American Frontier: Pioneers, Settlers, and Cowboys 1800-1899

This has got to be the best book on the history of the West of the USA and how the West was discovered and developed. Packed with facts, great colour pictures and historical detail! I’d recommend it for anyone with a general interest, but also for school and university projects or if you’re planning a trip to the west of the US and want to be informed before you go!

Bought for a gift and told they enjoyed it

Now I have all three in the series as I am into the Western scene andstudy/read the history of that period of the American West 1776 to 1890A very good and hstorical book.Highly recommended

A lot of good history in this book, and great photos. Entertaining and educational.

Wow! When I received this book, I could only gasp! Quality book with such Excellent Photos and text - I am writing a book about this time period and the photos will provide me a greater insight in the tools and equipment and life these hardy frontier pioneers and settlers and cowboys and Indians lived. Most of this information is in danger of being lost to the ravages of time. If you are interested in the frontier, get this book. You will not be disappointed. joyce

This is a fabulous compilation! It tells the complete story of how the West was explored, survey, and settled... It's got it all, the miners, the Civil War, the cowboys, the outlaws, the indians, the women, the law, and pictorially and literally describes how the western side of the Country went from being uncharted to developed and civilized in less than a hundred years.This has to be THE single best History book on the era of the Old West.

It is the best history book I have read that reads like a novel but is fact.

Very good book on the American Frontier, much history and so many nice photos. Very good book if you like Old West History.