Is courage something learned or is it in our DNA? Can we control it? Based on a true story, Mariano’s Choice (Pronghorn …
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Building Your Western Library: Preston Lewis West Texas Author’s Best of the English West
Midland, Texas, native Preston Lewis has spent much of his life working and writing in his beloved West Texas. During hi…
Building Your Western Library John T. Wayne, author
“A Man’s Dreams Must Exceed His Fears” John T. Wayne, the Arkansas author who shares a likeness and the name of the famo…
Stuart Lake
Stuart Lake is best known for writing Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal, the first biography (not exactly accurate) of Earp. …
What History Has Taught Me: Gary L. Roberts Doc Holliday Biographer
Gary L. Roberts, Doc Holliday Biographer An emeritus professor of history at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tif…
Riders of the Purple Sage Zane Grey’s timeless novel will be staged as an opera.
Thank the Grand Canyon. Long before it was a national park—before it was even a game preserve, thanks to President Teddy…
JPS Brown: An American Original At 86 years old, Arizona’s native son is still writing about the border he loves.
One day in 1937, in the bar of Tucson’s Santa Rita Hotel, the cowboy-actor Tom Mix gave seven-year-old Joe Brown a pair …
What History Has Taught Me: Ron Hansen, Author
Growing up in Omaha, Ron Hansen found the Old West present in Nebraska’s cornfields, wilderness and railroad tracks full…
Building Your Western Library Keith McCafferty, Author
Keith McCafferty is the survival and outdoors skills editor of Field & Stream, and the author of The Royal Wulff Mur…
Poet, Professor, Historian—his West Begins in the East
In March, Mount St. Mary’s University Emeritus Professor William Heath received a great surprise from the Western Writer…