Suggested books for review for HI 491
See also the annotated bibliography on cowboy history and culture [PDF]. If you would prefer to select from a list of western historians, you'll find a list of suggestions at the bottom of this page.The following is a mix of primary and secondary sources. Check the book's specifics (scholarly author? notes? primary source research? bibliography?). You must select a scholarly monograph-- not a primary source or a book marked “Use to find other books.”
Abbott, Edward Charles ("Teddy Blue") and Helena Huntington Smith. We Pointed Them North: Recollections of a Cowpuncher Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1939, 1955.
Ackerman, Joe A., Jr. Florida Cowman: A History of Florida Cattle Raising. Kissimmee: Florida Cattlemen's Association, 1976.
Adams, Andy. The Log of the Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days. 1903. Reprint. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1964.
Adams, Ramon Frederick. Come an' Get It: The Story of the Old Cowboy Cook. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1952.
-----. The Rampaging Herd: A Bibliography of Books and Pamphlets on Men and Events in the Cattle Industry. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1959. Use to locate other books.
-----. The Old-Time Cowhand. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1961, 1989.
Almar z, F‚lix D., Jr. The San Antonio Missions and Their System of Land Tenure. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989.
Amaral, Anthony A. Will James: The Last Cowboy Legend. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1980.
Armitage, Susan and Elizabeth Jameson, eds. The Women's West. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987.
Atherton, Lewis E. The Cattle Kings. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1961.
Baldwin, Gordon Curtis. Games of the American Indian. New York: Norton, 1969.
Ball, Charles E. The Finishing Touch. Amarillo: Texas Cattle Breeder's Association, 1988.
Barnes, William Croft. Apaches and Longhorns. Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie, 1941.
Bent, George. Life of George Bent: Written from His Letters. ed. George E. Hyde. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968.
Berthrong, Donald J.The Southern Cheyennes. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1963.
-----. The Cheyenne and Arapaho Ordeal: Reservation and Agency Life in the Indian Territory, 1875-1907. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1976.
Berton, Pierre. Hollywood's Canada: The Americanization of Our National Image. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975.
Billington, Ray Allen. Land of Savagery, Land of Promise: The European Image of the American Frontier in the Nineteenth Century. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981.
Blackstone, Sarah J. Buckskins, Bullets and Business: A History of Buffalo Bill's Wild West. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1986.
Blasingame, Ike. Dakota Cowboy: My life in the Old Days. New York: Putnam, 1958.
Blouet, Brian W. and Merlin P. Lawson, eds., Images of the Plains: The Role of Human Nature in Settlement Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1975.
Bold, Christine. Selling the Wild West: Popular Western Fiction, 1860-1960. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.
Borne, Lawrence R. Dude Ranching: A Complete History. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1983.
Brado, Edward. Cattle Kingdom: Early Ranching in Alberta. Vancouver and Toronto: Douglas and MacIntyre, 1984.
Bramlett, Jim. Ride the High Points: The Real Story of Will James. Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing, 1987.
Branch, E. Douglas. The Cowboy and His Interpreters. Reprint. New York: D. Appleton, 1926, 1961.
Breen, David A. The Canadian Prairie West and the Ranching Frontier, 1874-1924. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1983.
Brimlow, George F. Harney County, Oregon, and Its Range Land. Portland: Binsford and Mort, 1951.
Burroughs, John Rolfe. Where the Old West Stayed Young. New York, 1962.
Butler, Anne E. Daughters of Joy, Sister of Misery: Prostitutes in the American West, 1865-90. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985.
Catlin, George. Episodes from Life Among the Indians and Last Rambles. ed. Marvin C. Ross. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1868, 1959.
Cawalti, John G. The Six-Gun Mystique. 2d ed. Bowling Green: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1984.
Chrisman, Harry E. The Ladder of Rivers: The Story of I. P. (Print) Olive. Denver: Sage Books, 1962.
Christianson, C. J. My Life on the Range. Lethbridge: Southern Publishing, 1968.
Cisneros, Jos‚. Riders Across the Centuries: Horsemen of the Spanish Borderlands. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1984.
Clark, LaVerne Harrell. They Sang for Horses: The Impact of the Horse on Navajo and Apache Folklore. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1966.
Collins, Michael L. That Damned Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and the American West, 1883-1898. New York: Peter Lang, 1989.
