James Brooks was the kind of rip-snortin’ Texas Ranger we all like to read about. His endless escapades are skillfully presented by the author along...

American whipmaking was a thriving industry during the 19th century, beginning with buggy whips in New England and peaking with the mass production...

This is the 15th book in the North America’s Forgotten Past series. Co-authored by archaeologists living in Wyoming, these stories share the lives...

Here’s gunplay, violence and crackling drama on a larger scale than any other robbery pulled by the James-Younger Gang. These firsthand accounts of...

Based on the true story of Harry Tracy, an 1890s con artist, petty thief, rustler and jailbird, the tale begins during Tracy’s impoverished...

In this second book in the Holmes on the Range series, brothers Big Red and Old Red Amlingmeyer pin on railroad detective badges and swear to...

The Civil War was traumatic to most Americans, but it was a double whammy to the Cherokees. Already badly split into warring factions over...

This is not, exactly, a history of the homefront during the Civil War. Its subtitle, “Civilians and Soldiers in America’s Civil War,” includes the...