The Mysterious Private Thompson, Laura Leedy Gansler, Free Press a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., $25.00, Hardcover. It is not unusual for women to become soldiers in our day [ … ]

Martha Canary, better known as Calamity Jane, was a legend in her own time.  Martha was born in Missouri in 1856, and had several younger siblings.  Her father was a [ … ]

Old West outlaw history has many “kids”, and the Sundance Kid is among the most popular.  He teamed up with Butch Cassidy, and the two robbed banks, blew up railroad [ … ]

In Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier, Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper have assembled a collection of essays that explore [ … ]

A Pair of Shootists; The Wild West Story of S. F Cody & Maud Lee, Jerry Kuntz, University of Oklahoma Press, (405‑325‑3200) $29.95, Hardcover. Photos, Notes to the Chapters, Index. [ … ]

The Hog Ranches of Wyoming; Liquor, Lust and Lies Under Sagebrush Skies, Larry K. Brown, High Plains Press, (800-552-7819) $9.95, Paperback. When the comment is made by those who know [ … ]

In this William Burroughs Western novel that is truly a tale of the Wild (and we mean wild) West. It is a good old-fashioned shoot-out in the American West of [ … ]

While not strictly a Gothic Western novel, Wyatt in Wichita is written by cyberpunk author John Shirley, and he brings alot of that style to this story. In the novel [ … ]