Tap McCoy, an aging buckaroo, tells about his travels from ranch to ranch as he earns his living the cowboy way. With a keen sense of humor and...
Last Buckaroo (Fiction)
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Love In an Envelope (Nonfiction)
Imagine the thrill for a professor of Western history to discover a box of letters dating from 1870-72. As Daniel Tyler cautiously opened the...
A Remarkable Curiosity (Nonfiction)
One of the most famous journalists of his day, Amos Jay Cummings wrote firsthand accounts of the Westward movement in 1873. A Forrest Gump of the...
Death of a Gunfighter (Nonfiction)
Rottenberg is to be commended for rescuing Jack Slade from relative obscurity. Slade has, indeed, slipped through the cracks of history and into...
More Zeal Than Discretion: The Westward Adventures of Walter P. Lane (Nonfiction)
This well-documented and skillfully written biography chronicles Walter P. Lane’s journal through some of the most defining moments in American West...
50th Anniversary of Rio Bravo
Fifty years ago this month, Rio Bravo premiered as director Howard Hawks’s answer to director Fred Zinnemann’s High Noon. Not buying into the theme...
Hunting the American West (Nonfiction)
Hunting is as much a part of the American story as any aspect of this country’s development. This work focuses on big-game hunting in the 19th...
Texas Devils: Rangers & Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, 1846-1861 (Nonfiction)
The Texas Rangers earned the condemnatory nickname Los Diablos Tejanos (the Texas Devils) during the Mexican-American War because of their brutality...
Buffalo Music
Ages 3 to 10: This picture book was inspired by the real Mary Ann Goodnight, a settler in Palo Duro Canyon, Texas, during the senseless massacres of...
Deep in the Heart of Trouble (Fiction)
This Christian Romance is a light-hearted spoof featuring Essie Speckelmeyer, a 35-year-old Texas spinster doggedly avoiding marriage until Mr....
Aztec Fire (Fiction)
In the 1820’s, liberty sweeps from Europe to the New World. Bolivia frees Venezuela, while others try toppling Mexico’s Castilian rulers. These...
Rio Grande Fall (Fiction)
When a dead woman drops out of the sky over Albuquerque, New Mexico, during an annual balloon festival, private eye Sonny Baca hits the trail. He...