Western history and fiction publishers have had an outstanding year across all genres and categories. With the growth in…
Lone Star Legacy An epic generational tale of Texas and the Southwest reflects on the violent border region.
Four years after Philipp Meyer’s multi-generational Texas novel, The Son, was published, and subsequently developed by t…
They Headed Them North Review of Gary and Margaret Kraisinger's The Shawnee-Arbuckle Cattle Trail 1867-1870.
With communities from South Texas to Kansas celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Chisholm Trail in 2017, The Shawnee…
Western Legend Review of Doug Hocking's story Tom Jeffords: Friend of Cochise
Following the 16th-century Spanish entrada into the future states of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, centuries of war and…
Beeves, Barons, and Barbed Wire Cattle Kingdom charts the international phenomenon in the post-Civil War U.S. that changed the world.
In 2017, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas towns are celebrating the sesquicentennial of the first cattle drives on the Chishol…
Western Adventure Review of The Last Wild Ride by Lee Martin.
Lee Martins’ The Last Wild Ride (CreateSpace, $7.35) tells the story of Sam Jefferies, a rugged cowboy carrying a death…
A Lyrical History of the West The Hell-Bound Train: A Cowboy Song Book by Glenn Ohrlin
Sure ’nuff cowboy songs and stories from a sure ’nuff cowboy—does it get any better than that? Edited by Charles Seeman,…
‘Never Take No Cutoffs’ A retelling of the Donner Party’s eternal humanity, as well as histories of Western man hunters, army frontier bands and cowboy music, and a rollicking frontier adventure.
Roman slave and poet-playwright Terence famously wrote in his 163 B.C. play Heauton Timorumenos, “Homo sum, humani nihi…
Kill or Be Killed Jeff Guinn’s trilogy dramatically concludes in Silver City, while new perspectives on the Civil War in the Southwest are revealed, an old-fashioned Western entertains, an Indian murder begets the FBI, and a saga of love and hope across the West inspires.
Since Owen Wister published The Virginian in 1902 and Zane Grey published The Last of the Plainsman in 1908, Western aut…
A Trail of Vengeance A new biography of Chief Joseph and General O.O. Howard, also, an adventure in the Sierras, a history of Texas cavalry, a wild Western and a tale of revenge.
Few conflicts between the United States government and tribes of the Western United States in the 19th century have crea…