If you like reading about the Old West, this is about as old as you can get! Here we have figures such as giant sloths, dinosaurs and other such...
Horses that Buck: The Story of Champion Bronc Rider Bill Smith (Nonfiction)
I swear, rodeo is more of a slice of Western Americana than apple pie, and this book packs it all in. “Cody” Bill Smith is rodeo personified....
Bad Fruits of the Civilized Tree (Nonfiction)
In her book, Izumi Ishii demolishes the simplistic stereotype of the Indian (in her case, the Cherokee) as a congenital drunkard. True, abuse of...
Survival Along the Continental Divide (Nonfiction)
The author has spent a lifetime wandering the American West and Mexico. As one would imagine, he has seen and learned much in his travels. In this...
Black Women in Texas History (Nonfiction)
The social progress of Texan black women now surpasses that of black males and white females. In this unique anthology, regional historians...
Dime Novel Desperadoes: The Notorious Maxwell Brothers (Nonfiction)
What an intriguing book! Ed and Lon Maxwell rivaled the James boys in their career of horse stealing, robberies and killings, but none of it...
Wolves at Our Door (Fiction)
For a quarter of a century, undeclared wars crackled along the Arizona-Sonora border where more than 175 ranchers and young Sonoran men have been...
Patterson: A Western Duo (Fiction)
These two tense tales show Paine’s mastery of the Western and its heroes—men who not only take on trouble but ride straight over it. In “Dead Men in...
House of the Butterfly
Several years ago, Kat Vinson contemplated purchasing five villas and operating them as a bed and breakfast in Camp Verde, Arizona. Before making...
Dodge City, Kansas
A barrel of whiskey kick-started this frontier burg. The first business that opened on the site of Dodge City was George M. Hoover’s and John...
Signature Spurs
Pascal M. Kelly, born in 1886, turned out his first pair of spurs as early as 1903, in the Texas Panhandle town Childress. In 2008, one of his pairs...
How to Get Rich Buying Books
Back in 1986, while participating in an “archaeological dig” at the site of the McSween house in Lincoln, New Mexico, I first met Bob McCubbin. To...