A genuine western classic. The story of Kelsey Cameron, a Scottish immigrant who travels to the high cattle country of the Rockies to live the freedom and self-determination he is denied in his homeland, and of his wife and daughter.

The fascinating account of the Jones family is just one example of the stories of many families who settled the West, many of whom found their place and did not move further west as the Jones family did.

Tom Chantry wore no gun and wished no man harm. French Williams was a ruthless cattleman more than willing to use his weapon. But Tom needed Williams to help him drive a herd north to Dodge. Setting off together on a trail alive with danger, soft-spoken Chantry and hard-bitten Williams faced storms, treachery, and Indian attacks. Now the man some call a coward and the man many call a killer have no choice but to trust each other with their lives--for...

The stocks-and-bonds, Havana-cigar, mahogany-and-leather side of the cowboy era; politics, investors, operators from 1870 to 1900.

Colket collection.

Recalling his early life as a young cowboy, sixty-two-year-old Madison Carter remembers his first love: her name was Estrella O'Sullivan, and he met her the summer he turned sixteen back in 1873. The summer of 1873 marked Madison's last drive up what is now called the Chisholm Trail. It was the first time he tasted oysters and the only time he pinned on a badge. It was the summer of longhorns, miserable heat, friendship and betrayal, and murder....

Narrowly avoiding a deadly encounter with a young gunfighter while searching for a stolen horse, Curly Wells encounters a young woman who has been harassed by a violent band of horse rustlers.

"The best all-around study of the American cowboy ever written. Every page crackles with keen analysis and vivid prose about the Old West. A must-read!" - Douglas Brinkley, author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America The open-range cattle era lasted barely a quarter century, but it left America irrevocably changed. Cattle Kingdom reveals how the West rose and fell, and how its legacy defines us today. The...