4.35 avg rating — 861 ratings

"The biography of a cowboy, from his running away from home as a green kid to his death in the 20th century. Full of the real feel of cowboy life."

4.02 avg rating — 55 ratings

"You can never go wrong with an RD book!"

4.56 avg rating — 64 ratings

"Mails is possibly the best explicator of Indian life now writing."

3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings

"Why and how the West was wild."

4.27 avg rating — 89 ratings

"Everything you ever wanted to know about the iconic Plains shelter."

4.14 avg rating — 42 ratings

"The center of all "sin" and male social life in the West, fascinatingly described."

3.91 avg rating — 224 ratings

"Don't scorn the kids' books! This one is packed with great sketches and descriptions of the ways people coped with the challenges of early settlement."

3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings

"How ordinary folks lived."

3.95 avg rating — 21 ratings

"A unique volume about the mining camps and why they were what they were."

4.17 avg rating — 30 ratings

"Not just about sodbusters, but all common folk and how they lived."

4.10 avg rating — 48 ratings

"There aren't many books about the juvenile experience in the West, even though many kids knew no other life. This is one of the best, buttressed with the actual recollections of many."

3.79 avg rating — 675 ratings

"Women bad and good, how and why they went West and what happened once they got there, including iconoclasts and conventionals."

4.36 avg rating — 22 ratings

"Ever wonder what cowboys ate? This is the book for you."

4.44 avg rating — 50 ratings

"A juvenile, but its beautiful line illo's will give you information you can't get anywhere else."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings

"Every aspect of cowboy life clearly sketched."

4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings

"Clear, genial tone and mouth-watering line drawings show how the American cowboy developed, worked, and lived."

3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings

"Hough knew many men who had experienced the cowboy's Golden Age."

4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings

"The cowboy at work and play, told in dialect, with pen sketches by Nick Eggenhoffer. Not to miss."

3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings

"Great survey of Western life."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings

"One of *the best* social histories; it reads like a novel. Don't miss the bibliographies, either!"

4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings

"This doorstop will give you more information than you ever thought you needed about material artifacts, history, wildlife, you name it."