When reviewing travel guide books, Samuel Johnson’s quote often comes to mind: “Every writer of travels should consider that...he undertakes either...

The backcountry smells fatalistic in Sweetgrass Mornings, the memoirs—sprinkled with some tall tales—of Slim Randles, a veteran outdoorsman who has...

The gunfighter is one of the most famous archetypes in Western literature, and his killing eyes and vengeful heart have been humanized by the...

If you’re looking for storytelling that focuses solely on the current struggles and triumphs of the contemporary American West, James Thomas and...

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Southern California did indeed offer up a “frontier of leisure” after the U.S.-Mexican War. Yet nothing could be so antithetical to sharing this...

We could not imagine anyone visiting Yellowstone National Park without first reading Paul Schullery’s book. More than 30 years ago, former park...

Traveling the Old West calls for the adventure in us, as many of the trails and sites are not on established roads, nor well marked or marked at...

A copy of one of W.C. Jameson’s treasure hunting books—he’s written more than 60—and Google Earth is how one amateur treasure hunter in Texas found...