Sandwiched between his first writing and editing jobs with the Valley Morning Star in Harlingen, Texas, and his current gig as a history professor...
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Moonlight and Skies
“No message, no agenda, no nothin,’ just a little bunch of songs I’ve always liked.” That’s what Don Edwards says about this record, and his comfort...
Living With the Land
Toss another log on the campfire and relax a spell with 14 cowboy originals from Sarah Barchas. On Living with the Land, she rounds up calves, birds...
The Turquoise Trail
The scenic, winding back road between Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico, is called N.M. 14 but is popularly known as the Turquoise Trail. Pueblos...
An Untraditional, Quirky Western
Throw in one eclectic filmmaker (Tom Shell), a director who helped give Twin Peaks its creepy edge (Tim Hunter) and an Edgar Award-winning mystery...
Hardin’s Hardware
Texas shootist John Wesley Hardin had a career that spanned three decades (minus 16 years in prison). Texas shootist John Wesley Hardin had a career...
Reno Gang Miffed by Train Takeover
They say there’s honor among thieves. That may or not be so. But Walker Hammond and Michael Colleran learned the hard way that there are outlaw...
Oklahoma’s 101 Ranch
In 1879, Col. George Washington Miller with son, Joe, then age 11, rode across the...
Saturday Matinee
So they’re not really family—so what. These guys have been playing Saturday matinees at Toronto’s Cameron Public House for nine years, so they’re...
Eleven Stories
Texas songster Bruce Robison makes music that slips on all soft and comfortable, like a good old flannel shirt. The CD opens with a wonderfully warm...
Between The Two
Where else in the world of Gospel music can one hear the phrase “there’s a hitch in my get-a-long” or be urged to get on board Salvation’s Line?...
Cherokee Rose (Fiction)
This is one more retelling of the brutal treatment of the Cherokee people who were displaced in winter l838 from their homes in the Smoky Mountains...