Phyllis Morreale-de la Garza was born and raised in northern Illinois, but her heart has always been in the West. Her father was a livestock buyer,...
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Trailing John Wesley Powell
John Wesley Powell came to Wyoming’s Green River City in 1869 to launch the first of his two expeditions down the Colorado River. Earlier, in...
“A Glorious Sight to See”
I’ll be the first to admit: I know nothing about the Battle of Spokane Plains. Actually, I know little about the Pacific Northwest, except I admire...
What can you tell me about U.S. Army scout Al Sieber?
ftlupton From True West’s Online Forum Al Sieber was chief of scouts for Gen. George Crook during the Apache Wars. Born in Germany, he came to...
Was Mike Williams an Abilene, Kansas, deputy at the time of the gunfight between Wild Bill Hickok and Phil Coe?
George Bourbeau Calhan, Colorado I went straight to the source himself, Joe Rosa, to get the straight skinny on this. He examined available records...
Sunset Limited
So many books have already been written about the Central Pacific, predecessor of the Southern Pacific, that the story of the transcontinental...
SHOOTIN’ THE BREEZE, COWBOY STYLE
When two or three working cowboys cross trails somewhere out in the real West’s wonderful vastness, several occurrences happen after the first...
DANCING WITH THE GOLDEN BEAR
Mountain man Jedediah Smith leads an exploration party of fur trappers in search of wealth and adventure. The third book in Blevins’ Rendezvous...
Nimrod: Courts, Claims, and Killing on the Oregon Frontier
Readers living in the Pacific Northwest sometimes lament the lack of attention paid to the history of their neck of the woods by writers of Western...
THE TOUGHEST GANG IN TOWN
If anyone out there is obsessed with the history of San Francisco, here’s another book you need. Short, documented accounts of criminal behavior...
SEEING YELLOWSTONE IN 1871
The 1871 Official Survey of the Western Territories led by geologist Ferdinand Hayden reaped much more than data about minerals and thermal springs....
GOLD! The Story of the 1848 Gold Rush and How it Shaped a Nation
This definitely must be one of the most readable books ever written about the California gold rush and its direct effect on the growth of this...