Grand Master mystery novelist James Lee Burke is known best for his popular Dave Robicheaux series (20, to date), but the Houston, Texas, native...
House of the Rising Sun – A Blood Red Sun
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Stuart Rosebrook
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...
Lone Star Chili
With the National Football League’s Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers ready to square off against each other for the Lombardi Trophy in Super...
An American Classic
In recent years, the University Press of Mississippi has established itself as a publishing leader in cinema biography with its Hollywood Legends...
City of Angels, City of Vice
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...
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...