Cowboys, Mountain Men, and Grizzly Bears: Fifty Of The Grittiest Moments In The History Of The Wild West

Cowboys, Mountain Men & Grizzly Bears!The romance of the West is built on an endless armature of shootouts and train robberies, cowboys versus Indians, white hat versus black, and everybody versus the wilderness.

From John Colter's harrowing escape from the Blackfeet to Hugh Glass' s six week crawl to civilization after a grizzly attack, from Custer's final moments to John Wesley Powell's treacherous run through the rapids of the Grand Canyon, Cowboys, Mountain Men, and Grizzly Bears takes the top 50 wildest episodes in the region's history and presents them to the reader in one convenient, narrative-driven package.

Read more Review "I loved Cowboys, Mountain Men, and Grizzly Bears.

It's absolutely terrific.

What a saga of the Great American West."--Howard Frank Mosher, award-winning novelist"Mayo's Grittiest Moments books read like Loren D.

Estleman and Jim Thompson got together to re-write a Stephen Ambrose history book." --Jeremy L.C.

Jones, Booklifenow.com"Mayo brings the West alive....

Cowboys, Mountain Men, and Grizzly Bears puts the reader right in the middle of the action, making history not only accessible, but fun, scary, and most importantly, real.

Mayo is a writer to keep a lookout for." --Larry D.

Sweazy, Spur Award-winner and author of The Rattlesnake Season"...

I can't recommend it highly enough.

The man knows the West, and, better still, knows how to tell a story." --Andrew Vietze, award-winning author of Becoming Teddy Roosevelt"An excellent variety of great stories, told in superb narrative style." --John D.

Nesbitt, Spur Award-winner and author of Trouble at the Redstone From the Back Cover From slaughters, shootouts, and massacres to maulings, lynchings, and natural disasters, Cowboys, Mountain