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Authors: Jon E. Lewis
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Schaefer, Jack,
Heroes Without Glory
. London: Mayflower, 1968
Schissel, Lilian, Vicki L. Ruiz and Janice Monk,
Western Women: Their Land, Their Lives
. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1988
Seidman, Laurence I.,
Once in the Saddle
. New York: Facts on File, 1994
Settle, William A.,
Jesse James Was His Name
. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1966
Shaw, Anna Howard,
The Story of a Pioneer
. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1943
Shirley, Glenn,
Shotgun for Hire: The Story of “Deacon” Jim Miller, Killer of Pat Garrett
. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970
Sibald, John, “Camp Followers All,”
The American West
, 2:2 (1966)
Siringo, Charlie,
A Texas Cow Boy; or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony
. Chicago: Umbdenstock & Co., 1885
——
A Cowboy Detective
. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988 (reprint)
Slatta, Richard W.,
Cowboys of the Americas
. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980
Smith, Helena Huntington,
The War on Powder River
. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966
Smith, Henry Nash,
Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth
. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1950
Sonnichsen, C. L.,
Roy Bean, Law West of the Pecos
. New York: Macmillan, 1943
——
I’ll Die Before I Run
. New York: Harper, 1951
Spence, Lewis,
The Illustrated Guide to North American Mythology
. London: Studio Editions, 1993
Spicer, Edward H.,
A Short History of the Indians of the United States
. New York, 1969
Sprague, William Forrest,
Women and the West
. Arno Press, 1972
Steckmesser, Kent Ladd,
The Western Hero in History and Legend
. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965
Stegner, Wallace,
The Gathering of Zion: Story of the Mormon Trail
. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964
Stempel, Penny,
Annie Oakley
. Bristol: Parragon, 1995
Stewart, Elinor Pruitt Rupert,
Letters of a Woman Homesteader
. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1961
Still, Bayrd,
The West: Contemporary Records of America’s Expansion Across the Continent 1607–1890
. Capricorn Books, 1961
Streeter, Floyd B.,
Prairie Trails and Cow Towns
. Boston: Chapman and Grimes, 1936
Sutley, Zack T.,
The Last Frontier
. New York: Macmillan, 1930
Swift, Louis F.,
The Yankee of the Yards: The Biography of Gustavus Franklin Swift
. Chicago: A. W. Shaw, 1937
Taylor, T. U.,
Bill Longley and His Wild Career
. Bandera, TX: Frontier Times, 1925
Thrapp, Dan L.,
Al Sieber
. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1964
Tilghman, Zoe A.,
Outlaw Days
. Oklahoma City: Harlow Publishing Co., 1926
Turner, Frederick Jackson,
The Frontier in American History
. New York: Holt, 1920
Turner, Geoffrey,
Indians of North America
. New York: Sterling Publishing, 1992
Tuska, Jon,
Billy the Kid: A Handbook
. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983
Twain, Mark,
Roughing It
. New York: New American Library, 1962 (reprint)
Unruh, John D.,
The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West 1840–1860
. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1979
Utley, Robert M.,
Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian 1848–1865
. New York: Macmillan, 1965
——
Billy the Kid
. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989
Vestal, Stanley,
Sitting Bull
. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1957
Wallace, Charles,
Mrs Nat Collins, the Cattle Queen of Montana
. St James, MN: C. W. Foote, 1894
Wallace, Lew,
Lew Wallace: An Autobiography
. New York: Harper’s, 1906
Ward, Don and J. C. Dykes,
Cowboys and Cattle Country
. New York: Harper & Row, 1961
Ward, Fay E.,
The Cowboy at Work
, Hastings, 1958
Waters, Frank,
The Earp Brothers of Tombstone
. New York, 1960
Webb, Walter Prescott,
The Texas Rangers
. Boston: Houghton, 1935
Wellman, Paul I.,
The Trampling Herd
. New York: Carrick & Evans, 1939
——
A Dynasty of Western Outlaws
. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986 (reprint)
Welsch, Roger L.,
Sod Walls
. Purcells, Inc., 1968
White, Richard, “Outlaw Gangs of the Middle Border: American Social Bandits,”
Western Historical Quarterly
12 (October, 1981)
Wiltsey, N. B.,
Brave Warriors
. Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, 1964
Winther, Oscar O.,
The Transportation Frontier 1865–1890
. New York: Holt, Rinehart, 1964
Wister, Owen,
The Virginian
. New York: Macmillan, 1925
Younger, Cole,
The Story of Cole Younger, By Himself
Chicago: Hennerberry Company, 1903
The American Indian Nations of North America
Here are listed 300 and more tribes and sub-tribes, and their primary area of settlement. Some of the tribes are long gone, their existence only remembered in place names and consumer goods.
