Hidden in this account of Yellowstone’s fires (all of them, not just the terribly destructive “burn” of 1988) is a pretty fair outline-history of...
Sheriff Harvey Whitehill, Silver City Stalwart
This is more than just a biography of a sheriff and his part in taming the West. Bob Alexander presents a detailed history of the entire region and...
The Conquest of Texas: Ethic Cleansing in the Promised Land
Anderson, professor of history at the University of Oklahoma, specializes in Indian history. His research is astounding, abundant and detailed....
Imagining the African American West
Fewer Blacks settled in the West than other groups, but they had a distinct and early presence. For example, the first Black man to visit the West...
Gunsmoke: an American Institution
Every post-war baby boomer with a TV was weaned on Gunsmoke. The show ran for an amazing 20 years, from 1955-1975. Marshal Matt Dillon, Miss Kitty,...
Hidden Treasures of the American West
The chronicles of Oklahoma’s history are more complete because of these three women: Muriel Wright (editor of The Chronicles of Oklahoma), Angie...
Blood Debt
Reluctantly riding from his Colorado ranch, Chad Wakefield seeks teenager Toby Granger to return him to a dying father. Trailing him to Last Chance,...
Rekindled
This historical romance is set in l868 Colorado Territory. Kathryn and Jason Jennings, a childless couple, live on a financially struggling cattle...
Pot Luck
This publisher has compiled and nicely packaged five of Bennett Foster’s short stories written in the 1940s. Each story has a stand-alone quality...
Spooky Texas Tales
A state as large as Texas just has to have an abundance of ghosts, goblins and things that bump through the night. In fact, Texas has such a drove...
Guarding the Overland Trails
This view of the Civil War years on the Western plains has as its focus the 11th Ohio Cavalry, commanded by Col. William O. Collins. Casper,...
Crusaders of the Sagebrush
The promise of nostalgia and biographical information about our heroes, heroines, heavies and sidekicks of the B-Western film era never quite...