This volume on early Colorado history is concise, yet it offers nothing new, and the writing is very dry. I did enjoy the thumbnail sketches of the...

Oh, where to start? I found this book boring and tedious, probably akin to reading the stock market report. In the 1870s, Alexander Swan ultimately...

Authors have written excellent books on John C. Fremont (Allan Nevins, Ferol Egan) and even one (Pamela Herr) on his wife. Because of their devotion...

When a Mexican compadre sets out for a Wyoming sheep camp yet never arrives, Jimmy Clevis agrees to find his friend. During his travels, he meets...

The Lakota Sioux kept track of their past through an annual pictorial “Winter Count.” For more than 11 centuries, tribal historians drew the single...

All too often, writers dealing with the history of crime in the Old West neglect California once they are done covering Joaquin Murrieta and...

Texans have long vilified James Grant, a Scot with grandiose ambitions of forming the state of northern Mexico. He depleted weapons, munitions and...