This famed Apache left historians with little written record with which to study his life. Although Dan Thrapp's biography adequately utilizes...
Victorio: Apache Warrior and Chief (Nonfiction)
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Jason Strykowski
Who Killed the Train?
RAILROAD, n. The chief purpose of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are better off. For this purpose the...
Redemption Falls (Fiction)
Joseph O’Connor is ambitious in both scope and style with his winding odyssey of a narrative, but the author’s far-flung goals are so...
Baby Doe Tabor (Nonfiction)
Baby Doe Tabor’s rags-to-riches story deserves its legendary status, but the tall tale has long outweighed the truth in most accounts. Temple...
Charles Lummis’s Coast to Coast Journey
The 26 year old’s decision to walk across the West seemed pure folly to some: “What a picnic those fellows out in the plains will have with the seat...
Off the Reservation, the Range, the Ranch and the Regular
The first place to look for Western art has always been St. Petersburg, Florida. Falling to the ground with so many palm fronds and coconuts are the...
Blackfoot War Art
Less a coffee table book and more a serious scholarly study, Dempsey’s book is still an attractive work filled with plates of striking Blackfoot...
The Gambler and the Bug boy
Pre-WWII Los Angeles is the stuff of legend. Yet, somehow, this fascinating story of gambling and corruption has not yet been told. Fortunately,...
A Tale of Two Governors…
One put him under the ground, the other tried to pull him up, and both left him out to dry. Despite Billy the Kid’s best efforts, and those of his...
A Tale of Two Governors…
One put him under the ground, the other tried to pull him up, and both left him out to dry. Despite Billy the Kid’s best efforts, and those of his...