Kaleidoscopic Lives (Abridged, Annotated)

Joseph Taylor's classic memoir of pioneer life in Montana, Wyoming, and the Dakotas has long been cited in other books. He knew many of the soldiers and Indians of the 1870s and 1880s and newspaperman Taylor writes of them in witty and affectionate prose. Here is Custer, Chief Gall, General Stanley, and many others.

Every memoir of the American West provides us with another view of the westward expansion that changed the country forever.

For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is av...