Here’s a collection of some of the more interesting 20th-century Texas eccentrics Fowler calls “performing artists.” Like the millionaire who played...
Mavericks: A Gallery of Texas Characters (Nonfiction)
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The West the Railroads Made (Nonfiction)
This lavishly illustrated book is the companion volume to an exhibition at the Washington State History Museum. Schwantes and Ronda discuss how the...
Chief Bender’s Burden: The Silent Struggle of a Baseball Star (Nonfiction)
Even the protracted, chaotic writing of Tom Swift could not destroy this uplifting story about the life of Charles Bender. As a young Ojibwa Indian...
Ensuring Greater Yellowstone’s Future (Nonfiction)
Susan G. Clark knows her subject well. A professor of Wildlife Ecology and Policy Sciences, she has written many books on this topic. Clark draws...
Young Wayne Blazed a Big Trail
The Big Trail (1930) succeeded in recreating, from the widest vistas to the smallest details, the saga of those men, women and children who crossed...
Wild West History Sleuths
The History Detectives’ upcoming season features several episodes of interest to readers of True West. The June 30, 2008, show (and these are...
The Top 10 Western DVD Collections
Western lovers who think of themselves as the last of a dying breed have to be feeling a little less lonely these days, as there are so many...
Iron Man Plays Gunslinger?
Word is out that Robert Downey Jr., fresh from his success as Tony Stark in the summer blockbuster Iron Man, may be cast in the Brian Grazer/Ron...
Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War
Ages 9-12: Luke and Jenny Bartlett are vacationing in Lincoln, New Mexico, with their mom while Dad is on duty in Iraq. Suddenly, the ghost of a...
Brides of the West (Fiction)
This collection of historical romances consists of three novellas set in Texas. The protagonist in each story is a mail-order bride. True to the...
Black Rock Cañon
When horse hunters Del Rockwall and youthful Tie Taylor drift through Montana’s backlands looking for wild mustangs, they encounter two sights that...
Burn English (Fiction)
Burn English unbelievably abandons his successful New Mexico horse ranch and drifts north. Contemplating suicide, he wants to get away from a...