The title here suggests you’ll get a dry history of financier Jay Cooke and his money problems building the Northern Pacific, but this big book is a...

Since the focus of American melodrama has mostly been on contributions from Eastern urban centers, it’s a pleasure to see Lawrence I. Berkove and...

At the University of Southern California in 1926, Marion Morrison, a.k.a. John Wayne, studied law and truly hoped to become an All-American football...

Stan Hoig’s extensive research spans about 40 years and is revealed in more than a dozen books on Indian history. This new effort is among his best....

Much of the frenzied publishing of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial has been the retelling of a fairly familiar story. But this book is a welcome...

The continuing saga of the Lewis Clan finds the clan’s tenacious hold upon the vastness of Texas about to be put to the test. Even though 10 years...

Trevor Hodge graduates from college with a degree in accounting, but his life changes abruptly by news that his father, a cowboy whom he never knew,...

Not often does the hunter become the hunted, yet when lawman Walt Durand doggedly trails a missing deputy to the prairie town of Red Cloud, he’s...

In this l890s Romance, a wealthy Texas beauty tries to prove her worth by running away to lawless Oklahoma Territory to work in a saloon. She falls...