Blaine Lamb has long been fascinated by all forms of transportation, but has a soft spot in his heart for railroads. Thi…
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A Lyrical History of the West The Hell-Bound Train: A Cowboy Song Book by Glenn Ohrlin
Sure ’nuff cowboy songs and stories from a sure ’nuff cowboy—does it get any better than that? Edited by Charles Seeman,…
Life and Death on the Fur Trade Frontier
Is courage something learned or is it in our DNA? Can we control it? Based on a true story, Mariano’s Choice (Pronghorn …
The Osage, Oil and the FBI
When oil was discovered underneath their Oklahoma reservation, the Osage Indians became the wealthiest people per capita…
Building Your Western Library: Preston Lewis West Texas Author’s Best of the English West
Midland, Texas, native Preston Lewis has spent much of his life working and writing in his beloved West Texas. During hi…
Good for a Laugh… and a Shiver
The New Mexico Territory has one helluva hard case on the loose! Jim Jones’s The Big Empty (Five Star, $25.95) whips up …
Kill or Be Killed Jeff Guinn’s trilogy dramatically concludes in Silver City, while new perspectives on the Civil War in the Southwest are revealed, an old-fashioned Western entertains, an Indian murder begets the FBI, and a saga of love and hope across the West inspires.
Since Owen Wister published The Virginian in 1902 and Zane Grey published The Last of the Plainsman in 1908, Western aut…