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"The Old West is not a certain place in a certain time, it's a state of mind."

-Darryl Ponicsan

(ca. Tom Mix Died for Your Sins: A Novel Based on His Life (New York: Delacorte Press, 1975), p. 135)

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Empire of the Summer Moon

Call Number: 978.00497 PARKER BIOGRAPHY

The Three-Cornered War

Call Number: 978.02 NELSON 2020

Surviving Genocide

Call Number: 973.0497 OSTLER 2019

The Earth Is All That Lasts

Call Number: 978.00497 GARDNER 2022

The Earth is Weeping

Call Number: 978.02 COZZENS 2016

Born of Lakes and Plains

Call Number: 978.02 HYDE 2022

Reel Injun

Call Number: DVD 791.43635 REEL

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Call Number: 978.00497 BROWN

The American Buffalo

Call Number: DVD 599.643 AMERICAN

The Indian Wars of the West

Call Number: 973 WELLMAN

Westerns of the Week

Stagecoach

Call Number: WESTERN BRAND

Sammy Greeg is a tenderfoot from New York City on the frontier to make his fortune. He has a fearless determination to succeed no matter the cost, and that makes Sammy a formidable adversary to horse thieves, robbers, and killers. When the lead starts flying, it turns out Sammy has a lot more grit than folks thought.

Stagecoach

Call Number: DVD MOVIE STAGECOACH

A simple stagecoach trip is complicated by the fact that Geronimo is on the warpath in the area. The passengers on the coach include a drunken doctor, two women, a bank manager who has taken off with his client's money, and the famous Ringo Kid, among others.

 

Western Education, Preservation, Publications, etc.