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Private William Edward Matthews's letters, published here for the first time, provide an unparalleled chronicle of one soldier’s experiences in the garrison and in the field in the post–Civil War Southwest.

This study of a broad range of responses to gold and silver mining in the late nineteenth century sets the literary writings of figures such as Mark Twain, Mary Hallock Foote, Bret Harte, and Jack London within the context of writing and representation produced by people involved in the industry: miners and journalists, as well as writers of folklore and song.

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries northwestern Mexico was the scene of ongoing conflict among three distinct social groups—Indians, religious orders of priests, and settlers. In this study, Yetman examines seven separate instances of such conflict, each of which reveals a different perspective on this complicated world.

These stories by early Yellowstone Park visitors helped propel the popularity of this American wonderland.