Out of work cowhands used to ride the grub line, which is pretty much what I do for a living. ’Cause I like to eat. And a body can find a whole lot...
What the Brits are Doing for the West
As any reader of True West knows, interest in the Old West is worldwide—people love reading about the Earps and Custer, Billy the Kid and Geronimo...
Discovering Natural Horsemanship
This is the story of a writer’s journey that turns to admiration and respect, sharing one man’s curiosity with horses and what he learned along the...
Beyond the Missouri
Richard Etulain is best known as a scholar for his expertise in the cultural and intellectual—and, especially, literary—history of the American...
Oh, Give me a Home
The song “Home on the Range” is filled with both ideal and real images of the West, and the author uses each stanza to examine the truth of these...
Bull by the Tale
These wryly provocative tales of southwestern Arizona range from the derring-do of yesterday’s Spanish Frontiersmen to the Happy Hour Gringos of...
Noah’s Ride
Thirteen Western authors collaborated in writing this book, each contributing one chapter. In it, Noah is a green-eyed slave living on a plantation...
Dream Wheels
This is a gutsy contemporary Western about two devastated young men. Joe Willie is a cowboy broken mentally and physically after a bull riding...
Saint Patrick’s Battalion
The Mexican conflict would catapult a general into the White House as the ongoing campaign saw young officers such as U.S. Grant and R.E. Lee...
Western Film Noir Vol. 1
Charles Marquis Warren took his Westerns seriously—he created Rawhide and directed the first Gunsmoke. He cared about his Westerns, if Little Big...
Tales From the Journey of the Dead
The author of this book seems to find interest in humdrum tales and ordinary local folks as he writes of his personal hikes and exploration of a...
Texas Women on the Cattle Trails
The historians in this anthology are vigorously reexamining the role women played in settling the American West. Rarely sacrificing marriage and...