The Texas Rangers earned the condemnatory nickname Los Diablos Tejanos (the Texas Devils) during the Mexican-American War because of their brutality...
Ages 3 to 10: This picture book was inspired by the real Mary Ann Goodnight, a settler in Palo Duro Canyon, Texas, during the senseless massacres of...
This Christian Romance is a light-hearted spoof featuring Essie Speckelmeyer, a 35-year-old Texas spinster doggedly avoiding marriage until Mr....
In the 1820’s, liberty sweeps from Europe to the New World. Bolivia frees Venezuela, while others try toppling Mexico’s Castilian rulers. These...
When a dead woman drops out of the sky over Albuquerque, New Mexico, during an annual balloon festival, private eye Sonny Baca hits the trail. He...
The reader trailing this trio of Westerners—a cavalry lieutenant, a part-time marshal and a tenderfoot preacher—will find vivid examples of the true...
I don’t know know which I admire more: the woman’s incredible artistic talent, or her amazing life story. Through the author’s research, it’s fair...
At the turn of the last century, when women could hardly achieve advanced degrees much less become professors, 10 prolific female scholars changed...
It is a stretch to call Isaias Hellman the creator of modern California, as the author (a descendant) does, but the Los Angeles banker did have much...
Teachers were the female trailblazers of the West, yet they often are overlooked. Thanks to Chris Enss, who once again breaks new ground in the...
Our criminal justice system—and how it evolved on the frontier—is often overlooked in many histories of the West. In this volume, Bill Neal cleverly...
This is a heavily-annotated Ph.D dissertation transformed into a readable history. The book is really the story of the Arizona-Sonora border....