Don’t be misled by the cover. While clever, it gives a sort of “wish you were here” feeling. Once inside the book, though, the Texan city of...
Lone Star Lawman
Robert Utley really has had his work cut out for him in following up on his 19th-century Texas Rangers book with this story of the Rangers of recent...
BALLOTS AND BULLETS: The Bloody County Seat Wars of Kansas
Here’s an exciting glimpse into an overlooked chapter of Kansas history. Interspersed with better-known characters such as Bat Masterson and Bill...
Spreading the Word
This unique analysis of information providers and users during the California Gold Rush is a smart read. Much of what Stillson discusses relate to...
Give Me Mountains For My Horses
Love horses? Love taking them up into the mountains and backcountry, and to the tall timber with the elk and silent wilderness? This is the book for...
Sunset Trail
In the first of this “Western Duo,” Sunset Trail has U.S. Agent Bruce Shane striving to thwart an illegal shipment of rifles meant to carve out a...
Under the Sunset Rim
In this Historical Romance written from the male point of view, Dave Weldon is an honest Montana cowboy temporarily out of work. He thwarts a...
Texas Showdown
Two novels by seven-time Spur winner Elmer Kelton about his home, west Texas, have been released in one volume. In the first novel, titled Pecos...
Vengeance Moon
Harried from his Virginia home by a murder he didn’t commit, Mountain Man Matt Slaughter finds a wild Garden of Eden in the Big Horns, a loving...
The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War
Richards, who writes well for a professor, retells the rather familiar story of the California Gold Rush’s aftermath, but he tells it from an...
The Reel, not Real, Jesse James in Film
The best Jesse James movie is 2000’s Ride with the Devil, which isn’t about Jesse James. That’s okay because the best George Custer movie is Fort...
Bandidas
Bandidas (Fox Home Video; $29.98) Viva Penelope! Viva Salma! And, while we’re at it, Viva Maria! (1965), the sexy cinematic grandmother of...