>>25395133The current president is republican, that's banned information right now
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and A People's History of the United States
Fascinating question. Probably the best book about the frontier is "Exploration and Empire: the Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West" by William H. Goetzmann. If you're interested in the wild west--which is the midwest today--then Bat Masterson gave half the answer when he famously said "The story of the West is the story of Wyatt Earp." The other half of the answer is Buffalo Bill Cody. So "Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend" by Casey Tefertiller and "Buffalo Bill's America" by Louis S. Warren.
My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting by William Thomas Hamilton
Another one: books like lonesome dove, but written during the same era.
>>25395567>which is the midwest today--then Bat Masterson gave half the answer when he famously said "The story of the West is the story of Wyatt Earp."I get that Wyatt Earp was a lawman in Dodge City but Tombstone, Arizona is not really the Midwest
>>25395917True that. Arizona was indeed the last outpost of the wild west even into the 20th Century. What's really interesting is how Earp ended up in Hollywood and was friends with William S. Hart and Tom Mix, the kings of the silent-era Westerns. -- And Hollywood is definitely not the Midwest.
>>25395765>books like lonesome doveLonesome Dove is a poster child for the argument between Genuine and Authentic. -- McMurtry's book is a genuine account of the old west that is true to the era, but as work of fiction, it can never be considered authentic. (Which begs the question: Can something be authentic but not genuine?)
The only good books I've found have been by scrubbing through djpeachcobbler's youtube videos for the titles he puts on screen or in comments. Generally good stuff hidden in deranged alcoholic ramblings. Also John Cremony's Life Among the Apaches was fantastic, and I got it from there.
>>25395133Empire of the Summer Moon. Frontier life was brutal.
The Oregon Trail
Men to Match My Mountains
>>25395161K, pal. Very funny.
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Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier
Cool thread
>>25402661The American frontier was anything west of the settlements. Daniel Boone opened the first frontier when he led settlers through the Cumberland Gap.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark
