The Mammoth Book of the West

by Jon E. Lewis

  Reiter, Joan Swallow, The Women (The Old West). Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1978

  Remington, Frederic, Crooked Trails. New York: Harper, 1898

  Rhodes, Eugene Manlove, Good Men and True. New York: Holt, 1910

  Riegel, Robert Edgar, Story of the Western Railroads. New York: Macmillan, 1926

  Riley, Glenda, The Female Frontier: A Comparative View of Women on the Prairie and the Plains. Lawrence, 1988

  Ripley, Thomas, They Died With Their Boots On. New York: Doubleday, 1935

  Roach, Joyce Gibson, The Cowgirls. University of North Texas Press, 1990

  Rodman, W. Paul, Mining Frontiers of the Far West 1848–1880. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963

  Rosa, Joseph G., The Gunfighter: Man or Myth? Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1969

  —— They Called Him Wild Bill: The Life and Adventures of James Butler Hickok. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1974

  Ross, Marvin C., The West of Alfred Jacob Miller. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1951

  Russell, Charles M., Studies of Western Life. New York: Albertype Company, 1890

  —— Trails Plowed Under. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1928

  Russell, Don, The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1960

  Sabin, Edward Legrand, Wild Men of the Wild West. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1929

  Sandoz, Mari, Crazy Horse. New York, 1942

  —— The Cattlemen. Hastings, 1958

  Santee, Ross, Cowboy. Hastings, 1964

  Savage, W. Sherman, Blacks in the West. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1976

  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

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  Sutley, Zack T., The Last Frontier. New York: Macmillan, 1930

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  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

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  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

  Appendix III:

  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 (Sou
thwest)

  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)

  Index

  Abbott, Teddy Blue 173, 177, 180, 190–1, 224

  Abilene 155, 156–8, 173–4

  Adair, John and Cornelia 203–4

  Adams, Andy 161, 163, 167–70, 195, 252–4

  Adobe Walls 350, 411, 412

  Alamo 67–72, 520

  alcohol 175

  Allison, Clay 271

  American Civil War 152, 251, 281, 317, 343–4, 347, 365, 521

  American Fur Company 53, 58

  American War of Independence 24–8

  Anderson, Gilbert M. (aka Max Aranson) 505

  Apache 345–8, 350–2, 431–49, 460, 527

  Apache Kid 276, 460

  Apache Pass 347–8, 522

  Arapaho 360, 361, 363, 375

  Arikara 56

  Ashley, General H. 55, 56

  Astor
, John Jacob 53, 54, 57–8, 520

  Astoria 53, 54

  Austin, Moses 62

  Austin, Stephen F. 62–3, 64, 66, 150, 313, 519

  Autry, Gene 506–7

  Averill, Jim 237–8

  Baca, Elfego xiv, 298–9

  Bailey, George 378–9

  Bannock 86, 429–30

  barbed wire 204

  Bass, Sam 315–16

  Batts, Thomas 10

  Bean, Judge Roy 260–1

  Bear Flag Revolt 112–13, 521

  beaver 50–2, 58

  Becknell, William 59–60

  Beckwourth, James P. 55, 57

  Beecher Island 390

  Beef Bonanza 152–70; 196–205, 226, 525

  Bent, Charles and William 60

  Benteen, Captain Frederick 424, 426–7

  Big Foot 453–4, 455

  Billy the Kid see Bonney, William H.

  Bisbee 267, 527

  Black Americans

  cowboys 177, 188

  farmers 467

  gold miners 117–18

  outlaws 274–6

  soldiers 274–5, 452, 456

  Black Bart see Bole, Charles

  Black Hills of Dakota xiii, 126, 415, 419–20

  Black Kettle 362, 363, 364, 389, 403, 404

  Blackfeet 41–2, 52, 57, 58, 341, 383

  “The Blessing Way” 4, 349–50

  Bole, Charles 138, 269, 278–9

  Bonney, William H. (Billy the Kid) 207–21, 524

  Boone, Daniel 21–2, 23, 27, 33, 517

  Boonesborough 22, 26–7

  Boot Hill 174

  boots and spurs 192

  Bosque Redondo 349

  Bowie, Jim 67, 69, 70, 71, 72

  Bozeman Trail 366, 368, 380

  Brannan, Sam 113, 116

  Brant, Joseph (Thayendanegea) 26

  Bridger, Jim 55, 58, 59, 80–1, 108, 369, 519

  Brisbin, James S. 197, 524

  Britain

  colonialism 7–9

  and the War of Independence 24–8

  broncbusting 185–6

  Brown, Henry Newton 297

  Buck, Rufus 277–8

  buffalo 382–4

  Buffalo Bill see Cody, William F.

  Buffum, Edward 266

  bunkhouses 186–7

  “Buntline Special” 312

  Burrows, Rube and Jim 319

  Butch Cassidy see Parker, Robert LeRoy

  Butterfield, John 135

  Calamity Jane see Canarray, Martha

  California 115, 521

  California Gold Rush 113–18

  Canarray, Martha (Calamity Jane) 332

  Candy Ponting, Tom 150–1

  Canton, Frank 237, 238, 242

  Carpenter, Julia Gage 468–70

  Carrington, Colonel Henry 367, 368, 369, 370, 371, 373, 375, 378, 379

  Carson, Kit 58, 59, 80, 228, 349, 350, 522

  Cartier, Jacques 6, 50–1, 514