Treasures of the National Parks: Yesterday & Today (Golden Valley Press, $45) is a feast for the eyes. Paul Horsted takes you on a journey to...
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Mexican Revolutionary
With shelves upon shelves of books about the Mexican Revolution in both Spanish and English, it would seem that one more would be unnecessary. But,...
The End of the West
Since 1988, when award-winning author Richard White published his first volume of history, The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and...
Eternal Texas Rangers
The history of the Texas Rangers is the story of real people surrounded by the legends and the legacies of that historic organization. In Texas...
Legendary Westerners
Blood Brothers: The Story of the Strange Friendship Between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill by Deanne Stillman (Simon and Schuster, $27) explores the...
Haycox: A Literary History
Ernest Haycox died in 1950, but he continues to cast a long shadow over Western fiction. In Ernest Haycox and the Western (University Press of...
From the Frontier’s Frontlines
Ordered West: The Civil War Exploits of Charles A. Curtis, edited by Alan and Donald Gaff (University of North Texas Press, $39.95), is a long...
Silver Screen Icons
Scott Eyman’s Hank & Jim: The Fifty-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart (Simon & Schuster, $29) is a sensitive, deeply...
For the Love of the Book
"Where Words and Imagination Come to Life” is the theme of the 10th annual Tucson Festival of Books, which will be held Saturday and Sunday, March...
Man of War and Peace
A century and a half ago, Civil War hero General Ulysses S. Grant was fated to become the Republican nominee for president of the United States....
A Ghost for the Ages
If the old adage that one picture is worth a thousand words is true, then Nicolas Clapp’s Bodie: Good Times & Bad with photography by Will...
An Empirical Tejano
Despite his negative reputation as an inhumane military leader of Texas and Mexico’s northern provinces, the infamous Don Joaquin Arredondo...