A companion to her public television series Equitrekking, Darley Newman’s book takes you to more than a dozen of the world’s best riding...
Equitrekking: Travel Adventures on Horseback (Nonfiction)
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Boots, Buckles & Spurs
All cowboys have boots and spurs, but buckles says rodeo, and that’s what this musical collection is about. The set honors 50 years of the National...
Lost Architecture of the Rio Grande Borderlands (Nonfiction)
In 1953, twelve Spanish Colonial-period settlements were inundated by Falcon Reservoir’s rising waters—the U.S. and Mexican government’s effort to...
Myth of the Hanging Tree (Nonfiction)
Trials by “Judge Lynch” were euphemisms for mob vengeance from colonial America to the frontier West. This scholarly study analyzes the documented...
A Passion for Nature The Life of John Muir (Nonfiction)
To write this excellent biography of John Muir, Donald Worster zealously ransacked the letters and journals of the great, self-taught naturalist....
Oklahoma Rough Rider (Nonfiction)
Never heard of Billy McGinty? Most of us haven’t, but this guy did everything. He was an Oklahoma cowboy, a Roosevelt Rough Rider, a performer with...
A Priest, a Prostitute & Some Other Early Texans (Nonfiction)
Don Blevins often ferrets out the quirky elements in history, and he has just added another gem to his fine works on Texas history. The subjects...
Sagebrush and Paintbrush (Children’s Book)
Ages 6-13: Although born into a well-to-do Missouri mining family, Charles Russell (1864-1926) wanted to live the Western dream. At 16, he dropped...
From a Distance (Fiction)
In this Christian Romance, 33-year-old Elizabeth Westbrook moves from her home in Washington D.C. to Colorado Territory where she hopes to make a...
Ride the Desperate Trail (Fiction)
The Western frontier was a cruel stretch of lonesome land where fate sometimes struck like a sidewinder. Ex-Missouri slave Free Anderson and his...
Adelsverein: The Gathering (Fiction)
This novel is the first of a trilogy focusing on the 1836-53 migration of German people from the Old Country to the Texas wilderness. Thousands...
The Long Knives are Crying (Fiction)
Summoned by the visionary Sitting Bull to the Sioux summer rendezvous on the Little Bighorn River (Greasy Grass), a medicine man shares his vision...