Homesteading on the wind blown prairies of the West was no picnic for anyone, let alone single women. In this book, Hensley masterfully weaves...
Staking Her Claim (Nonfiction)
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Western Books & Movies
Horse Country (Nonfiction)
Horse Country is definitely for Country music and horse devotees. Exclusive interviews with 27 Grand Ole Opry stars—including George Jones, Tanya...
Inkpaduta (Nonfiction)
Egad! This is an annoying book; half-good and half-bad. Beck does not exactly coat the Santee chief with whitewash, but he asks us to “redeem” him....
Princess Monahsetah, the Concealed Wife of General Custer. (Nonfiction)
Anything concerning George Armstrong Custer reeks of the legendary. This book about his alleged child by Monahsetah, a Cheyenne woman taken prisoner...
The Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890 (Nonfiction)
The “mystery” of the ghost dance has been written about for many years. Finally, thanks to impressive research by Andersson, the “mystery” has been...
Movie Westerns Back in Print
Dorchester Publications is among a fairly finite number of publishers who continue to print both original and older Western novels. In its latest...
Hoppy Re-Upped
Joining his fellow spur-bearing good guy, the Lone Ranger, Hopalong Cassidy may return to big screens in 2011. Producer Mark Canton (300) seems to...
The Man Behind the Cape
As the dust continues to settle, and the perspective changes in our grasp of what the Western was and who played a significant role in shaping it,...
Uncle Ernie’s Guide to Old Time Rodeo (Nonfiction)
The typesetting is quirky, the illustrations are cartoonish and yet this book is a hoot! A brief history of rodeo events, including bulldogging,...
The Lost Boy: With Penny the Mustang Pony (Children’s Book)
Ages 4-8: This is the fourth story in a picture book series about the wild pony named Penny. The playful mustang and her friend Star discover a...
A Promise For Spring (Fiction)
Emmaline Bradford nervously leaves her home in England and ventures to the Kansas plains into an arranged marriage with a man she hardly remembers....
Zane Grey Western Legends (Fiction)
Thousands of readers have blessed the day Pearl Zane Grey dropped the dental profession to pen memorable Westerns such as the classics in this...