Kenneth Thomasma built an entire career telling stories we almost missed. Lifetime passions can start simply: like when a 30-something...
He Plucked One Paragraph Out of History
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East vs. West
H.W. Brand’s major new dual biography of Geronimo and Sherman, plus a new history of Western prostitution, a pair of classic Westerns and a new...
The Rascal Highwayman
John Boessenecker’s new biography of Black Bart, plus three new history-travel books, a Southern Plains adventure and a collection of rip-roaring...
Battle for the New World
A bold, new interpretation of the conquest of North America, plus two new books on Western borders, a biography of King Fisher and a classic Western...
Best of the West 2023: Western Books
The Hero’s Journey The heroic efforts of the men and women who write and publish about the West must be celebrated. This year will mark the...
What History Has Taught Me: Irene Bennett Brown
Award-winning author Irene Bennett Brown likes Kansas settings for her historical novels. Her young adult novel, Before the Lark, won a Western...
A Legendary Year, an Epic Story
A rollicking chronicle of the West, plus a new Arizona Rangers history, new bios of Hopi potter Nampeyo and Apache Chiquito, and a new classic...
Time-Honored Books on the Cowboys of the Long Trail
A True West reader recently requested a list of my favorite authors and books on the old-time cowboys on the Long Trail from southwest Texas...
War and Peace
Linda Wommack’s new history of Colorado’s Indian Wars, a collection of essays on the Silver State, a tale of a Cheyenne hero, a classic Western from...
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GraphicAudio…A Movie in Your Mind is an award-winning dramatized audiobook entertainment producer based out of Rockville, Maryland. Find over 500...
The Thrill of the West
Discover the tourist West in American Dude Ranch, and read a frontier murder-mystery, a novel of Libbie Custer, a Santa Fe Trail adventure and a bio...
A Place of Wonder, A Time of Turmoil
A dynamic history of the creation of Yellowstone, a new gunfighter debate, a fresh interpretation of Western women and family, a Great Plains...