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Oil Man

The Story of Frank Phillips and the Birth of Phillips Petroleum

by Michael Wallis
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014

This rich, rousing gusher of a biography captures the life and times of an American hero and the birth of the modern oil empire he created. Frank Phillips, founder of Phillips Petroleum, was one of the most prominent self-made business tycoons of the twentieth century. In Oil Man, Michael Wallis,...

J. C. Penney

The Man, the Store, and American Agriculture

by David Delbert Kruger
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017

What is now called JCPenney, a fixture of suburban shopping malls, started out as a small-town Main Street store that fused its founder’s interests in agriculture, retail business, religion, and philanthropy. This book—at once a biography of Missouri farm boy–turned–business icon James Cash...
by Lawrence M. Woods
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016

The Swan name is inseparable from the history of Wyoming and the West, and when Swan made his mark in Wyoming in the 1880s, ranching was king. The largest among Alex Swan’s many corporate creations, The Swan Land and Cattle Company, Ltd., was one of the larger livestock companies to operate in the...

After My Lai: My Year Commanding First Platoon, Charlie Company

My Year Commanding First Platoon, Charlie Company

by Gary W Bray
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2011

In the fall of 1969, Gary Bray landed in South Vietnam as a recently married, freshly minted second lieutenant in the U.S. Army. His assignment was not enviable: leading the platoon whose former members had committed the My Lai massacre—the murder of hundreds of Vietnamese civilians—eighteen months...

Nicholas Black Elk: Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic

Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic

by Michael F. Steltenkamp
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2011

Since its publication in 1932, Black Elk Speaks has moved countless readers to appreciate the American Indian world that it described. John Neihardt’s popular narrative addressed the youth and early adulthood of Black Elk, an Oglala Sioux religious elder. Michael F. Steltenkamp now provides the...

A Great Day to Fight Fire

Mann Gulch, 1949

by Mark Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013

Mann Gulch, Montana, 1949. Sixteen men ventured into hell to fight a raging wildfire; only three came out alive. Searing the fire into the nation’s consciousness, Norman Maclean chronicled the Mann Gulch tragedy in his award-winning book Young Men and Fire. Still, the silence of the victims’ families...

The Last Cavalryman

The Life of General Lucian K. Truscott, Jr.

by Harvey Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015

“Truscott was one of the really tough generals,” soldier-cartoonist Bill Mauldin of the 45th Infantry Division once wrote. “He could have eaten a ham like Patton for breakfast any morning and picked his teeth with the man’s pearl-handled pistols.” Not one merely to act the part of commander,...

Muhammad

Islam's First Great General

by Richard A. Gabriel
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2011

That Muhammad succeeded as a prophet is undeniable; a prominent military historian now suggests that he might not have done so had he not also been a great soldier. Best known as the founder of a major religion, Muhammad was also Islam’s first great general. While there have been numerous...

They Called Him Wild Bill

The Life and Adventures of James Butler Hickok

by Joseph G. Rosa
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012

His contemporaries called him Wild Bill, and newspapermen and others made him a legend in his own time. Among western characters only General George Armstrong Custer and Buffalo Bill Cody are as readily recognized by the general public. In writing this biography, Joseph G. Rosa has expressed the hope...

Lois Lenski

Storycatcher

by Dr. Bobbie Malone
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016

For generations of children, including a young Oprah Winfrey, opening a Lois Lenski book has meant opening a world. This was just what the author wanted: to help children “see beyond the rim of their own world.” In Lois Lenski: Storycatcher, historian and educator Bobbie Malone takes us into Lenski’s...

Quest for Flight

John J. Montgomery and the Dawn of Aviation in the West

by Craig S. Harwood, Gary B. Fogel
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012

The Wright brothers have long received the lion’s share of credit for inventing the airplane. But a California scientist succeeded in flying gliders twenty years before the Wright’s powered flights at Kitty Hawk in 1903. Quest for Flight reveals the amazing accomplishments of John J. Montgomery,...

Deliverance from the Little Big Horn

Doctor Henry Porter and Custer's Seventh Cavalry

by Joan Nabseth Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012

Of the three surgeons who accompanied Custer’s Seventh Cavalry on June 25, 1876, only the youngest, twenty-eight-year-old Henry Porter, survived that day’s ordeal, riding through a gauntlet of Indian attackers and up the steep bluffs to Major Marcus Reno’s hilltop position. But the story of...

Travels in North America, 1832–1834

A Concise Edition of the Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied

by Prince Alexander Philipp Maximilian of Wied
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017

The journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied rank among the most important firsthand sources documenting the early-nineteenth-century American West. Published in their entirety as an annotated three-volume set, the journals present a complete narrative of Maximilian’s expedition across the United States,...

Horses That Buck

The Story of Champion Bronc Rider Bill Smith

by Margot Kahn
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011

When asked in an interview what he most liked about rodeo, three-time world champion saddle-bronc rider “Cody” Bill Smith said simply, “Horses that buck.” Smith redefined the image of America’s iconic cowboy. Determined as a boy to escape a miner’s life in Montana, he fantasized a life...
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