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...
In the Lens of History
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Stuart Rosebrook
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...
Two-Lane Blacktops and Red Dirt Highways
Pack your bags and head West for adventures filled with fun and history. Road tripping across the West has come a long way from the...
Expanding Horizon
Elliott West’s Continental Reckoning, plus a Texas Ranger history, a dual biography of Cody and Hickok, a novel of the Mississippi frontier and a...
East vs. West
H.W. Brand’s major new dual biography of Geronimo and Sherman, plus a new history of Western prostitution, a pair of classic Westerns and a new...
The Rascal Highwayman
John Boessenecker’s new biography of Black Bart, plus three new history-travel books, a Southern Plains adventure and a collection of rip-roaring...
Battle for the New World
A bold, new interpretation of the conquest of North America, plus two new books on Western borders, a biography of King Fisher and a classic Western...
Best of the West 2023: Western Books
The Hero’s Journey The heroic efforts of the men and women who write and publish about the West must be celebrated. This year will mark the...
True Westerner of the Year: Candy Moulton
Wyoming's Best: Candy Moulton I first met Candy Moulton in person at the Tucson Festival of Books in March 2014. As senior editor at True...
Best of the West 2023
At 70 years old, we pause, reflect and celebrate the grand milestone. In 1953, Austin, Texas, publisher Joe A. Small launched True West...