Each episode included in this book explores unusual events, unsolved crimes, and legends in Kansas's history. From rumors of the Dalton gang's buried treasures to the disappearance of an entire town, Kansas Myths and Legends makes history fun and pulls back the curtain on some of the state's most fascinating and compelling stories.
From the mysterious disappearance of hijacker D.B. Cooper to persistent rumors of bigfoot, this selection of fourteen stories from Oregon's past explores some of the Beaver State's most compelling mysteries and debunks some of its most famous myths.
Uncover the Story of a Remarkable Woman of the WestEsther Morris (1812-1902) was a unique American woman whose life paralleled the dramatic events of the 19th century: abolition, railroads, Civil War, and suffrage. She lived on three frontiers and made a difference on each one. Ultimately, by organizing what may have been the second most important tea party in American history, she made it possible for Wyoming to be the first place in America where women could vote.
Idaho's Remarkable Women 2 tells the history of the Gem State through the stories of fifteen pioneering women, all born before 1900, who made a profound impact on Idaho. Each woman in her own way displayed remarkable courage, hope, and love during a time when Idaho was still an untamed frontier.
Clashes between white and Indian societies are erupting into war when Sarah Wakefield is taken captive in 1862. She is the wife of an Agency doctor and a known friend of the Sioux. As desperate Sioux warriors attack the Agency, Sarah falls victim to the circumstances. In her narrative of the six weeks she is held captive, she vividly describes her trials, anguish, and pain, both physically and psychologically. Caught between two cultures, she is a woman and a mother struggling with a situation thrown upon her and her family. When she returns to white society, she finds that her battles are not over yet.With this reprint of the classic narrative of her survival, readers will come to know the Sioux culture and appreciate her struggle on the Great Plains.Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees is a reprint of the classic narrative of Sarah Wakefield's survival. Told in her own words, this compelling tale was a best seller when it was originally published more than one hundred years ago. Today it offers readers a unique perspective on Sioux culture and what life was like on the Great Plains in mid-nineteenth-century America.
One year after her successful trip across Glacier National Park with Howard Eaton, chronicled in Through Glacier Park, mystery novelist Mary Roberts Rinehart was back in the saddle, heading into the rugged Western portion of the park with her family and ready for more adventure. Rinehart's humor and enthusiasm about her camping adventure through the Rocky Mountains and Cascades are still fresh for a modern audience.
From "Roughing it with the Men" to "Below the Border in Wartime" Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Out Trail features seven tales from her adventures in the West from fishing at Puget Sound to hiking the Bright Angel trail at the Grand Canyon. Though she was best known at the time for her mystery novels, Rinehart's travel writing, starting with her 1915 travels to the then young Glacier National Park, offers observations and insights into the fun and difficulties of early twentieth-century travel and her fellow travelers with humor and clarity of detail that makes them vivid for today's travelers.
When Mary Roberts Rinehart's travelogue, Through Glacier Park, was first published in 1916, the already famous mystery writer introduced readers to recently minted national park and to the scenic wonders of Montana and to the adventures to be found there. Howard Eaton, an intrepid guide who had become known for his Yellowstone experience, had convinced Rinehart to make the trek to the West. Traveling three hundred miles on horseback with a group of more than forty assorted tourists of all shapes and sizes, she took in her fellow travelers, the scenery, and the travel itself with all the style and aplomb and humor of the talented fiction writer and journalist she was. Reprinted here with a foreword by, her grandson, publishing's Rick Rinehart, her words remain fresh and entertaining to this day.
