Western art historian Larry Len Peterson has reached new heights in The American West Imagined: Gems from the Coeur d’Alene Art Auction (The Coeur...
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La Frontiera
Jeff Guinn’s new book War on the Border, a fresh biography of Custer, a collection of Western classics, and updated histories of the Blackfoot...
Riding the Rails into History
The well-known story of the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad and the Irish and Chinese men who built it has been recounted many times,...
We Are the Land Sponsored by the University of California Press
We Are the Land, A History of Native California by Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer Jr. "A welcome contribution to Native studies and the rich...
Blood on the Trail
The latest biography of Daniel Boone, plus new bios of Doc Holliday and Buffalo Bill, and histories of the Chiricahuas and California good-time...
Remembering Larry McMurtry
The life and times of the legendary Western writer and the legacy of Lonesome Dove. “Sometimes Sonny felt like he was the only human creature in...
Home on the Range
Jim Hoy’s highly personal biography of the Kansas Flint Hills, two new biographies of Butch Cassidy, Bill Neal’s autobiography and Deborah Swenson’s...
Border Bandits, Outlaws and Cattle Thieves
Samuel K. Dolan returns to the border with Hell Paso, plus new biographies of Wild Bill Hickok and Montanan Sarah Bickford, a history of Texas in...
Fighting for Honor
A Texas Rangers historian reflects on one-sided history and the danger it presents to our understanding of the past—and the present. The Texas...
Rough Drafts
Western Books Crossing My Path My mailboxes (real and virtual) have been filling up with news, notes and announcements of the end of 2020 books and...
Western Books: An Officer of Honor and Grit
A remarkable biography of U.S. cavalryman Lt. Powhatan Clark, plus a new history of the Civil War in the Southwest, big new biographies of Billy the...
The Best of the West: Western Books
If 2020 taught us anything as readers of Western history and fiction, it was that we depend on our storytellers to help us endure hard times....