Historic Photos of Heroes of the Old West
No story in United States history is more compelling than the exploration and settlement of the American West, and the tales of those who blazed the trails will forever enthrall Americans yet unborn. In Historic Photos of Heroes of the Old West, the dauntless adventurers who gave us the legend come alive together in profile. Herein are the early pathfinders Zebulon Pike and Lewis and Clark, James Marshall and men of the gold rush, the lawmen Wyatt Earp and Wild Bill Hickok. George Armstrong Custer returns to the Little Big Horn and John Wesley Powell revisits the Colorado River. And Mark Twain, Buffalo Bill, and Charles Russell breathe the legend to life.
A sagely written brush with the lore and romance of the Old West, this roundup of the most famous frontiersmen includes nearly 200 photographs, reproduced vividly in black-and-white, with captions and introductions by author and historian Mike Cox. Here are the fables and the faces of Americans double-tough, for every adventurer seeking an encounter with the great American West.
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Book details
- Text by
- Mike Cox
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 202
- Formats
- Hardcover
- Series
- Historic Photos
- Subjects
- History › United States
History › United States › State & Local › West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) - Topics
- American West · historical photography · frontier history · Western legends · 19th century America · explorers and pioneers · lawmen and outlaws · black-and-white photography
- ISBN-13
- 9781684421091
About the author
MIKE COX is the author of more than 30 nonfiction books, including Time of the Rangers and The Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821–1900.
Cox received the A.C. Greene Award for lifetime achievement in 2011 and was a 2014 Will Rogers Medal winner and Spur Award finalist. An elected member of the Texas Institute of Letters since 1993, he spent more than fifteen years as spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety before serving as Communications Manager for the Texas Department of Transportation until his retirement in 2007.
When he’s not writing, Cox draws on a career rooted in Texas public service and a third-generation background in journalism, experience that shapes his deep engagement with Texas history.
Mike lives in Wimberley, Texas.