At the turn of the last century, when women could hardly achieve advanced degrees much less become professors, 10 prolific female scholars changed...
It is a stretch to call Isaias Hellman the creator of modern California, as the author (a descendant) does, but the Los Angeles banker did have much...
Teachers were the female trailblazers of the West, yet they often are overlooked. Thanks to Chris Enss, who once again breaks new ground in the...
Our criminal justice system—and how it evolved on the frontier—is often overlooked in many histories of the West. In this volume, Bill Neal cleverly...
This is a heavily-annotated Ph.D dissertation transformed into a readable history. The book is really the story of the Arizona-Sonora border....
A companion to her public television series Equitrekking, Darley Newman’s book takes you to more than a dozen of the world’s best riding...
Billy the Kid tangled with Dracula, and Jesse James met Frankenstein’s daughter (both in 1966 movies). Zombie cowboy films seem to be the flavor of...
David Milch’s Western series, a once-in-a-generation event, ran on HBO for three seasons. Like the cable channel’s other prize-winning project, The...
John Sturges was not a great filmmaker. At least he’s never been placed up there in the top branches with the certifiably best directors—Ford, Hawks...
All cowboys have boots and spurs, but buckles says rodeo, and that’s what this musical collection is about. The set honors 50 years of the National...
The Wild Wild West, a TV series that ran from 1965-69, was a definite curiosity, a strange hybrid of Spy Drama, Science Fiction and traditional...
Available only at Costco, this remarkable box set of Westerns is for anyone wanting a fine group of classic pictures at a decent price. Included in...