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Lakota West
Native is the first book in Mike J. Sparrow’s projected “Manifest Destiny” series portraying the westward migration across the Great Plains. In 1864...
Montana Frontier Chinese Culture
The Coming Man from Canton: Chinese Experience in Montana, 1862-1943, by Christopher W. Merritt (University of Nebraska Press, $65) is a...
Texas Desperado
Graham Barnett (1890-1931) was a Texas lawman, a gunfighter, a drunk and a dangerous man. His story is entwined in the Mexican Revolution along the...
Mountain Man Extraordinaire
David Weston Marshall’s Mountain Man: John Colter, The Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American West (Countryman Press, $24.95) is...
Building Your Western Library With Leo W. Banks
As a youngster, Leo W. Banks watched too many TV and movie Westerns. The summer before entering Boston College High School, the Jesuits sent out a...
Twain Redux
Robert Coover tackles the impossible in Huck Out West (W.W. Norton, $26.95), a sequel to Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that puts...
Cuban Affair
John Horst’s Roosevelt’s Boys (Five Star Publishing $25.95) is a thoughtful, well- told story of Arizona cowboys caught up in the great adventure in...
The Soldiers’ West
Douglas C. McChristian’s Regular Army O!: Soldiering on the Western Frontier, 1865–1891 (University of Oklahoma Press, $40) has breadth and depth, a...
Building Your Western Library with William Groneman III
William Groneman III, born and raised in New York City as a member of the Baby Boomer generation, grew up on a steady diet of Western television...
Jersey Argonauts
The 1848 discovery of gold on the American River by New Jerseyan James W. Marshall set off an international migration. Jersey Gold—The Newark...
“To Honor Men Who Dig For Gold”
Ghost Towns of the West (Voyager Press, $24.99) by Philip Varney and Jim Hinckley, is a must for lovers of history and solitude. The book features...