Dale L Walker: 11 books
The Calamity Papers
Western Myths and Cold Cases
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2006
Spur Award-winning author, Dale L. Walker continues what he started in Legends and Lies, by uncovering the truth around some of the American West's most famous and infamous figures. Leaving no figure sacred and no stone unturned, Walker dives deep into some of the most enduring myths and legends of...
Legends and Lies
Great Mysteries of the American West
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1998
"All of history is mystery," Dale L. Walker says, and he proves his point in this lively, humorous--and rational--approach to the West's greatest puzzles. Did Davy Crockett, for example, go down swinging Ol' Betsy, defending the ramparts of the Alamo--or was he captured? Who is buried in...
Eldorado
The California Gold Rush
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
"Gold! Gold on the American River!"
This declaration, shouted in the streets of San Francisco in the spring of 1848, electrified the nation, and its echo was heard in the farthest corners of the globe. In the five years that followed, tens of thousands of hopeful argonauts made their...
Pacific Destiny and Bear Flag Rising
Two Chronicles of the Quest to Claim the American Pacific Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Historian Dale L. Walker chronicles the early days of the American Pacific Northwest in two engrossing accounts, now available in one volume: Pacific Destiny and Bear Flag Rising.
Pacific Destiny: The Three-Century Journey to the Oregon Country
Pacific Destiny chronicles the discovery, exploration,...
Bear Flag Rising
The Conquest of California, 1846
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
Dale L. Walker, historian and author of Legends and Lies: Great Mysteries of the American West, takes on the conquest of California in this vivid portrait of America's manifest destiny.
Bear Flag Rising traces the history of California from the Indians who inhabited the land before the first...
Mary Edwards Walker
Above and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Mary Edwards Walker (1832-1919) defied the conventions of her era. Born and raised on a farm in Oswego, New York, Walker became one of a handful of female physicians in the nation-and became a passionate believer in the rights of women.
Despite the derision of her contemporaries, Walker championed...
The Boys of '98
Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 1999
Spur Award winning author Dale Walker tells the colourful story of Americas most memorable fighting force, the volunteer cavalry known as the Rough Riders. From its members, and their slapdash training in Texas and Florida, to its battles at Las Gusimas and San Juan Hill under the command of Theodore...
Pacific Destiny
The Three-Century Journey to the Oregon Country
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2002
"Walker constructs a compelling narrative that is a string of unusual profiles rather than an analytic account of a major event in American history." - Publishers Weekly
The Oregon Country!
For a century that fabled place, lying somewhere beyond the Rocky Mountains at the farthest...
The Golden Spurs
The Best Of Western Short Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
From out of the west comes THE GOLDEN SPURS--the best Western short stories selected by the Western Writers of America.
From the Indians before the coming of the white man, from the deadly shootouts to steadfast wagon trains, from women in horrifying Indian captivity to life and death battles between...
by Fiction River, Ron Collins, Diana Deverell
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Forget the old adage that cautions against wishing. The sixteen stories in this latest Fiction River contain just the right amount of heart, magic, pathos, and even hope. From a daughter hoping to save her father with a crash-course in wishery to an unfortunate victim at the wrong end of someone else’s...
by Fiction River, Dean Wesley Smith, Annie Reed
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
In this latest volume of Fiction River, editor Dean Wesley Smith pulls together an eclectic but cohesive group of stories filled with difficult decisions. From a man who must question the line between justice and vengeance to a teenage fixer fighting hypocrisy to a post-apocalyptic survivor’s mission...