Trevor Hodge graduates from college with a degree in accounting, but his life changes abruptly by news that his father, a cowboy whom he never knew,...

Trevor Hodge graduates from college with a degree in accounting, but his life changes abruptly by news that his father, a cowboy whom he never knew,...
The continuing saga of the Lewis Clan finds the clan’s tenacious hold upon the vastness of Texas about to be put to the test. Even though 10 years...
Much of the frenzied publishing of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial has been the retelling of a fairly familiar story. But this book is a welcome...
Stan Hoig’s extensive research spans about 40 years and is revealed in more than a dozen books on Indian history. This new effort is among his best....
Lurking behind a dumb, misleading title is a good book. (This is not some harum scarum melodrama by a dime novel Dickens.) True, persnickety readers...
At the University of Southern California in 1926, Marion Morrison, a.k.a. John Wayne, studied law and truly hoped to become an All-American football...
Since the focus of American melodrama has mostly been on contributions from Eastern urban centers, it’s a pleasure to see Lawrence I. Berkove and...
The title here suggests you’ll get a dry history of financier Jay Cooke and his money problems building the Northern Pacific, but this big book is a...
“When I got to him, he sat up and his lower lip was down under his chin. It was the danged-est lookin’ thing.... I had to put my knee against his...
February 8, 1887 Long-Haired Jim Courtright strides into the White Elephant Saloon in Fort Worth, Texas, and has words with co-owner Jake Johnson....
When Will Rogers died in an airplane crash in 1935, America was devastated. The folksy rider, roper and vaudevillian from Oklahoma was the real New...
To the German-born Anthony Mann, the postwar Stewart must have seemed like the absolute physical embodiment of expressionism, all angles and angst...