After chasing Confederates in New Mexico and Arizona during the Civil War, veterans of the California Column stayed put and became pioneers of...
When Silver was King: Arizona’s 1880s Silver King Mine
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Book Reviews
The U.S. Army in the West, 1870-1880
Douglas C. McChristian’s book is a treasure trove of information that prior to its publication could only be obtained in bits and pieces through...
The Skinning Knife
Certainly skinning knives rated as among the most important tools in the frontiersman’s kit, yet little information is available to the enthusiast...
Smonk
The Rabelaisian Western has arrived. Its grotesque anti-hero, Eugene Oregon Smonk, is a man with a purpose, that of raising as much Cain and killing...
Come Sundown
Honore Greenwood, known to the Indians as Plenty Man, is an admitted murderer, liar and thief. He escaped a French hangman years ago and ran away to...
Bitter Wind
Disillusioned, Bill Lang rides away from a land-grabbing range war, but death dogs him after he downs a brash gunman in a Cheyenne saloon....
Spirit Car
This is a haunting story about one woman’s journey into her past. Herself one-quarter Dakota, Wilson embarks on a car trip through South Dakota’s...
Hostiles? The Lakota Ghost Dance and Buffalo Bill’s Wild West
Not four months after the bloodshed at Wounded Knee, 75 Lakota Indians—including 23 presumed “hostiles” who had been confined at Fort Sheridan,...
San Juan Bonanza
Duane Smith is the finest mining historian and writer I personally know. With this new book, that is both a blessing and a curse. The book is...
Passionate Nation: The Epic History of Texas
Probably because he also writes novels, Haley gives us the opposite of a stodgy textbook history of the Lone Star State. Best of all, he is candid....
Making Home Work
In the second half of the 19th century, the white, middle-class concept of home was assumed to be a perfect model for civilization in the American...
The Texas Sheriff
This is a marvelous salute to the multitude of Texas sheriffs during the first half of the 20th century, and all the complimentary adjectives I can...