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This book is a history of the Casad family that traces its movement from Ohio to New Mexico by way of Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, and California. The principal family members are Thomas Casad and his second wife, Sarah Van Winkle Casad, along with their numerous children. The book relates one family's experience with agriculture, coal mining, and milling on the Illinois prairie, where Thomas founded the town of Summerfield in St. Clair County, and...
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Outlaw-lawman research volume 1
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xii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Oklahoma western biographies volume 26
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xvi, 176 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
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128 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
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Discusses the history and importance of the Chihuahua Trail, established in the sixteenth century to connect Mexico City and Santa Fe, and the Camino Real, established in the seventeenth century to take travelers and trade up the California coastline.
77) A hill of beans
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Framed for a murder he didn't commit, Dewey 'Mac' McKenzie is now a chuckwagon cook. When he hears the rumbling of a cattle stampede heading straight for his camp he saddles up and helps get the herd under control. Once the traildrivers realize Mac's not a rustler, they ask him to join the team. Mac takes them up on the offer... especially after he meets the cowgirl, Colleen. Theres just a few problems. Mac's new employers are the real rustlers. And...
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The "Wild West" stories of Dodge City, Deadwood, and Tombstone pale in comparison to the incredible story of Las Vegas, New Mexico, for decades considered the most violent community on America's Western frontier. In "Wildest of the Wild West," popular Western historian Howard Bryan provides a spirited account of the violent, melodramatic, and often bizarre events that centered in and around this small Hispanic farm and ranching community from 1835...
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Fort Selden was a small frontier fort built in 1865 with the mission of protecting the citizens of the Mesilla Valley in southern New Mexico. This book tells the story of Fort Selden's beginning, its years of service, and its eventual abandonment. Throughout Fort Selden's history, its troopers conducted patrols, provided escort for wagon trains, and chased horse thieves, bandits, and Apaches through spring dust storms, drenching rains, winter cold,...
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xviii, 165 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm
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"Investigates a little-known photo album of 63 mounted photographs taken circa 1866 by one or more photographers and assembled under the title of Souvenir of New Mexico by a U.S. Army officer stationed in New Mexico Territory after the Civil War, revealing new stories and historical connections of the time, place and people pictured"--
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