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	Westerners International 100 Outstanding 20th Century Non-fiction Books on the American West, 1901-2000 by Year: 1901 THE TRANSITION PERIOD OF CALIFORNIA FROM A PROVINCE OF MEXCIO TO A STATE OF THE AMERICAN UNION in 1850 – Samuel H. Willey 1902 A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN FUR TRADE OF THE FAR WEST (3 vols.) – Hiram M. Chittenden 1908 VANISHED ARIZONA, RECOLLECTIONS OF MY ARMY LIFE – Martha Summerhayes 1915 THE FIGHTING CHEYENNE – George Bird Grinnell 1916 SPANISH EXPLORATIONS IN THE SOUTHWEST, 1542-1706 – Herbert Bolton, editor 1921 SIX YEARS WITH THE TEXAS RANGERS, 1875 to 1881 – James B. Gillette 1924 RAINBOW BRIDGE: CIRCLING NAVAJO MOUNTAIN AND EXPLORATIONS IN THE “BAD LANDS” OF SOUTHERN UTAH AND NORTHERN ARIZONA – Charles L. Bernheimer 1925 HANDBOOK OF THE INDIANS OF CALIFORNIA – Al Kroeber 1926 MISSISSIPPI STEAMBOATIN’: A HISTORY OF STEAMBOATING ON THE MISSISSIPPI AND ITS TRIBUTARIES – Herbert and Edward Quick 1929 THE OVERLAND TRAIL: THE EPIC PATH OF THE PIONEERS TO OREGON – Agnes C. Laut 1930 THE SANTA FE TRAIL – Robert L. Duffus 1931 OUTPOST OF EMPIRE: THE STORY OF THE FOUNDING OF SAN FRANCISCO - Herbert E. Bolton SCHLIEMANN, THE STORY OF A GOLD-SEEKER. TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY D. F. TAIT -Emil Ludwig THE GREAT PLAINS – Walter Prescott Webb 1934 TRIGGERNOMETRY: A GALLERY OF GUNFIGHTERS – Eugene Cunningham 1935 ORDEAL BY HUNGER: THE STORY OF THE DONNER PARTY – George R. Stewart 1936 RIM OF CHRISTENDOM: A BIOGRAPHY OF EUSEBIO FRANCISCO KINO, PACIFIC COAST PIONEER – Herbert Eugene Bolton CHARLES GOODNIGHT, COWMAN AND PLAINSMAN – J. Evetts Haley INTERWOVEN: A PIONEER CHRONICLE – Sallie Reynolds Matthews 1937 OLD JULES – Mari Sandoz 1938 THE OUTLAW TRAIL: A HISTORY OF BUTCH CASSIDY AND HIS WILD BUNCH HOLE-IN-THE-WALL BROWN’S HOLE ROBBERS ROOST – Charles Kelley 1939 CARBINE AND LANCE, THE STORY OF OLD FORT SILL – Wilbur S. Nye 1941 NO LIFE FOR A LADY – Agnes Morley Cleaveland THE LONGHORNS – J. Frank Dobie WAR CHIEF JOSEPH – Helen A. Howard and Dan L. McGrath 1942 CRAZY HORSE, THE STRANGE MAN OF THE OGLALAS – Mari Sandoz 1947 ACROSS THE WIDE MISSOURI – Bernard De Voto 1949 WESTWARD EXPANSION: A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN FRONTIER – Ray Allen Billington 1950 THE RECKLESS BREED OF MEN: THE TRAPPERS AND FUR TRADERS OF THE SOUTHWEST – Robert Glass Cleland 1951 A TREASURY OF WESTERN FOLKLORE – B. A. Botkin, editor 1952 WAGON ROADS WEST: A STUDY OF FEDERAL ROAD SURVEYS AND CONSTRUCTION IN THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI WEST 1846-1869 – W. Turrentine