Time-Life Books

This volume from the Time Life The Old West series examines through text and many photographs and illustrations the life of the cowboy in the American West. Chapters include cattle barons, the range, roundup time, long trail, beef boom towns, and code of the West.

The exodus began in 1841, a stream of men, women and children pouring out of Independence, Missouri. They were headed west, walking beside the covered wagons that held their possessions going across 2000 miles to the Pacific Coast. Mostly American-born, they were home-seekers, determined to find the fertile earthly paradise missionaries and mountain men had sworn existed on the other side of the continent.

"This volume ' examines the role of gamabling on the American fronter: among the Indians, on the rivers, in the mining camps, and in the boom towns ... The book is packed with interesting anecdotes, and covers the race track and boxing ring, lotteries and steamboat racing, as well as all of the traditional card and table games. The text is arresting with well-placed illustrations.'" Libr J.

Illustrated chronicle of the lives and careers of badmen and lawmen of the American West, 1865-1900, Wyatt Earp, Jesse James, et al.