11 must-read biography books like The Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace: The Texas Ranger and Hunter by John Crittenden Duval

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The Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace: The Texas Ranger and Hunter

By: John Crittenden Duval

3.85

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

At six foot two inches and two hundred and forty pounds, Big-Foot Wallace cut a formidable figure a…

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1. Six Years With the Texas Rangers: 1875-1881

By: James B. Gillett

4.14

Format: 171 pages, Kindle Edition

Texas in the nineteenth century was a dangerous place. The Texas Rangers were there to keep people … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth: Mountaineer, Scout, and Pioneer, and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians by James P. Beckwourth

2. The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth: Mountaineer, Scout, and Pioneer, and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians

By: James P. Beckwourth

4.16

Format: 347 pages,

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  • history
  • nonfiction

3. Rising Wolf, the White Blackfoot: Hugh Monroe's Story of His First Year on the Plains (1919)

By: James Willard Schultz

4.23

Format: 343 pages,

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • adventure

4. The Diary of a Forty-Niner

By: Chauncey L. Canfield

4.00

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

1849, California. The Gold Rush had begun. 300,000 gold-seekers left their homes, grabbed what they… read more

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5. Moe Hankins

By: R.O. Lane

4.68

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Young Moe Hankins surrenders with his unit at Appomattox Court House and heads west because he hear… read more

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6. The Unhired Hand

By: R.O. Lane

4.69

Format: 185 pages, Kindle Edition

A Wyoming homesteader family settles in a little valley only to find that a big cattleman hates all… read more

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7. The Trouble Shooter: Part One

By: C.J. Petit

4.43

Format: 422 pages, Kindle Edition

Eleven-year-old Axel Nielsen and his ten-year-old girlfriend Elsa Johannsen were happily chatting a… read more

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8. Justice Rides Again (Silent Justice #4)

By: John Deacon

4.71

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

This time, it’s personal… Justice and Nora are building a nice life on the ranch, but he must hi… read more

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9. Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879: The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians

By: Herman Lehmann

4.17

Format: 115 pages, Kindle Edition

"Lehmann's memoir is quite fantastic-sounding at times, but is regarded as one of the best of that … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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10. The Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace: The Texas Ranger and Hunter

By: John Crittenden Duval

3.85

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

At six foot two inches and two hundred and forty pounds, Big-Foot Wallace cut a formidable figure a… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • adventure
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11. Fifty Years On The Trail: The True Story of John Y. Nelson, Frontiersman, Scout, and Guide

By: John Nelson

4.34

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

Frontiersman, military scout, interpreter, guide, police chief, and saloon owner; John Young Nelson… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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12. My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting

By: William Thomas Hamilton

4.17

Format: 98 pages, Kindle Edition

Of course I knew how to scalp, and soon accomplished the feat, much to his satisfaction, for he sai… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
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13. Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians

By: Fanny Kelly

3.87

Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition

“I was a member of a small company of emigrants, who were attacked by an overwhelming force of host… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Experience is a great teacher, and we were then in her school, and learned that while hope offers the faintest token of refuge, we pause upon the fearful brink of eternity, and look back for rescue."

-Fanny Kelly, Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians

"Mother! what a world of affection is comprised in that single word; how little do we in the giddy round of youthful pleasure and folly heed her wise counsels. How lightly do we look upon that zealous…"

-Fanny Kelly, Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians

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14. Adventures of a Mountain Man: The Narrative of Zenas Leonard

By: Zenas Leonard

3.95

Format: 98 pages, Kindle Edition

In the spring of 1830, Leonard, a native of Clearfield, Pennsylvania embarked on an expedition acro… read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. By Ox Team to California: Crossing the Plains in 1860

By: Lavinia Honeyman Porter

4.21

Format: 107 pages, Kindle Edition

“We then determined to use the small remnant of our fortune to provide a suitable outfit for a leng… read more

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16. The Life of John Wesley Hardin

By: John Wesley Hardin

3.79

Format: 94 pages, Kindle Edition

Born to a Methodist preacher in 1853, near Bonham, Texas, Wes Hardin killed his first man, a former… read more

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  • biography
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17. Journal Of A Trapper: Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains, 1834-1843

By: Osborne Russell

3.83

Format: 167 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1834, Osborne Russell joined an expedition from Boston, under the direction of Nathaniel J. Wyet… read more

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  • adventure
Cover of Twelve Years in the Saddle for Law and Order on the Frontiers of Texas by William John L. Sullivan

18. Twelve Years in the Saddle for Law and Order on the Frontiers of Texas

By: William John L. Sullivan

3.98

Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition

Life as a Texas Ranger was never easy. But to survive twelve years confronting vicious murderers, … read more

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19. The Personal Narrative of James O. Pattie of Kentucky

By: James Ohio Pattie

4.14

Format: 207 pages, Kindle Edition

James O. Pattie’s Personal Narrative is a prime source for the history of the Southwest during the … read more

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  • history
Cover of Indian Depredations in Texas by J.W. Wilbarger

20. Indian Depredations in Texas

By: J.W. Wilbarger

4.17

Format: 594 pages, Kindle Edition

"This volume is the most thorough compilation of accounts of Indian warfare in the Texas 19th centu… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Forty Years a Fur Trader On the Upper Missouri: The Personal Narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872 by Charles Larpenteur

21. Forty Years a Fur Trader On the Upper Missouri: The Personal Narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872

By: Charles Larpenteur

3.98

Format: 169 pages, Kindle Edition

"The life-record kept by Charles Larpenteur is one of our most important sources of information con… read more

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  • biography
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16 must-read history books like The Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace: The Texas Ranger and Hunter by John Crittenden Duval

Transform Your Habits

Six Years With the Texas Rangers: 1875-1881

James B. Gillett

4.14

Transform Your Habits

The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth: Mountaineer, Scout, and Pioneer, and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians

James P. Beckwourth

4.16

Rising Wolf, the White Blackfoot: Hugh Monroe's Story of His First Year on the Plains (1919)

James Willard Schultz

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879: The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians

Herman Lehmann

4.17

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21 must-read history books like My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting by William Thomas Hamilton

Transform Your Habits

Six Years With the Texas Rangers: 1875-1881

James B. Gillett

4.14

Transform Your Habits

The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth: Mountaineer, Scout, and Pioneer, and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians

James P. Beckwourth

4.16

Rising Wolf, the White Blackfoot: Hugh Monroe's Story of His First Year on the Plains (1919)

James Willard Schultz

4.23

Transform Your Habits

American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon

Steven Rinella

3.50

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