TCU Press

Halloween on the Butterfield Trail

By Patrick Dearen - Published 2025

Genres:

Children/Young AdultWestern

Eleven-year-old twins Bird and Wiley Pulliam are riding the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach with their father, who is one of the drivers, in 1860 ...Read Review

The Last Woman

By John Willingham - Published 2025

Genres:

Western

From a Catholic school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1877, to a West Texas ghost town on the eve of World War II, The ...Read Review

The Big Dry

By Patrick Dearen - Published 2024

Genres:

AdventureWestern

1880s Texas:  Will Brite is in trouble with the law—his pregnant wife Jessie has mixed- race ancestry.  She can pass for white, ...Read Review

The Silent Shore of Memory

By John C. Kerr - Published 2016

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Lt. James Barnhill is only 25 when General Hood leads the Fifth Texas Regiment against Little Round Top during the battle of Gettysburg. Hood ...Read Review

Playing Custer

By Gerald Duff - Published 2015

Genres:

Western

June 2001. A home economics teacher and a software engineer drive from Texas to Montana to reenact the 125th anniversary of Custer’s Last ...Read Review

Texas Tales Illustrated: “The Revolution”

By Mack White (illus.) - By Mike Kearby - Published 2011

Genres:

Children/Young AdultWestern

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