Frederic Remington and Charles Russell are introduced here as the grandfathers of contemporary Western art. Their lives and examples of their work...
WESTERN TRADITIONS: CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS OF THE AMERICAN WEST
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The Klondike Quest: A Photographic Essay, 1897-1899
This book is a beautifully done photo history of the Klondike Gold Rush—what the author refers to as one of the strangest mass movements in history....
The Salish people and the Lewis and Clark Expedition
This book on the Salish Indians of Montana, and their Pend d’Oreille kin, is the result of many hands from the Salish-Pend d’Oreille Cultural...
THE ART OF SERGIO LEONE’S ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
I found this book to be as equally ponderous and intellectually pretentious as the subject movie was. Fawell constructs what is essentially a...
PEOPLE OF THE MOON
People of the Moon is part of the Gears’ First North American series, and this 13th installment focuses on the Chaco Anasazi, who lived in New...
EYE OF THE WOLF
When Evil rides its pale horse across the Wind River Reservation, thoughtful Father John O’Malley and impetuous attorney Vicky Holden face a...
Bad Guy Tracks Good
Whether reporting on actual artifacts or proverbial, W.C. Jameson’s research scoops a prospector’s pan of information about locating lost treasures....
Rider of the Purple Prose
The Western novel became a reality around the turn of the 20th century. But no one else stamped the Western bookshelf as much as the Ohio baseball...
Tracking Randisi’s Volumes
With hundreds of books written, edited or scratched onto some kind of paper, that sort of evidence could mark Robert J. Randisi as a prolific...
Riding the Hi-Lo Country with Ol’ Max
In 1,018 years, Max Evans has done just about everything and somehow lived through it—cowboy, calf roper, artist, prospector, mystic, actor,...
Word Baron
In over 75 books from the Rivers West series to those on the Baron family of Texas, Jory Sherman has brought to life a complex mix of stories and...
Entertaining the Masses
With a face seen by millions because it has been on more than 100 TV documentaries and a career as a professor of history at the University of New...