Abitbi (Sub-Arctic)
Abnaki (Eastern Woodlands)
Accohannock (East Coast)
Achomawi/Atsugewi (Northwest Plateau)
Alabama (Southeast)
Aleut (Alaska)
Alsea (Northwest Coast)
Apache (Southwest)
Arapaho (Great Plains)
Arikara (Great Plains)
Assiniboin (Great Plains)
Atakapa (Southeast)
Atsina (Great Plains)
Attiwandaronk (Eastern Woodlands)
Bannock (Great Basin)
Beaver (Sub-Arctic)
Bella Coola (Northwest Coast)
Biloxi (Southeast)
Blackfoot (Great Plains)
Caddo (Great Plains)
Cahuilla (California)
Calusa (Southeast)
Caribou (Sub-Arctic)
Carrier (Sub-Arctic)
Catawba (Southeast)
Cayuse (Northwest Plateau)
Chemehuevi (Great Basin)
Cherokee (Southeast)
Cheyenne (Great Plains)
Chickasaw (Southeast)
Chicora (Southeast)
Chilcotin (Northwest Plateau)
Chinook (Northwest Coast)
Chipewyan (Sub-Arctic)
Chitimacha (Southeast)
Choctaw (Southeast)
Chumash (California)
Coahuiltec (Southwest)
Cocopa (Southwest)
Coeur d’Alene (Northwest Plateau)
Coharie (Eastern Woodlands/Southeast)
Comanche (Great Plains)
Conoy (East Coast)
Coos (Northwest Coast)
Costanoa (California)
Cowlitz (Northwest Coast)
Cree (Sub-Arctic)
Creek (Southeast)
Crow (Great Plains)
Delaware (East Coast)
Dieguno (California)
Dogrib (Sub-Arctic)
Edisto (Southeast)
Erie (Eastern Woodland/Great Lakes)
Eskimo (Sub-Arctic/Arctic Circle)
Esselen (California)
Eyak (Northwest Coast)
Flathead (Northwest Plateau)
Fox (Eastern Woodlands/Great Lakes)
Gabrielino (California)
Gitskan (Northwest Coast)
Goshute (Great Basin)
Gros Ventres of the Prairie (Great Plains)
Gros Ventres of the River (Great Plains)
Haida (Northwest Coast)
Haisla (Northwest Coast)
Halchidhoma (Southwest)
Han (Sub-Arctic)
Heiltsuk (Northwest Coast)
Hohokam (Southwest)
Hopi (Southwest)
Houma (Southeast)
Hupa (California)
Huron (Eastern Woodland/Great Lakes)
Illinois (Eastern Woodlands)
Ingalik (Alaska)
Inupiaq (Alaska)
Iowa (Great Plains)
Iroquois (including Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca) (Eastern Woodlands/Great Lakes)
Jemez (Southwest)
Kalapuya (Northwest Coast)
Kalispel (Northwest Plateau)
Kansa (Great Plains)
Karankawa (Great Plains)
Karok (California)
Kaw (Great Plains)
Keres (Southwest)
Kickapoo (Eastern Woodlands/Great Lakes)
Kiowa (Great Plains)
Kiowa-Apache (Great Plains)
Klamath (Northwest Plateau)
Klikitat (Northwest Plateau)
Koyukon (Alaska)
Kutchin (Sub-Arctic)
Kutenai (Northwest Plateau)
Kwakiutl (Northwest Coast)
Lillooet (Northwest Plateau)
Lipan (Great Plains)
Luiseno (California)
Mohegan (East Coast)
Mahican (East Coast)
Maidu (California)
Makah (Northwest Coast)
Malisit (East Coast)
Mandan (Great Plains)
Maricopa (Southwest)
Mascouten (East Coast)
Massachuset (East Coast)
Mattabesic (East Coast)
Menomini (Eastern Woodlands/Great Lakes)
Metoac (East Coast)
Miami (Eastern Woodlands)
Micmac (East Coast)
Minga (Eastern Woodlands)
Missouri (Great Plains)
Miwok (California)
Modoc (Great Plains)
