In 1999, the U.S. Forest Service and the National Endowment for the Arts awarded Paula Morin a grant to research the impact of wild horses in the...
The Day Coffeyville Bled
So the real story is that the Dalton Gang was led by a woman, and she was secretly married to Bob Dalton and bore him a daughter. Her sister, who...
History May be Searched in Vain: A Military History of the Mormon Battalion
(Thank heavens for subtitles attached to mystifying “poetic” book titles.) A number of good books on the Mexican War’s Mormon Battalion have been...
Stone Song
Could Crazy Horse’s pursuit of his Spirit Rider be an unspoken sacrament, or was his unyielding devotion to the Oglala’s survival the true vision?...
The Saddlemaker’s Wife
A Berkley Prime Crime novel, this story has little to do with making saddles. When Ruby McGavin’s husband of six months commits suicide, she is...
The Rebel: Johnny Yuma
Riding away from a lost war, Confederate Johnny Yuma has two vows to keep: He must find a dead friend’s sister and rejoin his father, sheriff of...
The Price of Pride
In this Western Romance set in the 1890s, Sarah Brighton, an opinionated journalist from St. Louis, travels to wild and wooly Santa Fe, New Mexico,...
Remington Schuyler’s West
Western art of the 1920-30s somehow awakens a degree of nostalgia in all of us, and there is plenty of it here. Artist Remington Schuyler...
Rock Art Along the Way
In the words of the author, “This book is not a scientific explanation of rock art or its meaning.” With that clear, the reader can enjoy this grand...
Albuquerque in Our Time
“Our Time” means the years since WWII. After a brief survey of Albuquerque’s earlier history, Debra Hughes turns the book over to 30 prominent...
Albuquerque Remembered
Writer Erna Fergusson observed in 1947 that Albuquerque, “sitting at the crossroads of the centuries,” had seen every phase of Southwestern life....
God’s Country, Uncle Sam’s Land: Faith and Conflict in the American West (Nonfiction)
The West is the home of individualism, liberty and religious freedom. Well, not always. Three tragic exceptions to this mythology are examined at...