H.W. Brands’ ambitious new history of the 19th-century West, plus a new biography of Spotted Tail, a first-person account of the Mexican War and Sandra Dallas and C.K. Crigger’s latest Western novels.
Review ofJohn Willyard’s U.S. Model 1855 Series of Small Arms.
Review of Jan MacKell Collins’s Good Time Girls of Colorado: A Red-Light History of the Centennial State and Good Time Girls of Arizona and New Mexico: A Red-Light History of the American Southwest.
Review of Lane R. Warenski’s Grizzly Killer: White Snake.
Review of Prentiss Ingraham’s Buffalo Bill Cody, A Man of the West.
Review of Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins’ Last Stage to Hell Junction.
Review of Eli Paul’s The Frontier Army: Episodes from Dakota and the West.
John Wayne’s Oscar-winning performance as Rooster Cogburn in the Paramount film culminated the greatest year in Western film history.
Review of historian Robert N. Watt’s “With My Face to My Bitter Foes”: Nana’s War 1880-1881.
Review of Roland De Wolk’s American Disruptor: The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford.
Robert Carradine reflects on his career in Westerns and his family’s rich legacy in Hollywood.
Review of Mike Blakely’s, A Sinister Splendor: A Mexican War Novel, an ambitious novel of the Mexican War.