She was the first white child born in the rugged isolated area of northwest Colorado known as Browns Park. It was here t…
Kill the Indian (Five Star, $25.95)
In this latest installment of Boggs’s Killstraight series, Kill the Indian, Daniel Killstraight heads to Texas where he …
West From Salt Lake (Arthur H. Clark Company, $34.95)
For those interested in the history of Westward migration, West from Salt Lake is a must read. The history of the Centra…
The Lonely Road Louis Kraft turns out the first biography on Ned Wynkoop, the investigator of the November 1864 Sand Creek Massacre.
Kraft walks the reader over the dusty trails with Wynkoop to the point that the reader gets to know Wynkoop’s most int…
Quantrill at Lawrence: The Untold Story Paul R. Petersen (Pelican Publishing, $26.95)
As with most controversial episodes in American history, two sides exist for this story. What do you think?…
Route 66 Missouri Joe Sonderman (Schiffer Publishing; $24.99)
Joe Sonderman has turned out a nice addition to the annals of Route 66 history. What do you think?…
Pansy’s History Utah State University Press, $32.95
Margaret E.P. Gordon lived a century (1866-1966) and documented the changes and progress she witnessed in her amazing li…
The Case of the Indian Trader University of New Mexico Press, $34.95
In The Case of the Indian Trader, we learn that for more than 40 years, Billy Malone had cultivated a trusting relations…
Aileen & Roy: From Sod House to State House Mary Cochran Grimes (University of Nebraska Press, $17.95)
Mary Grimes recounts the remarkable lives of her parents in great detail. What do you think?…
Hell on the Range Daniel Justin Herman (Yale University Press, $45)
If anything, Daniel Herman’s treatment of the Rim Country War in 1880s Arizona is thought provoking (most of you know it…