In Wagons West: Texas Freedom!, Dana Fuller Ross spins an intriguing tale worthy of Alamo history buffs. When the fortified Alamo mission’s walls...
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Book Reviews
The Great Taos Bank Robbery and Other True Stories
Tony Hillerman is best known for his novels featuring Navajo crime fighters. Yet The Great Taos Bank Robbery and Other True Stories consists of 17...
Kill the Indian
In this latest installment of Boggs’s Killstraight series, Kill the Indian, Daniel Killstraight heads to Texas where he meets Quanah Parker. A freak...
The Devil’s Hoofprints
The Devil’s Hoofprints is an anthology consisting of 13 short stories aimed at action-oriented readers. This collection is written by an author who...
City of Rocks
As self doubt spread during the Great Depression, the Federal Writer’s Project seemed to address how generations endured and even bulldogged fate....
Railroad Avenue
Phyllis de la Garza is a master storyteller of old Arizona, both legend and lore, often with a female theme. Her latest Arizona tale, Railroad...
Hard Country
Ex-cop Michael McGarrity is known for his police procedural mysteries featuring Santa Fe police chief Kevin Kerney (Tularosa, Dead or Alive)....
Route 66: Lost & Found
The famous Mother Road pathway lingers in our memories, and Russell A. Olsen highlights its charms in Route 66: Lost & Found (Voyageur Press,...
Cleaving an Unknown World
By 1869, Lewis & Clark, trappers, U.S. Army surveyors and pioneer emigrants had pretty much explored most of the continental United States, but...
The Great Plains Guide to Custer
When folks ask me about the goals I have as the U.S. Congress’s “Foremost Custer Living Historian,” I tell them that, in addition to reading the...
Our Favorite Reads of 2011
True West editors weigh in on our favorite reads. BIOGRAPHIES THE KILLING OF CRAZY HORSEBy Thomas Powers (Knopf/Vintage)The shadowy warrior of...
JOHNNY D. BOGGS
Spur and Wrangler award-winning author of 40 books. His novel, Kill the Indian, will be out in June. The Best Western I Saw:Was undoubtedly...