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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

(Thank heavens for subtitles attached to mystifying “poetic” book titles.) A number of good books on the Mexican War’s Mormon Battalion have been...

Could Crazy Horse’s pursuit of his Spirit Rider be an unspoken sacrament, or was his unyielding devotion to the Oglala’s survival the true vision?...

A Berkley Prime Crime novel, this story has little to do with making saddles. When Ruby McGavin’s husband of six months commits suicide, she is...

Riding away from a lost war, Confederate Johnny Yuma has two vows to keep: He must find a dead friend’s sister and rejoin his father, sheriff of...

In this Western Romance set in the 1890s, Sarah Brighton, an opinionated journalist from St. Louis, travels to wild and wooly Santa Fe, New Mexico,...