Rising from inauspicious beginnings to national and even international fame, only to fall victim to his own hubris and naivete, artist George Catlin...
The Red Man’s Bones
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Rough Drafts 6/13
Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana revealed exciting news at our True Westerner celebration honoring them, on March 9, during Arizona’s Tucson Festival...
Came Men on Horses
We are coming up on the 500-year mark since the glory days of the Spanish conquistadors. It was in 1519 that Hernando Cortés mounted his campaign to...
Rough Drafts 5/13
Word has reached us that Oklahoma’s National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum will bestow its prestigious Western Heritage Award for nonfiction...
Rough Drafts 3/13
It’s hard to believe he’s been gone for a quarter of a century, but this year marks the 25th anniversary of the passing of novelist Louis L’Amour....
Not for the Purists
When it comes to author Thom Hatch’s latest effort, The Last Outlaws: The Lives and Legends of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (New American...
Festival of Books
Ted Danson, Timothy Egan and Jodi Picoult are among the authors who are on tap at Arizona’s Tucson Festival of Books, slated for March 9-10. Your...
Inventive to a Fault the inventor and the tycoon
One was the “man who stopped time.” The other was the man who drove the golden spike. Photographer Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-action...
Object: Matrimony
Billed as an “entertaining look at the serious business of finding a husband or wife by mail-order in the wide-open days of the Old West,” Chris...
Our Favorite Western Reads of 2012
If ever an Old West lawman deserved his due, Bob Paul did. Several have made a run at sharing his story, including Roy Young, who uncovered new...
Custer Saved the Nation
More a study of cultures in collision than an attempt to set records straight or expose new findings about George A. Custer, Larry McMurtry’s Custer...
Rough Drafts 11/12
We’re approaching the end of a landmark year in Western book publishing, and the beginning of another. With so many great projects out there for us...