Roads and highways, from the Appian Way to Route 66, have been romanticized and mythologized through the eras, celebrated as both feats of...
Road to Destiny
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Stuart Rosebrook
A Legendary Life
The mythic history of the American West is veiled in the mysterious mists of time like the fog-shrouded British legends of King Arthur, Beowulf and...
The Boundless West
Someone once said, “Shakespeare has tragedies, the rest of us just have messes.” Fortunately for President Thomas Jefferson, his vision of a...
Imagine No Cowboys
Branding the American West: Paintings and Film, 1900-1950 (University of Oklahoma Press, $39.95), edited by Marian Wardle and Sarah E. Boehme, is a...
Trails to Independence
The American West’s awe-inspiring vistas—the seemingly endless prairies of the Great Plains, the great wall of snowcapped granite peaks of the Rocky...
The Wind and the Darkness
In the Bible’s Book of Revelation, John the Apostle prophesizes the coming of the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse: Conquest, War, Famine and Death. ...
A Hero’s Tale
A century ago, the modern weaponry carried by the European armed forces of World War I killed thousands of young men on a daily basis. The carnage...
Back to the Future with J. Frank Dobie
When the directors of the University of Texas Press decided to reissue eight J. Frank Dobie classics from its catalog two years ago, a discussion...
House of the Rising Sun – A Blood Red Sun
Grand Master mystery novelist James Lee Burke is known best for his popular Dave Robicheaux series (20, to date), but the Houston, Texas, native...
The Eternal Custer
As a book reviewer and editor of Western Books for True West magazine, I am truly amazed the formidable fascination of publisher’s with the life of...
Five Western Favorites
As my mailbox is filling up with publishers’ spring catalogues, and my list of must reads for 2016 grows ever longer, I scan book shelf space...
The Odyssey of A Westerner
Since the earliest decades of Western settlements, authors have celebrated and iconized archetypal American heroes of the frontier. From Daniel...