Viejo Oeste

Life in Turrett, New Mexico was quiet until Travis Price rode into town bleeding and gravely wounded by an arrow....

Based on original research employing newly discovered documents, The California Days of Ralph Waldo Emerson maps the public story of this group's travels onto the private story of Emerson's final years, as aphasia set in and increasingly robbed him of his words....

The Chronicles of Bannock County by Bo Carson is a captivating non-fiction book set in Bannock County, Idaho during the late 19th and early 20th ...

Ten sadistic killers. One state. Countless lives that will never be the same again. To the outside world, New Mexico is the epitome of art, culture, and pristine, picturesque landscape....

The working cowhand of old was a dusty laborer, but today's rodeo performers can hone their skills before small-town crowds and be stars in urban coliseums....

Some of the American West's grandest legends are aboutpeople who in reality were remorseless killers, robbers, and bandits....

Immerse yourself in a journey through early 18th century America with this richly detailed historical fiction saga set amidst the backdrop of the ...

Living in the Old West - a tough and dangerous time - a time filled with crime and punishment. A time for dying, and a time for living. This new collection from Douglas R. Cobb takes listeners back to those hard times....

Dive into an exhilarating journey of man and his loyal dog in the wild west! Experience the thrill of exploring the uncharted territories of the ...

Author Caroline Lawrence returns to the Wild West with another action-packed mystery starring Master-of-Disguise, P.K. Pinkerton....

Meet the death-defying motorcycle trick riders in the carnival's Devil's Tub, a man who keeps an alligator in his bathtub, a Chinese launder in Coney Island in search of love....

Was Louisa Cody a nagging shrew, as Buffalo Bill Cody claimed when he twice tried to divorce her? Or was this beautiful, dark-haired French woman a...

This book has all the ingredients of cowboys, horses, boots, and spurs, in a period of lawlessness that often brought on gunfights in those days. The cowboy hero is Panhandle Smith, known as Pan, as he grew to be wild and free virtually from childhood....

In the heart of the wild west, a daughter's love knows no bounds. When Sarah Hawkins' wealthy father mysteriously vanishes, she takes matters into ...

In this lively narrative, business history writer Joe Dobrow traces the origins of modern American marketing to the late 19th century when three charismatic individuals launched an industry that defines our national culture....

Here are tales of adventurers, gifted and determined, who enriched our lives as they lived theirs with spirit and grit....

Chosen by his peers as the best Western writer of all time and honored with an unprecedented seven Spur Awards, Elmer Kelton is “one of the giants of the Western genre” ( Booklist).....

First published in 1984, Robert Utley's The Indian Frontier of the American West, 1846-1890, is considered a classic for both students and scholars....

In June 1846, General Stephen Watts Kearny rode out of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, with two thousand soldiers, bound for California. At the time, the nation was hell-bent on expansion. After Mexico declared war on the United States, Kearny’s Army of the West was sent out....

The gun, like the axe and the plow, was an essential tool in the exploration and settlement of the trans-Mississippi West....