by True West | Mar 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
Wanton Women of Montana In the 1890s, prostitution and red-light district brothels were common across the Big Sky State. In this unknown Montana sporting house, two of the women wear the formal, socially accepted corseted dress of women of the Victorian era, but the...
by Stuart Rosebrook | Jan 20, 2023 | Western Books, Western Books & Movies
A bold, new interpretation of the conquest of North America, plus two new books on Western borders, a biography of King Fisher and a classic Western novel. For scholars of North American history—East, West, North or South—Pekka Hämäläinen’s Indigenous Continent: The...
by Jana Bommersbach | Sep 4, 2022 | Features & Gunfights
History tried to erase the courageous Arizona journalist, but her remarkable life and work as a publisher is a testament to her courage and her undefeatable spirit. This isn’t a story about a woman history ignored or forgot nor diminished. That wouldn’t...
by Stuart Rosebrook | Apr 6, 2021 | Western Books, Western Books & Movies
Jim Hoy’s highly personal biography of the Kansas Flint Hills, two new biographies of Butch Cassidy, Bill Neal’s autobiography and Deborah Swenson’s debut Western novel. From my earliest years, I remember my parents sharing with me their love of the American West and...
by Jan MacKell Collins | Jun 15, 2020 | Features & Gunfights
Ten-year-old Laura Frazier gazed up at the large lady in the open door. “She almost filled the entire doorway,” Laura later remembered. The girl had talked her mother into letting her sell magazine subscriptions to earn money for a scooter. Little did she know,...