If you have a taste for the gruesome side of frontier life, then this is the book for you. From 1854 to 1910, more than 1,000 men and two women were...
Frontier Justice in the Wild West
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The Gambler and the Bug boy
Pre-WWII Los Angeles is the stuff of legend. Yet, somehow, this fascinating story of gambling and corruption has not yet been told. Fortunately,...
New indians, Old Wars
Cook-Lynn, a professor of Native American Studies and a Crow Creek Sioux, says it is time for Native American Studies to leave behind the myths of...
Four and twenty photographs
The photography in this volume is so good, it stands on its own. Each photo seems to draw you into the moment, no matter the subject. Each one...
The Fabric of America
Geography furnishes us with the underpinnings of history. This book merges those two disciplines and adds a third: biography. We follow the...
Blackfoot War Art
Less a coffee table book and more a serious scholarly study, Dempsey’s book is still an attractive work filled with plates of striking Blackfoot...
3:10 to Yuma, on Track?
Everybody wants to make a Western. It’s a fact. Few directors of note, if you were to ask them, would say, “I’m not interested in Westerns; I have...
Buffalo Bill’s Wild Bunch
With binoculars in hand, Kenny Martin of Wild Mustang Tours and I look across the badlands of McCullough Peaks in search of the “Wild Bunch,” one of...
Married to the Camera
On an artist’s studio tour, a decade or two ago, an elderly woman, upon seeing a sketch with very straight pencil guidelines, asked the artist, Ed...
Ranchers vs. Army
Lon Robertson is a third generation Colorado rancher and patriotic American who never dreamed he’d be fighting the United States Army. But these...
Wyeth Sets Record with Hickok Oil
The most famous Poker hand of all time, Aces and Eights, might have won the pot, had the gambler not gotten shot in the back of the head. Given the...
The Good, the Bad at the O.K. Corral
The last shot fired at the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral was the deadliest. Martha Knight pulled the trigger. We boys stood in the playground, pumped...