These Yale colleagues have excellently converted a college textbook into a concise, readable history, reminding me of narrative historians Ray...

The American West was hard country during  the 1860s-1890s. Men with uncommon ambition achieved fame and fortune, but Gustavus Doane was not one of...

Western writers have an endless supply of subject matter if they plan on turning out biographies of every lawman who ever lived. Thus we have John...

A nice, compact history of the Arizona lawmen who attempted law and order, and sometimes succeeded, taking us from the territorial era to the...

The title of this book is a bit misleading, but the subtitle, “Indian captivities in the West, 1830-1885,” clears up the subject matter. The phrase...

Wizened Wyatt Earp is hired in 1920 by Big Nose Kate to rescue her son. Unbeknown to the world until now, Kate gave birth to Doc Holliday’s child...

After years roaming the dangerous Rockies, Barnaby Skye still has his hair! The wary Mountain Man faces yet another challenge.  His salty-tongued...

Jamaica Wild is a compassionate Bureau of Land Management resource protection agent stationed in New Mexico near the Pueblo Indian reservation. When...

These stories range from “The Vision of Hehaka’To,” with a Lakota Sioux hunting food for his starving family, to “Bonefish in Wyoming,” where a worn...