“It is an axiom of the West that its mysterious charm cannot be evaded. By many it is compared to a disease—a slow fever, with the sensation of...

Western stories, films and TV shows stand for some very specific ideals: individualism, honor, courage and loyalty. Add the high principles to...

I just love this type of history! What a read! Cowboys are the icon of Western Americana, and rodeos are pure Cowboy ropin’, stompin’, buckin’...

This definitely must be one of the most readable books ever written about the California gold rush and its direct effect on the growth of this...

The 1871 Official Survey of the Western Territories led by geologist Ferdinand Hayden reaped much more than data about minerals and thermal springs....

If anyone out there is obsessed with the history of San Francisco, here’s another book you need. Short, documented accounts of criminal behavior...

Readers living in the Pacific Northwest sometimes lament the lack of attention paid to the history of their neck of the woods by writers of Western...

Mountain man Jedediah Smith leads an exploration party of fur trappers in search of wealth and adventure. The third book in Blevins’ Rendezvous...

When two or three working cowboys cross trails somewhere out in the real West’s wonderful vastness, several occurrences happen after the first...

So many books have already been written about the Central Pacific, predecessor of the Southern Pacific, that the story of the transcontinental...