Wheeler’s great strength as a Western writer is derived from excellent historical research combined with his ability to teach. His Indian characters...
The Fire Arrow
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From Dominance to Disappearance
Here we have, at last, the first really comprehensive survey of the history of all Indians of Texas, including tribes that spilled over into...
The Natural Superiority of Mules
As such books go, this is not your average miners’ mule rendition. This coffee table-size picture book has the greatest photography I have ever...
Best of the Badmen
Here’s the ultimate encyclopedia of old B-Western bad guys. Photographs and mini-biographies of 315 actors who ever snarled a line at our...
Fullerton’s Rangers
Hornung put nearly 40 years into studying New Mexico’s answer to the Texas Rangers, and the result is the first book to cover the Mounted Police....
Looking for Joe Leaphorn
Few novelists today are better at exploring the American West and expanding its literature than Tony Hillerman. That’s right. I mean Western...
The Art of Disaster
John Mulvany was an artist in search of a masterpiece. He’d been preparing for it almost all of his life. Born in Ireland in 1844, he came to New...
Wyatt Earp Punts?
From handball to football, from polo to golf, and from the Tombstone Tigers to the Wyoming State Penitentiary All-Stars, true Westerners have always...
Carson City, Nevada
To encourage our readers to visit this year’s winners of our Top 10 True Western Towns award announced in Jan/Feb, each issue will showcase the...
Deadwood’s Lost Chinatown
A Chinese man enters a barn followed by Doc Cochran and Johnny Burns, a thug working for the infamous saloon owner, Al Swearengen. The Chinese man...
Custer, Cowboys and the Man in Black
Johnny Cash is playing on the ol’ stereo. Okay, so that’s not news—his music is practically always playing on the stereo. But this is appropriate...
Shattered Dreams and Broken Trails
The American West at the close of the 19th century was a land of contradiction. Progress-minded business men, pioneers intent on building a home,...