Time-Life Books
5) The cowboys
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This volume from the Time Life The Old West series examines through text and many photographs and illustrations the life of the cowboy in the American West. Chapters include cattle barons, the range, roundup time, long trail, beef boom towns, and code of the West.
6) The pioneers
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The exodus began in 1841, a stream of men, women and children pouring out of Independence, Missouri. They were headed west, walking beside the covered wagons that held their possessions going across 2000 miles to the Pacific Coast. Mostly American-born, they were home-seekers, determined to find the fertile earthly paradise missionaries and mountain men had sworn existed on the other side of the continent.
16) The gunfighters
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Illustrated chronicle of the lives and careers of badmen and lawmen of the American West, 1865-1900, Wyatt Earp, Jesse James, et al.