True West’s Best Western Books of 2014

The year 2014 will be remembered as an annum of historical reflection as historians grappled with the relevance of 19th-century history for a 21st-century audience. Nostalgia aside, the definition of the Old West is changing and moving further and further into the 20th century into the 1950s, when the West is transformed by interstates, suburbs, air conditioning and the automobile. The Old West’s era of origin, with Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery, is also being moved back, with hist