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Buried Lies (Fiction)
This Western within a Western begins with vacationing Gus Ivy’s haircut in an Arizona barber shop. A reader of sagebrush yarns, he spots The Cavity...
Word Gets Around (Fiction)
In this contemporary Romance, Lauren Eldridge returns to Texas to help her father train a horse for an upcoming Hollywood movie. This is Lauren’s...
Steve Shaw
I reluctantly acquiesced to my wife Marcie’s idea that we take a steamboat cruise on the Mississippi River in 1998; I assumed it would...
Two Oregon Naturals Make A Team
Traditional Country and Western singer Joni Harms and Pendleton Woolen Mills share many traits in common. Both trace their Oregon heritage back at...
Revisiting Lonesome Dove
Two decades ago, my fellow reporters and I were sitting in the Dallas Times Herald offices--or maybe we were in a sleazy bar near the...
Wallace Stegner and the American West (Nonfiction)
Fradkin is the perfect fit to study Stegner’s career in the West, as he himself is also a polished writer, historian and environmentalist. Stegner...
Full-Court Quest (Nonfiction)
An absolutely stunning photo appears on page 357. It is a 1908 photo of graduate Emma Sansavor, a player for the 1904 world champion basketball team...
Dark Spaces: Montana’s Historic Penitentiary at Deer Lodge (Nonfiction)
Established in 1870, the penitentiary at Deer Lodge, Montana Territory’s first federal facility, was indeed dark, controversial and legendary. The...
The Last Indian War (Nonfiction)
Despite the somewhat misleading title (for example, the Apache Wars ended in the 1880s), this is an excellent study of the relations between whites...
Mormonism’s Last Colonizer (Nonfiction)
The author, a descendant of Mormon leader William H. Smart, by his own admission, gives an honest and detailed account of the ardent leader. Through...
Family Ranch: Land, Children, and Tradition in the American West (Nonfiction)
As activists used to say: the personal is political, and so it is with modern family ranching in the West. These stories of six ranching families...