Craig, John R. Ranching with Lords and Commons; or Twenty Years on the Range. 1903. Reprint. New York: AMS Press, 1971.
Cross, Michael S., ed. The Turner Thesis and the Canadas: The Debate on the Impact of the Canadian Environment. Toronto: Copp Clark, 1970.
Dale, Edward Everett. The Range Cattle Industry: Ranching on the Great Plains from 1865 to 1925. 1930. Reprint. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1960.
-----. Cow Country. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965.
Dary, David. Cowboy Culture. New York: Knopf, 1981.
Davis, Robert Murray. Playing Cowboys: Low Culture and High Art in the Western. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992.
DeLeon, Arnoldo. They Called Them Greasers: Anglo Attitudes toward Mexians in Texas, 1821,1900. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983.
Denhardt, Robert Moorman. The Horse of the Americas. Rev. ed. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1947, 1975.
Dinsmore, Wayne. The Horses of the Americas. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1978.
Dippie, Brian W. The Vanishing American: White Attitudes & U.S. Indian Policy. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1982.
Dobie, J. Frank. Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest. Rev. ed. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1952. Use to find other books—available online.
-----. A Vaquero of the Brush Country. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1957, 1981.
-----. Cow People. Boston: Little, Brown, 1964.
-----. The Longhorns. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1941.
Downs, James F. Animal Husbandry in Navajo Society and Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964.
-----. The Navajo. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1972.
Durham, Philip and Everett L. Jones. The Negro Cowboys. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1965, 1983.
Dusenberry, William H. The Mexican Mesta. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1963.
Dykstra, Robert R. The Cattle Towns. New York: Atheneum, 1976.
Edwards, Elwyn Hartley. Horses: Their Role in the History of Man. London: Willow Books, 1987.
Ellison, Glenn R. Cowboys Under the Mogollon Rim. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1968.
Erdoes, Richard. Saloons of the Old West. New York: Knopf, 1969.
Erickson, John R. The Modern Cowboy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1981.
-----. Panhandle Cowboy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1980.
Everson, William K. A Pictorial History of the Western Film. New York: Citadel Press, 1969.
-----. The Hollywood Western. New York: Citadel Press, 1969, 1992.
Ewers, John Canfield. The Horse in Blackfoot Indian Culture, with Comparative Material from other Western Tribes. Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1955.
Eyles, Allen. John Wayne. South Brunswick, NJ: A. S. Barnes, 1979.
-----. The Western. South Brunswick, NJ: A. S. Barnes, 1975.
Folsom, James K. The American Western Novel. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966.
-----, ed. The Western: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1979.
Forbes, Jack D. Apache, Navajo, and Spaniard. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1960.
Francis, R. Douglas. Images of the West: Responses to the Canadian Prairies. Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1989.
Frantz, Joe B. and Choate, Julian E., Jr. The American Cowboy: The Myth and the Reality. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1955.
Fredriksson, Kristine. American Rodeo: From Buffalo Bill to Big Business. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1984.
Freedman, Russell. Cowboys of the Wild West. New York: Clarion Books, 1985.
French, Giles. Cattle Country of Peter French. Portland: Binsford and Mort, 1964.
Furlong, Charles Wellington. Let 'er Buck: A Story of the Passing of the Old West. 3d ed. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1923.
Gard, Wayne. Frontier Justice. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1949.
-----. The Chisholm Trail. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1954.
Getty, Harry T. The San Carlos Indian Cattle Industry. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1963.
Gipson, Fred. Fabulous Empire: Colonel Zack Miller's Story. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1946.
Goldman, Marion S. Gold Diggers and Silver Miners: Prostitution and Social Life on the Comstock Lode. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1981.
Goodrich, Samuel Griswold. The Manners, Customs, and Antiquities of the Indians of North and South America. Boston: Bradbury, Soden, 1844.
Gould, Ed. Ranching: Ranching in Western Canada. Saanichton: Hancock House, 1978.
Graham, Don. Cowboys and Cadillacs: How Hollywood Looks at Texas. Austin: Texas Monthly Press, 1983.
Grant, Ted and Andy Russell. Men in the Saddle: Working Cowboys of Canada. Toronto and New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1978.
Grinnell, George Bird. The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Way of Life. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1972.
Gruber, Frank. Zane Grey, A Biography. New York: World Publications, 1970.
Haines, Francis D. Horses in America. New York: Crowell, 1971.
