Granville Stuart is a quintessential Western figure, a man whose adventures rival those of Wyatt Earp, Buffalo Bill, or Sitting Bull, and who embodied many of the contradictions of America's westward expansion. Stuart collected guns, herded cattle, mined for gold, and killed men he thought outlaws. But he also taught himself Shoshone, French, and Spanish, denounced formal religion, married a Shoshone woman, and eventually became a United States diplomat....

"The Last of the Plainsmen: Zane Grey, chronicler of the greatest adventures of the West, and Buffalo Jones, last of the plainsmen, that tough breed who followed their dreams west, into the empty spaces of the untamed heart of the country. The land draws these men. The unsettled West is fast-disappearing, along with the wild creatures who call it home. This historical novel chronicles the last mission of the last of the plainsmen, the adventure that...

An account of the Mormon pioneers who traveled 1,300 miles westward from Nauvoo, Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah in the 1840s.

Focuses on the experiences of blacks as mountain men, soldiers, homesteaders, and scouts on the frontiers of the American West.

"Hattie Jacobs and her family join the Great Exodus of 1879 in search of a better life in Kansas"--

A biography of the writer whose pioneer life on the American prairie became the basis for her "Little House" books.