A flurry of top-notch beautiful Western art and photography books published this fall are perfect for the gift-giving holiday season. I recommend...
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Stuart Rosebrook
1776: A Continental Revolution
As the American colonists made their Declaration of Independence from the British monarchy on July 4, 1776, a chain reaction of political events...
The Last Shootist: A Classic Tale of the Wild West
Author Miles Swarthout’s The Last Shootist (Forge Books, $24.99), a much-anticipated sequel to his father Glendon Swarthout’s best-selling novel The...
Rough Drafts 11/14
“Where does the West begin or end?” Dr. Albert L. Hurtado asked rhetorically in my graduate seminar on the West at Arizona State University. Is...
Masters of Western Art
Western historical art has two great masters to whom all later artists are compared: Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell. The peers have their...
Rough Drafts 10/14
As summer turns to fall, my memories of the annual June gathering of Western Writers of America inspire me every day. A highlight of the conference...
The Sundance Kid Rides Again — in New York City!
If you were a boy growing up watching Westerns in the 1960s and 1970s, you either wanted to be Butch Cassidy or the Sundance Kid after Paul Newman...
The Gilded General’s Eternal March West
Robert O’Connell’s brilliant biography, Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman (Random House, $28), is a well-researched...
Gritty Realism Inspires Western Author Michael Zimmer’s Love of the West
Author Michael Zimmer was raised in Colorado, where he learned to break horses at a young age. Later, after his family moved to Indiana, he dreamt...
Rough Drafts 9/14
Looking for love? A romantic at heart? How about an Old West Romance!? As editor of the Western Books Department, I am fortunate to receive advance...
Rough Drafts 8/14
The summer is heating up and publishers are beginning to release news on their fall catalogs. One book I’ve been looking forward to is Max Evans...
Robert E. Lee’s Legacy East and West
As the United States commemorates the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, historians have had an opportunity to revisit the legacy and lives of...