Twodot: 177 books
Polly Pry
The Woman Who Wrote the West
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
In 1900, the young and beautiful Leonel Ross Campbell became the first female reporter to work for the Denver Post.As the journalist known as Polly Pry, she ruffled feathers when she worked to free a convicted cannibal and when she battled the powerful Telluride miners’ union. She was nearly murdered...
by Stephen Glassman
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
From Jedediah Smith’s final fight to an unlikely flash flood in the desert, It Happened on the Santa Fe Trail gives readers a unique look at intriguing people and episodes from one of America’s most historically important trails, the artery that opened the Southwest to settlement.
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Nothing to Tell
Extraordinary Stories of Montana Ranch Women
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Sitting at the kitchen tables of twelve women in their eighties who were born in or immigrated to Montana in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, between 1982 and 1988 oral historian Donna Gray conducted interviews that reveal a rich heritage. In retelling their life stories, Gray steps...
Badasses of the Old West
True Stories of Outlaws on the Edge
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
This is a collection of tales about the worst (and best) of the robbers, rustlers, and bandits who shaped the history of the Wild West. From the famous, such as the Wild Bunch and Wild Bill Hickock, to the lesser-known but still colorful and wicked Bud Stevens and Charles Brown, Badasses of the Old West compiles the stories of the most notorious black-hat wearers of a notorious age.
Buffalo Bill, Boozers, Brothels, and Bare-Knuckle Brawlers
An Englishman's Journal of Adventure in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The travel journal of the wealthy young Englishman, Evelyn Booth, weaves a factual, enthralling, and entertaining narrative that follows his escapades throughout the United States of the late nineteenth century. Transcribed and edited (with relevant commentary for contemporary audiences) by Kellen...
Brave Hearts
Indian Women of the Plains
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Brave Hearts: Indian Women of the Plains tells the story of Plains Indian women through a series of fascinating vignettes. They are a remarkable group of women – some famous, some obscure. Some were hunters, some were warriors and, in a rare case, one was a chief; some lived extraordinary lives,...
Never Don't Pay Attention
The Life of Rodeo Photographer Louise L. Serpa
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Louise Larocque Serpa often said she was born “in the wrong place, to the wrong woman, at the wrong time.” Born in 1925 and growing up in New York society with a mother who was never satisfied with her rather lanky, unpolished daughter, teenager Louise eventually found happiness when she spent...
Frontier Teachers
Stories of Heroic Women of the Old West
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2008
If countless books and movies are to be believed, America’s Wild West was, at heart, a world of cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and gunslingers, scruffy settlers and mountain men—a man’s world. Here, Chris Enss, in the latest of her popular books to take on this stereotype, tells the stories of twelve...
Colorado Myths and Legends
The True Stories behind History's Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
From the Anasazi cliff dwellings to tales of Buffalo Bill's bravado, and from an unsolved bank robbery in Denver to the murder of Jon Benet Ramsey, Colorado Myths and Legends examines a fascinating array of puzzling events, unsolved mysteries, and tragic crimes in the often troubled (but always compelling!)...
Outlaw Tales of Alaska
True Stories of the Last Frontier's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, and Cutthroats
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of Alaska. Pan for gold with dry gulchers and claim jumpers. Duck the bullets of murderers, plot strategies with con artists, hiss at lawmen turned outlaws. A refreshing new perspective on some of the most infamous reprobates of the Last...
Outlaw Tales of Idaho
True Stories of the Gem State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, and Cutthroats
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of Idaho. Ride with horse thieves and cattle rustlers, stagecoach, and train robbers. Duck the bullets of murderers, plot strategies with con artists, hiss at lawmen turned outlaws. A refreshing new perspective on some of the Rocky Mountain's most infamous reprobates.
More than Gold in California
The Life and Work of Dr. Mary Bennett Ritter
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Mary Bennett Ritter was a farmer’s daughter who in the 1880s defied all conventions to pursue her passion: to receive medical training and become a physician. Ritter’s memoir is a riveting account of her accomplishments and a revealing peek into an earlier era through her keen sense of observation,...
by Erin H. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
It Happened on the Lewis and Clark Expedition features fascinating events from Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's 1803-1805 expedition from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean and back, including the first democratic vote west of the Mississippi, the remarkable and unexpected reunion of their Indian...
by Tricia Martineau Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
The brave pioneers who made a life on the frontier were not only male—and they were not only white. The story of African-American women in the Old West is one that has largely gone untold--until now. The story of ten African-American women is reconstructed from historic documents found in century-old...