Chris Wimmer’s The Summer of 1876, plus a revised biography of Sitting Bull, an ode to Billy, a classic Western and a new compendium on Spain’s conquest of Mexico.
To my great delight this spring, I received an advance copy of “Legends of the Old West” podcast producer Chris Wimmer’s The Summer of 1876: Outlaws, Lawmen and Legends in the Season That Defined the American West (St. Martin’s Press, $30). Wimmer is an award-winning journalist with a master’s degree in journalism from

True West July/August 2023