Louis L’Amour, best known for his popular frontier novels and stories, was a tireless reader of great literature and eventually had a personal...
Louis L’Amour, A Memoir (Nonfiction)
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Cynthia Green
Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War
Ages 9-12: Luke and Jenny Bartlett are vacationing in Lincoln, New Mexico, with their mom while Dad is on duty in Iraq. Suddenly, the ghost of a...
Inventing the Fiesta City (Nonfiction)
What is the corazón (heart) of San Antonio as reflected in the April citywide festival called Fiesta? Like so much of Southwestern culture, the...
Frontier Justice in the Wild West
If you have a taste for the gruesome side of frontier life, then this is the book for you. From 1854 to 1910, more than 1,000 men and two women were...
New indians, Old Wars
Cook-Lynn, a professor of Native American Studies and a Crow Creek Sioux, says it is time for Native American Studies to leave behind the myths of...
Legacy of the Tetons: Homesteading in Jackson Hole
In the story of Mormon Row near Jackson Hole, Wyoming, all of the classic Western settlers’ tribulations played havoc on the May and Moulton...
Sometimes The Blues
Susan Clardy discovered her great grandfather’s carefully preserved letters and diaries in a trunk in her parents’ attic. Frank Hammon was an...
The Great Houses of Chaco
Chaco is a majestic ancient city in the forbidding landscape of northwest New Mexico. The ruins are famous for the five-story stone houses built...
The Great Houses of Chaco
Chaco is a majestic ancient city in the forbidding landscape of northwest New Mexico. The ruins are famous for the five-story stone houses built...
The Year the Stars Fell
The Lakota Sioux kept track of their past through an annual pictorial “Winter Count.” For more than 11 centuries, tribal historians drew the single...
The Year the Stars Fell
The Lakota Sioux kept track of their past through an annual pictorial “Winter Count.” For more than 11 centuries, tribal historians drew the single...
Wild Ride
The rodeo, from a Spanish word meaning “gather together,” began with arguments between cowpokes about who was best at what. In the 20th century, it...