In True West’s annual “Best of the West” January 2014 issue, I highlighted the best authors and books of 2013. A new category I’d like to introduce in 2014 is the best in independent/self-publishing, a growing and important option for many Western writers of numerous genres of local history, fiction and family history. Here are three titles published late last year that I recommend: Arizona historian Nancy Burgess self-published An Arizona Auto Adventure: Clarence Boynton’s 1913 Tr
April 2014
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- Peter Iverson on Navajo History
- Nez Perce in Yellowstone
- Gunsmoke’s Gun for Hire
- Rough Drafts 4/14
- Davy Crockett’s “Ol’ Betsy” Found
- Battle of the Plaza
- A Saga of Bloody Kansas
- On the Trail of History
- CSI: Fort Union
- Profile in Leadership
- Texas Hill Country Trail: Cavalry, Cowboys and Germans
- Mules & Canyons, Oh My!
- On the Trail of Old Arizona
- Wyatt Earp’s Alaskan Adventure
- Buried Treasures
- April 2014 Events
- What happened to Tombstone Judge Wells Spicer?
- Rambles Through the Nebraska Panhandle
- Following North Dakota’s Sheyenne River
- Bozeman Trail
- Thomas Brent Smith
- Rediscovering the Mandan’s Heart of the World
- Race, Rodeo and the West
- Huber’s Café
- Saving Madam Jennie’s Place
- Living for the Dream in Your Heart
- Were Freemasons prevalent in the Old West?
- Thomas Eidson’s book, adapted as The Missing, features a torture scene where Apaches sew a man into an animal skin and put it over a fire. The animal skin shrinks and suffocates the man inside. Did Indians really do that?
- Who was the greatest of the bank and train robbers?
- Did Wyatt Earp ever drive or own a car?
- On the California Trail: Salt Lake City to Sacramento
- Timothy O’Sullivan
- JUSTIFIED: SEASON FOUR
- True Westerner of 2014
- The First Lincoln County War