Haley, J. Evetts. Charles Goodnight. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1949.
-----. The XIT Ranch of Texas and the Early Days of the Llano Estacado. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press 1953, 1967.
Hall, Thomas D. Social Change in the Southwest, 1350-1880. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1989.
Hanes, Bailey C. Bill Pickett, Bulldogger: The Biography of a Black Cowboy. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1977.
Harris, Charles W. and Buck Rainey, eds. The Cowboy: Six-shooters, Songs, and Sex. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1976.
Harrod, Howard L. Renewing the World: Plains Indian Religion and Morality. Tucson: University of Arizona, 1987.
Havinghurst, Walter. Annie Oakley of the Wild West. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1954, 1992.
Hoebel, E. Adamson. The Cheyennes: Indians of the Great Plains. New York: Holt, 1960.
Holden, William C. The Espuela Land and Cattle Company: A Study of a Foreign-Owned Ranch in Texas. Reprint. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1934, 1970.
Holder, Preston. The Hoe and the Horse on the Plains. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1970.
Hollon, William Eugene. Frontier Violence: Another Look. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.
-----. The Great American Desert Then and Now. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966.
Horn, Tom. Life of Tom Horn, Government Scout and Interpreter. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1964.
Hornung, Clarence P. The Way it Was in the West. New York: Smithmark, 1978.
Hough, Emerson. Getting a Wrong Start: A Truthful Autobiography. New York: Macmillan, 1915.
-----. The Story of the Cowboy. New York: D. Appleton, 1897.
-----. North of 36. New York: D. Appleton, 1923.
Howey, M. Oldfield. The Horse in Magic and Myth. London: Rider and Son, 1923.
Hughes, Stella. Hashknife Cowboy: Recollections of Mack Hughes. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1984.
Hunt, Frazier. Horses and Heroes: The Story of the Horse in America for 450 Years. New York: Scribner's Sons, 1949.
Hutchinson, William H. The Life and Personal Writings of Eugene Manlove Rhodes, a Bar Cross Man. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956.
Iverson, Peter. When Indians Became Cowboys. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994.
Jablow, Joseph. The Cheyenne in Plains Indian Trade Relations, 1795-1840. New York, 1951.
Jackson, Jack. Los Mesteños: Spanish Ranching in Texas, 1721-1821. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1986.
James, Will. Cow Country. New York: Scribner's, 1927.
-----. Cowboys North and South. New York: Arno Press, 1924, 1975.
-----. Will James: The Spirit of the Cowboy, ed. J.M. Neil. Casper: Nicolaysen Art Museum, 1985.
-----. Lone Cowboy: My Life Story. New York: Scribner's Sons, 1930.
Jaques, Mary J. Texan Ranch Life: With Three Months through Mexico in a Prairie Schooner. Reprint. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1896, 1989.
Johnston, Moira. Ranch: Portrait of a Surviving Dream. Garden City: Doubleday, 1983.
Johnstone, Iain. Clint Eastwood: The Man With No Name New York: Quill/William Morrow, 1981, 1988.
Jordan, Teresa. Cowgirls: Women of the American West. New York: Anchor Books, 1982.
Jordan, Terry G. Trails to Texas: Southern Roots of Western Cattle Ranching. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1981.
-----. North American Cattle-ranching Frontiers: Origins, Diffusion, and Differentiation. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1993.
Katz, William Loren. Black People Who Made the Old West. New York: Crowell, 1977.
Kelly, Leroy Victor. The Range Men: The Story of the Ranchers and Indians of Alberta. 1913. Reprint. New York: Argonaut Press, 1965.
Kroeber, Alfred L. The Arapaho. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983.
Lamb, Gene. Rodeo: Back of the Chutes. Denver: Bell Press, 1956.
Laune, Paul. America's Quarter Horses. Garden City: Doubleday, 1973.
Lavington, H. Dude. Nine Lives of a Cowboy. Victoria: Sono Nis Press, 1982.
Lawrence, Elizabeth Atwood. Rodeo: An Anthropologist Looks at the Wild and Tame. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
-----. Hoofbeats and Society: Studies of Human-Horse Interactions. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.
Lea, Tom. The King Ranch. Boston: Little, Brown, 1957.
LeCompte, Mary Lou. Cowgirls of the Rodeo: Pioneers Professional Athletes. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.