Jackson 1953 JOURNALS OF LEWIS AND CLARK – Bernard De Voto, editor MOSTLY ALKALI – Stephen P. Jocelyn CHEYENNE AUTUMN – Mari Sandoz 1954 GREAT RIVER: THE RIO GRANDE IN NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY (2 vol.) – Paul Horgan BENT’S FORT – David Lavender 1955 THE LOOK OF THE OLD WEST – William Foster-Harris 1956 BEFORE BARBED WIRE, L. A. HOFFMAN, PHOTOGRAPHER ON HORSEBACK - Mark Brown and W. R. Felton MY CONFESSION – Samuel Chamberlain MEN TO MATCH MY MOUNTAINS: THE OPENING OF THE FAR WEST, 1840-1900 – Irving Stone THE INDIAN WARS OF THE WEST – Paul I. Wellman 1957 THE AGE OF STEAM: A CLASSIC ALBUM OF AMERICAN RAILROADING – Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg THE KING RANCH (2 vol.) – Tom Lea 1958 KLONDIKE FEVER: LIFE AND DEATH OF THE LAST GOLD RUSH – Pierce Berton 1960 THE LIVES AND LEGENDS OF BUFFALO BILL – Don Russell TULAROSA: LAST OF THE FRONTIER WEST – C. L. Sonnichsen 1961 THE FORGOTTEN PENINSULA: A NATURALIST IN BAJA CALIFORNIA – Joseph Wood Krutch THE MARCH OF THE MONTANA COLUMN: A PRELUDE TO THE CUSTER DISASTER, LT. J. H. Bradley - E. I. Stewart, editor 1963 WHY THE WEST WAS WILD – Joseph Snell and Nyle Miller THE LAST DAYS OF THE SIOUX NATION – Robert M. Utley 1964 THEY CALLED HIM WILD BILL: THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF JAMES BUTLER HICKOK – Joseph Rosa THE GATHERING OF ZION: THE STORY OF THE MORMON TRAIL – Wallace Stegner 1965 THE NEZ PERCE AND THE OPENING OF THE NORTHWEST – Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. 1966 SUTTER’S FORT, GATEWAY TO THE GOLD FIELDS – Oscar Lewis JESSE JAMES WAS HIS NAME…NOTORIOUS JAMES BROTHERS OF MISSOURI – William Settle, Jr. 1967 FOOL’S GOLD: THE DECLINE AND FALL OF JOHN SUTTER OF CALIFORNIA - Richard Dillon 1969 GERONIMO CAMPAIGN – Odie B. Faulk SWEET MEDICINE: THE CONTINUING ROLE OF THE SACRED ARROWS, THE SUN DANCE, AND THE SACRED BUFFALO HAT IN NORTHERN CHEYENNE HISTORY (2 vols.) – Peter J. Powell 1970 SHOTGUN FOR HIRE, THE STORY OF “DEACON” JIM MILLER, KILLER OF PAT GARRETT – Glenn Shirley 1971 THE GENESIS OF THE FRONTIER THESIS: A STUDY IN HISTORICAL CREATIVITY – Ray Allen Billington 1973 DOG SOLDIERS, BEAR MEN, AND BUFFALO WOMEN: A STORY OF THE SOCIETIES AND CULTS OF THE PLAINS INDIANS – Thomas E. Mails FRONTIER REGULARS: THE UNITED STATES ARMY AND THE INDIANS, 1866-1890 – Robert M. Utley 1974 THE BUFFALO BOOK: THE FULL SAGA OF THE AMERICAN ANIMAL – David Dary PAT GARRETT: THE STORY OF A WESTERN LAWMAN – Leon Metz 1975 FIFTY GREAT WESTERN ILLUSTRATORS: A BIBLIOGRAPHIC CHECK LIST – Jeff Dykes MOON OF POPPING TREES – Rex Allen Smith 1979 BAT MASTERSON: THE MAN AND THE