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,...
Arizona’s Apache Country
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Western Books & Movies
SNAKE DANCE
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
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
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
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...
HEARTS WEST: TRUE STORIES OF MAIL-ORDER BRIDES ON THE FRONTIER
Personal ads are not only a craze of modern dating. All throughout the 1800s, females were in scarce supply on the frontier, and men begged decent...
Buffalo Bill’s America
Even Don Russell, who explored Buffalo Bill Cody’s military life in great detail in his 1960 biography on Cody, caved in when it came to answering...
VOICE OF THE BORDERLANDS
Gritty Arizona/New Mexico borderland stories are told here in poetry. Enclosed is a haunting experience about horses, cattle, drought and winter...
Haunted by Hardin
The ghost of the infamous John Wesley Hardin is a hard one to kill. Just ask Leon Metz, one of the most meticulous researchers in the field of...
Starring the Cowboys of America
Deming, New Mexico, recently rounded up its cowboys to celebrate the rediscovery of a classic feature-length color documentary, The Cowboy, produced...
WESTERN TRADITIONS: CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS OF THE AMERICAN WEST
Frederic Remington and Charles Russell are introduced here as the grandfathers of contemporary Western art. Their lives and examples of their work...
The Klondike Quest: A Photographic Essay, 1897-1899
This book is a beautifully done photo history of the Klondike Gold Rush—what the author refers to as one of the strangest mass movements in history....