Western
Gunman’s Rhapsody
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Best known for his Spenser detective series, Robert Parker changes his focus from a private eye in contemporary Boston to a late 19th ...Read Review
The Last Canyon
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In the first of two parallel stories, John Vernon chronicles Major John Wesley Powell’s 1869 expedition through the Great Canyon. On May 23, Powell ...Read Review
Grass Heart
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The fate of the Mandan Amerindians (the ‘White Indians,’ also once thought to be migrant Welsh) of the upper Missouri River makes up ...Read Review
Mystic Warriors
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This, Bittner’s final installment in the “Mystic” trilogy (Mystic Dreamers, Mystic Visions) continues the story of Buffalo Dreamer and her husband, Rising ...Read Review
Fire in Beulah
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Fire in Beulah examines events, including lynching, racial warfare and land grabbing, that occurred during Oklahoma’s oil boom of the 1920s. It ...Read Review
An Uncommon Enemy
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In November 1868, General Custer penned a letter to his wife in which he mentioned the arrival of a white woman, presumably an Indian ...Read Review
The Holy Road
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In 1874, the US wants to extend their railroads into the southwestern territories, but to do so they must overcome the resistance of the ...Read Review
Chinatown Mission
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In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, Lorna Davidson is a feisty, independent schoolteacher whose lifelong ambition is to go to China as a missionary. Since ...Read Review
The Stone Garden: The Epic Life of Billy the Kid
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Whether psychopathic killer, misunderstood outlaw, or product of the Lincoln County, Nebraska range war (which pitted honest ranchers against corrupt ones), Henry McCarty ...Read Review
Medicine War
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In Medicine War, the good guys wear white, the bad guys wear black, the violence is swift and detached from human emotion, and ...Read Review