Salt has been of immense value to humans for eons, and there’s no shortage of it. Yet Texas managed to generate its own “salt war” in the 1870s. The...
Salt Warriors (Nonfiction)
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Articles
Edith and the Mysterious Stranger (Young Adult)
Spunky, well-educated Edith is a hardworking nurse who won’t suffer the company of foolish men. She returns home to Idaho to care for her pregnant...
Missy (Fiction)
Missy, the name Victorians call laudanum or liquid opium, is also the nickname of Dol McQueen, for this 19-year-old Fallen Dove dotes on the...
The Trespassers (Fiction)
Jeff Keys is a Civil War veteran-turned-mercenary. He joins some ragtag oddballs in their quest to find five million dollars in stolen Confederate...
Killstraight (Fiction)
Daniel Killstraight, a Comanche who studied at Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, returns home in time to witness the execution of his...
The Comanche Empire (Nonfiction)
Hamalainen moves the Comanches up a notch in terms of their resistance to invaders, beyond that of Apaches and Sioux. He claims that their...
Sun Going Down (Fiction)
Riverboat captain Ezra Paint founds one of the most memorable ranching families in the West when he leaves the dangerous Mississippi during the...
The Civil War in Arizona (Nonfiction)
Publication in recent years of books on the invasion of New Mexico and Arizona have finally dispelled the nonsense that the Far West was uninvolved...
Kendrick’s Northern Cowboys
Growing up in the Texas Panhandle, I often visited a cousin who worked at the 6666 Ranch, one of the old historic outfits in Texas, so I am quite...
Mongolian Clint
By the time you read this, South Korean filmmaker Ji-woon Kim’s Mongolian-Steppes Spaghetti Western The Good, the Bad, the Weird will have been...
The Westerner/Man of the West
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...