Lee, Katie. Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle: A History of the American Cowboy in Song, Story and Verse. rev. ed. Jerome, Arizona: Katydid Books & Records, 1976, 1985.
Lee, Lawrence B. Reclaiming the American West: A Historiography and Guide. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1980. Use to find other books.
Lenihan, John H. Showdown: Confronting Modern America in the Western Film. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1980.
Limerick, Patricia Nelson. The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West. New York: W. W. Norton, 1987.
-----, Clyde A. Milner II, and Charles E. Rankin, eds. Trails: Toward a New Western History. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1991.
Lincoln, John. Rich Grass and Sweet Water: Ranch Life with the Koch Matador Cattle Company. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1989.
Long, Philip Sheridan. The Great Canadian Range. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1963.
Luccetti, Cathy and Carol Olwell. Women of the West. New York: Orion Books, 1982.
McCallum, Henry D. and Frances. The Wire That Fenced the West. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965, 1985.
McCoy, Joseph G. Cattle Trade of the West and Southwest. Reprint. N. p.: Readex Microprint, 1874, 1966.
McDowell, Bart. The American Cowboy in Life and Legend. Washington: National Geographic Society, 1972.
MacEwan, John Walter Grant. Blazing the Old Cattle Trail. Reprint. Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1952, 1975.
-----. John Ware's Cattle Country. Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1974.
McGrath, Roger D. Gunfighters, Highwaymen, and Vigilantes: Violence on the Frontier. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.
Mails, Thomas E. The Mystic Warriors of the Plains. Garden City: Doubleday, 1972.
Malone, Michael P., ed. Historians and the American West. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983.
Marrin, Albert. Cowboys, Indians, and Gunfighters: The Story of the Cattle Kingdom. New York: Atheneum, 1993.
Marriott, Alice Lee. Hell on Horses and Women. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1953.
Marshall, Howard W. and Richard E. Ahlborn. Buckaroos in Paradise: Cowboy Life in Northern Nevada. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1981.
Miller, Nathan. TR: A Life New York: William Morrow, 1992.
Miller, Robert Henry. Reflections of a Black Cowboy. Englewood Cliffs: Silver Burdett Press, 1991.
Milton, John R. The Novel of the American West. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1980.
Moore, Daniel G. Log of a Twentieth Century Cowboy Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1965.
Mora, Joseph J. Californios: The Saga of the Hard-Riding Vaqueros, America's First Cowboys. Garden City: Doubleday, 1949.
-----. Trail Dust and Saddle Leather. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1946, 1973.
Mueller, Ellen Crago. Calamity Jane. Laramie: Jelm Mountain Press Publishing, 1981.
Nash, Gerald D. Creating the West: Historical Interpretations, 1890-1990. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1991.
Noel, Thomas J. The City and the Saloon: Denver, 1858-1916. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982.
Nolan, Walter Frederick. Max Brand, Western Giant: The Life and Times of Frederick Schiller Faust. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1985.
Nordyke, Lewis. Cattle Empire: The Fabulous Story of the 3,000,000 Acre XIT. New York: Morrow, 1949.
-----. Great Roundup: the Story of Texas and Southwestern Cowmen. New York: Morrow, 1955.
Norman, James. Charro: Mexican Horseman. New York: Putnam's, 1969.
Oliphant, J. Orin. On the Cattle Ranges of the Oregon Country. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1968.
Pattie, Jane. Cowboy Spurs and Their Makers. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1991.
Paul, Rodman W. The Far West and the Great Plains in Transition. New York: Harper and Row, 1988.
Payne, Darwin. Owen Wister: Chronicler of the West, Gentleman of the East. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1985.
Perkins, David and Norman Tanis. Native Americans of North America: A Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1975. Use to find other books.
Pingenot, Ben E. Siringo: The True Story of Charles A. Siringo. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1989.
Place. J. A. The Western Films of John Ford. Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1974.
Pointer, Larry. Rodeo Champions: Eight Memorable Moments of Riding, Wrestling, and Roping. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1985.
Powers, Bob. Cowboy Country. Glendale, CA.: Arthur H. Clark, 1987.
Rainbolt, Jo. The Last Cowboy: Twilight Era of the Horseback Cowhand, 1900-1940. Helena: America and World Geographic Publications, 1992.
Raine, William. Famous Sheriffs and Western Outlaws. Garden City: Garden City Publishing, 1929.
Randolph, Edmond. Beef, Leather, and Grass. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981.