Cheryl and her late husband Bob are acknowledged experts for gardeners in the Rocky Mountain region. Despite the challenges of growing vegetables here¿short growing seasons, cool nights, drought, and lousy soil¿you can be a successful gardener; you just need to know more. For this edition, Cheryl has revised and updated the information you need to ¿get growing.¿·Andra and Dan Spurr, Publisher and Editor of Rocky Mountain Gardening magazineOur network is thrilled to offer our affiliated radio stations the program ¿Northern Gardening Tips,¿ which is produced by Cheryl Moore-Gough and airs across Montana and Wyoming. We believe that Cheryl is one of the most knowledgeable horticulturists in the Rocky Mountains. Her radio programs assist and educate thousands of vegetable gardeners across our region.·Rocky Erickson, News Operations Director, Northern News NetworkRocky Mountain Vegetable Gardening Guide is my go-to book for the best information on gardening in the Rocky Mountain region. I recommend this as a textbook for everyone who takes my vegetable gardening classes. It¿s well written and helpful for gardening in a challenging environment.·Kris Isom, Owner of Peacefuldeserthomestead.com, Medicinal Herbalist, Colorado Master Composter, Colorado Master GardenerVegetable gardening in Colorado can be challenging. Cheryl and Bob¿s Rocky Mountain Vegetable Gardening Guide is the most comprehensive guide for beginning vegetable gardeners as well as seasoned veterans. It is a favorite here at Tagawa Gardens and literally flies off the shelves!·Conni George, Guest Services/Homes and Lifestyles, Tagawa GardensEvery child should know where their food comes from, share the joys of gardening, and be given the opportunity to connect with nature. Cheryl¿s book is the go-to resource for parents wanting to know how to have a successful gardening experience in the Rocky Mountain region.·Sam Blomquist, Executive Director, Gallatin Valley Farm to SchoolRocky Mountain Vegetable Gardening Guide is the definitive guide to vegetable gardening in Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Expert horticulturist Cheryl Moore-Gough addresses the unique growing conditions and challenges of this region, providing proven approaches to make gardening a truly enjoyable experience.This guide includes easy-to-read charts with average growing seasons of locales within each state, numerous season-extending ideas, various approaches to composting, and extensive information on soil testing and amendments, all clearly illustrated with full-color photographs. Learn about more than forty types of vegetables that can be grown in the Rocky Mountain region, including detailed information on when and how to successfully start them from seed or as transplants, fertilization and watering needs, and identification and elimination of common pests.Cheryl Moore-Gough is the technical horticulture editor for Rocky Mountain Gardening magazine and Adjunct Assistant Professor in horticulture at Montana State University, where she teaches Vegetable Production. Since 2004 she has been producing and hosting the Northern News Network¿s daily radio program ¿Northern Gardening Tips.¿ She also has published numerous works alone and with her late husband, the well-known Robert ¿Dr. Bob¿ Gough, including The Montana Gardener¿s Companion (published by Globe Pequot) and The Complete Guide to Saving Seeds.
The lives of Plains Indian women are revealed through this series of fascinating vignettes. Some of these women never knew anything but the old, nomadic way of life, while others lived on to suffer through the reservation years. Others were born on the reservation but did their to keep to the old ways. Some never left the reservation while others ventured out into the larger world.
This is the story of reluctant Oregon pioneer Jennie Haviland, who must give up study at her academy in New York when her father takes the family west over the Oregon Trail. In Oregon Jennie meets two young men, American mountain man Jake Johnston and British Hudson's Bay Company clerk Alan Radford. The two men vie for Jennie, as their nations vie for the contested territory of this rich western frontier. But Jennie wants choices of her own.
From a haunted prison in Red Lodge to persistent rumors of bigfoot, from whispered descriptions of the "tommyknockers" who help miners in trouble to a famous union organizer found lynched from a bridge in Butte, this selection of fourteen stories from Montana's past explores some of the Treasure State's most compelling mysteries and debunks some of its most famous myths.
Colorado has historical high points as grand as its magnificent mountains. In this book, author James A. Crutchfield scales thirty-eight of these historical summits.
Alaska is the Great Land! The history of the state is as grand as Denali. This book includes thirty true stories including Russian exploration, the Klondike Gold Rush adventure, World War II Japanese occupation, the destructive 1964 Eauthquake, and other events that helped shape this great state.
This story from the Depression-era Pacific Northwest delivers rich sensory detail, well-drawn characters, an evocative sense of place, thoroughly researched history, and a fresh, strong voice. It's like Little House on the Prairie, except with lots more fish and a pet seal.
