Thunder in the West – The Life and Legends of Billy the Kid, Richard W. Etulain, University of Oklahoma Press, $29.95, Non-fiction, Cloth. Illustrations, Photos, Essay on Sources, Bibliography, Index. [ … ]
Category: Literature
Murder in Montague – True Story of an Old West Massacre
Murder in Montague; Frontier Justice and Retribution in Texas, Glen Sample Ely, University of Oklahoma Press, $21.95, Paper. 166 pages, Photos, Map, Notes, Index. This is the true story of an [ … ]
SCALPED! – Native American Crime Fiction
Fifteen years ago, Dashiell ‘Dash’ Bad Horse ran away from a life of abject poverty and utter hopelessness on the Prairie Rose Indian Reservation in hopes of finding something better. [ … ]
Outlawed – Anna North
Outlawed by Anna North: The Crucible meets True Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the [ … ]
The Devil’s Triangle Ben Bickerstaff, Northeast Texans, and the War of Reconstruction in Texas
The Devil’s Triangle, James Smallwood, Kenneth Howell, Carol Taylor, University of North Texas Press. Paper, $19.95. Non-fiction, Maps, Notes, Bibliography, Index. This book is a well-written study of the War of [ … ]
Wrecked Lives and Lost Souls; Joe Lynch Davis and the Last of the Oklahoma Outlaws
Wrecked Lives and Lost Souls; Joe Lynch Davis and the Last of the Oklahoma Outlaws, Jerry Thompson, University of Oklahoma Press, $24.95, Paper. Nonfiction, U.S. History, Illustrations. Maps, Notes, Bibliography, [ … ]
Gothic Texas Tale – “Secret of San Saba” (1989)
The great comics chronicler of Texas history, Jack “Jaxon” Jackson brought forth Secret of San Saba, in which early conquistadors from early Texas discover an unearthly Lovecraftian horror beneath the sagebrush [ … ]
Soiled Doves: Prostitution in the Early West (2003)
In Soiled Doves: Prostitution in the Early West, Anne Seagraves argues, “The ‘soiled doves’ and red light districts were as much a part of the early West as the piles [ … ]
Pretty Deadly (2013) Western Horror Genre Comic
Kelly Sue DeConnick’s (Avengers Assemble, Captain Marvel) and Emma Rios’ (Dr. Strange, Osborn) Pretty Deadly is their surprise-hit series that marries the magical realism of Sandman with the western brutality [ … ]
The Cornett-Whitley Gang; Violence Unleashed in Texas
The Cornett-Whitley Gang; Violence Unleashed in Texas, David Johnson, University of North Texas Press, $29.95, Cloth. Non-fiction, 320 pages, Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography, Index. The time period for this book is [ … ]