Publisher's Synopsis
For several hundred years, the West had been the land of dreams, an extraordinary region of hope, expansion and opportunity where European countries -- and then the young USA itself -- sent their finest explorers to plant seeds in a seemingly untapped, open landscape. This spirit captured the popular imagination in the Wild West, those raucous 30 years between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of a new century. Within these pages, readers will explore true tales of rebels and heroes such as General George Custer, Buffalo Bill, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Annie Oakley, and Sitting Bull, among others.
