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...
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Lighting Out for the Territory
In July 1861, 25-year-old Sam Clemens left Missouri with his brother to head to the West. He wasn’t necessarily avoiding the Civil War, but he was...
Lighting Out for the Territory
In July 1861, 25-year-old Sam Clemens left Missouri with his brother to head to the West. He wasn’t necessarily avoiding the Civil War, but he was...
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...
Wildwood Stables
Grades 3-7: No matter how much classmates tease her, nothing interests eighth-grader Taylor Henry as much as horses. In Daring to Dream, when a...
Blue-Eyed Devil
Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are back after their wild ride in Appaloosa in Robert Parker’s Blue-Eyed Devil. This time they are on the wrong side...
Under the Diehard Brand
Beginning in the 1930s, L. Ron Hubbard was among the most popular pulp fiction writers of his generation. Now his entertaining stories are being...
Deep Creek
DEEP CREEK: Deftly written by co-authors using the pen name Dana Hand, Deep Creek is a Western Mystery Thriller based on actual events. In 1877,...
Ride for Rule Cordell
Cotton Smith’s Ride for Rule Cordell rings with the clash of justice against Texas’s greatest land grab. England’s Lady Holt orders her gunslicks to...
Alias Soapy Smith
Alias Soapy Smith by Jeff Smith is a massive biography of a notorious outlaw of Denver, Colorado, and Skagway, Alaska. The author’s zeal is...
In Trace of TR: A Montana Hunter’s Journey
Another man who sacrificed for his country was Theodore Roosevelt. The admiration for Roosevelt, Montana hunting and all things outdoors is evident...
Ozarks Gunfights and Other Notorious Incidents
Nowhere was the Civil War fought more bitterly with its guerrilla raids and counter raids than in the turbulent Ozarks region. Yet war’s end brought...