When assessing the contributions of Western actor Buck Taylor, suffice it to say that his star on the Kanab, Utah, walk of fame sits between those...
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Juneau, Alaska
Juneau, Alaska’s mining heritage stretches from 1880 when a Tlingit chief directed Richard Harris and Joe Juneau to gold deposits. The resulting...
Best Stories of the American West
The 20 short stories in this first volume vary from a 1953 Elmore Leonard reprint to more contemporary stories set in the “new” West. The topics...
Hawks and Eagles
Wandering young Joe Good returns to his Fort Willow homestead to find his peaceful father, Vincent, gunned down on orders of land-grabbing rancher...
California Desperadoes
Between WWI and II, writers such as Stuart Lake and Walter Noble Burns penned popular, but careless, studies of Western outlaws and lawmen. They did...
Lone Star Pasts
Attempting to define the difference between memory and reality, this book essentially is a collection of essays written to honor the Texas myth...
The Cowboy Girl
As biographies go, this is no doubt the best I have read in years. Clayton’s narrative story of Caroline Lockhart begins in her young reporter...
Fort Concho and the Texas Frontier
In 1952, Haley’s excellent Fort Concho was published in a short press run that guaranteed it would become not only a classic of Texana but a rare...
Identity By Design
Gazing upon these dresses of hide and canvas, ornamented by glass beads and quills and elk teeth, a story comes to life. Indian dresses are more...
One Hundred Years of Winchester Cartridge Boxes, 1856-1956
This first and only definitive work completely devoted to Winchester cartridge boxes is a worthy reference. With more than 1,100 full color...
Does Your Colt Pedigree?
A sure-shot way to prove the pedigree of your Colt firearm is to have factory documentation. A Colt Historical Letter has been universally...
From Errol Flynn to Owen Wister
"I love Newport because it is history preserved,” John Jakes writes in the afterword of his latest novel, The Gods of Newport. “I contrast this with...