Review of Roland De Wolk’s American Disruptor: The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford.
California Robber Baron
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Western Books
Living and Dying Along the Rio Grande
Review of Mike Blakely’s, A Sinister Splendor: A Mexican War Novel, an ambitious novel of the Mexican War.
Chronicling the West
Western novelists and historians keep the Old West alive through hard work and their dedication to the crafts of writing and research.
Wild Western Action
Review of Eric Red’s Hanging Fire.
A War to Remember
Review of Mark Santiago’s A Bad Peace and a Good War: Spain and the Mescalero Apache Uprising of 1795-1799.
The War Between the States on the Southern Border
Review of The Civil War on the Rio Grande, 1846–1876.
Western Art Treasure Trove
For collectors and aficionados of Western art and Western art books, the publishing year of 2019 is shaping up to be one of the best.
Blood, Love and Brotherhood
W.K. Stratton’s The Wild Bunch sets a new standard for film-biography, and new biographies of an Army scout and Estaban, the diary of pioneer John Benton Hart and a novelized memoir of outlaw Cole Younger.
Hawaiian Cowboys
What is the American West and where does it begin and end?” These questions have been debated consistently for well over a century, but after anyone...
An Epic Journey of Faith
America is a nation of immigrants and in the 19th century, immigrants crossed seas and continents to start their lives anew where freedom of...
Anarchy on the Rails
In 2019, Jack Kelly’s The Edge of Anarchy: The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America (St. Martin’s Press,...
Love, Luck, and Lead
In the pantheon of Old West publishing history, James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok is a biographical anomaly. Compared to his peers, William F....