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Michael Wallis
Michael Wallis
Awards
Longlisted — ALA Carnegie Medal, 2018
Books by Michael Wallis
The Lincoln Highway: Coast to Coast from Times Square to the Golden Gate
Hardback, 2007
The best-selling author of Route 66 and a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer celebrate America's first transcontinental highway in all its neon glory.
Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride
Paperback, 2008
"This might be the best Billy the Kid book to date." —Fritz Thompson, Albuquerque Journal
David Crockett: The Lion of the West
Paperback, 2012
"Vivid, Comprehensible . . . cuts through decades of mythmaking." —Texas Monthly
David Crockett: The Lion of the West
Hardback, 2011
Steeped in legend, shrouded in folklore, the real David Crockett, American frontiersman and cultural icon, finally emerges in this engrossing biography.
Pretty Boy: The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd
Paperback, 2011
"This engaging biography exactly and vividly catches the tone of a region, a time, and a man."—Larry McMurtry
The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny
Hardback, 2017
Named “Best Book of 2017” by the Wild West History Association
Cutting through 160 years of mythmaking, best-selling historian Michael Wallis presents the ultimate cautionary tale of America’s...
Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride
E Book, 2008
"This might be the best Billy the Kid book to date." —Fritz Thompson, Albuquerque Journal
David Crockett: The Lion of the West
E Book, 2011
"Vivid, Comprehensible . . . cuts through decades of mythmaking." —Texas Monthly
Pretty Boy: The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd
E Book, 2011
"This engaging biography exactly and vividly catches the tone of a region, a time, and a man."—Larry McMurtry
The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny
E Book, 2017
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence
Finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award
A Publishers Weekly Holiday Guide History Pick“A book so gripping it can scarcely be put down.......