Author Ken Lizzio’s Forty-Niner: The Extraordinary Gold Rush Odyssey of Joseph Goldsborough Bruff (The Countryman Press, $24.95) is a sparkling and fast-paced narrative of Bruff’s adventures way out West.
This new book should be on the shelf of all readers interested in the Gold Rush, for Bruff was one of its most percepti

September 2017
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- Johnny Lingo: Nothing That Glitters Is Gold
- Stuart’s Stranglers
- Action-Packed Western
- Was Ammunition Expensive?
- Gold Fever
- The Great Western
- A Murderous Trail
- James Ford Wreaks Havoc
- Is Clint Eastwood Ambidextrous?
- The Late Glen Campbell’s Roll in 1969’s True Grit
- The Sunny Sheriff
- Sam Mason Gets What He Gave
- John Hance, Grand Canyon’s Windjammer
- The Many Faces of the Late Sam Shepard
- Western Legend
- Not Easily Intimidated
- Six-Shooters
- The Farrington Brothers’ Short-Lived Outlaw Career
- Invalids Need Not Apply!
- Did “Wild Bill” Hickok have a Sidekick Named Jingles?
- Saving Hamley’s Saddles
- Crazy Horse Never Died
- Will C. Barnes Makes Quite A Name for Himself
- A Frontier Wonder Woman