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Survival
A life-or-death price tag came with settling the Old West: By their wits, their guts and their best guesses, Westerners had to learn to survive. If...
Captain of All Rangers for Life
Jim Gillett was just 20 years old when he decided to join the Texas Rangers in 1875. But young didn’t mean inexperienced—Gillett was a native of the...
EYE OF THE WOLF
When Evil rides its pale horse across the Wind River Reservation, thoughtful Father John O’Malley and impetuous attorney Vicky Holden face a...
PEOPLE OF THE MOON
People of the Moon is part of the Gears’ First North American series, and this 13th installment focuses on the Chaco Anasazi, who lived in New...
THE ART OF SERGIO LEONE’S ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
I found this book to be as equally ponderous and intellectually pretentious as the subject movie was. Fawell constructs what is essentially a...
The Salish people and the Lewis and Clark Expedition
This book on the Salish Indians of Montana, and their Pend d’Oreille kin, is the result of many hands from the Salish-Pend d’Oreille Cultural...
The Klondike Quest: A Photographic Essay, 1897-1899
This book is a beautifully done photo history of the Klondike Gold Rush—what the author refers to as one of the strangest mass movements in history....
WESTERN TRADITIONS: CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS OF THE AMERICAN WEST
Frederic Remington and Charles Russell are introduced here as the grandfathers of contemporary Western art. Their lives and examples of their work...
Preserving an “Uninhabitable Wasteland”
An “uninhabitable wasteland.” That’s what Army explorer R.B. Marcy called the wilds of west Texas. Most folks took the captain at his word and...
Bad Guy Tracks Good
Whether reporting on actual artifacts or proverbial, W.C. Jameson’s research scoops a prospector’s pan of information about locating lost treasures....
A Light in the Wilderness
This is a true story. One day, in 1907, C.W. and Olin Light—brothers and owners of the F.M. Light & Sons clothing store in Steamboat Springs,...