Randolph, J. Ralph. British Travelers among the Southern Indians, 1660-1763. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1973.
Rector, Ray. Cowboy Life on the Texas plains: the Photographs of Ray Rector, ed. Margaret L. Rector. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1982.
Remington, Frederic. Frederic Remington's Own West. ed. Harold McCracken. New York: Dial Press, 1960.
-----. Pony Tracks. Reprint. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1895, 1961.
Remley, David. Bell Ranch : Cattle Ranching in the Southwest, 1824-1947. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1993.
Reynolds, James. A World of Horses. New York: Creative Age Press, 1947.
Rhodes, Eugene Manlove. The Rhodes Reader: Stories of Virgins, Villains, and Varmints. 2d ed. Selected by W. H. Hutchinson. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1957, 1975.
-----. Paso Por Aqui. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1973.
Roach, Joyce Gibson. The Cowgirls. 2d rev. ed. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1990.
Rogin, Michael P. Ronald Reagan, the Movie and Other Episodes in Political Demonology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
Rojas, Arnold R. The Vaquero. Charlotte, NC: McNally and Loftin, 1964.
Rollins, Philip Ashton. The Cowboy: An Unconventional History of Civilization on the Old-Time Range repr., Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1922, 1979.
-----. Jinglebob: A True Story of a Real Cowboy. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1927.
Rollinson, John K. Rollinson. Wyoming Cattle Trails: History of the Migration of Oregon-Raised Herds to Mid-Western Markets. Caldwell: Caxton Printers, 1948.
Rosa, Joseph G. The Gunfighter: Man or Myth?. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1969.
Roosevelt, Theodore. Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985.
Rosenberg, Bruce A. The Code of the West. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982.
Russell, Charles Marion. Trails Plowed Under. Garden City: Doubleday, 1927.
-----. Good Medicine: The Illustrated Letters of Charles M. Russell. Garden City: Doubleday, 1929.
Russell, Don. The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1960.
-----. The Wild West: A History of the Wild West Shows. Ft. Worth: Amon Carter Museum, 1970.
Ryan, Kathleen Jo. Ranching Traditions: Legacy of the American West. New York: Abbeville Press, 1990.
Ryden. Hope. America's Last Wild Horses. New York: Dutton, 1970.
St. John, Bob. On Down the Road: the World of the Rodeo Cowboy. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1977.
Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Frederic Remington: A Biography. Garden City: Doubleday, 1982.
Sandoz, Mari. The Cattlemen from the Rio Grande Across the Far Marias. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1958, 1978.
-----. Old Jules. Boston: Little, Brown, 1935.
Sands, Kathleen M. Charreria Mexicana: An Equestrian Folk Tradition. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1993.
Santee, Ross. Cowboy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1928, 1977.
-----. Lost Pony Tracks. New York: Scribner's, 1953.
-----. Men and Horses. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1926, 1977.
Savage, W. Sherman. Blacks in the West. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1976.
Savage, William W., Jr. The Cowboy Hero: His Image in American History and Culture. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979.
-----, ed. Cowboy Life: Reconstructing an American Myth. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1975.
Savitt, Sam. Rodeo: Cowboys, Bulls, and Broncs. Garden City: Doubleday, 1963.
Seidman, Laurence Ivan. Once in the Saddle: The Cowboy's Frontier, 1866-1896. New York: Knopf, 1973.
Sell, Henry Blackman and Victory Weybright. Buffalo Bill and the Wild West. New York: Oxford University Press, 1955.
Shirley, Glen. Pawnee Bill: A Biography of Major Gordon W. Lillie. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1958.
Simons, Helen and Cathryn A. Hoyt, eds. Hispanic Texas: A Historical Guide. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992.
Siringo, Charles A. A Texas cowboy : or, Fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony, taken from real life. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1979.
Slotkin, Richard. The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800-1890. New York: Atheneum, 1985.
Smith, Dwight L., ed. The American and Canadian West: A Bibliography. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO Press, 1979. Use to find other books.
Smith, Erwin Evans. Life on the Texas Range. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1952.
Somora, Julian, Joe Bernal, and Albert Pe¤a. Gunpowder Justice: A Reassessment of the Texas Rangers. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979.
Sonnichsen, C. L. From Hopalong to Hud: Thoughts on Western Fiction. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1978.
Stands-in-Timber, John. Cheyenne Memories. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967.
