Book Reviews Archives

Sitting Bull: Prisoner of War

by TW Editors | Jan 8, 2011

No one can top Robert Utley’s biography of Sitting Bull, Lance and the Shield. Yet although the master devoted a chapter to the Hunkpapa chief’s...

Myth, Memory and Massacre

by TW Editors | Jan 8, 2011

After 150 years of a fictional understanding of the 1860 Battle of Pease River (the battle did not even occur there), the falsifications of...

All of My People Were Killed

by TW Editors | Jan 8, 2011

This Sharlot Hall Museum treasure shares the first-person narrative of a Yavapai orphan taken in by his Army captors after troops killed his family...

Plains Indians Regalia & Customs

by TW Editors | Jan 8, 2011

This jam-packed volume gathers together the 18th- and 19th-century observations of the styles and mannerisms of Plains Indian people that are in...

Building One Fire: Art and World View in Cherokee Life

by TW Editors | Jan 8, 2011

“I never met a man I didn’t like,” Cherokee humorist Will Rogers famously said, espousing the philosophy that all are sacred in the worldview of the...

Ghost Town Travelogues

by William Garwood | Oct 23, 2010

In 1938, teenager Phil Varney moved with his folks from the flatlands of Illinois to the deserts of Arizona. He’d never seen mountains shouldering...

The Cowgirl Way

by Cynthia Green | Oct 23, 2010

When women moved to the American West with the great migration of the 1800s, they left behind some of the constricting rules of femininity, becoming...

In the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark

by Richard H. Dillon | Oct 23, 2010

In the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark, by Wallace G. Lewis, is not just another title in the flood of books about the Lewis and Clark expedition....

Four Years in Europe With Buffalo Bill

by Richard H. Dillon | Oct 23, 2010

Charles Eldridge Griffin’s memoir, Four Years in Europe With Buffalo Bill, makes an interesting sidebar to the biography of William F. Cody and the...