Matthew P. Mayo is the award-winning author of dozens of novels and nonfiction books about the West, including the recent multi-award-winning YA...
Building your Western Library: Matthew P. Mayo
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The Fabled Doc Holliday
Historians and enthusiasts have long debated the existence of the correspondence between John Henry “Doc” Holliday and his first cousin Mattie. An...
The Last Cowboy
Men trapped outside their times—it was the great theme of Sam Peckinpah’s best movies, and Brad Smith makes it his own in his first-rate novel, The...
The Legendary Buckskin Frank
Buckskin Frank Leslie is one of the great names in Old West history, but there’s been no full-length biography of the man—until now. Historians Jack...
Cattle King of the West
State Historian of Texas Bill O’Neal’s latest book, John Chisum: Frontier Cattle King, explores the life and times of Chisum’s legendary role as a...
Rough Drafts
The last quarter of every publishing year brings a plethora of new Western history books into my mailbox. Here are some great books that I know True...
A Man of the West
Historians, students, collectors and fans of Western American art will be in debt to William Reynolds for many decades after his publication of Joe...
Life Lessons from Western Lawmen
Weaving together a fascinating series of Western manhunts, author Chris Enss in Principles of Posse Management: Lessons from the Wild West reveals...
An Alamo Allegory
Line of Glory by Thomas D. Clagett (Five Star Publishing, $25.95) tells the story of the Alamo through the unique perspective of lesser-known...
Western Showdown
The Treasure of Bittercreek is Larry Richardson and Tom Richardson’s third installment in their Montana lawmen C. J. Mason and Thorn Hickum series,...
Cattle Queen of the West
For the past few decades Western historians have worked diligently to uncover, research and write a more comprehensive history of the West—a broader...
Building Your Western Library: Johnny D. Boggs
Seven-time Spur Award-winner Johnny D. Boggs has written volumes about Jesse James and “the boys,” including Northfield (Five Star, 2007), Jesse...