Jim Bridger: Mountain Man
10 best books like Jim Bridger: Mountain Man (Stanley Vestal): The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense, You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger, Orrin Porter Rockwell: Man of God Son of Thunder, Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman, Porter Rockwell: A Biography, The Life of Buffalo Bill: Or, the Life and Adventures of William F. Cody, As Told by Himself, Dietrich Bonhoeffer: In the Midst of Wickedness, The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution, Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers, Lion of Liberty: The Life and Times of Patrick Henry
| Author | Walter Prescott Webb |
| ISBN | 0292781105 |
A rather typical history of the Texas Rangers written by a young historian in the mid-1930's. More a telling of the Ranger's exploits in war and law-enforcement instead of a scholarly examination of the organization's political/legal development and the role that it played in the social structure...
| Author | Roger Hall |
| ISBN | 1591143535 |
With a sharp eye and wry wit, Roger Hall recounts here his experiences as an American Army officer assigned to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. First published in 1957 to critical and popular acclaim, his memoir has become a cult favorite in intelligence circles. He chronicles...
| Author | Benita N. Schindler |
The legend of the Destroying Angel of Mormondom was well established by the time of his death, of natural causes, in 1878. Travelers sang ballads about him as they gathered around their campfires at night. Mothers used his name to frighten children into obedience. He was accused of literally hundreds...
| Author | Martha Summerhayes |
| ISBN | 0803291051 |
In 1874, when Martha Summerhayes came as a bride to Fort Russell in Wyoming Territory, she "saw not much in those first few days besides bright buttons, blue uniforms, and shining swords," but soon enough the hard facts of army life began to intrude. Remonstrating with her husband, Jack, that she had...
| Author | Richard Lloyd Dewey |
| ISBN | 0961602406 |
Read the true story of Brigham Young's bodyguard - a man history (and Hollywood) has completely overlooked - the only man to kill more outlaws than Wyatt Earp, Doc Holladay, Tom Horn, and Batt masterson . . . combined. A man who believed from a blessing he received from Joseph Smith that if he never cut his...
What we know of Buffalo Bill Cody (1846–1917) is more myth than man. Yet the stage persona that took audiences by storm was based on the very real encounters of William F. Cody with the American West. This autobiography, infused with the drama of dime novels and stage melodramas that would transform...
| Author | Janet Benge |
| ISBN | 1576587134 |
Born into a loving family, Dietrich Bonhoeffer pursued a life as a pastor, teacher, theologian -- and spy. He spoke out about the trouble in Germany when Adolph Hitler came to power, urging the Christian church to rescue disparaged people groups and resist Hitler's evil empire.
Accused of being...
| Author | John Oller |
| ISBN | 0306824574 |
In the darkest days of the American Revolution, Francis Marion and his band of militia freedom fighters kept hope alive for the patriot cause during the critical British "southern campaign." Like the Robin Hood of legend, Marion and his men attacked from secret hideaways before melting back into the...
| Author | Robert M. Utley |
| ISBN | 0425190129 |
In Lone Star Justice, Utley discusses the first century of the iconic Texas lawmen, the Texas Rangers. Tracing their history as a civilian force drawn together to protect settlers against Indian and Mexican raids, Utley takes the reader through legislation and historical documents as he examines...
| Author | Harlow Giles Unger |
| ISBN | 0306818868 |
In this action-packed history, award-winning author Harlow Giles Unger unfolds the epic story of Patrick Henry, who roused Americans to fight government tyrannyboth British and American. Remembered largely for his cry for liberty or death,” Henry was actually the first (and most colorful)...
| Author | Stephen L. Moore |
| ISBN | 0062394304 |
The official nonfiction companion to the History Channel dramatic series Texas Rising (produced by the same team that made the record-breaking Hatfields & McCoys): a thrilling new narrative history of the Texas Revolution and the rise of the legendary Texas Rangers who patrolled the violent...
| Author | Richard A. Lupoff |
| ISBN | 0441187722 |
Edgar Rice Burroughs is timeless! Lupoff's book isn't, though.
