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....
The View Ahead
In the last quarter of the year, publishers are busily touting end-of-the year books and next year’s early releases. From advance copies I have received, I believe fans of Western history and fiction will be busy for the next few months buying and reading a bounty of offerings from publishers, small and large.
Last Ride Across Hi-Lo
Max Evans’s final novel The King of Taos, a literary Western, and new biographies of outlaws Cherokee Bill and Willis Newton.
The Horizon West
Western book publishing is experiencing a banner year in 2020 despite the pandemic.
Duels, Dice And The Sporting Life
Peter Brand’s long-awaited biography of Johnny Tyler, a new Pleasant Valley Western, biographies of a Texas Ranger and Calamity Jane
and the latest interpretation of Tombstone.
First Peoples, Original View
A groundbreaking book on Indian photographers, plus a biography of a heroic horse, a novel of the Alamo, a forgotten U.S. marshal and the power of Western theater.