Historian Doug Hocking’s experiences growing up in Northern New Mexico on the Jicarilla Apache Reservation—and his lifelong ties to the Rio...
Building Your Western Library: Doug Hocking
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Running the River of Truth
Even those who have never dipped a paddle in fast water are likely to know of John Wesley Powell, the one-armed Civil War veteran who explored the...
A Poignant Portrait of Calamity Jane
Michelle Rene’s novel, Hour Glass, is a moving, revealing picture of the legendary Calamity Jane. The author tells her compassionate story through...
Westward from the White House
Glenda Riley and Richard Etulains’ Presidents Who Shaped the American West is a highly satisfying narrative spanning two centuries. The study traces...
Building Your Western Library: Michael F. Blake
Michael F. Blake, a two-time Emmy-winning makeup artist and respected film historian, has recently published The Cowboy President: The American West...
Land of the Apache
Apacheria: True Stories of Apache Culture 1860-1920 is an insightful introduction to the history of the Apache people. Farmer, focusing his research...
A Violent Borderland
In A Crooked River: Rustlers, Rangers, and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, 1861–1877, Michael L. Collins tells the story of the turmoil and...
I, the Lawman
Using characters created by Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins pays tribute to the mythic West and casts an informed eye on the end of an era in The...
Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound
Is there a Western novel, film or television show in which a character does not order a shot or bottle of whiskey, let alone throw, break or shoot a...
A Horror Story Within a Horror Story
The Hunger (G.P. Putnam & Sons, $27) by Alma Katsu takes the tragic tale of the Donner Party and infuses it with hints of witchcraft, vampirism,...
Award-winning Author Reflects on Saloon History
Melody Groves writes about where she lives and what she loves—the West. She is the author of Hoist A Cold One: Historic Bars of the Southwest and,...
The Real Ned Christie
A victim of the fake news of his time, “outlaw” Ned Christie now has a biographer who separates the known facts of his life from the embellishments...