Western Books Archives

From Chicken Doctor to Cowboy Chronicler

by Johnny D. Boggs | Jun 1, 2005

This year, Dusty Richards will see his 67th book published, some under his own name, many others under a bevy of pseudonyms. He has also written...

Writing at the Bend of the River

by Candy Moulton | May 2, 2005

As a young man, Bill Gulick thought his future was on the baseball diamond. He was battling his way up through the semi-pro leagues, when at age 21,...

They Broke the Mold

by H. Joaquin Jackson and David Marion Wilkinson | May 1, 2005

Ask anyone who knows anything about those times and they’ll tell you that Texas will never see another criminal like him. Charles Sanderson Brogdon,...

Earning His Retirement

by Johnny D. Boggs | Apr 1, 2005

“I’m not writing anything now,” Fred Grove says from his Tucson, Arizona, home. “I feel kind of lost, but I think it’s just as well to hang ’em up.”...

It Happened in the West

by Candy Moulton | Mar 1, 2005

A Tennessean by birth, James A. Crutchfield (Jim to his friends) says he became a Westerner by choice, and when he has the choice, his preferred...

Dark Voyage of the Mittie Stephens

by Bill Garwood | Jan 3, 2005

Four wayfarers on the Mittie Stephens flee their past. Bobby Randow, plagued by temporary amnesia, runs from a midnight gunfight. Spunky Madame...

.45-Caliber Revenge

by Jennifer Oldridge | Jan 3, 2005

Peter Brandvold has spun together an entertaining tale about a young lad, Cuno Massey, and his metamorphosis into adulthood in the Wild West. Cuno...

Plain Language

by Meghan Saar | Jan 3, 2005

Barbara Wright is a self-professed greenhorn, but you couldn’t tell from this Depression-era ranch story that encapsulates the hardships of the West...

Beauty for Ashes

by Bill Garwood | Jan 3, 2005

Far from his native Pennsylvania, teenage Sam Morgan grows up in a hurry amongst the rough-and-ready mountain men of the 1820s. Striving to succeed...