Egad! This is an annoying book; half-good and half-bad. Beck does not exactly coat the Santee chief with whitewash, but he asks us to “redeem” him....
Inkpaduta (Nonfiction)
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Princess Monahsetah, the Concealed Wife of General Custer. (Nonfiction)
Anything concerning George Armstrong Custer reeks of the legendary. This book about his alleged child by Monahsetah, a Cheyenne woman taken prisoner...
The Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890 (Nonfiction)
The “mystery” of the ghost dance has been written about for many years. Finally, thanks to impressive research by Andersson, the “mystery” has been...
Uncle Ernie’s Guide to Old Time Rodeo (Nonfiction)
The typesetting is quirky, the illustrations are cartoonish and yet this book is a hoot! A brief history of rodeo events, including bulldogging,...
The Lost Boy: With Penny the Mustang Pony (Children’s Book)
Ages 4-8: This is the fourth story in a picture book series about the wild pony named Penny. The playful mustang and her friend Star discover a...
A Promise For Spring (Fiction)
Emmaline Bradford nervously leaves her home in England and ventures to the Kansas plains into an arranged marriage with a man she hardly remembers....
Zane Grey Western Legends (Fiction)
Thousands of readers have blessed the day Pearl Zane Grey dropped the dental profession to pen memorable Westerns such as the classics in this...
Where Law Ends (Fiction)
Fast with a gun, Montana Territory Sheriff Henry Plummer is the right man for hunting down the road agents swarming the bullion-toting coach lines....
Last Buckaroo (Fiction)
Tap McCoy, an aging buckaroo, tells about his travels from ranch to ranch as he earns his living the cowboy way. With a keen sense of humor and...
Love In an Envelope (Nonfiction)
Imagine the thrill for a professor of Western history to discover a box of letters dating from 1870-72. As Daniel Tyler cautiously opened the...
A Remarkable Curiosity (Nonfiction)
One of the most famous journalists of his day, Amos Jay Cummings wrote firsthand accounts of the Westward movement in 1873. A Forrest Gump of the...
Death of a Gunfighter (Nonfiction)
Rottenberg is to be commended for rescuing Jack Slade from relative obscurity. Slade has, indeed, slipped through the cracks of history and into...