This stunning wild west tale of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West was a major New York Times bestseller. In the tradition of Bury My [ … ]
Category: Literature
Nighthawk Rising: Female Cattle Rustler
This fascinating story is the biography of “Queen” Ann Bassett, an accused female cattle rustler living in Brown’s Park in the 1880s through the turn of the century. Brown’s Park [ … ]
Weird Wild West True Tales of the Strange and Gothic (2019)
The Weird Wild West is infamous for its outrageous stories, cowboys, and gun battles. But the region is also known for its ghost stories, unexplained deaths, bizarre murders, and peculiar [ … ]
Cities of the Plain – Cormac McCarthy Trilogy’s Pt. 3
Cities of the Plain, the final volume of Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy, binds together the separate tales of John Grady Cole from All the Pretty Horses and Billy Parham from [ … ]
The Crossing – Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy Pt. 2
The Crossing, publicized as the second installment of Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy. Like its predecessor, All the Pretty Horses (1992), The Crossing is a coming-of-age novel set on the border between the southwest United States and Mexico. The plot [ … ]
All the Pretty Horses – Border Trilogy Book One
In All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy begins his Border Trilogy with a coming of age tale that is a departure from the bizarre richness and mysterious violence of his early [ … ]
Valley Of The Guns – Old West Vendetta
Valley Of The Guns, Eduarado Obregôn Pagan, University of Oklahoma Press, $29.95, Cloth. Maps, Illustrations, Photos, Notes, Bibliography, Index. “Pleasant Valley” conjures up images of warm summer evenings, horses quietly munching [ … ]
Noose; A Joe Noose Wild Western
Here is the second posting of a breed of Wild Western, and a publisher who admits some stories feature “dark humor” such as cannibalism… Noose; A Joe Noose Western, Eric [ … ]
No Justice in Hell; New Dark Western Paperbacks
A large selection of an action-packed dark western paperbacks are being published by Kensington Publishing Corp., imprint Pinnacle Books, and are finding popularity among readers who have grown weary of [ … ]
I See By Your Outfit, Historic Cowboy Gear of the Northern Plains
I See By Your Outfit, Historic Cowboy Gear of the Northern Plains, Tom Lindmier & Steve Mount, High Plains Press, Glendo, Wyoming. $19.95, Paperback. Photos, Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. Here is [ … ]