The Tombstone Cookbook is packed with more than 120 recipes inspired by Tombstone's historic eateries and adapted for the modern home cook. Readers will also enjoy learning more about the region's history and lore through sidebars and historic photos.
Fully updated and revised, veteran hiker and outdoor writer Art Bernstein introduces readers to memorable trails through the wilderness areas, national forests, and national parks of Southern Oregon.
Isabella Bird, Rocky Mountain Jim, and their Unlikely Friendship
An Englishwoman born in 1831, Isabella Bird was frequently ill as a child and young woman, and her doctors recommended a life of travel and fresh air as the cure. Ultimately, she took the advice and traveled the world. And traveled. And traveled. Bird connected with the beauty of the Colorado Plains and the valleys and mountain parks that she ......
Texas Jack: America's First Cowboy Star is a biography of John B. "Texas Jack" Omohundro, the first well-known cowboy in America. A Confederate scout and spy from Virginia, Jack left for Texas within weeks of Lee's surrender at Appomattox. In Texas, he became first a cowboy and then a trail boss, jobs that would inform the rest of his life. ......
When Geronimo and his warriors surrendered to the US Army, General Miles made a number of promises for the surrender terms that were in fact false. Geromino: Prisoner of Lies provides insights into how Chiricahua prisoners of war lived while held in captivity by the United States Army in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as seen ......
A Comprehensive Guide to the State's Best Campgrounds
From the high peaks of the Bitterroots to the massive valley of the Snake River Plain, this guidebook includes detailed descriptions of more than 300 public campgrounds throughout the state of Idaho that campers can reach by car, for tenters and RVers.
Crooked Con Men, Eccentric Immigrants, and Fearless Females Who Shaped the Golden State
In Fascinating True Tales from Old California, author Colleen Adair Fliedner mines the history of the Golden State to collect more than fifty tales of famous Californians and their escapades from 1542 through 1940. Readers will be entertained and enlightened as they take a trip through California's colorful past.
Author Michael Rutter examines the growing pains of the American West through the lens of nineteenth century vigilantes, outlaws, mob violence, and lynchings, proving that oftentimes our country's democratic progress comes at the cost of physical violence.
