This unique analysis of information providers and users during the California Gold Rush is a smart read. Much of what Stillson discusses relate to...
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Give Me Mountains For My Horses
Love horses? Love taking them up into the mountains and backcountry, and to the tall timber with the elk and silent wilderness? This is the book for...
Sunset Trail
In the first of this “Western Duo,” Sunset Trail has U.S. Agent Bruce Shane striving to thwart an illegal shipment of rifles meant to carve out a...
Under the Sunset Rim
In this Historical Romance written from the male point of view, Dave Weldon is an honest Montana cowboy temporarily out of work. He thwarts a...
Texas Showdown
Two novels by seven-time Spur winner Elmer Kelton about his home, west Texas, have been released in one volume. In the first novel, titled Pecos...
Vengeance Moon
Harried from his Virginia home by a murder he didn’t commit, Mountain Man Matt Slaughter finds a wild Garden of Eden in the Big Horns, a loving...
The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War
Richards, who writes well for a professor, retells the rather familiar story of the California Gold Rush’s aftermath, but he tells it from an...
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L’amor: The Adventure Stories
Louis L’Amour has thrilled countless readers with the adventures of Hondo, Jubal Sackett and Radigan. But the “Yondering Man” from North Dakota also...
Heaven is a Long Way Off
During an earlier episode in this “Rendezvous” series, Mountain Man Sam Morgan married a Crow Indian girl in Wyoming against her family’s wishes. In...
Camino del Norte
Despite its Spanish title, this book is mostly about the I-35 corridor and the Texas cities along this north-south highway: San Antonio, Austin,...
Valles Caldera: A Vision for New Mexico’s National Preserve
Beyond either side of Interstate I-25, which runs north and south through the center of New Mexico, many natural wonders await the curious. I know,...
The Tobermory Manuscript
This mystery is centered around an actual 1870s land scheme in which an Englishman named Lord Dunraven and his cohorts fraudulently acquired...