Twodot: 177 books
Love Lessons from the Old West
Wisdom from Wild Women
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
From Calamity Jane’s relentless pursuit of Wild Bill Hickok to Emma Walters, who gave it all up for the dashing Bat Masterson—and learned to regret it, these romantic stories from the Old West are still familiar and entertaining to readers today. Meet Agnes Lake Hickok, the intrepid wife of Wild...
Death Row All Stars
A Story of Baseball, Corruption, and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
It was the golden age of baseball, and all over the country teams gathered on town fields in front of throngs of fans to compete for local glory. In Rawlins, Wyoming, residents lined up for tickets to see slugger Joseph Seng and the rest of the Wyoming Penitentiary Death Row All Stars as they took...
Ma Barker
America's Most Wanted Mother
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Was Arizona Donnie Clark, AKA Kate “Ma” Barker the mastermind behind the Barker gang terrorizing the Midwest during the early years of the great Depression? Or was she a terrible mother who urged her sons to criminal behavior for her own financial gain? Or does the truth lie somewhere in between....
by Howard Kazanjian, Chris Enss
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Long before the screen placed the face of 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 “America’s Sweetheart.” Having grown up learning to shoot game to help support her family, Annie won...
The Young Duke
The Early Life of John Wayne
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
By the time Stagecoach made John Wayne a silver-screen star in 1939, the thirty-one-year-old was already a veteran of more than sixty films, having twirled six-guns and foiled cattle rustlers in B Westerns for five studios. By the 1950s he was Hollywood’s most popular actor—an Academy Award nominee...
Happy Trails
A Pictorial Celebration of the Life and Times of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans ruled the West from the silver screen as the King of Cowboys and and Queen of the West. Off screen, this husband and wife duo raised a family and lived the "Code of the West." Now, in this new book, the Rogers family shares their memories of Roy, Dale, and Trigger, along...
Many Loves of Buffalo Bill
The True Of Story Of Life On The Wild West Show
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
“What we want to do is give our women even more liberty than they have. Let them do any kind of work that they see fit, and if they do it as well as men, give them the same pay.”—William F. Cody, 1899
With rough-riding cowboys, sure shots, and fantastic reenactments of battles and train...
Beautiful Mine
Women Prospectors Of The Old West
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008
During the gold rush, women worked alongside men panning and digging for gold and silver in the mountains of Colorado, California, and all the way up to Alaska. While many books have been written about the frontier women who ran brothels and boarding houses in mining towns, none have told the true...
Principles of Posse Management
Lessons from the Old West for Today's Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Principles of Posse Management tells the stories of the lawmen and leaders of the Old West who organized citizens in the pursuit of law and order. This collection of tales reveals what Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and other legends of the old west knew about leadership with a clever twist on the classic shoot-em-up, black-hats-vs-white-hats tale.
The Cowboy and the Senorita
A Biography of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans ruled the West from the silver screen as the King of Cowboys and the Queen of the West. Off screen, this husband and wife duo raised a family and lived the "Code of the West." In this biography, named for their first feature film as a pair, the Rogers family shares...
Custer's Road to Disaster
The Path to Little Bighorn
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
The death of George Armstrong Custer ended the life of one of the most flamboyant, brave, careless, and fascinating characters to ever wear a United States military uniform. His dramatic rise during the Civil War to the brevet rank of brigadier general at twenty-three, and his uncanny ability to stay...
More Frontier Justice in the Wild West
Bungled, Bizarre, and Fascinating Executions
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
More Frontier Justice in the Wild West; Bungled, Bizarre and Fascinating Executions reveals the details of more than two dozen instances of frontier justice from the era of the Wild West. The events chosen are unique, have some surprising twist, serve as a landmark or benchmark event, or just stand out in the annals of western justice.
Apacheria
True Stories of Apache Culture 1860-1920
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
A book of brief essays, illustrative art, and photography from often obscure historical and ethnological studies of Apache history, life, and culture in the last half of the nineteenth century. These snippets of history and culture provide insights into late nineteenth century Apache culture, history,...
by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
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...