Although Walter Brennan won his third of three supporting actor Oscars—still the record—for his part as the “mangy old scorpion” Judge Roy Bean in...
Rabbit and the Well
Ages 6 and older: During a time of drought, Ji-Stu, the ingenious Cherokee trickster Rabbit, decides to dig a well. Wanting no part of hard work, he...
Gospel of the Gun (Fiction)
Gun-toting, menacing riders of the Disciple Gang with aliases such as Matthew, Mark, Luke and John thunder through Tombstone, Arizona. Folks wonder...
Along Came a Cowboy (Fiction)
In this contemporary Christian Romance, Dr. Rachel Donovan is a chiropractor living in a small Arkansas town. Written in first person, present...
The Bloody Texans (Fiction)
Turbulent times in the newly-birthed Lone Star State won’t stop former Mountain Man and scout Nathan Cooper from building himself a ranch. But when...
Robber’s Roost (Fiction)
This delightful story, based on an unproduced screenplay, follows a group of ne’er-do-well travelers in the post-Civil War West as they journey from...
Louis L’Amour, A Memoir (Nonfiction)
Louis L’Amour, best known for his popular frontier novels and stories, was a tireless reader of great literature and eventually had a personal...
The Feud That Wasn’t (Nonfiction)
This book has more violence per page than anything I’ve ever read. Rather than a feud of any kind, the action here entails murders, robberies and...
Dolly & Zane Grey: Letters From a Marriage (Nonfiction)
Zane Grey was the most important Western novelist, writing the best-selling Riders of the Purple Sage (1912). Candace Kant has done a scholarly,...
Mavericks: A Gallery of Texas Characters (Nonfiction)
Here’s a collection of some of the more interesting 20th-century Texas eccentrics Fowler calls “performing artists.” Like the millionaire who played...
The West the Railroads Made (Nonfiction)
This lavishly illustrated book is the companion volume to an exhibition at the Washington State History Museum. Schwantes and Ronda discuss how the...
Chief Bender’s Burden: The Silent Struggle of a Baseball Star (Nonfiction)
Even the protracted, chaotic writing of Tom Swift could not destroy this uplifting story about the life of Charles Bender. As a young Ojibwa Indian...