-- Clear and concise biographies of the best-known frontiersmen, women, and settlers of the West -- Includes interesting and informative sidebars -- Written in accessible, easily understood language -- Complements school curriculum

Describes the life and the legend of Davy Crockett, a backwoodsman who became a frontier hero.

The great war-chief of the Oglala Sioux was one of the architects of Custer's defeat at the Little Bighorn.

The great chief, warrior, and medicine man of the Hunkpapa Sioux helped to defeat the Seventh Cavalry under George Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

Frontier Figures is a tour-de-force exploration of how the American West, both as physical space and inspiration, animated American music. Examining the work of such composers as Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Virgil Thomson, Charles Wakefield Cadman, and Arthur Farwell, Beth E. Levy addresses questions of regionalism, race, and representation as well as changing relationships to the natural world to highlight the intersections between classical music and the diverse worlds of Indians, pioneers, and cowboys. Levy draws from an array of genres to show how different brands of western Americana were absorbed into American culture by way of sheet music, radio, lecture recitals, the concert hall, and film. Frontier Figures is a comprehensive illumination of what the West meant and still means to composers living and writing long after the close of the frontier.

Presents the life of Annie Oakley, the world-famous sharpshooter and markswoman from Ohio who toured with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show and became a legend of the American West.

One of the most famous lawmen of the Old West, Wyatt Earp is best known for his role in the shoot-out at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.

2014 Reprint of 1894 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. The "Frontier Thesis" or "Turner Thesis," is the argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1894 that American democracy was formed by the American Frontier. He stressed the process-the moving frontier line-and the impact it had on pioneers going through the process. He also stressed consequences of a ostensibly limitless frontier and that American democracy and egalitarianism were the principle results. In Turner's thesis the American frontier established liberty by releasing Americans from European mindsets and eroding old, dysfunctional customs. The frontier had no need for standing armies, established churches, aristocrats or nobles, nor for landed gentry who controlled most of the land and charged heavy rents. Frontier land was free for the taking. Turner first announced his thesis in a paper entitled "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," delivered to the American Historical Association in 1893 in Chicago. He won very wide acclaim among historians and intellectuals. Turner's emphasis on the importance of the frontier in shaping American character influenced the interpretation found in thousands of scholarly histories. By the time Turner died in 1932, 60% of the leading history departments in the U.S. were teaching courses in frontier history along Turnerian lines.

The life of the Civil War general whose controversial fame rests chiefly on the disaster at the Little Big Horn in 1876.