Yellowstone, Land of Wonders: Promenade in North America’s National Park, by Jules Leclercq, is a description of Yellowstone National Park as of...
Wonders of Yellowstone
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Richard H. Dillon
The Chinatown War
Hatred, especially racial hatred, was, like greed, a powerful force in the West of 1871. Scott Zesch reminds us in The Chinatown War of a massacre...
Romance Maker
For the first time, one book has managed to provide a comprehensive survey of watercolor works by master artist Charles M. Russell. Even more...
Bonanzas & Borrascas
Alas, book reviewers do not swear an oath of truthfulness. Many misuse adjectives such as “classic.” But Bonanzas & Borrascas (Arthur H. Clark...
Rawhide Ranger, Ira Aten
In his interesting biography on Ira Aten, Bob Alexander meticulously re-creates the career of the Texas Ranger from his enlistment in the Frontier...
National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s Wrangler Winners
Western Heritage, edited by Paul Andrew Hutton (University of Oklahoma Press, $19.95), is an excellent selection of prize-winning magazine articles...
The Floor of Heaven
Edgar award-winning historian Howard Blum’s The Floor of Heaven reads like a novel and has the scent of a best seller and future screenplay. His...
Texas Lawmen, 1835-1899
Texas Lawmen, 1835-1899, by Clifford R. Caldwell and Ron DeLord (History Press, $29.99), focuses on the 800 or so Texas lawmen (“good and bad”) who...
Great Sioux War Orders of Battle
In his Great Sioux War Orders of Battle, Paul Hedren closely examines the Army’s 28 deployments in the 1876-77 Great Sioux War. He finds that...
The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek
Richard Kluger re-creates the 1853-54 conflict between whites and Puget Sound Indians in The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek. The little remembered...
The Mormon Rebellion
David L. Bigler and Will Bagley, an excellent team, join up again with The Mormon Rebellion. The coauthors consider the almost bloodless Mormon War...
Child of the Fighting Tenth
If one area of Western Americana comes up short, it is memoirs of “Army brats” in the Old West. Forrestine C. Hooker’s Child of the Fighting Tenth...