Three authors offer separate stories of finding love in the Old West, all with the leading role being a female. The first story is of a young...
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
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Holmes on the Range
Heading across Montana’s Big Sky Country, brothers Big Red and Old Red Amlingmeyer ride into a mystery when they sign on as ranch hands at the...
The Legacy of Conquest
Limerick first wrote in this book, nearly 20 years ago, that she’d probably change her mind about some of the points she raised. And she has. Her...
Zane Grey
Rare are authors like Jack London and Papa Hemingway, whose lives turned out to be as interesting as their books. But Zane Grey is another one of...
Hired Out for a Tough Hand
Jane Burnett was not even seven years old as she sat on her pony “huddled over the saddle horn, icicles hanging from the end of my nose,” positioned...
Scorched Earth
Hidden in this account of Yellowstone’s fires (all of them, not just the terribly destructive “burn” of 1988) is a pretty fair outline-history of...
Sheriff Harvey Whitehill, Silver City Stalwart
This is more than just a biography of a sheriff and his part in taming the West. Bob Alexander presents a detailed history of the entire region and...
The Conquest of Texas: Ethic Cleansing in the Promised Land
Anderson, professor of history at the University of Oklahoma, specializes in Indian history. His research is astounding, abundant and detailed....
Imagining the African American West
Fewer Blacks settled in the West than other groups, but they had a distinct and early presence. For example, the first Black man to visit the West...
Gunsmoke: an American Institution
Every post-war baby boomer with a TV was weaned on Gunsmoke. The show ran for an amazing 20 years, from 1955-1975. Marshal Matt Dillon, Miss Kitty,...
Hidden Treasures of the American West
The chronicles of Oklahoma’s history are more complete because of these three women: Muriel Wright (editor of The Chronicles of Oklahoma), Angie...
Blood Debt
Reluctantly riding from his Colorado ranch, Chad Wakefield seeks teenager Toby Granger to return him to a dying father. Trailing him to Last Chance,...