Reading the back cover comments, as many consumers do, I immediately formed a negative opinion (I spent my college weekends in Steamboat Springs,...
Charles F. Lummis: Editor of the Southwest
Charles F. Lummis, founder and editor of Land of Sunshine/Out West, has inspired a few books, including a Spur award-winning biography in 2002. He...
Ropes, Reins, and Rawhide
Think you know everything about rodeos? Whether you do or not, this book makes pretty interesting reading. Writing mostly for the Western novice,...
River of Memory: The Everlasting Columbia
River of Memory is a captivating read on the Columbia River before it was tamed by the 14 hydraulic dams that confine its flow today. Layman takes...
When Silver was King: Arizona’s 1880s Silver King Mine
After chasing Confederates in New Mexico and Arizona during the Civil War, veterans of the California Column stayed put and became pioneers of...
The U.S. Army in the West, 1870-1880
Douglas C. McChristian’s book is a treasure trove of information that prior to its publication could only be obtained in bits and pieces through...
The Skinning Knife
Certainly skinning knives rated as among the most important tools in the frontiersman’s kit, yet little information is available to the enthusiast...
Smonk
The Rabelaisian Western has arrived. Its grotesque anti-hero, Eugene Oregon Smonk, is a man with a purpose, that of raising as much Cain and killing...
Come Sundown
Honore Greenwood, known to the Indians as Plenty Man, is an admitted murderer, liar and thief. He escaped a French hangman years ago and ran away to...
Bitter Wind
Disillusioned, Bill Lang rides away from a land-grabbing range war, but death dogs him after he downs a brash gunman in a Cheyenne saloon....
Spirit Car
This is a haunting story about one woman’s journey into her past. Herself one-quarter Dakota, Wilson embarks on a car trip through South Dakota’s...
Hostiles? The Lakota Ghost Dance and Buffalo Bill’s Wild West
Not four months after the bloodshed at Wounded Knee, 75 Lakota Indians—including 23 presumed “hostiles” who had been confined at Fort Sheridan,...