This book has been around for almost 40 years, and its reputation is well-deserved. It explores the history of the future trading center of Taos in...
THE TAOS TRAPPERS: The Fur Trade in the Far Southwest, 1540-1846
read more
Chuck Lewis
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...
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...
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...
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...
Murder in Tombstone: The Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp
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...
The Protestant Clergy in the Great Plains and Mountain West, 1865-1915
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...