Rare are authors like Jack London and Papa Hemingway, whose lives turned out to be as interesting as their books. But Zane Grey is another one of...
Zane Grey
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Richard H. Dillon
Scorched Earth
Hidden in this account of Yellowstone’s fires (all of them, not just the terribly destructive “burn” of 1988) is a pretty fair outline-history of...
Guarding the Overland Trails
This view of the Civil War years on the Western plains has as its focus the 11th Ohio Cavalry, commanded by Col. William O. Collins. Casper,...
MORMON RESISTANCE
One of the best bargains in all publishing is the series called Bison Books from the University of Nebraska. These are reprints of important volumes...
Nimrod: Courts, Claims, and Killing on the Oregon Frontier
Readers living in the Pacific Northwest sometimes lament the lack of attention paid to the history of their neck of the woods by writers of Western...
Sunset Limited
So many books have already been written about the Central Pacific, predecessor of the Southern Pacific, that the story of the transcontinental...
The Salish people and the Lewis and Clark Expedition
This book on the Salish Indians of Montana, and their Pend d’Oreille kin, is the result of many hands from the Salish-Pend d’Oreille Cultural...
Down Mexico Way
At 4:20 a.m. on March 9, 1916, the United States was invaded for the first time since the British sacked Washington during the War of 1812. The...
Cowboys Who Rode Proudly
Sure, Midland, Texas, has been practically synonymous with oil in recent years, but we must not forget that even the Permian Basin was cattle...
On a Silver Desert
Winner of a Spur Award from Western Writers of America, this first-ever biography of Ernest Haycox is by his son and namesake. Haycox was probably...
Justice Comes To Nevada
When you think of the far West before statehood, you tend to equate justice with “hemp justice,” Judge Lynch; vigilante stringing up outlaws on the...