Anyone who has traveled U.S. Highway 60 across western New Mexico has passed through a town with a name easy to remember—Pie Town. The University of...
West Texas in the Rain Shadow
Texas Tech University Press has recently published West Texas author Joyce Gibson Roach new collection of short stories The Land of Rain Shadows:...
Illuminating the Past
As book review editor at True West magazine, I receive hundreds of books a year from the largest publishers to the first time author. Every book has...
The First Frontier
Any book that challenges the idea of frontier, and the traditional idea of the “American Western Frontier,” I am drawn to because I believe it gives...
Elmore Leonard Rides Again
For fans of Elmore Leonard, William Morrow has published a collection of the Michigan author’s short stories Charlie Martz and Other Stories: The...
The Hero’s Tragedy
Texas Christian University Press continues to be a publishing leader in creative Western fiction, with Gerald Duff’s innovative novel Playing Custer...
History of the Mullan Road
The Mullan Road: Carving a Passage through the Frontier Northwest, 1859-62, edited by Paul D. McDermott, Ronald E. Grim, and Philip Mobley (Mountain...
Water and the West
With droughts, floods and fire headlining the news across the West this past year, TwoDot’s publication of The Great Divide, a companion book to the...
Blood Brothers
The loneliness of greedy hide hunters, the courage of desperate men under attack and the anguish of a vanquished people fighting for their freedom...
Louis L’Amour’s West
The Wild West of Louis L’Amour: An Illustrated Companion to the Frontier Fiction of an American Icon by Tim Champlin (Voyageur Press, $30) is a...
Memories of the Duke
The Western icon and film hero John Wayne is the star of Michael Goldman’s tribute John Wayne: The Genuine Article: The Untold Story of an American...
Taste of the West
True West magazine’s “Frontier Fare” columnist and Western Writers of America President Sherry Monahan has recently published The Cowboy’s Cookbook:...