Ex-cop Michael McGarrity is known for his police procedural mysteries featuring Santa Fe police chief Kevin Kerney (Tularosa, Dead or Alive)....
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Route 66: Lost & Found
The famous Mother Road pathway lingers in our memories, and Russell A. Olsen highlights its charms in Route 66: Lost & Found (Voyageur Press,...
Cleaving an Unknown World
By 1869, Lewis & Clark, trappers, U.S. Army surveyors and pioneer emigrants had pretty much explored most of the continental United States, but...
The Great Plains Guide to Custer
When folks ask me about the goals I have as the U.S. Congress’s “Foremost Custer Living Historian,” I tell them that, in addition to reading the...
Our Favorite Reads of 2011
True West editors weigh in on our favorite reads. BIOGRAPHIES THE KILLING OF CRAZY HORSEBy Thomas Powers (Knopf/Vintage)The shadowy warrior of...
JOHNNY D. BOGGS
Spur and Wrangler award-winning author of 40 books. His novel, Kill the Indian, will be out in June. The Best Western I Saw:Was undoubtedly...
EASTWOOD ON EASTWOOD
Michael Henry Wilson is the author of Eastwood on Eastwood, which shares his interviews with Clint about his directorial work, from 1971’s Play...
Pulp Fiction
From the time of his birth in windswept Tilden, Nebraska, on March 11, 1911, L. Ron Hubbard wandered through a West criss-crossed by his parents,...
Quanah Parker Rides Again
All Sam Gwynne wanted to do was write a book about the American West, specifically about Quanah Parker and the Comanches. “I would have been happy...
The TopTen Must-Have Books On Arizona History
Your must-have books on Arizona history! 1. Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman by Martha Summerhayes Written by...
Arizona: Celebration of the Grand Canyon State
The Maynard Dixon cover is not the only reason to love this new Arizona book. Jim Turner’s family moved to Tucson, Arizona, in 1951, to cure his...
Spur-Winning Novelists—Blue Heaven
Buffalo Bill’s stock packer, young Fenton Pardee, sometimes wonders if Cody’s Wild West show’s rough riding, sharpshooting and scally-hooting...