Here are the true stories of the West's most terrible massacres-Sacramento River, Mountain Meadows, Sand Creek, Marias River, Camp Grant, and Wounded Knee, among others. These massacres involved Americans killing Indians, but also Indians killing Americans and, in the case of the currently hugely controversial Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857, Mormons slaughtering a party of American settlers, including women and children.McMurtry's evocative descriptions...

When Duane's life seems to fall apart, he shocks his hometown by living a Thoreau-like existence in the countryside, until he meets and falls in love with a lesbian psychoanalyst who wants to help him.

Tells of a cattle drive from Texas to Montana and shows how one man's dream to create an empire affects others.

Recently widowed businessman Duane Moore tries to return to his old life in Thalia in West Texas after an impromptu trip to Egypt, but can't seem to adjust to the many changes he finds there, until he meets a young geologist, Annie Cameron, whom his son has hired to work out of the Thalia office.

Presents a comprehensive biography of Buffalo Bill Cody and Annie Oakley, and chronicles their lives, the legends that surrounded them over the decades, and how they helped to shape the image of the old west.