An Avalon western novel.

The many roles played by guns in the old West with personal accounts by many early settlers and hundreds of photos.

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War—the epic story of the California Gold Rush, “a fine, rob

This visual and textual study of lynchings that took place in California between 1850 and 1935 shows that race-based lynching in the United States reached far b