This odd-but-interesting book provides an easy way of briefing someone on the tragic story of the Donner party, trapped in winter snows during...
Searching for Tamsen Donner (Nonfiction)
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Book Reviews
Return of the Gun (Fiction)
Again, Jon Stoudenmier, one of the West’s most invincible gunfighters, takes the same well-worn trail leading to trouble. In this story, he leaves...
Finding Chief Kamiakin (Nonfiction)
This oversized and extra-illustrated paperback introduces us to a neglected chief, Kamiakin of the Yakimas. Among the illustrations are beautiful...
Custer Into the West (Nonfiction)
The well-researched Custer Into the West focuses on George Armstrong Custer’s summer campaign of 1867, from the 7th Cavalry’s departure at Fort Hays...
Music of the Alamo (Nonfiction)
The authors claim this book contains the only complete list of songs surrounding all aspects of the Alamo. I wouldn’t know, but as I read this...
Sacajawea (Children’s Book)
Ages 12 and Up: Abenaki author Joseph Bruchac has written more than 100 books for adults and children about Indian experience. This time he honors...
No Need For A Gunfighter (Fiction)
When Barjack, the gunfighter with one name, drifts into gang-ridden Asininity as the appointed marshal, he pistol whips the Snake Martin bunch into...
Arizona War (Fiction)
This award-winning page-turner finds brothers Trace and James Colton a few months after their captivity and vicious torturing by Apache leader...
Dreams Beneath Your Feet (Fiction)
This is the sixth and last book in the “Mountain Man” series featuring a white man named Sam and his half-breed pal Hannibal who trap beaver in the...
Hurd’s Crossing (Fiction)
These double-barreled stories use one of the great perennial tales—man hunting man. In “Hidden Valley,” young rancher Arch Sullivan takes several...
Blacks in East Texas History (Nonfiction)
This scholarly, heavily annotated book reminds us that the Old South met the Old West in Texas during the 19th century. The wetter portions of...
Rabbit Creek Country (Nonfiction)
Walking in the northern Colorado foothills, the author discovered an abandoned ranch. Intrigued, he unearthed the social history of the area as well...