John Kachuba
The Good Thief
Twelve year-old Ren does not have much hope of being adopted from St. Anthony’s orphanage at which he was abandoned…
Hard Winter: A Western Story
This novel from Spur Award winner Boggs is not the stereotypical Western. Rather, this is a coming-of-age story told…
Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius
In 1796 Dr. Franz Joseph Gall began lecturing in Vienna about his anatomical studies of the human skull that…
Sonora Moonlight
In the 18th century, Spanish missionaries struggle to convert and educate the Native American population of Sonora, Northwest New Spain…
Riding Vengeance with the James Gang
In the preface to this novel about the notorious gang headed by Frank and Jesse James, Gilmore expresses how difficult…
Rio Chama
New Mexico Territory in the 1890s was as wild as the West could be with gunslingers, cattle rustlers, and hostile…
City of Silver
Editors' choice
In the 17th century, fabulous lodes of silver were mined from the area around Potosi, making the city in the…
The Sound of Building Coffins
In 1891 New Orleans, a black preacher named Noonday Morningstar, with the help of his son Typhus, saves the infant…
Nambe Year One
Out of print for many years since its publication in 1976, Romero’s luminous and mystical novel is once again available…
To Catch The Lightning
While Edward S. Curtis’s iconic photos of Native Americans, taken in the early years of the 20th century, revealed much…
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