Twodot: 177 books
Black Cowboys of the Old West
True, Sensational, and Little-Known Stories from History
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
The word cowboy conjures up vivid images of rugged men on saddled horses—men lassoing cattle, riding bulls, or brandishing guns in a shoot-out. White men, as Hollywood remembers them. What is woefully missing from these scenes is their counterparts: the black cowboys who made up one-fourth of the...
Champion Buffalo Hunter
The Frontier Memoirs of Yellowstone Vic Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
The Champion Buffalo Hunter is the fascinating memoir of one of the most legendary frontiersmen of the early West, “Yellowstone Vic” Smith. Born Victor Grant Smith in 1850, he lived a colorful life across the American frontier from the 1870s to 1890s. A classic frontiersman, he was a trapper,...
Outlaw Tales of Kansas
True Stories Of The Sunflower State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, And Cutthroats
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
From Dodge City to Abilene and beyond, Kansas in its early years was one fine place for outlaws, and one of the most violent places in America’s history. Consider the exploits of Jesse James—a sociopathic killer or a Robin Hood who redistributed Union wealth? Or those of Big Nose Kate, whose true...
Frontier Justice in the Wild West
Bungled, Bizarre, And Fascinating Executions
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Frontier Justice highlights eighteen crimes and subsequent punishments of the most interesting, controversial, and unusual executions from an era when hangings and shootings were a legal means of capital punishment. Chapters include: the bungled hanging of Tom Ketchum who was beheaded by the noose;...
Rocky Mountain Train Robberies
True Stories of Notorious Bandits and Infamous Escapades
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
One of the most colorful parts of American History is the time of train robberies and the daring outlaws who undertook them in the period covering from just after the Civil War to 1924. For decades, the railroads were the principal transporters of payrolls, gold and silver, bonds, and passengers who...
Kansas Myths and Legends
The True Stories behind History's Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Kansas Myths and Legends explores unusual events, unsolved crimes, and legends in Kansas’s history. Each episode included in the book is a story unto itself, and the tone and style of the book is lively and easy to read for a general audience interested in Texas history. The more than a dozen stories...
Massacre at Wickenburg
Arizona's Greatest Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
The massacre at Wickenburg was one of the most notorious crimes committed in the Wild West--a story revealed in this book through a criminal investigation.
November 5, 1871. A westbound stagecoach carrying seven men and one woman left Wickenburg in the early morning hours. At 8:00 a.m., six of the...
The Black Legend
George Bascom, Cochise, and the Start of the Apache Wars
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
In 1861, war between the United States and the Chiricahua seemed inevitable. The Apache band lived on a heavily traveled Emigrant and Overland Mail Trail and routinely raided it, organized by their leader, the prudent, not friendly Cochise. When a young boy was kidnapped from his stepfather’s ranch,...
by Scott Bruce
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Snuggled in between the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers lies William Penn's "Holy Experiment." The birthing ground for religious freedom became the birthing ground of a new nation and so much more. This "Philadelphia Story" tells it all from the first paper mill to the Mummer's Parade to American Bandstand.
Utah Myths and Legends
The True Stories behind History's Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Utah may be best known for its mesmerizingly beautiful high deserts, the largest salt water lake in the Western Hemisphere, and as the home base for one of the world’s most popular religious groups, but few may know about the Lost Rhoades mine purportedly full of gold treasure, the unseen residents...
Outlaw Tales of Alaska
True Stories Of The Last Frontier's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, And Cutthroats
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2010
Fans of shoot-'em-up books and movie Westerns, as well as history buffs, will enjoy these short biographies about the baddest of the bad villains and desperadoes on the Alaskan frontier. Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of Alaska. Readers will find themselves panning...
Sourdough Biscuits and Pioneer Pies
The Old West Baking Book
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Old Fashioned Advice for the Modern Baker
How Pioneers in the Old West Do It?
Living in the Old West required not only stamina, but innovation. Imagine putting a cake together without fresh supplies, measuring spoons, or a dedicated work area; imagine baking that cake without a thermometer,...
Honky-Tonk Town
Havre, Montana's Lawless Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
From its beginnings as a railroad siding in 1887, Havre, Montana was a tough, wide-open town with plenty of saloons, gambling halls, opium dens, brothels, and cheap cribs. With the passage of Prohibition, it was a natural hub for smuggling illegal alcohol across the nearby Canadian border. Honky-Tonk Town tells the story of this wild and woolly frontier town.
You Might Be a Cowgirl If . . .
A Guide to Life on the Range
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
From Jill Charlotte Stanford, author of the Cowgirl’s Cookbook and Wild Women and Tricky Ladies, this is the thinking girl’s guide to living like a cowgirl. It’s not all sequins and silver buckles—but following the way of Dale Evans and Rodeo Queens and finding your inner cowgirl, you can...