W.K. Stratton’s The Wild Bunch sets a new standard for film-biography, and new biographies of an Army scout and Estaban, the diary of pioneer John Benton Hart and a novelized memoir of outlaw Cole Younger.
What is the American West and where does it begin and end?” These questions have been debated consistently for well over a century, but after anyone...
America is a nation of immigrants and in the 19th century, immigrants crossed seas and continents to start their lives anew where freedom of...
In 2019, Jack Kelly’s The Edge of Anarchy: The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America (St. Martin’s Press,...
In the pantheon of Old West publishing history, James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok is a biographical anomaly. Compared to his peers, William F....
With nearly 300 years of history to investigate the Apache-Spanish-Mexican-American conflict, many historians choose to write about the Bascom...
After news of the discovery of gold in California in 1848, thousands of individuals made their way to the west coast of America. Fueled by the...
In 2019, 170 years after the commencement of the Gold Rush, Wells Fargo remains an icon of growth and development of the American West. Established...
Matthew P. Mayo is the award-winning author of dozens of novels and nonfiction books about the West, including the recent multi-award-winning YA...
Historians and enthusiasts have long debated the existence of the correspondence between John Henry “Doc” Holliday and his first cousin Mattie. An...
Men trapped outside their times—it was the great theme of Sam Peckinpah’s best movies, and Brad Smith makes it his own in his first-rate novel, The...
Buckskin Frank Leslie is one of the great names in Old West history, but there’s been no full-length biography of the man—until now. Historians Jack...