Even those who have never dipped a paddle in fast water are likely to know of John Wesley Powell, the one-armed Civil War veteran who explored the...
Running the River of Truth
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Max McCoy
Haycox: A Literary History
Ernest Haycox died in 1950, but he continues to cast a long shadow over Western fiction. In Ernest Haycox and the Western (University Press of...
The Tombstone Mystique
What’s it mean to market authenticity? That’s the question Kara McCormack, a postdoctoral teaching fellow in the Thinking Matters Program at...
The “Apocryphal Cantos” of Walter Noble Burns
Eighty-three years after Walter Noble Burns’ death comes Mark J. Dworkin’s American Mythmaker, the first literary biography of the Chicago...
Revisiting Classic Western Fiction
Spend some time with the new edition of Loren D. Estleman’s The Wister Trace: Assaying Classic Western Fiction, Second Edition, and you’ll remember...
Living for the Dream in Your Heart
Victor Carl Friesen is the kind of scholarly guy you’d like to have a beer with and talk Westerns. In his study Zane Grey’s Wild West: A Study of 31...