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Product Description: In the annals of the West, only Billy the Kid rivals Wyatt Earp as a household name and figure of history. Yet who was Wyatt Earp? Some biographers, many relying on the memoirs of Earp himself, have portrayed Wyatt's adventures in Dodge City, Tombstone, and beyond, as the daring-do of a near flawless lawman and Western hero...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Gila Monster spends 99% of its life underground, making encounters with this lizard extremely rare. Sightings are infrequent even for the biologists who study them. When one does stumble upon a Gila Monster, however, this slow-moving lizard is not easily forgotten...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: First published in 1990 and now available only from University of New Mexico Press, this volume collects twenty-six of Aldo Leopold's little-known essays and articles published between 1915 and 1948. Leopold worked for the United States Forest Service in New Mexico and Arizona from 1909 to 1924...read more

Amazon.com Review: Charles Sheldon (1867-1928) was a hunter-conservationist whose efforts substantially enriched the American public domain. A Yale graduate, Sheldon explored North America from the Arctic to the high Sierra Madre of Mexico. Sent to central Alaska in 1903 as an assessor by C...read more

Product Description: Western lore is replete with romanticized, revisionist, second-hand accounts of the notable events of the Old West, but how were these events experienced and recorded by those who were there? In this anthology the editors focus on fifteen of the most captivating incidents in Western history, each offering an authenticity and immediacy that only a participant can bring to a story...read more

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