Book Reviews Archives

Theodore Roosevelt, That Damned Cowboy

by Bill Markley | May 10, 2018

“Now we’ve got that damned cowboy as President!” Senator Mark Hanna exclaimed referring to Vice President Theodore Roosevelt after President William...

The Generals’ West

by Stuart Rosebrook | May 4, 2018

For 55 years, Robert M. Utley has been informing, entertaining and enlightening readers with his well-researched biographies and histories of the...

Lakota West

by Lucia St. Clair Robson | Nov 30, 2017

Native is the first book in Mike J. Sparrow’s projected “Manifest Destiny” series portraying the westward migration across the Great Plains. In 1864...

Texas Desperado

by Jim Wilson | Nov 22, 2017

Graham Barnett (1890-1931) was a Texas lawman, a gunfighter, a drunk and a dangerous man. His story is entwined in the Mexican Revolution along the...

Mountain Man Extraordinaire

by Brian Dervin Dillon | Nov 16, 2017

David Weston Marshall’s Mountain Man: John Colter, The Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American West (Countryman Press, $24.95) is...

“That Fiend in Hell”

by Mike Coppock | Nov 5, 2012

One would be hard-pressed to find a book on Alaskan outlaw Soapy Smith as well researched as Catherine Holder Spude’s “That Fiend in...

A Rocky Mountain Christmas

by Phyllis Morreale-de la Garza | Nov 5, 2012

William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone combine fantasy with Old West action in A Rocky Mountain Christmas. When a train is derailed by an...

He Rode with Butch and Sundance

by Richard Patterson | Nov 5, 2012

Mark T. Smokov’s biography of Wild Bunch member Harvey Logan, He Rode with Butch and Sundance: The Story of Harvey “Kid Curry” Logan, overturns some...

Custer Saved the Nation

by Jesse Mullins | Nov 5, 2012

More a study of cultures in collision than an attempt to set records straight or expose new findings about George A. Custer, Larry McMurtry’s Custer...