Here is an excellent biography to shelve alongside Robert Utley’s volume, The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull, and Kingsley...

Joseph O’Connor is ambitious in both scope and style with his winding odyssey of a narrative, but the author’s far-flung goals are so...

Baby Doe Tabor’s rags-to-riches story deserves its legendary status, but the tall tale has long outweighed the truth in most accounts. Temple...

While I never had a desire to learn how to yodel, this book teaches the fine art, in a fun way. The writing is quite humorous with chapters...

The latest volume in Nebraska’s Bison Books series is a history of the Nez Perce Indians in the Columbia Plateau, which covers parts of Idaho,...

Petra Vela Kenedy, torn between her native homeland and her new life in Texas, lived through the 1846-48 Mexican-American War. She and her husband...

John Wesley Powell famously rafted the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. In his shadow is the figure of James White, who may have preceded...

Noted Western novelist A.B. Guthrie has said that few ways of life lasted in the Old West. Half-wild Mountain Men gave way to restless gold hunters...

“My Wedding and Some Filthy Stuff,” “Peeing on the Father’s Feet” and “The Chicken That Crowed After Being Roasted” are just some of the titles for...