Davy Crockett became one of America’s first celebrities, as Michael Wallis impressively demonstrates in David Crockett: The Lion of the West. With a...
David Crockett: The Lion of the West
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Bloody Bill Longley
Rick Miller’s Bloody Bill Longley peels away the folklore encasing a once-notorious Texas outlaw. More cowardly braggart than badman, Longley...
Captain John R. Hughes: Lone Star Ranger
The Texas Rangers have more to offer than just Jack Hays. A ranger who continued his tradition in the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries was John...
In the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark
In the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark, by Wallace G. Lewis, is not just another title in the flood of books about the Lewis and Clark expedition....
Four Years in Europe With Buffalo Bill
Charles Eldridge Griffin’s memoir, Four Years in Europe With Buffalo Bill, makes an interesting sidebar to the biography of William F. Cody and the...
Legal Executions in the Western Territories, 1847-1911
Legal Executions in the Western Territories, 1847-1911, is a wonderful encyclopedic reference—a must for libraries and scholars interested in the...
Alias Soapy Smith
Alias Soapy Smith by Jeff Smith is a massive biography of a notorious outlaw of Denver, Colorado, and Skagway, Alaska. The author’s zeal is...
In Their Own Words
Although derided by some egghead professors as “Cowboys and Indians, 101,” the Western Americana field of history is, actually, remarkably rich and...
Illustrating Wounded Knee
The gorgeous, oversized and extra-extra illustrated Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: The Illustrated Edition is a new edition of Dee Brown’s...
Time of the Rangers
Much history and legend of the Lone Star State involves the Texas Rangers. Mike Cox’s Time of the Rangers powerfully carries forward their story...
Sacred Memories
Texas is part of the South as well as the Rangers’ West. Sacred Memories is Kelly McMichael’s guide to Confederate statues on Lone Star courthouse...
Ten Deadly Texans
In Ten Deadly Texans, Lawrence Yadon, Don Anderson and Robert Barr Smith discuss the meanest hombres to encounter Rangers. Among them are Cullen...