Five Western Favorites

As my mailbox is filling up with publishers’ spring catalogues, and my list of must reads for 2016 grows ever longer, I scan book shelf space becomes rarer and rarer in my office, I am reminded of Five I recommend that are perfect for your winter reading list should inspire further reading of these talented authors. First on my list is Glenn Vernam’s Man on Horseback: The Story of the Mounted Man from the Scythians to the American Cowboy (University of Nebraska Press, 1972). Vernam’s re