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...
Come Sundown
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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,...
Stuck to Her Dream
"I buried Pecker in his favorite place. I’d seen him come to pray here sometimes early of a morning when the sun was just coming over the eastern...
San Juan Bonanza
Duane Smith is the finest mining historian and writer I personally know. With this new book, that is both a blessing and a curse. The book is...
Passionate Nation: The Epic History of Texas
Probably because he also writes novels, Haley gives us the opposite of a stodgy textbook history of the Lone Star State. Best of all, he is candid....
Making Home Work
In the second half of the 19th century, the white, middle-class concept of home was assumed to be a perfect model for civilization in the American...
The Texas Sheriff
This is a marvelous salute to the multitude of Texas sheriffs during the first half of the 20th century, and all the complimentary adjectives I can...
Honest Horses
In 1999, the U.S. Forest Service and the National Endowment for the Arts awarded Paula Morin a grant to research the impact of wild horses in the...
The Day Coffeyville Bled
So the real story is that the Dalton Gang was led by a woman, and she was secretly married to Bob Dalton and bore him a daughter. Her sister, who...
History May be Searched in Vain: A Military History of the Mormon Battalion
(Thank heavens for subtitles attached to mystifying “poetic” book titles.) A number of good books on the Mexican War’s Mormon Battalion have been...