Petroglyphs in Peril First off, Nine Mile Canyon in eastern Utah is misnamed. It’s actually about 40 miles long. But it’s accurate to say that the...
Preservation: Petroglyphs in Peril
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Amazing Girls of Arizona (Children’s Book)
Young Adult: The young women described in these 11 short profiles reflect the ethnic diversity, varied lifestyles and resourceful character one...
Unbridled Dreams (Fiction)
In this Christian Romance, Irma Friedrich is the spoiled teenage daughter of a banker and a matchmaking mother. Rather than settle for finishing...
Tom Horn: Competent and a Killer
Incompetence is not a word to associate with Tom Horn, for from his teenage years until his death, he more than once proved he was the opposite. Of...
Val Kilmer Returns
Ever since Val Kilmer first appeared as a parody of Elvis in the 1984 comedy Top Secret!, he's had one of the most interesting careers in Hollywood...
Devil Canyon Shoot-Out
APRIL 9, 1905 Navajo County Sheriff Chet Houck and his deputy Pete Pemberton hop a train from Winslow, Arizona, to Canyon Diablo (Devil Canyon), 26...
The Training Ground (Nonfiction)
Although the subtitle of Martin Dugard’s excellent book is “Grant, Lee, Sherman and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-48” and the author protests that...
Unbridled Cowboy (Nonfiction)
When Bob Fussell edited his grandfather’s memoirs, he wondered if the stories were true. Consulting his cousin for suggestions, the response was...
The Legacy of the Mastodon (Nonfiction)
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...