Los Angeles is my hometown. As a writer and historian for many years, I have come to believe that L.A. is “the West’s most Western city.” Yale...
City of Angels, City of Vice
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Stuart Rosebrook
Best of the West 2016: Western Wear
By the time Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led the Corps of Discovery across North America from 1804 to 1806, the British, French and Spanish...
Youthful Tales from the Overland Trails
Montana historian Mary Barmeyer O’Brien’s latest book on Western frontier history The Promise of the West: Young Pioneers on the Overland Trails...
Best of the West 2016: Western Books
The original hero of publishing, Johannes Gutenberg would be amazed at the state of books in 2015…and I dare say he would love it. Despite cries...
An Englishman’s Extraordinary Adventures
Western archivist, author and editor Kellen Cutsforth has just published one of the most dramatic, lost manuscripts of a youthful Englishman Evelyn...
Lost Tales of the Frontier
Utah author Rod Miller latest book The Lost Frontier: Momentous Moments in the Old West You May Have Missed (TwoDot, $18.95) is a fun, action-packed...
Spirit of the Prairie Celebrated
Kansas native Marcia Lawrence recently published Spirit of the Prairie: The History of the Making of the Medicine Lodge Indian Peace Treaty Pageant...
Seven Still Magnificent
Scottish author and columnist for Cinema Retro magazine Brian Hannan has recently published an outstanding, well-illustrated book The Making of the...
Wild, Wild West
Screenwriter and author Lee Martin’s latest novel, The Grant Conspiracy: Wake of the Civil War is ready-made for adaptation for the silver-screen or...
Epitaph for the Living and the Dead
California author Chris Enss’ latest from TwoDot publishing, More Tales Behind the Tombstones: More Deaths and Burials of the Old West’s Most...
My Name is Custer: We are Many
In his seminal 1950 work, Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth, Henry Nash Smith wrote, “The literary development of the Wild Western...
Treasures of the Black Range
A new, beautiful book about the search for lost Spanish gold—and all the danger, intrigue, adrenaline and obsession that lies therein—has just been...