This Sharlot Hall Museum treasure shares the first-person narrative of a Yavapai orphan taken in by his Army captors after troops killed his family...
All of My People Were Killed
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Western Books & Movies
Plains Indians Regalia & Customs
This jam-packed volume gathers together the 18th- and 19th-century observations of the styles and mannerisms of Plains Indian people that are in...
Building One Fire: Art and World View in Cherokee Life
“I never met a man I didn’t like,” Cherokee humorist Will Rogers famously said, espousing the philosophy that all are sacred in the worldview of the...
Trailer Safety
Living quarter horse trailers and RV’s are important tools for the traveling competitive horseman. Providing a home on the road and a portable tack...
1929’s Hell’s Heroes
Being the severely-obsessed movie geek that I am (I’ve seen nearly 5,000 movies and keep a list), combined with the fact that William Wyler is my...
Streets of Laredo/Dead Man’s Walk
Both the prequel and the sequel to CBS’s Emmy award-winning Lonesome Dove miniseries are now available in two-disc DVD packages. Neither 1996’s Dead...
The Last of the Mohicans
Strangely, the Blu-ray package of Michael Mann’s The Last of the Mohicans does not have the isolated musical track that accompanied the 2001 DVD...
What the Cowboy Life Taught Raoul Walsh
Note to aspiring filmmakers: If you're looking for a film school, give Raoul Walsh's curriculum a try. It's called Life. Before he was old enough to...
Grand Theft Stagecoach
Since Red Dead Redemption was released in May 2010, many gamers have taken to calling the video game “Grand Theft Stagecoach,” a play on the name of...
Ghost Town Travelogues
In 1938, teenager Phil Varney moved with his folks from the flatlands of Illinois to the deserts of Arizona. He’d never seen mountains shouldering...
The Cowgirl Way
When women moved to the American West with the great migration of the 1800s, they left behind some of the constricting rules of femininity, becoming...
In the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark
In the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark, by Wallace G. Lewis, is not just another title in the flood of books about the Lewis and Clark expedition....