Western history and fiction publishing is at a crossroads, and only brave publishers and good storytelling will save the day.
The Best of the West: Western Books
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U.S. Small Arms of 1855
Review ofJohn Willyard’s U.S. Model 1855 Series of Small Arms.
Bloody War, Bitter Peace
Review of historian Robert N. Watt’s “With My Face to My Bitter Foes”: Nana’s War 1880-1881.
Guns Ablaze
Review of Terrence McCauley’s Dark Territory.
Brigham Young, Not Revealed
Review of Thomas G. Alexander’s Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith.
Tarnished Gold
Review of Gordon H. Chang’s Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad.
A Tragic Hero
Review of Patricia Tyson Stroud’s Bitterroot: The Life and Death of Meriwether Lewis.
A Gun that Won the West
Review of Sharps Firearms, The Percussion Era, 1848-1865, Volume I by Roy Marcot, Edward W. Marron, Jr. and Ron Paxton.
Ask the Marshall
What did cowboys read for pleasure?
Building your Western Library: Matthew P. Mayo
Matthew P. Mayo is the award-winning author of dozens of novels and nonfiction books about the West, including the recent multi-award-winning YA...
The Fabled Doc Holliday
Historians and enthusiasts have long debated the existence of the correspondence between John Henry “Doc” Holliday and his first cousin Mattie. An...
The Last Cowboy
Men trapped outside their times—it was the great theme of Sam Peckinpah’s best movies, and Brad Smith makes it his own in his first-rate novel, The...