A dynamic history of the creation of Yellowstone, a new gunfighter debate, a fresh interpretation of Western women and family, a Great Plains adventure and Patrick Dearen’s latest novel.
Megan Kate Nelson’s Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America (Scribner, $27.49) should be on everyone’s reading list in 2022. An outstanding researcher and author, Nelson delivers on both historical analysis and scholarship. Her focus on the creati

True West April 2022