Mojave (Southwest)
Mono (California)
Montagnais (Sub-Arctic)
Mountain (Sub-Arctic)
Nansemond (Southeast)
Narragansett (East Coast)
Naskapi (Sub-Arctic)
Natchez (Southeast)
Navajo (Southwest)
Nespelem (Northwest Plateau)
Netsilik (Arctic Circle)
Nez Perce (Great Plains)
Notka (Northwest Coast)
Ojibwa (Eastern Woodlands/Great Lakes)
Okanagan (Northwest Plateau)
Omaha (Great Plains)
Osage (Great Plains)
Oto (Great Plains)
Ottawa (Eastern Woodlands/Great Lakes)
Paiute (Great Basin)
Palus (Northwest Plateau)
Pamlico (East Coast)
Pamunkey (Southeast)
Papago (Southwest)
Patwin (California)
Pawnee (Great Plains)
Pennacook (East Coast)
Penobscot (East Coast)
Pequot (East Coast)
Pericu (California)
Pima (Southwest/Mexico)
Plains Cree (Great Plains)
Plains Objiwa (Great Plains)
Pomo (California)
Ponca (Great Plains)
Potawatomi (Eastern Woodlands)
Powahatan (East Coast)
Quapaw (Southeast)
Quileute (Northwest Coast)
Quinault (Northwest Coast)
Salinan (California)
Salish (Northwest Coast)
Santee Sioux (East Coast/Great Plains)
Sarsi (Great Plains)
Sauk (Eastern Woodlands/Great Lakes)
Secotan (Eastern Woodlands)
Sekani (Sub-Arctic)
Seminole (Southeast)
Seri (Southwest)
Serrano (California)
Shasta (California)
Shawnee (Eastern Woodlands/Great Plains)
Shoshoni (Great Basin)
Shuswap (Northwest Plateau)
Skidi (Great Plains)
Slave (Sub-Arctic)
Sobaipuri (Southwest)
Spokan (Southwest)
Susquehanna (Eastern Woodlands)
Sutaio (Great Plains)
Taensa (Southeast)
Tagish (Sub-Arctic)
Tahltan (Sub-Arctic)
Tanaina (Alaska)
Tanoan Pueblos (Southwest)
Tekesta (Southeast)
Teton Sioux (Great Plains)
Thompson (Northwest Plateau)
Timucua (Southeast)
Tionontati (Eastern Woodlands)
Tlingit (Northwest Coast)
Tobacco (Eastern Woodlands/Great Lakes)
Tolowa (Northwest Coast)
Tonkawa (Great Plains)
Tsetsaut (Sub-Arctic)
Tsimshian (Northwest Coast)
Tubatulabal (California)
Tunica (Southeast)
Tuscarora (East Coast)
Tutchone (Sub-Arctic)
Tutelo (Eastern Woodlands)
Umatilla (Northwest Plateau)
Ute (Great Basin)
Walapai (Southwest)
Wampanoag (Eastern Woodlands)
Wappinger (Eastern Woodlands)
Washo (Great Basin)
Wenro (Eastern
Woodlands/Great Lakes)
Wind River Shoshoni (Great Basin)
Winnebago (Eastern Woodlands/Great Lakes)
Wintun (California)
Wishram (Northwest Plateau)
Witchita (Great Plains)
Wiyot (California)
Yakima (Northwest Plateau)
Yakutat (Northwest Coast)
Yana (California)
Yankton Sioux (Eastern Woodlands/Great Plains)
Yaqui (Southwest/Mexico)
Yavapai (Southwest)
Yellowknife (Sub-Arctic)
Yokuts (California)
Yuchi (Southeast)
Yuma (Southwest)
Yurok (California)
Zuni (Southwest)
Abbott, Teddy Blue
173
,
177
,
180
,
190–1
,
224
Adair, John and Cornelia
203–4
Adams, Andy
161
,
163
,
167–70
,
195
,
252–4
alcohol
175
Allison, Clay
271
American Civil War
152
,
251
,
281
,
317
,
343–4
,
347
,
365
,
521
American War of Independence
24–8
Anderson, Gilbert M. (aka Max Aranson)
505