Part One of the Nelson Trilogy chronicles Nelson's and Emma's formative years as they defy tradition and expectations. The Georgian era comes vividly to life with thrilling sea action and a rare glimpse into London's demimonde, where the lives of a beautiful courtesan and Britain's greatest naval hero unexpectedly collide.
The German war machine is in retreat as the Russians advance. In Warsaw, Resistance fighters rise up against their Nazi occupiers, but the Germans retaliate, ruthlessly leveling the once-beautiful city. American Adam Nowak has been dropped into Poland by British intelligence as an assassin and Resistance fighter. During the Warsaw Uprising he meets Natalia, a covert operative who has lost everything--just as he has. Amid the Allied power struggle left by Germany's defeat, Adam and Natalia join in a desperate hunt for the 1940 Soviet order authorizing the murders of 20,000 Polish army officers and civilians. If they can find the Katyn Order before the Russians do, they just might change the fate of Poland.
The story of Fannie Sperry Steele (1887-1983), who won the title Lady Bucking Horse Champion of the World at the first Calgary Stampede in 1912.
Driven by the promise of prosperity and opportunity on the frontier, thousands of men and women traveled west in the mid-1800s to forge a new life. Accompanying them were their children, wide-eyed and excited about the adventures that awaited them as they headed toward the setting sun. Little did they know how treacherous and grueling the trip would be.
Long before the silver screen placed Mary Pickford before the eyes of millions of Americans, this girl, born August 13, 1860 as Phoebe Anne Oakley Moses, had won the right to the title of the first "America's Sweetheart." After winning first prize at a shooting match as a teenager, Annie quickly gained worldwide fame as an incredible crack shot.
This book tells the true story of a man who headed West drawn by the lure of the Pike's Peak Gold Rush in 1858; made a life for himself over a decade as he scouted for the army, prospected, became a business man; then learned the Apache language and rode alone into Cochise's camp in order to negotiate peaceful passage for his stagecoach company.
By and about the greatest celebrities of the Wild West, these are the stories of their adventures told in their own words through excerpts from autobiographies, articles they wrote, newspaper interviews, private journals, personal letters, and court testimony. These glimpses into the worlds of these legendary figures as they describe their own personal experiences, impressions, what life in the Wild West was like, reveal the roles they played in notable events in American history.
From Wild Bill Hickok to Lame Johnny, Jack McCall to Lee "Curly" Grimes, the most notorious desperadoes and their deeds are featured in this history of the Mount Rushmore State. Through these astonishing true stories, Outlaw Tales of South Dakota introduces you to a state you thought you knew--and a West wilder than you ever imagined.
From Butch Cassidy to George Levy, Harry Orchard to Caleb Lyon, read about the most notorious desperadoes in the history of the Gem State. Through these astonishing true stories, Outlaw Tales of Idaho introduces you to a state you thought you know--and a West wilder than you even imagined.
As with many incidents in American history, the victors wrote the first version of history--turning the tragedy of the Sand Creek Massacre into a heroic feat by the Colorado militia tasked with moving the Cheyenne onto reservations. The truth of those events has made Colonel John Chivington's name infamous in Colorado and American history, and this dramatic and poignant reflection on the events leading to the tragic events of the massacre and the ensuing years of violence offers new perspectives with the hindsight of more than a century and a half of repercussions by telling the story of one of the women, a Cheyenne named Mochi, who became swept up in the cycle of war and vengeance that ensued.
It Happened in Washington takes readers on a rollicking, behind-the-scenes look at some of the characters and episodes from the Evergreen state's storied past. Including both famous tales, and famous names-and little-known heroes, heroines, and happenings.
It Happened at Grand Canyon takes readers on a rollicking, behind-the-scenes look at some of the characters and episodes from the area's storied past. Including both famous tales, and famous names--and little-known heroes, heroines, and happenings.
Author James A. Crutchfield has mined thirty-seven of the most colorful episodes from Montana's provocative past--from the first glimpse of French explorers of the "Shining Mountains" in 1743 to the attempt to round up the wild horses of the Pryor Mountains.
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