Davy Crockett became one of America’s first celebrities, as Michael Wallis impressively demonstrates in David Crockett: The Lion of the West. With a...
David Crockett: The Lion of the West
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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...
Captain John R. Hughes: Lone Star Ranger
The Texas Rangers have more to offer than just Jack Hays. A ranger who continued his tradition in the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries was John...
Kit Carson: The Life of an American Border Man
Two schools of thought exist on mountain man Kit Carson. He was either one of the great scout/explorers in American history, or he tried to wipe out...
The Last Gunfight
Fresh off his acclaimed bio of Bonnie and Clyde, Jeff Guinn turns his attention to the Old West. The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout...
Guidebooks to Tombstone
When reviewing travel guide books, Samuel Johnson’s quote often comes to mind: “Every writer of travels should consider that...he undertakes either...
Sweetgrass Mornings
The backcountry smells fatalistic in Sweetgrass Mornings, the memoirs—sprinkled with some tall tales—of Slim Randles, a veteran outdoorsman who has...
Law of the Gun
The gunfighter is one of the most famous archetypes in Western literature, and his killing eyes and vengeful heart have been humanized by the...
Best of the West 2010: New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri
If you’re looking for storytelling that focuses solely on the current struggles and triumphs of the contemporary American West, James Thomas and...
Roundup!
Four storyteller collections came out in 2010 that are deserving of mention as we embark on a new year that will hopefully be a fruitful one for...
The Frontier of Leisure
Southern California did indeed offer up a “frontier of leisure” after the U.S.-Mexican War. Yet nothing could be so antithetical to sharing this...
Old Yellowstone Days
We could not imagine anyone visiting Yellowstone National Park without first reading Paul Schullery’s book. More than 30 years ago, former park...