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...

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...
After chasing Confederates in New Mexico and Arizona during the Civil War, veterans of the California Column stayed put and became pioneers of...
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...
Certainly skinning knives rated as among the most important tools in the frontiersman’s kit, yet little information is available to the enthusiast...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Not four months after the bloodshed at Wounded Knee, 75 Lakota Indians—including 23 presumed “hostiles” who had been confined at Fort Sheridan,...
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...
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....
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...