Kansas native Marcia Lawrence recently published Spirit of the Prairie: The History of the Making of the Medicine Lodge Indian Peace Treaty Pageant...
Spirit of the Prairie Celebrated
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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...
Wild West Debut Novel
Five Star Publishing has just published Tennessee author Rusty Davis’s first Western novel Wyoming Showdown. Davis, who has spent most of his career...
Sweet Spot: Pie Town, New Mexico
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...