Following an American Patriot
On this summer month, when most Civil War minds think about the events 150 years ago at a town called Gettysburg, I’d like to draw your attention to a great American, and a Southerner to boot. Sam Houston died 150 years ago, hated by practically every Confederate in...
New Releases-Historical Non-Fiction
Greenwood Publishing Group: The Civil War and the West by Carol L. Higham (September). Hill and Wang: Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life by Andrew Isenberg (June). Riverbend Publishing: High Country Women: The Ladies of Yosemite by Chris Enss (May). Texas Christian...
Hot Summer Reads
I’m looking forward to the next chapter of the Mexican Revolution by two authors who have covered this history splendidly, The Plan de San Diego: Tejano Rebellion, Mexican Intrigue, by Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler (University of Nebraska Press, July...
The Bloody Bozeman
Trails across the West in the mid-1800s crisscrossed Indian lands, often displacing the people who had been living on the land for generations. The Bozeman Trail is no exception. It cuts through some of the prime hunting grounds for the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and...
True West July/August 2025
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