Twodot: 177 books
Wild West Women
Fifty Lives that Shaped the Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Wild West Women features the true stories of the pioneering wives, mothers, daughters, teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists who shaped the frontier and helped change the face of American history. These fifty stories cover the Western experience from Kansas City to Sacramento and the Yukon to the Texas Gulf.
Nevada's Remarkable Women
Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This book presents the compelling histories of fifteen pioneer women, all born before 1900, who traveled Nevada Territory in unstable wagons, on temperamental mules, and in early Motel Ts to leave a legacy of courage and celebration as they broke records, hearts, and rules while conquering uncharted...
Arizona on Stage
Playhouses, Plays, and Players in the Territory, 1879-1912
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Most of the books that have been written about territorial Arizona and the southwest focus on the Indian Wars, outlaws, violent crimes, gambling, saloons, and bawdy houses. They foster and perpetuate the notion that southwest mining towns in the nineteenth century were little more than battlefields...
Death of a Texas Ranger
A True Story of Murder and Vengeance on the Texas Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Death of a Texas Ranger is the thrilling, action-packed story of the murder of Texas Ranger John Green by Cesario Menchaca, one of three Rangers of Mexican descent under Green’s command. Immediately word spread that the killing may have been the botched outcome of a contract taken out on Menchaca’s...
Across Death Valley
The Pioneer Journey of Juliet Wells Brier
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Across Death Valley tells the remarkable story of one woman's brave struggle to keep her family alive during one of the most arduous and dramatic episodes in the history of Western migration. A riveting narrative by a writer known for her books on pioneers, Across Death Valley is a fictionalized account...
Outlaw Tales of Arizona
True Stories of the Grand Canyon State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, and Cutthroats
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
True stories of the Grand Canyon state's most infamous robbers, rustlers, and bandits.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
This collection of fifty outlaw tales includes well-knowns such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Frank and Jesse James, Belle Starr (and her dad), and Pancho Villa, along with a fair smattering of women, organized crime bosses, smugglers, and of course the usual suspects: highwaymen, bank and...
Outlaw Tales of Kansas
True Stories Of The Sunflower State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, And Cutthroats
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
A refreshing new perspective on some of the most infamous reprobates of the Midwest.
by W.C. Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Border Bandits is an account of the many, many stories of back and forth skirmishes between the Mexicans and Texans during the late 1800s and early 1900s. There practically wasn't a border, which caused a lot of problems and thievery between the two countries. These seventeen tales in this book re-create...
Almost Pioneers
One Couple's Homesteading Adventure in the West
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
In the fall of 1913, Laura and Earle Smith, a young Iowa couple, made the gutsy—some might say foolhardy—decision to homestead in Wyoming. There, they built their first house, a claim shanty half dug out of the ground, hauled every drop of their water from a spring over a half-mile away, and fought...
Wildest Lives of the Frontier
America through the Words of Jesse James, George Armstrong Custer, and Other Famous Westerners
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
By and about the greatest celebrities of frontier America, 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...
Tom Jeffords
Friend of Cochise
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The first full-length biography of the Western legend Tom Jeffords, immortalized by Jimmy Stewart in 1950’s Broken Arrow.
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...
Doctor Wore Petticoats
Women Physicians of the Old West
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
"No women need apply." Western towns looking for a local doctor during the frontier era often concluded their advertisements in just that manner. Yet apply they did. And in small towns all over the west, highly trained women from medical colleges in the East took on the post of local doctor to great...
Object: Matrimony
The Risky Business of Mail-Order Matchmaking on the Western Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Complete with historic photographs and actual advertisements from both women seeking husbands and males seeking brides, Object Matrimony includes stories of courageous mail order brides and their exploits as well as stories of the marriage brokers, mercenary matchmakers looking to profit as merchants...