Duane Smith is the finest mining historian and writer I personally know. With this new book, that is both a blessing and a curse. The book is...
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Linda Wommack
The Doctor Wore Petticoats (Nonfiction)
The Western frontier, dominated by the male gender, did not take kindly to female physicians. Yet, most female doctors succeeded despite the overall...
The Natural Superiority of Mules
As such books go, this is not your average miners’ mule rendition. This coffee table-size picture book has the greatest photography I have ever...
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
Three authors offer separate stories of finding love in the Old West, all with the leading role being a female. The first story is of a young...
The Conquest of Texas: Ethic Cleansing in the Promised Land
Anderson, professor of history at the University of Oklahoma, specializes in Indian history. His research is astounding, abundant and detailed....
Pot Luck
This publisher has compiled and nicely packaged five of Bennett Foster’s short stories written in the 1940s. Each story has a stand-alone quality...
Colorado’s Pioneer Cemeteries
A bustling sensation of the Westward Movement rumbled from the Plains to the very Rocky Mountains that held a man’s dream. The original gold strike...
COLORADO’S JAPANESE AMERICANS: FROM 1886 TO THE PRESENT
Colorado’s storied past has more than a few stained pages. One such stain is the Japanese concentration camp in Amache. During WWII, Colorado Gov....
OUTLAW’S BRAT
The author, who has written several books under different pen names, once again provides a decent Western romance. After running from her troubled...
CHASING THE RODEO
I just love this type of history! What a read! Cowboys are the icon of Western Americana, and rodeos are pure Cowboy ropin’, stompin’, buckin’...
SNAKE DANCE
Originally published in the 1930s as Lady Grace’s Crossing, this new release retitled Snake Dance still holds up some 70 years later. With this...
TO SAVE THE WILD BISON
I had no idea. I mean, anyone who knows American history is aware of the important and symbolic role the buffalo played in both the white and Indian...