This condensed but excellent presentation of Custer’s last battle is targeted for young readers, but I would suggest they not be too young. Billy...
Remember Little Bighorn (Nonfiction)
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Honky-Tonk Heroes & Hillbilly Angels (Nonfiction)
Young fans of Country music will enjoy this collection of brief profiles of some of the first entertainers in the business such as Johnny Cash,...
A Small White Scar (Fiction)
Fifteen-year-old Will Benson plans to get far away from loveable, retarded Denny. He has picked up after his brother, taught him to ride and endured...
Saddling Up Anyway
“When I got to him, he sat up and his lower lip was down under his chin. It was the danged-est lookin’ thing.... I had to put my knee against his...
JAY COOKE’S GAMBLE
The title here suggests you’ll get a dry history of financier Jay Cooke and his money problems building the Northern Pacific, but this big book is a...
Old West in the Old World
Since the focus of American melodrama has mostly been on contributions from Eastern urban centers, it’s a pleasure to see Lawrence I. Berkove and...
THE YOUNG DUKE
At the University of Southern California in 1926, Marion Morrison, a.k.a. John Wayne, studied law and truly hoped to become an All-American football...
Blood and Thunder
Lurking behind a dumb, misleading title is a good book. (This is not some harum scarum melodrama by a dime novel Dickens.) True, persnickety readers...
WHITE MAN’S PAPER TRAIL
Stan Hoig’s extensive research spans about 40 years and is revealed in more than a dozen books on Indian history. This new effort is among his best....
The Life & Times of Nathaniel Hale Pryor
Much of the frenzied publishing of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial has been the retelling of a fairly familiar story. But this book is a welcome...
THE RAIDERS: SONS OF TEXAS
The continuing saga of the Lewis Clan finds the clan’s tenacious hold upon the vastness of Texas about to be put to the test. Even though 10 years...
Rodeo Summer
Trevor Hodge graduates from college with a degree in accounting, but his life changes abruptly by news that his father, a cowboy whom he never knew,...