David Dary, Author . Knopf $35 (432p) ISBN 978-0-375-41399-5
This is another lively work from one of our best chroniclers of the Old West. Dary (Cowboy Culture
; The Santa Fe Trail
; etc.) looks at the men and women who trekked the trouble-strewn paths to the nation's northwest coast. It's an epic...
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David Dary, Author . Knopf $30 (381p) ISBN 978-0-307-26345-2
Scurvy, contaminated water and challenging environments were among the medical problems faced by frontier settlers, who resorted to the rough-and-ready treatments of herbal and traditional medicines, quack concoctions and whatever worked. This is...
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David Dary, Author Alfred A. Knopf $30 (0p) ISBN 978-0-394-56178-3
Shedding Puritan prejudices, people of the American West learned to enjoy themselves between approximately 1800 and the early 20th century. The men on Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition square-danced to fiddle music. Cowboys did more than drink,...
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David Dary, Author Knopf Publishing Group $30 (400p) ISBN 978-0-375-40361-3
The famous trail of romantic western lore was established in about 1610 by Spanish settlers of Mexico who had explored western and southern regions of North America long before the French and English arrived. Stretching 900 miles from its origin in...
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David Dary, Author Alfred A. Knopf $30 (400p) ISBN 978-0-679-44655-2
The great temptation in commenting on this highly entertaining history of journalism in the American West--from 1808, when the first newspaper west of the Mississippi went to press in St. Louis, to the early 20th century--is simply to repeat some of
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