Western
A Port in the Storm
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Boston socialite Margaret Ward jounces over the Wyoming landscape in a stagecoach in 1885. A scandal has led her father to send Margaret to ...Read Review
Texas Tales Illustrated: “The Revolution”
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Two-thirds graphic novel and one-third background material, “The Revolution” tells the story of events between October 1835 and December 1836 in the struggle to form ...Read Review
Light on a Distant Hill: A Novel of the Indian West
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Ellen O’Hara, at age sixteen, is being sent west from Kansas as a mail-order bride. Before she has the chance to meet ...Read Review
The Sisters Brothers
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Speaking as someone who won’t read Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove because it’s a Western, won’t see the evidently delicious ...Read Review
Written in Blood
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It is 1877, and 16-year-old Jim Doolen has set out to find the father he hasn’t seen in ten years. Jim travels alone ...Read Review
Jedediah Smith: No Ordinary Mountain Man
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The term “mountain man” conjures up visions of doggedly independent and fiercely combative men more than capable of adapting and thriving in areas ...Read Review
The Floor of Heaven: A True Tale of the Last Frontier and the Yukon Gold Rush
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One of the underappreciated joys of studying history lies in tapping into the lives and times of some of the very curious people ...Read Review
Child of the Fighting Tenth
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This re-released memoir recounts the early life of author Forrestine “Birdie” Cooper Hooker, growing up in the frontier West. The daughter of an ...Read Review
The Bride’s House
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The only way to get rich in a Colorado mining town in 1880 is to strike gold or marry a rich man, like Nealie’...Read Review
South By Southwest
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Zeb Hogan has a mission to carry out for the Union’s 16th Wisconsin: find and kill the traitor Sergeant Ben DeVere. It ...Read Review