One of a new generation of Texas historians, Glen Sample Ely takes up his literary bowie knife and slices Texas into two different states in Where...
Where the West Begins
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The Golden West: Fifty Years of Bison Books
In 1961 Bison Books blazed a paperback trail to some of the best stories about Nebraska and the Great Plains. Mari Sandoz’s Old Jules led a prairie...
West of Here
West of Here, by Jonathan Evison, is a five-generation saga that begins with the arrival of 1890s idea man Ethan Thornburgh at the fishing village...
The Indian Agent
Months after Crazy Horse’s savage death, Gen. Crook can’t agree with the implacable Chief Red Cloud over where the Sioux can settle. When Crook and...
The Contract Surgeon
Newly fledged contract surgeon Valentine McGillycuddy encounters a young Sioux the summer of 1873 and they, somehow, swear a lifetime friendship....
Mission Creek
Frank Bonham’s Mission Creek is a powerful example of his diverse storytelling. “Rodeo Killer” has a high-hearted horse running for the ranch...
Cattle King for a Day
If ever a young cowhand needs both luck and grit it’s Chinook Shannon in L. Ron Hubbard’s Cattle King for a Day. With just 24 hours to kill a...
Ghost Town Travelogues
In 1938, teenager Phil Varney moved with his folks from the flatlands of Illinois to the deserts of Arizona. He’d never seen mountains shouldering...
I’m the Man You Thought You Killed
John Davis, his current alias, is like no other Westerner in fact or fiction. San Francisco strumpet salesman, con man and killer for hire, he uses...
Weird West
Lost States (Quirk Books, $29.95), by Michael J. Trinklein, points out that 50 is a nice round number for the U.S., then goes on to list 70 wannabe...
Weird West
Lost States (Quirk Books, $29.95), by Michael J. Trinklein, points out that 50 is a nice round number for the U.S., then goes on to list 70 wannabe...
A New Comanche Hero
Johnny D. Boggs continues to give us some of the best Westerns of his career. He hits the readers’ interest dead center with two fast-paced, but...