Book Reviews
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:17 pm
Reviewed by Allyson PattonBy Henry FieldingAvailable in many editions, both soft and hardcover
"To invent good stories, and to tell them well, are possibly very rare talents," observed Henry Fielding in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling…
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:17 pm
Reviewed by Bruce HeydtBy G.W. BernardYale University Press, New Haven
The Protestant Reformation that swept across Western Europe in the 1500s was less than monolithic in nature. Reformers in Germany, France, Switzerland and elsewhere, while adhering to many …
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:17 pm
Reviewed by Alexander CookBy Larry McMurtrySimon & Schuster, New York, 2005
In the 1880s and 1890s, William "Buffalo Bill" Cody and Annie Oakley, who specialized in Western entertainment, achieved international fame and, according to Larry McMurtry, became the …
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:17 pm
Reviewed by Chrys AnkenyBy Chris EnssTwoDot, imprint of Globe Pequot Press, Guilford, Conn., 2005
Personal ads for companionship or whatever have a rich tradition in America. During the last third of the 19th century, for instance, the San …
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:17 pm
Reviewed by Luc NettletonBy Clare V. McKanna Jr.Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock, 2005
Indians in the 19th century often could not live by "white men's law," but they could die by it. The author, who teaches American Indian …
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:17 pm
Reviewed by Alexander CookBy Ron Field, Illustrated by Adam HookOsprey Publishing, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2005
Let's make one thing perfectly clear: Although most old Westerns of the Indian vs. cavalry variety show soldiers in stockade forts defending themselves …
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:17 pm
Reviewed by B.B. SwanBy Liston E. Leyendecker, Christine A. Bradley and Duane A. SmithUniversity Press of Colorado, Boulder, 2005
The Griffith brothers arrived in what would become Georgetown, Colorado (yes, one of them was named George), in the …
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:17 pm
Reviewed by Luc NettletonBy Ronald B. LansingWashington State University Press, Pullman, 2005
Mention Oregon country and the Willamette Valley and most folks will think of courageous, persevering emigrant families completing the long overland journey to get to a …
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:17 pm
Reviewed by Alexander CookBy Louis S. WarrenAlfred A. Knopf, New York, 2005
Buffalo Bill will never be over the hill. As long as people fondly gaze back at the hills and plains of the 19th-century American West and …
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:17 pm
Reviewed by Johnny D. BoggsBy Charles G. WormanUniversity of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2005
Charles G. Worman is probably best known for the two-volume series Firearms of the American West 1803-1894, which he co-authored with Louis A. …
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:17 pm
Reviewed by B.B. SwanBy Tom S. CokeHeritage Books, Westminister, Md., 2005
As far as Kansas cow towns go, most people think of Dodge City first, followed by Abilene and Wichita. Caldwell is usually an afterthought, if anyone outside …
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:17 pm
Reviewed by Chrys AnkenyBy Hank H. CoxCumberland House, Nashville, Tenn., 2005
Civil War buffs rarely pay it any mind, even though it occurred in 1862 and had more than a marginal body count, and President Abraham Lincoln intervened …
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:17 pm
Reviewed by Stephen MauroBy Arthur CotterellThe Overlook Press, Woodstock, New York, 2005
In his comprehensive and far-ranging book Chariot: From Chariot to Tank, the Astounding Rise and Fall of the World's First War Machine (The Overlook Press, Woodstock, …
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:17 pm
Reviewed by Peter BrushBy Martin WindrowDa Capo Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2004
The bloody encounter between the French and Viet Minh at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 was one of the most decisive battles of the 20th century. Martin …
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:17 pm
Reviewed by Carl O. SchusterBy Frank GrecoPaladin Press, Boulder, Colo., 2004
On April 30, 1972, America's Studies and Observation Group (SOG) was ordered to disband. All the unit's official records — after-action reports, photographs, negatives and intelligence reports …
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:17 pm
Reviewed by Earl TilfordBy James H. WillbanksUniversity of Kansas Press, Manhattan, Kan., 2004
Arguably the Vietnam War was lost at the Tet Offensive in February and March 1968. James H. Willbanks, a professor in the Combat Studies Institute …
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