Tony Hillerman is best known for his novels featuring Navajo crime fighters. Yet The Great Taos Bank Robbery and Other True Stories consists of 17...
The Great Taos Bank Robbery and Other True Stories
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Western Books & Movies
Kill the Indian
In this latest installment of Boggs’s Killstraight series, Kill the Indian, Daniel Killstraight heads to Texas where he meets Quanah Parker. A freak...
The Devil’s Hoofprints
The Devil’s Hoofprints is an anthology consisting of 13 short stories aimed at action-oriented readers. This collection is written by an author who...
City of Rocks
As self doubt spread during the Great Depression, the Federal Writer’s Project seemed to address how generations endured and even bulldogged fate....
Railroad Avenue
Phyllis de la Garza is a master storyteller of old Arizona, both legend and lore, often with a female theme. Her latest Arizona tale, Railroad...
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The best DVD edition of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is the “Ultimate Collector’s Edition” from 20th Century Fox. We love it for the “making...
The Iconic Duo
The last great year for Western movies was 1969, which saw the release of three classics: The Wild Bunch, True Grit and Butch Cassidy and the...
Hard Country
Ex-cop Michael McGarrity is known for his police procedural mysteries featuring Santa Fe police chief Kevin Kerney (Tularosa, Dead or Alive)....
8 Classic Westerns
That the train would inspire the world’s first narrative film, Edwin S. Porter’s 1903 Western The Great Train Robbery, makes complete sense to us....
Route 66: Lost & Found
The famous Mother Road pathway lingers in our memories, and Russell A. Olsen highlights its charms in Route 66: Lost & Found (Voyageur Press,...
Cleaving an Unknown World
By 1869, Lewis & Clark, trappers, U.S. Army surveyors and pioneer emigrants had pretty much explored most of the continental United States, but...
The Great Plains Guide to Custer
When folks ask me about the goals I have as the U.S. Congress’s “Foremost Custer Living Historian,” I tell them that, in addition to reading the...