At the University of Southern California in 1926, Marion Morrison, a.k.a. John Wayne, studied law and truly hoped to become an All-American football...
Blood and Thunder
Lurking behind a dumb, misleading title is a good book. (This is not some harum scarum melodrama by a dime novel Dickens.) True, persnickety readers...
WHITE MAN’S PAPER TRAIL
Stan Hoig’s extensive research spans about 40 years and is revealed in more than a dozen books on Indian history. This new effort is among his best....
The Life & Times of Nathaniel Hale Pryor
Much of the frenzied publishing of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial has been the retelling of a fairly familiar story. But this book is a welcome...
THE RAIDERS: SONS OF TEXAS
The continuing saga of the Lewis Clan finds the clan’s tenacious hold upon the vastness of Texas about to be put to the test. Even though 10 years...
Rodeo Summer
Trevor Hodge graduates from college with a degree in accounting, but his life changes abruptly by news that his father, a cowboy whom he never knew,...
TROUBLE HUNTER
Not often does the hunter become the hunted, yet when lawman Walt Durand doggedly trails a missing deputy to the prairie town of Red Cloud, he’s...
To Tease A Texan
In this l890s Romance, a wealthy Texas beauty tries to prove her worth by running away to lawless Oklahoma Territory to work in a saloon. She falls...
The Boys at the Bar
Reading the back cover comments, as many consumers do, I immediately formed a negative opinion (I spent my college weekends in Steamboat Springs,...
Charles F. Lummis: Editor of the Southwest
Charles F. Lummis, founder and editor of Land of Sunshine/Out West, has inspired a few books, including a Spur award-winning biography in 2002. He...
Ropes, Reins, and Rawhide
Think you know everything about rodeos? Whether you do or not, this book makes pretty interesting reading. Writing mostly for the Western novice,...
River of Memory: The Everlasting Columbia
River of Memory is a captivating read on the Columbia River before it was tamed by the 14 hydraulic dams that confine its flow today. Layman takes...