The craziest thing that ever happened to me at a performance occurred during a full-company musical production of Seekers of the Fleece in Cody,...
El Jovencito
As blazing timbers crashed downward, destroying a once lovely adobe home and the dreams of its occupants, an era of hostility and bloodshed also...
The Civil War on the Silver Screen
For fans of Western movies, the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War kicked off a few months early, when True Grit opened at...
Texas Lawmen, 1835-1899
Texas Lawmen, 1835-1899, by Clifford R. Caldwell and Ron DeLord (History Press, $29.99), focuses on the 800 or so Texas lawmen (“good and bad”) who...
The Suppressed History of America
Suppressed history indeed! In The Suppressed History of America, sparks fly from Xaviant Haze and Paul Schrag’s documented raid upon America’s...
Pansy’s History
Margaret E.P. Gordon lived a century (1866-1966) and documented the changes and progress she witnessed in her amazing life. In the volume Pansy’s...
Where the West Begins
One of a new generation of Texas historians, Glen Sample Ely takes up his literary bowie knife and slices Texas into two different states in Where...
The Case of the Indian Trader
In The Case of the Indian Trader, we learn that for more than 40 years, Billy Malone had cultivated a trusting relationship with the Navajo Indians....
The Bronco Bill Gang
Bronco Bill Walters was a cowboy’s cowboy, but he took a wrong turn down the outlaw trail in the 1890s. And as Karen Holliday Tanner & John D....
Great Sioux War Orders of Battle
In his Great Sioux War Orders of Battle, Paul Hedren closely examines the Army’s 28 deployments in the 1876-77 Great Sioux War. He finds that...
The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek
Richard Kluger re-creates the 1853-54 conflict between whites and Puget Sound Indians in The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek. The little remembered...
The Mormon Rebellion
David L. Bigler and Will Bagley, an excellent team, join up again with The Mormon Rebellion. The coauthors consider the almost bloodless Mormon War...