This mystery is centered around an actual 1870s land scheme in which an Englishman named Lord Dunraven and his cohorts fraudulently acquired...
The Tobermory Manuscript
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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,...
A Half-Breed Son-of-a-Basque
Like two horses harnessed together, the West of change and the West of complexity alternatively gallop and prance, slip and stumble,” writes Richard...
A Half-Breed Son-of-a-Basque
Like two horses harnessed together, the West of change and the West of complexity alternatively gallop and prance, slip and stumble,” writes Richard...
Mexican Gold Trail
The Huntington Library is reprinting some of its regional classics. This fine Gold Rush journal by George W.B. Evans was ably edited by the late...
Singing Cowboys
Can you imagine Gunsmoke’s Festus belting out a tune for Miss Kitty? Why not? Do you think Roy Rogers and Gene Autry were the only singing cowboys?...
Digging Up Massacres
Since the day it happened, Sand Creek Massacre has maintained its station as one of the most emotionally charged and con-troversial events in...
Nobody’s Horses
Without a doubt, Nobody’s Horses is the best read of the year. Wild horses are as natural to the West as the rivers that run through it. This is the...
Texas Women on the Cattle Trails
The historians in this anthology are vigorously reexamining the role women played in settling the American West. Rarely sacrificing marriage and...