LEGEND – Robert DeArment BUFFALO BILL, HIS FAMILY, FRIENDS, FAME, FAILURES, AND FORTUNES – Nellie Synder Yost 1980 THE SOUTHWEST – David Lavender 1981 COWBOY CULTURE: A SAGA OF FIVE CENTURIES – David Dary CUSTER LEGENDS – Lawrence A. Frost DEADWOOD, THE GOLDEN YEARS – Watson Parker 1982 EL PASO LAWMAN: G. W. CAMPBELL – Fred Egloff THE WORLD RUSHED IN: THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH EXPERIENCE – J. S. Holiday WESTERING WOMEN AND THE FRONTIER EXPERIENCE 1800-1915 - Sandra L. Myres 1983 WESTERING MAN: THE LIFE OF JOSEPH WALKER – Bill Gilbert 1986 ADOBE WALLS: THE HISTORY AND ARCHEOLOGY OF THE 1874 TRADING POST – T. Lindsay by Baker and Billy R. Harrison TRAILS SOUTH: THE WAGON-ROAD ECONOMY IN DODGE CITY-PANHANDLE REGION - C. Robert Haywood DEATH VALLEY & THE AMARGOSA: A LAND OF ILLUSION – Richard Lingenfelter 1987 SACRAMENTO, EXCURSIONS INTO ITS HISTORY AND NATURAL WORLD – William M. Holden 1988 PLATTE RIVER ROAD NARRATIVES: A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TRAVEL OVER THE GREAT CENTRAL OVERLAND ROUTE – Merrill J. Mattes THE DONNER PARTY RESCUE SITE: JOHNSON’S RANCH ON BEAR RIVER – Jack and Richard Steed 1991 CUSTER’S LAST CAMPAIGN: MITCH BOYER AND THE LITTLE BIGHORN RECONSTRUCTED – John S. Gray THE WEST AS AMERICA: REINTERPRETING IMAGES OF THE FRONTIER, 1820-1920 – Will H. Truettner, editor 1992 THE CUSTER READER – Paul Andrew Hutton, editor ISHI IN TWO WORLDS: A BIOGRAPHY OF THE LAST WILD INDIAN IN NORTH AMERICA – Theodora Koreber GOLDFIELD: THE LAST GOLD RUSH ON THE WESTERN FRONTIER – Sally Zanjani THE SPANISH FRONTIER IN NORTH AMERICA – David Weber 1993 DICTIONARY OF THE AMERICAN WEST – Winfred Blevins HOKAHEY, A GOOD DAY TO DIE! THE INDIAN CASUALTIES OF THE CUSTER FIGHT – Richard G. Hardorff BUFFALO SOLDIERS, BRAVES AND BRASS – F. N. Schubert - 1993 1995 THE LAST GUNFIGHTER, JOHN WESLEY HARDIN – Richard Marohn A GOOD YEAR TO DIE: THE STORY OF THE GREAT SIOUX WAR – Charles M. Robinson 1996 UNDAUNTED COURAGE: MERIWETHER LEWIS, THOMAS JEFFERSON, AND THE OPENING OF THE AMERICAN WEST – Stephen Ambrose 1998 THE PLAINS INDIANS – Paul H. Carlson THE NEW ENCYLOPEDIA OF THE AMERICAN WEST – Howard R. Lamar, editor THE WEST OF BILLY THE KID – Frederick Nolan 1999 BEAR FLAG RISING, CONQUEST OF CALIFORNIA 1846 – Dale Walker LONG DAY’S JOURNEY: THE STEAMBOAT AND STAGECOACH ERA IN THE NORTHERN WEST – Carlos Arnold Schwantes 2000 NOTHING LIKE IT IN THE WORLD – Stephen Ambrose		More Information: Full Board of Westerners International Westerners International Mission Westerners International 100 Outstanding 20^th Century Non-fiction Books on the American West, 1901-2000 by Year