In this second book in the Holmes on the Range series, brothers Big Red and Old Red Amlingmeyer pin on railroad detective badges and swear to...
On the Wrong Track
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Book Reviews
A People at War
This is not, exactly, a history of the homefront during the Civil War. Its subtitle, “Civilians and Soldiers in America’s Civil War,” includes the...
The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War
The Civil War was traumatic to most Americans, but it was a double whammy to the Cherokees. Already badly split into warring factions over...
One Hundred Years of Winchester Cartridge Boxes, 1856-1956
This first and only definitive work completely devoted to Winchester cartridge boxes is a worthy reference. With more than 1,100 full color...
Identity By Design
Gazing upon these dresses of hide and canvas, ornamented by glass beads and quills and elk teeth, a story comes to life. Indian dresses are more...
Fort Concho and the Texas Frontier
In 1952, Haley’s excellent Fort Concho was published in a short press run that guaranteed it would become not only a classic of Texana but a rare...
The Cowboy Girl
As biographies go, this is no doubt the best I have read in years. Clayton’s narrative story of Caroline Lockhart begins in her young reporter...
Lone Star Pasts
Attempting to define the difference between memory and reality, this book essentially is a collection of essays written to honor the Texas myth...
California Desperadoes
Between WWI and II, writers such as Stuart Lake and Walter Noble Burns penned popular, but careless, studies of Western outlaws and lawmen. They did...
Hawks and Eagles
Wandering young Joe Good returns to his Fort Willow homestead to find his peaceful father, Vincent, gunned down on orders of land-grabbing rancher...
Best Stories of the American West
The 20 short stories in this first volume vary from a 1953 Elmore Leonard reprint to more contemporary stories set in the “new” West. The topics...
The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn
Joseph Marshall continues to touch and impress me with his insightful books on the history and traditions of the Lakota culture. This volume offers...