western reads Archives

Expanding Horizon

by Stuart Rosebrook | May 5, 2023

Elliott West’s Continental Reckoning, plus a Texas Ranger history, a dual biography of Cody and Hickok, a novel of the Mississippi frontier and a...

East vs. West

by Stuart Rosebrook | Mar 30, 2023

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

by Stuart Rosebrook | Feb 24, 2023

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

by Stuart Rosebrook | Jan 20, 2023

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

by Stuart Rosebrook | Dec 8, 2022

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...

A Legendary Year, an Epic Story

by Stuart Rosebrook | Oct 30, 2022

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

by Marshall Trimble | Sep 26, 2022

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

by Stuart Rosebrook | Sep 22, 2022

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...

The Thrill of the West

by Stuart Rosebrook | Mar 31, 2022

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...