Films and television shows featuring real working cowboys have made America’s icon famous worldwide since 1894. In America’s first...
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Stuart Rosebrook
Dude or Not a Dude?
Can you spot the real cowboy? Only the photographer knew for sure. Ever since the first camera studio was set up, men and women have posed as their...
The Cowboy
America’s icon still rides tall in the saddle. They call him cowboy, vaquero, buckaroo, waddy, paniolo, saddletramp, wrangler and drover. He...
The Man, The Myth, The Meal
A culinary biography of Buffalo Bill, plus a new bio of Newton Earp, a range-war Western, a classic rediscovered and a dramatic debut Old West...
The Tenacity of the West—and the Western
A year ago, I asked the question: “Will the Western survive?” I was concerned, and rightfully so, with the anti-Western sentiment of many if not...
Voice of the West
A remembrance of Larry McMurtry, a new history of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, a wild Western tale, Apache boarding schools and a new collection...
Big Sky Dreaming
Thomas Minckler’s masterpiece, plus a biography of Patton, a Western love story, a guide to guns and a grand collection of Western short stories....
Brave and True
Just in time for great summer reading, Tom Clavin’s latest Western history, Follow Me to Hell: McNelly’s Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier...
In the Lens of History
A century ago, the state of Montana was still one of the youngest states. The Rocky Mountain and Great Plains state received its star on Old...
Pack Your Bags and Pack a Book…or Two or Three or More!
Travel and books go together like summer and sunshine, and the publishers of Western history and fiction have recently released a great catalog of...
A Season of Destiny and Infamy
Chris Wimmer’s The Summer of 1876, plus a revised biography of Sitting Bull, an ode to Billy, a classic Western and a new compendium on Spain’s...
Did the Devil Make Me Do It?
Manifest Destiny, westward expansion and the California gold rush were fertile topics for humorists and satirists of the 1840s and 1850s. “A man...