Answers to 1,318 questions about Wyoming. "The most incredible, unbelievable, wild, weird, fun, fascinating, and true facts about Wyoming!"--Cover.

Meet the Sinners and the Saints of historic Laramie City, Wyoming from the end-of-track gang hanged by vigilantes to prohibition-era moonshiners: Asa Moyer, one of several who met his death by rope ; Katie Trabing, a girl traded for a sack of flour ; Bronco Sam, a Black cowboy hero and murderer ; Nettie Stewart, a prostitute with friends in high places ; Martha Symons-Bois, the world s first lady bailiff ; William Crout, who had so many wives he lost...

A priceless, handcrafted rifle, fired throughout the American Revolution, is passed down through the years until it fires on a fateful Christmas Eve of 1994.

The gripping story of an epic prairie snowstorm that killed hundreds of newly arrived settlers and cast a shadow on the promise of the American frontier. January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota, the weather so mild that children walked to school without coats and gloves. But that afternoon, without warning, the atmosphere suddenly, violently changed. One moment the air was calm; the next...

"With over 19 million copies in print and a remarkable record of #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestsellers, Bill O'Reilly's Killing series is the most popular series of narrative histories in the world. Killing the Witches revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable episodes in American history: the events of 1692 and 1693 in Salem Village, Massachusetts. What began as a mysterious affliction of...

A painstakingly researched account details the tragic and triumphant story of the Eagles, a high school football team from Cody, Wyoming's World War II Japanese-American incarceration camp. Spring, 1942. The United States government forced 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes and sent them to incarceration camps across the West. Nearly 14,000 of them landed on the outskirts of Cody, Wyoming, at the base of Heart Mountain. They faced racism,...

The Bozeman Trail led to the goldfields of Montana for six years in the 1860s before the army abandoned its three forts along the way, yielding to Red Cloud and his warriors. Hailed by A. B. Guthrie Jr. as "among the very best in the American Trail series,"The Bloody Bozeman weaves an "almost seamless" pattern of destiny and adventure.

"Michael Crichton presents a story about pirates in the New World"--Provided by publisher. The Caribbean, 1665. Pirate captain Charles Hunter, with backing from a powerful ally, assembles a crew of ruffians to take the Spanish galleon, "El Trinidad, " guarded by the bloodthirsty Cazalla, a favorite commander of the Spanish king himself.

Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat. The Japanese army follows the samurai code of Bushido, stipulating that surrender is a form of dishonor. This book takes readers to the bloody tropical-island battlefields of Peleliu and Iwo Jima and to the embattled Philippines, where General Douglas MacArthur has made a triumphant...

A comprehensive history of the temples and tombs of ancient Egypt, that tells the stories of Egyptian societies and dynasties, religious rites, and culture through the reign of Cleopatra and the Roman invasions.