J. Frank Dobie

Written in 1930, “Coronado's Children” was one of J. Frank Dobie's first books, and the one that helped gain him national prominence as a folklorist. In it, he recounts the tales and legends of those hardy souls who searched for buried treasure in the Southwest following in the footsteps of that earlier gold seeker, the Spaniard Coronado. "These people," Dobie writes in his introduction, "no matter what language they speak, are truly Coronado's...

Fifteen sketches of Army and sporting life, chiefly in the western part of the United States and in northern Mexico.

Sancho's return--Bill Blocker's lead steer--Tablecloth: outlaw--Stampede on the Cimarron--The man who hung hisse'f-The maverick branded murder--(etc.).

General George Crook's aide de camp recounts the pursuit of Geronimo and other Apache Indians across southern Arizona and New Mexico to Mexico's Sierra Madre in 1883. An Apache Campaign in the Sierra Madre is a crackling, swift-moving narrative of General George Crook's pursuit of Geronimo and other Apache Indians across southern Arizona and New Mexico to the Sierra Madre in Mexico in 1883. The Chiricahua Apaches and their culture, the towns and...