Akron Public Library

Uses letters, diaries, journals, and photographs to journey into the lives of the families who populated the pioneer West, from black Exodusters and Asian immigrants to Native Americans

Text and illustrations recreate the epic of the American West.

A guide to appreciating and understanding the history of abandoned mining camps shows how to use the techniques of an historical sleuth to identify and interpret what one sees at a ghost town.

A fascinating chronical that traces its fabulous history, from the pre-Colombian era of cliff dwellers and great native civiliztions through the era of the Spanish conquistafores, the Texxas Rebellion and the Mexican War, and the rip-roaring Wild West of Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid, up to the birth of the Atomic Age in Los Alamos and on to the present day.

Huffman photographed and wrote about the West before the coming of the railroad.

"The lure of adventure and riches brought men west. Some had dreams of a quick gold strike and a life of ease. Some were lone explorers drawn to this vast and unknown land. Still others were homesteaders eager to put down new roots with their families. Although some returned back east, worn out by hardship, many more forged places for themselves on America's new frontier as cowboys and farmers, bachelors and fathers, outlaws and lawmen." "Cathy Luchetti,...

The stories of men and women pioneers including the first lawmen, outlaws, soldiers of fortune, Indian chiefs, and stories of pioneer explorers.

"...A compendium that flows chronologically from 1830 to 1930 with each day providing a concise text and accompanying images. The daily entries found at the top of the pages are generally not connected to the tale told by the main text and images, but constitute a separate running diary of incidents or events that actually happened on that specific date. A landmark event or a particularly compelling personality may get fleshed out by more than one...