Richard Etulain is best known as a scholar for his expertise in the cultural and intellectual—and, especially, literary—history of the American...

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...

These wryly provocative tales of southwestern Arizona range from the derring-do of yesterday’s Spanish Frontiersmen to the Happy Hour Gringos of...

Thirteen Western authors collaborated in writing this book, each contributing one chapter. In it, Noah is a green-eyed slave living on a plantation...

This is a gutsy contemporary Western about two devastated young men. Joe Willie is a cowboy broken mentally and physically after a bull riding...

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...

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...

The historians in this anthology are vigorously reexamining the role women played in settling the American West. Rarely sacrificing marriage and...

Without a doubt, Nobody’s Horses is the best read of the year. Wild horses are as natural to the West as the rivers that run through it. This is the...