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This book deals with the stretch of country embracing the great Missouri River drainage, from its southernmost tributaries to those reaching north into Canada. It covers the developments which, regardless of political boundaries, affected this entire inland empire once dismissed as the "Great American Desert."

Hurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch travels westward to the rural town of Dawes, Wyoming. Through a stroke of luck, he's landed a New Deal assignment to create a mural representing the region for their new Post Office. A wealthy art lover named John Long and his wife Eve have agreed to host Val at their sprawling ranch. Rumors and intrigue surround the couple: Eve left behind an itinerant life riding...

Between 1840 and 1910, hundreds of thousands of men and women traveled deep into the underdeveloped American West, lured by the prospect of adventure and opportunity, and galvanized by the spirit of Manifest Destiny. Alongside this rapid expansion of the United States, a second, overlapping social shift was taking place: survival in a settler society busy building itself from scratch required two equally hardworking partners, compelling women to compromise...

"Wyoming's infamous Johnson County War exploded on the local and national consciousness in 1892 and has never lost its imaginative power. The basis for such classic novels as The Virginian and Shane, it has been re-enacted in such major motion pictures as Shane and Heaven's Gate." "Now Wyoming attorney John W. Davis retells the story of the West's greatest range war. Having scoured all the sources other writers have used, Davis has delved more deeply...

City life is all Teddy Blue has ever known--until the craven murder of his brother, a Chicago policeman, changes his world overnight.

Descriptive of ranch life in southwestern Wyoming. The letters are dated from April 1909 to November 1913 and were printed originally in the Atlantic monthly.