Here’s a collection of some of the more interesting 20th-century Texas eccentrics Fowler calls “performing artists.” Like the millionaire who played...
Mavericks: A Gallery of Texas Characters (Nonfiction)
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The West the Railroads Made (Nonfiction)
This lavishly illustrated book is the companion volume to an exhibition at the Washington State History Museum. Schwantes and Ronda discuss how the...
Chief Bender’s Burden: The Silent Struggle of a Baseball Star (Nonfiction)
Even the protracted, chaotic writing of Tom Swift could not destroy this uplifting story about the life of Charles Bender. As a young Ojibwa Indian...
Ensuring Greater Yellowstone’s Future (Nonfiction)
Susan G. Clark knows her subject well. A professor of Wildlife Ecology and Policy Sciences, she has written many books on this topic. Clark draws...
Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War
Ages 9-12: Luke and Jenny Bartlett are vacationing in Lincoln, New Mexico, with their mom while Dad is on duty in Iraq. Suddenly, the ghost of a...
Brides of the West (Fiction)
This collection of historical romances consists of three novellas set in Texas. The protagonist in each story is a mail-order bride. True to the...
Black Rock Cañon
When horse hunters Del Rockwall and youthful Tie Taylor drift through Montana’s backlands looking for wild mustangs, they encounter two sights that...
Burn English (Fiction)
Burn English unbelievably abandons his successful New Mexico horse ranch and drifts north. Contemplating suicide, he wants to get away from a...
Virgin River (Fiction)
Mountain Man Barnaby Skye and his two Indian wives, Mary of the Shoshone and Victoria of the Crow, drift through the golden summer of 1857 living...
Bud Ballew: Legendary Oklahoma Lawman (Nonfiction)
Deputy Sheriff Bud Ballew’s district near Ardmore, Oklahoma, in the first two decades of the 20th century bristled with restless oil boomtowns....
A Few Good Horses (Nonfiction)
Pierce Burns brings us the true story of his family during the Depression years in West Texas. The family ranch, begun in 1873 by his grandfather,...
Life of a Soldier on the Western Frontier (Nonfiction)
The primary purpose of the Western frontier army was to subdue Indians. The reason it took so long was because the Indians could probably smell...