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...
Saint Patrick’s Battalion
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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...
Nobody’s Horses
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...
Digging Up Massacres
Since the day it happened, Sand Creek Massacre has maintained its station as one of the most emotionally charged and con-troversial events in...
Range Story Tops Rare Book Sale
Forget the “blood and thunder” pulps, most readers appreciate a true-to-life range story. At least that’s what antiquarian bookseller Dudley...
On a Mission in San Antone
Dressed in cowboy hat and boots, I’m walking across the San Antonio Missions Visitors Center parking lot with my four-year-old son when a docent...
Preservation: Indian Days of ’76 Rodeo
Indian Days of ’76 Rodeo HIT: Indian high school students will be documenting Indian participation in the historic Days of ’76 Rodeo in Deadwood,...
Top 10 True Western Towns of 2007
Given to towns that have made an important contribution to preserving their pasts. We hope this award will encourage federal, state and local...
Broken Trail
Maybe it’s just me, but doesn’t it seem a tad presumptuous for the makers of this Western to already be referring to it as legendary? I expect they...
Singing Cowboys
Can you imagine Gunsmoke’s Festus belting out a tune for Miss Kitty? Why not? Do you think Roy Rogers and Gene Autry were the only singing cowboys?...