In Thomas D. Claggett’s latest novel, West of Penance (Five Star, $16.80), Parisian gambler Clement Grantaire is accused of cheating. After killing...
A Western Tale of Intrigue
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A Hell-Bent Ride on a Snortin’ Prince of a Mule
In July 1867, leaders of the Sioux and Northern Cheyenne tribes gathered on Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory to plan the next phase in their most...
Beeves, Barons, and Barbed Wire
In 2017, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas towns are celebrating the sesquicentennial of the first cattle drives on the Chisholm Trail—from South Texas,...
Building Your Western Library with Blaine Lamb
Blaine Lamb has long been fascinated by all forms of transportation, but has a soft spot in his heart for railroads. This may be because his great...
Western Adventure
Lee Martins’ The Last Wild Ride (CreateSpace, $7.35) tells the story of Sam Jefferies, a rugged cowboy carrying a death wish until he is asked to...
‘Never Take No Cutoffs’
Roman slave and poet-playwright Terence famously wrote in his 163 B.C. play Heauton Timorumenos, “Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto,” or “I...
Lady Pinkertons
Her smile could be shy; her glance at times demure, but her ears never missed a secret. A master of disguises, she changed her accent at will,...
Building Your Western Library: Preston Lewis
Midland, Texas, native Preston Lewis has spent much of his life working and writing in his beloved West Texas. During his award-winning four-decade...
Kill or Be Killed
Since Owen Wister published The Virginian in 1902 and Zane Grey published The Last of the Plainsman in 1908, Western authors have mined the West’s...
Hero on the Run
In Matthew Mayo’s The Outfit: To Hell and Back (Five Star, $25.95) Rafe Barr, Civil War hero, wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and son, is...
The Vengeance Trail
C. Courtney Joyner’s Shotgun: The Bleeding Ground (Pinnacle Books, $6.99) is the follow up to Joyner’s Shotgun, the novel that introduced us to Dr....
Battle for Paradise
David K. Randall has fully recounted for the first time the legendary Southern California Rindge Family land war in The King and Queen of Malibu:...