before he became a cowboy (or Cow-boy, as he originally put it) that may be the most compelling. In all, his story is so full of excitement that something as remarkable as the Indianola Hurricane of 1875 receives little attentionâ€”even though Siringo spent the night in water up to his neck. Itâ€™s a Texas must-read.

A Texas Cowboy

Siringo, Chas. A.

Biographies & Memoirs

Indian Head Books

Autobiography of William F. Cody, more commonly known as Buffalo Bill.

The Life of Buffalo Bill

CODY, William F.

Arts & Literature

In a poignant drama of heroism, treachery and violence, John Edwards Weems eloquently recounts yet another chapter of US history: the closing decades of the nineteenth century which marked the last of the Indian wars, those bloody years when Western expansion changed forever the face of the American continent; when railroads and 'civilization' brought about the end of the American Indian's way of life, which over the centuries had evolved into one of complete harmony with the native land; when millions of free-ranging buffalo were exterminated; when the white domination of America was finally achieved at a cost of human lives and natural resources that was to leave permanent scars. History to Mr. Weems is a story of people and through this narrative stride several prominent nineteenth century Americans --- both white and Indian --- whose lives were caught up in this blind clash of cultures. In the ironic intertwining of these lives Mr. Weems traces the irreconcilable values of each culture, the long series of revenges which made compromise impossible, and the origin of a spirit of bitterness which continues to haunt us today. Black and white illustrations. Includes bibliographical reference and index.

Death Song: The Last of the Indian Wars

History

john-edward-weems

Americas

In the Old West, the beginnings of the machine age encountered a last vestige of the stone age. The white man was embarking upon the great industrial era; the red man still used the flint arrowhead. There was little common ground between these two cultures. To the white man, land was a commodity which could be bought and sold; to the red man, the earth belonged to everyone; that a person could claim to own a piece of it was repugnant to him. The Indians were doomed in the wars which inevitably followed this clash of cultures. The white man possessed the repeating rifle, the telegraph and the railroad. The Machine Age remorselessly engulfed the wilderness. But not without a fight. THE INDIANS WARS OF THE WEST is the record of that struggle. Here you will meet Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Chief joseph and many other great leaders of the Indian nations as well as their adversaries who included General George Crook, General Alfred Terry and General George A. Custer. here you will also find the horrifying record of the white man's treatment of the Indian. In the name of "Civilization" the white man shot down defenseless men, women and children at places like Camp Grant, Sand Creek and Wounded Knee; fed strychnine to Indian warriors; set whole villages of people out naked to freeze in the Montana winter and confined thousands in what amounted to concentration camps. THE INDIAN WARS OF THE WEST captures a time when the issue of supremacy was decided by bullets and arrows. It is the record of a terrible and bloody struggle. It is also the record of the spirit of those days, the action, the suffering, the heroism and the despair.

Indian Wars of the West

Wellman, Paul Iselin

Gold Rush the Search for Treasure: The Search for Treasure in the American West

Willison, George

Based primarily on eyewitness accounts, diaries, and the wespapers of the time, "Women of the Gold Rush" is the rich and sometimes uproarious history of the women who tame sthe Forty-Niners, and left a permanent mark on the history of our country.

Women In The Gold Rush

Margo, Elizabeth

Dust Jacket in Very Good condition.

Westward By Rail

Rae, William

Travel

Hardcover with dust jacket. Indian Wars of the Great Plains by noted historian Stephen Longstreet. 335 pages. Illustrated.

Indian Wars of Great Plains

LONGSTREET, Stephen

Reputed to have killed his first man at the age of twelve, William Bonney went on to gun his way into Western legend as Billy the Kid. When he was killed at the age of twenty-one, the Kid was famous throughout the country as the boy who, so he boasted, had killed a man for every year of his life. 
This is the story of William Bonney as told by the lawman who ended his notorious career. While explaining the public sympathy that people often accorded Bonney, Garrett challenges the glorified legends of the Kid with the genuine story of a reckless cowhand who became a hired gun. Combining the best elements of eyewitness history with the dramatic flair of a Western novel, this is the clearest account available of the career of a man some thought of as a murdering fiend and others as an American Robin Hood.

Authentic Life of Billy the Kid

Pat F. Garrett

Life of Buffalo Bill

Cody, William

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