Barbara Wright is a self-professed greenhorn, but you couldn’t tell from this Depression-era ranch story that encapsulates the hardships of the West...

Far from his native Pennsylvania, teenage Sam Morgan grows up in a hurry amongst the rough-and-ready mountain men of the 1820s. Striving to succeed...

Actually, we haven’t forgotten about this trial, but okay, maybe some people don’t know the aftermath of the gunfight at that most famous of...

Sure, Midland, Texas, has been practically synonymous with oil in recent years, but we must not forget that even the Permian Basin was cattle...

The Martins have long been the authority on bit and spur makers of the Old West, whom they’ve discussed in earlier books, and they continue the...

With the flood of Lewis and Clark tomes in the past year, it is quite refreshing to read William Hill’s latest book. As with his previous books,...

Between 1841-66, nearly 500,000 pioneers went west. Forty thousand of them were children, and one in five women gave birth on the trail. Rarely,...

According to Szasz, religious clergy were as common in the American West as cowboys and miners. He does a good job of proving it with literate...

Winner of a Spur Award from Western Writers of America, this first-ever biography of Ernest Haycox is by his son and namesake. Haycox was probably...