Limiting ourselves to the American West and to the 1800s, what was the longest distance a herd was moved? Mike Franklin Poteet, Texas The longest...
I once read a book that stated about 400 deaths in the Old West were due to gunfights. Is this figure correct? Michael J. Glaze Seattle, Washington...
In this Western Romance set in the 1890s, Sarah Brighton, an opinionated journalist from St. Louis, travels to wild and wooly Santa Fe, New Mexico,...
Riding away from a lost war, Confederate Johnny Yuma has two vows to keep: He must find a dead friend’s sister and rejoin his father, sheriff of...
A Berkley Prime Crime novel, this story has little to do with making saddles. When Ruby McGavin’s husband of six months commits suicide, she is...
Could Crazy Horse’s pursuit of his Spirit Rider be an unspoken sacrament, or was his unyielding devotion to the Oglala’s survival the true vision?...
(Thank heavens for subtitles attached to mystifying “poetic” book titles.) A number of good books on the Mexican War’s Mormon Battalion have been...
So the real story is that the Dalton Gang was led by a woman, and she was secretly married to Bob Dalton and bore him a daughter. Her sister, who...
In 1999, the U.S. Forest Service and the National Endowment for the Arts awarded Paula Morin a grant to research the impact of wild horses in the...
This is a marvelous salute to the multitude of Texas sheriffs during the first half of the 20th century, and all the complimentary adjectives I can...
In the second half of the 19th century, the white, middle-class concept of home was assumed to be a perfect model for civilization in the American...
Probably because he also writes novels, Haley gives us the opposite of a stodgy textbook history of the Lone Star State. Best of all, he is candid....