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Creepy Bastards
Dwight Yoakam and Kris Kristofferson are two singers who have played complete bastards in any number of movies. So the prospect of the two of them...
Sturges Biography
Coming in November from the University of Wisconsin Press is the first biography of director John Sturges, who was responsible for Gunfight at the...
A Passion for Nature The Life of John Muir (Nonfiction)
To write this excellent biography of John Muir, Donald Worster zealously ransacked the letters and journals of the great, self-taught naturalist....
Myth of the Hanging Tree (Nonfiction)
Trials by “Judge Lynch” were euphemisms for mob vengeance from colonial America to the frontier West. This scholarly study analyzes the documented...
Lost Architecture of the Rio Grande Borderlands (Nonfiction)
In 1953, twelve Spanish Colonial-period settlements were inundated by Falcon Reservoir’s rising waters—the U.S. and Mexican government’s effort to...
San Diego, California
“Oh, what’s to become of all my beautiful seven deadly sins? Jesus!” “Exactly,” Asmodeo responded to the tail end of his boss Lucifer’s enraged...
Needles and Cats
In 1985, shortly before we were to set off on a vacation to Argentina, Dan read Larry Pointer's In Search of Butch Cassidy and learned that Butch...
Gloomy Blumy’s Beautiful World
When the horse-drawn wagon slipped into a bad rut outside of Taos, New Mexico, in 1898, the two sketching buddies flipped a coin to see who would...
Captain Ransom, Texas Ranger
Yet another biographical tribute to a Texas Ranger, this one written by the subject’s granddaughter. Henry Ransom served as a ranger in the first...
Nebraska’s Cowboy Trail
Keith Terry believes travel is an escape from the routine—combining new vistas and tangible history that stimulates the soul, opens the mind and...
The Overland Journey
The history of Westward trails is well documented, often compelling and always adventurous. This book details the unique history of the...