Special Collections Research Guide:Books

Based on the latest research, this work provides a new look at the lives of African Americans in the Western United States, from the colonial era to the present. * A rich collection of photographs, many never before published * A completely up-to-date bibliography highlighting significant resources for further study on African Americans in the West

Alphabetically organized and thoroughly cross-referenced entries provide information on cowboy history, culture, and myth in North and South America. Entries include cowboy types, equipment, dress, work, and recreation. illustrated, with informative appendixes, an index, and bibliography.

This is an encyclopaedic reference devoted to the subject of cowboys, cowgirls, and the old west - including its portrayal on TV and in film in modern times.

Highly informative and endlessly entertaining, and accompanied by 80 black-and-white illustrations, the Dictionary of the American West explains more than 5,000 terms and expressions in passages that pack a crossbuck saddle's worth of American frontier history and wit. From a-going and a-coming to Zuni, this comprehensive volume captures the earthy, vibrant lexicons of cowboy and Indian culture, the fur trade, ranching, gambling, cattle and horses, and native flora and smart-alec, and grub."

The Encyclopedia of Women of the American West captures the lives of more than 150 women who made their mark from the mid-1800s to the present, contextualizing their experiences and contributions to American society. Including many women profiled for the first time, the encyclopedia offers immense value and interest to practicing historians as well as students and the public.

This encyclopedia is a source of information on the many American Wests - real and imaginary, old and new, stretching from coast to coast and throughout the country's history and culture. It consists of more than 2400 entries in alphabetical order, along with over 600 illustrations and maps.

This generously illustrated resource gives readers everything they need to speak "western", from Border Spanish to California Mellow, from Old West spit and spurs to New West silicon chips and surfing.

This engaging narrative synthesizes more than 20 years of historical writing on the history of women in the American West. * Includes a chronology of major historical events in the history of the American West from the early 1800s to the present, and explores their connection to the women highlighted in the book * Approximately 30 photographs, including images of Japanese women in internment camps during World War II, images that document women's roles in the 1968 United Farmworkers strike, and depictions of women's increasingly prominent roles in sports

The Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West provides a complete and definite history of racial and ethnic groups that populated the American West, those states west of the 100th meridian. The volumes cover the settling of the West and include coverage of movements of native American tribes, African Americans and the often underreported role of women in the West's development.

Standoffs, saloons and sunsets spring to mind when one envisions the rough and tumble early days of the American frontier. Indeed, the golden period of the American West produced some of the most notorious badmen and bravest lawmen in American history, many of whom have become legends. Some rogues are familiar: John Wesley Hardin (who, it is said, killed more than 40 men), William Bonney (Billy the Kid), Wild Bill Hickok, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Others are not so well known but were no less dangerous: John Slaughter, Buckskin Frank Leslie, Wild Bill Longely, Liver-Eating Johnson, and Bill Doolin. Then there are the peacekeepers, the brave men who helped tame the Wild West: The Earp Brothers, Pat Garrett, and Texas Rangers such as James Gillett and Dallas Stoudenmire.

Provides indexing for: Kanhistique, Kansas!, Kansas business review, Kansas farmer, Kansas government journal, Kansas history, Kansas school board journal, Kansas sports, Kansas wildlife & parks, The Territorial, Wichita commerce.

When we think of the American West, we tend to conjure up images that are known the world over: bearded forty-niners leading pack mules up a mountain trail, the Oklahoma land stampede, Custer's Last Stand, and especially the range-riding, quick-shooting cowboy. But these familiar images are only a small part of western history. From the arrival of the Navajos in the Southwest more than seven hundred years ago, to the first Spanish settlements in New Mexico in the late sixteenth century, to the large Mormon migration to the Great Salt Lake, to the tourists flocking to the neon landscape of modern Las Vegas, the complex story of the West stretches across centuries, embracing many voices and contrasting cultures. The West is in fact as varied as America itself. Indeed, to enlarge on Wallace Stegner's singular phrase, the West is America, only more so. Lavishly illustrated and based on the finest scholarship, The Oxford History of the American West is the first comprehensive study to do full justice to the rich complexity of this region. It brings together the work of twenty-eight leading western historians who explore this area from a dazzling number of perspectives.