Wheeler excels again, with his 1892 tale of New York editor John Fellowes Hall digging for yarns at a two-fisted gold camp in Butte, Montana. He...
Spur-Winning Novelists—The Richest Hill on Earth
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Yuma Gold
In 1904 Ben Ruby walks from the Yuma Territorial Prison after doing eight years on the false testimony of his crooked boss, L.J. Gorum. Ruby carries...
Death Waits at Sundown
Hubbard’s trio has one thing in common—rough and tumble action with a twist, and all are a great read. In Death Waits at Sundown, Texas gunfighter...
Out of Control
In Colorado Territory, 1866, a handsome young rancher discovers a beautiful young woman trapped inside a cave on his property. He rescues her, and,...
The Lonely Road
Kraft walks the reader over the dusty trails with Wynkoop to the point that the reader gets to know Wynkoop’s most intimate activities as he...
Hearts Aglow
In Hearts Aglow, by Tracie Peterson, Deborah Vandermark lives in Texas after the Civil War. Interested in becoming a physician, she studies with the...
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...
Doc
Fiction requires a suspension of disbelief, and history buffs will have to do a lot of suspending with Mary Doria Russell’s Doc. What is this need...
Child of the Fighting Tenth
If one area of Western Americana comes up short, it is memoirs of “Army brats” in the Old West. Forrestine C. Hooker’s Child of the Fighting Tenth...
David Crockett: The Lion of the West
Davy Crockett became one of America’s first celebrities, as Michael Wallis impressively demonstrates in David Crockett: The Lion of the West. With a...
Bloody Bill Longley
Rick Miller’s Bloody Bill Longley peels away the folklore encasing a once-notorious Texas outlaw. More cowardly braggart than badman, Longley...