Western Books & Movies Archives

Nimrod: Courts, Claims, and Killing on the Oregon Frontier

by Richard H. Dillon | Mar 1, 2006

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...

DANCING WITH THE GOLDEN BEAR

by Phyllis Morreale-de la Garza | Mar 1, 2006

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

SHOOTIN’ THE BREEZE, COWBOY STYLE

by William Garwood | Mar 1, 2006

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

Sunset Limited

by Richard H. Dillon | Mar 1, 2006

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

Arizona’s Apache Country

by Jane Eppinga | Mar 1, 2006

Phyllis Morreale-de la Garza was born and raised in northern Illinois, but her heart has always been in the West. Her father was a livestock buyer,...

SNAKE DANCE

by Linda Wommack | Mar 1, 2006

Originally published in the 1930s as Lady Grace’s Crossing, this new release retitled Snake Dance still holds up some 70 years later. With this...

UNBRIDLED: THE WESTERN HORSE IN FICTION AND NONFICTION

by William Garwood | Feb 1, 2006

Only on the Western Plains did the horse reach its most typical American development. In fact, would there have been a West as we know it without...

Spanning Washington: Historic Bridges of the Evergreen State

by Richard H. Dillon | Feb 1, 2006

You don’t have to know trestles and trusses from cantilevers to enjoy this extra-illustrated and surprisingly interesting book. Perhaps the Pacific...

TO SAVE THE WILD BISON

by Linda Wommack | Feb 1, 2006

I had no idea. I mean, anyone who knows American history is aware of the important and symbolic role the buffalo played in both the white and Indian...