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...
THE YOUNG DUKE
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...
Blood and Thunder
Lurking behind a dumb, misleading title is a good book. (This is not some harum scarum melodrama by a dime novel Dickens.) True, persnickety readers...
WHITE MAN’S PAPER TRAIL
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....
The Life & Times of Nathaniel Hale Pryor
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 RAIDERS: SONS OF TEXAS
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...
Rodeo Summer
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,...
TROUBLE HUNTER
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...
To Tease A Texan
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...
SERIESous about the West?
If you ask an Average Joe who has any inkling about Western history to name a series in the genre, he’s most likely going to name the Time-Life Old...
Romeo Romances Left to Pasture
The indiscriminate reading of novels and romances is to young females of the most dangerous tendency ... it agitates their fancy to delirium of...
Ranch Romances
It started in 1924. He was the strong, silent type, with more than a hint of danger in the way he carried himself. His cowboy hat dipped at a rakish...