There's a lot to like here, especially for somebody like me who has been maintaining a Burroughs obsession for like last 18 years or so. Lupoff devotes whole chapters to significant series, like Barsoom, Pellcuidar, Caspak,...
| Author | Jack McLaughlin |
| ISBN | 0805014632 |
This book, a National Book Award nominee in 1988, is the life of Thomas Jefferson as seen through the prism of his love affair with Monticello. For over half a century, it was his consuming passion, his most serious amusement. With a sure command of sources and skilled intuitive understanding of Jefferson,...
| Author | Philip L. Fradkin |
| ISBN | 1400043913 |
Wallace Stegner was the premier chronicler of the twentieth-century western American experience, and his novels, the Pulitzer Prize–winning Angle of Repose and the National Book Award–winning The Spectator Bird, brought the life and landscapes of the West to national and international attention....
| Author | Michael Drosnin |
| ISBN | 0767919343 |
Portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in the Martin Scorsese movie The Aviator, Howard Hughes is legendary as a playboy and pilot—but he is notorious for what he became: the ultimate mystery man. Citizen Hughes is the New York Times bestselling exposé of Hughes’s hidden life, and a stunning revelation...
| Author | David Halberstam |
| ISBN | 0742559939 |
One of the most influential leaders of the twentieth century, Ho Chi Minh was founder of the Indochina Communist Party and its successor, the Viet-Minh, and was president from 1945 to 1969 of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). In exploring the life and career of Ho Chi Minh, Pulitzer...
| Author | Burke Davis |
| ISBN | 0517662043 |
My family came over to North America, Canada and the USA, at the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th centuries. Consequently, I lack a nativist attitude. In order to get at that sensibility I've found books about the Civil War to be most useful, the Revolution being too remote, the War between...
| Author | Daniel Stedman Jones |
| ISBN | 0691151571 |
How did American and British policymakers become so enamored with free markets, deregulation, and limited government? This book--the first comprehensive transatlantic history of the rise of neoliberal politics--presents a surprising answer. Based on archival research and interviews with...
| Author | Terry Alford |
| ISBN | 0195054121 |
With a single shot from a pistol small enough to conceal in his hand, John Wilkes Booth catapulted into history on the night of April 14, 1865. The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln stunned a nation that was just emerging from the chaos and calamity of the Civil War, and the president's untimely...
| Author | Tom C. McKenney |
| ISBN | 1589806409 |
Jack Hinson never planned to become a deadly sniper. A prosperous and influential Kentucky plantation owner in the 1850s, Hinson was devoted to raising his growing family and working his land. Yet by 1865, Hinson had likely killed more than one hundred men and had single-handedly taken down an armed...
| Author | William C. Davis |
| ISBN | 0060167068 |
Drawing on many new sources, distinguished Civil War scholar William C. Davis here delves into the life of one of the most controversial public figures of the nineteenth century. He vividly details Davis' childhood in Mississippi, his military experience at West Point and on the western frontier,...
| Author | Richard Hamblyn |
| ISBN | 0374177155 |
The Invention of Clouds is the true story of Luke Howard, the amateur English meteorologist who in 1802 gave the clouds their names -- cumulus, cirrus, stratus. He immediately gained international fame, becoming a cult figure among artists and painters -- Goethe, Constable, and Coleridge revered...
| Author | Chris Enss |
| ISBN | 0762737735 |
Tales Behind the Tombstones tells the stories behind the deaths (or supposed deaths) and burials of the Old West's most nefarious outlaws, notorious women, and celebrated lawmen. Readers will learn the story behind Calamity Jane's wish to be buried next to Wild Bill Hickok, discover how and where...
| Author | Walter Lord |
| ISBN | 0801848644 |
Walter Lord—author of such best-sellers as A Night to Remember and A Day of Infamy—brings to life the remarkable events of what we now call The War of 1812—including the burning of Washington and the attack on Baltimore's Fort McHenry that inspired the Francis Scott Key to write what would become...
