This is the first full history of the most famous battleground in the West, the Little Bighorn. After re-sketching the dramatic events of the...
Stricken Field: The Little bighorn Since 1876 (Nonfiction)
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Western Books & Movies
Pat Green’s Dance Halls & Dreamers (Nonfiction)
“If I had every beer that has spilled on that dance floor, I could drink for a lifetime,” Country star Kevin Fowler says of the 1910 Coupland Dance...
Close-Ups on the Outcasts
Although director Arthur Penn made only three Westerns, his ranking is secure as one of the genre’s greatest interpreters. Actually, Penn’s first...
Comanche Moon
I won’t poke any more holes into what promises to be the final production in the Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove series, starring Val Kilmer (Inish...
There Will Be Oscars
The single element that both connected and distinguished David Milch's HBO series Deadwood from the Westerns that preceded it was that the corrupt...
The J. Golden Kimball Stories (Fiction)
This is a serious look at a humorous figure of the Mormon church, J. Golden Kimball. His gaunt figure, magpie voice and fiery delivery made him the...
Victorio: Apache Warrior and Chief (Nonfiction)
This famed Apache left historians with little written record with which to study his life. Although Dan Thrapp's biography adequately utilizes...
Walk Proud, Stand Tall (Fiction)
Lin Garrett is 70 years old, down on his luck and living on a "poor farm" in Flagstaff, Arizona. Suffering from arthritis and kidney failure, he...
The Road to McCarthy
Even though The Road isn't a Western in the traditional sense, many feel that the post-apocalyptic genre and the Western are two sides of the same...
Rider of Death Valley (Fiction)
Death Valley was ominously named in the days of unmarked, poisonous water holes and resentful tribesmen. When horse hunter Johnny Lightfoot rides...
The Legend of Billy Jenks and Other Wyoming Stories (Fiction)
These seven short stories are masterfully written, in lyrical language, by an author genuinely familiar with Wyoming and its people. Within these...
Landscapes of Colorado (Nonfiction)
The photographic art and paintings in this coffee table tome are amazing. The opening contains 19th-century photographs of the stunning Colorado...