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...
Time-Honored Books on the Cowboys of the Long Trail
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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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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...
The Silver King
A new biography of George Hearst, plus a new bio of James K.P. Miller, a multigenerational women’s story, a history of poker in the West and a new...
What History Has Taught Me: Ray Herbeck, Jr.
Novelist, Musician, Filmmaker Ray Herbeck, Jr. is a historical novelist, Americana musician (SlackJawBros.com) and former film/TV writer/ producer....
Shooting Back
Our readers remind us of the variables and vagaries of historic truths, “well-established” facts, headlines and historical photographs. Flags...
Best of the West 2022: Western Books
The Western Hangs On While Old West history titles wane, classic Western fiction continues to sell. The canary in the coal mine of Old West...
What They Read in the Old West
Francis Parkman was an essayist historian, writing about the Oregon Trail. He also lived with the Sioux Indians for six months and wrote about their...
America’s Trailblazer
Jerry Enzler’s new biography of Jim Bridger, and new histories of Lewis and Clark, the grand masters of Western art, war on the central plains and...
Notorious and Legendary
John Boessenecker’s new biography of Pearl Hart, plus a new dual bio of Geronimo and Sitting Bull, new histories of train robbing and the Western...