Books in series
#1
The Cowboys
1973
An account of the lives and work of cowboys in the old West, lavishly illustrated with contemporary paintings and photographs.
#2
The Indians
1973
The old West The Indians
#3
The Soldiers
1973
An overview of U.S. soldier life, particularly detailing events of the Indian Wars, including Custer’s Last Stand. Accompanied by many period photographs.
Chapter titles:
1) Battered cavaliers of the Indian wars
2) A mixed bag of Western forts
3) On the campaign trail
4) Sudden fury in a long, slow war
5) Future commanders of the West
6) Anatomy of a disaster
#4
The Trailblazers
1973
The old West The Trailblazers
#5
The Railroaders
1973
The Railroaders six Chapters pack full of fantastic picures, illustrations and photographs. A great depiction od the early history of the U. S. and the development of the Railroads.
#6
The Forty-Niners
1974
Embossed Leatherette Hardcover. The 49's of the 1854 painting, with their gold-washing pan and pack mule, are authentic to the last detail. The man with the pan is the artist himself, Alburtis del Orient Browere..
#7
The Pioneers
1974
Reproductions of paintings, drawings, and photographs highlight a study of the men and women who opened and settled the American West
#8
The Gunfighters
1974
The Gunfighters
#9
The Expressmen
1974
This wonderful leather-bound series from Time-Life takes the reader back to The Old West. With color illustrations and plenty of black and white photos.
When President James Buchanan predicted in 1858 that the country would someday be bound east and west "by a chain of Americans which can never be broken," the links were already being forged by an army of entrepreneurs known as the Expressmen. Their freight and stagecoach services moved Eastern goods westward, Western ones eastward, and shuttled people, money and mail both ways. By 1860, Pony Express riders were relaying mail across more than half the country in the amazingly brief time of 10 days. Such labors, celebrated here and on the following pages in paintings by Western artists, were eventually to be supplanted by the railroads and the telegraph. But until then. the Expressmen persisted as though the fate of a fledgling civilization rested in their hands - and it did.
#10
The Townsmen
1975
240 pages of excellent text, filled with great black & white and color photos and illustrations.
#11
The Great Chiefs
1975
Recreates the valiant struggle of leaders of the Indian tribes of the West to protect their ancestral lands and ways of life from the invasion of the white men
#12
The Rivermen
1975
Book by Paul O'Neill, Editors of Time Life Books
#13
The Texans
1975
Brown Leatherette Hardcover
#14
The Loggers
1976
Padded,faux leather covers with unblemished pictorial insert.Clean,unmarked text.Small amount of tarnish on gilt spine bands.
#15
The Chroniclers
1976
Tells of the journalists, artists, and photographers who went west to report on the terrain, native peoples, and opportunities of frontier America
#16
The Spanish West
1976
"Plant Physiology and Development incorporates the latest advances in plant biology, making it the most authoritative and widely used upper-division plant biology textbook. Up-to-date, comprehensive, and meticulously illustrated, the improved integration of developmental material throughout the text ensures that Plant Physiology and Development provides the best educational foundation possible for the next generation of plant biologists"—
#17
The Miners
1976
This book is packed with history about the miners who built America.
#18
The Canadians
1977
The Canadians The Old West Time Life Books. What was it like in Canada at the time of The Old West? Lots of answers here in the form of Pictures Drawings and stories about our neighbors to the North
#19
The Frontiersmen
1977
The Frontiersmen (The Old West) O'Neil, Paul and Time-Life Books with text by Paul O'Neil, of
#20
The Alaskans
1977
Newcomers in the great land, a rich harvest for the taking, probing the unknown interior, a memoir of golden days in Nome, last fling for the lawless, and the perils of exploitation.
#21
Old West the Ranchers
1977
TANNER, Ogden
#22
The Mexican War
1978
Details the social and political events that preceded the war, military buildup on both sides, battles, weapons and strategies, with reproductions of contemporary posters, paintings and early photographs
#23
The Women
1978
Text and illustrations present a portrait of the industrious women who helped settle the West.
#24
The Scouts
1978
approx 8.5x11 size.
#25
The Gamblers
1978
This volume in Time-Life's The Old West series through text and many illustrations and photographs examines the topic of gambling in the Old West. Gambling was a Western mania and the consequences were felt in towns and families.
#26
The End and the Myth
1979
This volume of Time Life's The Old West examines through text and many illustration and photographs the end of the Old West as the beginning of the twentieth century approaches. Famous men of the period and the development of technology are featured.
Authors
David Nevin
Author · 13 books
David Reinhardt Nevin was born in Washington. His father, a veterinarian in the US Army when it had a horse cavalry, was soon assigned to Fort Sam Houston in Texas. Mr. Nevin joined the US Navy as a teenager and served in the Pacific. After the war he did poorly in college, but could write well enough to be hired as a police reporter for The Brownsville (Texas) Herald. That led to work for Time and Life magazines.
Benjamin Capps
Author · 4 books
Benjamin Capps was an award-winning novelist and chronicler of western life. Among his works are The Trail to Ogallala, The White Man's Road, The Warren Wagontrain Raid, Sam Chance, and The Indians and The Great Chiefs (Time-Life Old West Series). Capps was also the author of numerous published short stories, articles, essays, and book reviews. In 1991 he won the Western Writers of America Spur Award for one of his short stories, "Cimarron, The Killer." He wrote on many subjects and did not consider himself only a western writer, even though his greatest successes were western novels. However, he was primarily interested in the past and its influence on us today. Much of his writing's appeal lies in his knowledge of the Old West's folklore. According to Capps, his writing's aim was to be authentic and "to probe the human nature and human motives" involved in his stories. His works were painstakingly researched for historical accuracy and generally explored lesser known facets of the American frontier. The Western Literature Association honored Capps with the Distinguished Achievement Award in October 1986.