Stanley, Clark. The Life and Adventures of the American Cowboy: Life in the Far West, by Clark Stanley, Better Known as the Rattlesnake King. Providence, RI: C. Stanley, 1897.
Steffen, Jerome O., ed. The American West: New Perspectives, New Dimensions. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981.
Stegner, Wallace. Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier. 1955. Reprint. Toronto: Macmillan, 1977.
----- and Richard W. Etulain. Conversations with Wallace Stegner on Western History and Literature. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1990.
Stewart, Elinore Pruitt. Letters of a Woman Homesteader. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1942, 1982.
Stuart, Granville. Forty years on the Frontier, v. 2, Pioneering in Montana: the Making of a State, 1864-1887. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1925, 1977.
Sullivan, Tom R. Cowboys and Caudillos: Frontier Ideology of the Americas. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1990.
Taft, Robert. Artists and Illustrators of the Old West, 1850-1900. 1953. Reprint. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982.
Thomas, Lewis H. The Prairie West to 1905: A Canadian Sourcebook. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1975.
-----, ed. Essays on Western History in Honour of Lewis Gwynne Thomas. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1976.
Thomas, Tony. The West That Never Was. New York: Citadel Press, 1989.
Timmons, William. Twilight on the Range: Recollections of a Latterday Cowboy. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1962.
Tinker, Edward Larocque. The Horsemen of the Americas and the Literature They Inspired.
Tuska, Jon. The American West in Film: Critical Approaches to the Western. Westport: Greenwood, 1985.
-----. The Filming of the West. Garden City: Doubleday, 1976.
-----. A Variable Harvest: Essays and Reviews of Film and Literature. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1990.
----- and Vicki Piekarski. The Frontier Experience: A Reader's Guide to the Life and Literature of the American West. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1984, 1990.
----- and Vicki Piekarski, eds. Encyclopedia of Frontier and Western Fiction. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1983.
Vannoy-Rhoades, Cynthia. Seasons on a Ranch. Boulder: Pruett, 1986.
Vernam, Glenn R. Man on Horseback: The Story of the Mounted Man from the Scythians to the American Cowboy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1964.
-----. The Rawhide Years: A History of the Cattlemen and the Cattle Country. Garden City: Doubleday, 1976.
Walker, Don D., ed. Clio's Cowboys: Studies in the Historiography of the Cattle Trade. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1981.
Wallace, Ernest. The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1952.
Walters, Thomas N. Seeing in the Dark. Durham, N. C.: Moore Publishing, 1972.
Ward, Fay E. The Cowboy at Work. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1958, 1987.
Weber, David J. The Spanish Frontier in North America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
Weir, Thomas R. Ranching in the Southern Interior Plateau of British Columbia. Ottawa: Queen's Printer, 1964.
West, Elliott. The Saloon of the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1979.
Weston, Jack. The Real American Cowboy. New York: Schocken, 1985.
White, G. Edward. The Eastern Establishment and the Western Experience: The West of Frederic Remington, Theodore Roosevelt, and Owen Wister. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968.
White, John I. Git Along, Little Dogies: Songs and Songmakers of the American West. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1975, 1989.
Wright, Will. Sixguns and Society: A Structural Study of the Western. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977.
Wunder, John R., ed. At Home on the Range: Essays on the History of Western Social and Domestic Life. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1985.
A few prominent western historians
Athearn, Robert Armitage, Sue Billington, Ray Allen Bolton, Herbert Eugene Brown, Richard Butler, Anne Clayton, Lawrence Cronon, William Dary, David. Deutsch, Sarah Dippie, Brian W., Englander, Sue Faragher, John Mack Fireman, Janet Garcia, Mario T. Haley, J. Evetts Higham, Carol Hu-Dehart, Evelyn Hutton, Paul Iverson, Peter Jacobs, Margaret Jameson, Elizabeth Jordan, Terry G. Josephy, Alvin M. Jr. Lamar, Howard R. Limerick, Patricia McManus, Sheila Montejano, David Montoya, Maria Moses, L. G. Myres, Sandra Nash, Gerald D. Nugent Walter Petrik, Paula Pomeroy, Earl Riley, Glenda Ronda, James Smith, Sherry L. Taylor, Quintard Utley, Robert Weber, David Webb, Melody West, Elliott White, Richard Worcester, Donald Wrobel, David