Old West Books

Discover the remarkable story of one of the American West's most intriguing women in According to Kate: The Legendary Life of Big Nose Kate, Love of Doc Holliday by Chris Enss. Winner of the 2020 Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Biographies, this...

Why Cows Need Cowboys is an engaging anthology of true stories that brings the American West to life for young readers. Created by Western Writers of America, this collection steps away from traditional textbook history to explore twenty lesser-known but...

Step into the eerie side of frontier history with Haunted Old West, a spine-tingling collection of ghost stories and legends from across the American West. From phantom cowboys and haunted saloons to mysterious mine camps and spectral encounters, these...

This fascinating book, The Wild West Catalog, captures the essence of the greatest period of expansion in the United States. Illustrated with over 250 illustrations, including historical photographs and artworks, the book brings the complete Old West...

In Bad Girls: Outlaw Women of the American West, author and historian Michael Rutter profiles 21 pistol-packin' women. Drawing on both fact and folklore, the book brings these figures to life by exploring their motives, hopes, and dreams. You'll meet...

In "Along Came a Cowgirl: Daring and Iconic Women of Rodeos and Wild West Shows," New York Times best-selling author Chris Enss introduces you to the world of early rodeo. This book tells the stories of the daring women who defied all expectations to...

Buckaroo in Bloomers: The Myth and Mystery of Prairie Rose Henderson Before there were rodeo queens, audiences in the first decades of the 1900s were thrilled by the exploits of rough riding belles of the rodeo. Prairie Rose Henderson was one of those...

These are the stories of what happened in the West as the trickle then flood of Easterners and immigrants first began to flow into the plains, deserts, and mountains between the Pacific Ocean and the Mississippi River and, finally, far north into The...

Pulling Leather: Being the Early Recollections of a Cowboy on the Wyoming Range, 1884 - 1889 by Reuben B. Mullins “During April in 1884, I took Horace Greeley’s advice and headed for the big, open spaces in Wyoming. After dodging brakemen...

Cowboys, Mountain Men & Grizzly Bears! The romance of the West is built on an endless armature of shootouts and train robberies, cowboys versus Indians, white hat versus black, and everybody versus the wilderness. From John Colter's harrowing escape...

Dive into the legacy of the American West through the lens of one of its most iconic figures with John Wayne’s Wild West: An Illustrated History of Cowboys, Gunfighters, Weapons, and Equipment. This visually rich book explores how John Wayne helped...

On November 20, 1903, Tom Horn was hanged in Cheyenne, Wyoming, for the murder of a fourteen-year-old nester boy. Horn-army scout and interpreter for Generals Willcox, Crook, and Miles in the Apache wars, Pinkerton operative, cattle detective, and "King...

Rustlers...The lynching of Ellen Watson and Jim Averell by six prominent and politically powerful Wyoming cattlemen rocked the nation in July 1889. Newspapers immediately proclaimed that Ellen Watson (mistakenly called Cattle Kate) and Jim Averell were...

In 1894, when A.S. Mercer published this angry eyewitness account of the cattlemen´s invasion of Wyoming, the book was so thoroughly and ruthlessly suppressed that even the copyright copies disappeared from the Library of Congress.Although...

Legendary Bucking Horse BookThis is the story behind the horse whose likeness is the symbol of Wyoming seen on the state's license plates and as the University of Wyoming logo. The book traces the history of the bucking horse from his youth on the Two...