Searching for the West, real and imagined, is a theme of our authors and contributors this month. One of the best ways to experience the West is through the observations of today’s generation of chroniclers. One such writer, Evan Connell Jr., died in Santa Fe on January 10. Allen Barra, who shares with us his favorite biographies in “Building Your Western Library,” highly recommends starting any journey to the Little Bighorn Battlefield by reading Connell’s classic on Custer, Son of


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