The title of this book is a bit misleading, but the subtitle, “Indian captivities in the West, 1830-1885,” clears up the subject matter. The phrase...
A Fate Worse Than Death
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Black Hats
Wizened Wyatt Earp is hired in 1920 by Big Nose Kate to rescue her son. Unbeknown to the world until now, Kate gave birth to Doc Holliday’s child...
The Canyon of Bones
After years roaming the dangerous Rockies, Barnaby Skye still has his hair! The wary Mountain Man faces yet another challenge. His salty-tongued...
Wild Indigo
Jamaica Wild is a compassionate Bureau of Land Management resource protection agent stationed in New Mexico near the Pueblo Indian reservation. When...
The Great Mormon Cricket Fly-Fishing Festival
These stories range from “The Vision of Hehaka’To,” with a Lakota Sioux hunting food for his starving family, to “Bonefish in Wyoming,” where a worn...
An Endless Attraction to Billy
Michael Wallis’s first outlaw biography was on Oklahoma’s social bandit Pretty Boy Floyd, published in 1992. Now he’s written Billy the Kid: The...
An Endless Attraction to Billy
Michael Wallis’s first outlaw biography was on Oklahoma’s social bandit Pretty Boy Floyd, published in 1992. Now he’s written Billy the Kid: The...
From Hondo to Big Ike
Glenshannon’s spread was one of the biggest in Texas—or anywhere.... One of Glenshannon’s cowboys, an amateur geographer, once observed that it...
From Hondo to Big Ike
Glenshannon’s spread was one of the biggest in Texas—or anywhere.... One of Glenshannon’s cowboys, an amateur geographer, once observed that it...
Spreading the Word
This unique analysis of information providers and users during the California Gold Rush is a smart read. Much of what Stillson discusses relate to...
Following the Royal Road
From San Juan Pueblo, in present-day New Mexico, to Mexico City, Mexico, the Royal Road (El Camino Real) ran 1,500 miles through some of the most...
Amarillo: The Story of a Western Town
Don’t be misled by the cover. While clever, it gives a sort of “wish you were here” feeling. Once inside the book, though, the Texan city of...