Established in 1870, the penitentiary at Deer Lodge, Montana Territory’s first federal facility, was indeed dark, controversial and legendary. The...
Dark Spaces: Montana’s Historic Penitentiary at Deer Lodge (Nonfiction)
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Book Reviews
Full-Court Quest (Nonfiction)
An absolutely stunning photo appears on page 357. It is a 1908 photo of graduate Emma Sansavor, a player for the 1904 world champion basketball team...
Wallace Stegner and the American West (Nonfiction)
Fradkin is the perfect fit to study Stegner’s career in the West, as he himself is also a polished writer, historian and environmentalist. Stegner...
Word Gets Around (Fiction)
In this contemporary Romance, Lauren Eldridge returns to Texas to help her father train a horse for an upcoming Hollywood movie. This is Lauren’s...
Buried Lies (Fiction)
This Western within a Western begins with vacationing Gus Ivy’s haircut in an Arizona barber shop. A reader of sagebrush yarns, he spots The Cavity...
Longhorns and Outlaws (Children’s Books)
Ages 9-14: Lucas and Gil Vogel lose everything when the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 sweeps away their parents, their Texas homestead and life as...
Blood on the Prairie (Fiction)
Toby Ryker, chief scout of the Sixth Minnesota, is a red-headed, half white-half Chippewa man. Living life to the brim, he would rather ride the...
The Last Renegade (Fiction)
In 1877 Texas, Comanche teenager Young-Man-Listens is captured by a white posse and sold to a traveling circus. After two years of humiliating...
My Eyes Have a Cold Nose (Fiction)
Sensitive and intuitive, this book features an unusual theme. Blind since birth, Elizabeth “Gigi” Garrett is a retired concert pianist who lives in...
Big Sycamore Stands Alone (Nonfiction)
This tome offers a thorough treatment of the history and culture of Arizona’s Aravaipa Canyon and its people, the Western Apaches. Comprehensive...
As Big as the West: The Pioneer Life of Granville Stuart (Nonfiction)
Seven years after his death in 1918, Granville Stuart’s second wife published his two-volume pioneer memoir. In it, he had romanticized his 40 years...
The Sutton-Taylor Feud (Nonfiction)
Some revisionist researchers say the Sutton-Taylor war—which claimed some 80 lives between 1868 and the early 1890s—wasn’t a feud but an outlaw gang...