Product Description: Re-releasing the original Old Sam story! Homesteading in the Dakota Territory of the 1880 s would not have been the same for 10-year-old Johnny Scott and his younger brother, Lee, if they d had to do it without Old Sam. Years before, a sudden, crippling accident had left Sam, a thoroughbred trotter on his way to championship, in the Scott family pasture to die or to recover...read more

Product Description: The story of the American mining frontier can be traced in the ghost towns — from the camps of California's forty-niners to the twentieth-century ruins in the Nevada desert. They mark an epoch of high adventure, of quick wealth and quicker poverty, of gambling and gun-slinging and hell-raising...read more

Product Description: Two retired veterans of the Little Big Horn exchanged a remarkable series of letters between fall 1891 and summer 1896. By that time they and everyone else who had been at the scene of Custer's defeat were part of legend. Captain Frederick W...read more