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Book Review: Kit Carson, by David Remley

HistoryNet Staff | Published: February 06, 2012 at 12:46 am
David Remley sifts the existing scholarship to provide a balanced profile of a Kit Carson that was neither hero nor villain but a complex and nuanced frontier figure.

Book Review: Wyatt Earp in San Diego, by Garner A. Palenske

HistoryNet Staff | Published: February 06, 2012 at 12:25 am
Garner Palenske relates the little-known story of Wyatt and Josie Earp's post-Tombstone life in San Diego.

Book Review: Ned Wynkoop and the Lonely Road from Sand Creek, by Louis Kraft

HistoryNet Staff | Published: February 05, 2012 at 11:59 pm
With this new biography Louis Kraft establishes himself as the authority on Indian wars figure Ned Wynkoop.

Book Review: Legal Executions After Statehood in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah, by R. Michael Wilson

HistoryNet Staff | Published: February 05, 2012 at 11:43 pm
R. Michael Wilson releases the third volume in his Legal Executions After Statehood series.

Book Review: Desperadoes of the Ozarks, by Larry Wood

HistoryNet Staff | Published: February 05, 2012 at 11:26 pm
Larry Wood relates 22 new tales of gunfights and other notorious incidents in his latest history of the Ozarks.

Book Review: The Settlers' War, by Gregory Michno

HistoryNet Staff | Published: February 05, 2012 at 11:10 pm
Gregory Michno takes a hard look at the bitter frontier conflict between Texas settlers and Indians in the 1860s.

TV Series Review: Hell on Wheels

HistoryNet Staff | Published: February 05, 2012 at 10:50 pm
Hell on Wheels aspires to the success of such successful series as Mad Men or Deadwood, but the jury remains out.

Book Review: Dakota Dawn, by Gregory F. Michno

HistoryNet Staff | Published: December 02, 2011 at 5:38 pm
In his latest book, Dakota Dawn, Gregory Michno tracks the bloody first week of the 1862 Minnesota Sioux Uprising.

Movie Review: Meek's Cutoff

HistoryNet Staff | Published: December 02, 2011 at 5:25 pm
Meek's Cutoff, directed by Kelly Reichardt, offers a sometimes agonizingly realistic look at life on the Oregon Trail of the 1840s.

Book Review: Kearny’s March, by Winston Groom

HistoryNet Staff | Published: December 02, 2011 at 5:25 pm
Winston Groom's new book, Kearny's March, is the story of a year (1846-47) as related through the personal vignettes of several historic figures.

Book Review: The Mack Marsden Murder Mystery, by Joe Johnston

HistoryNet Staff | Published: December 02, 2011 at 5:16 pm
In his book The Mack Marsden Murder Mystery, Joe Johnston reconstructs the details of this 1883 shotgun killing in Missouri.

Book Review: Vengeance Is Mine, by Bill Neal

HistoryNet Staff | Published: December 02, 2011 at 5:08 pm
In his new book Vengeance Is Mine, Bill Neal delves into the passions behind the Boyce-Sneed Feud in early 20th century Amarillo.

TV Series Review: American Experience

Published: December 02, 2011 at 1:31 pm
PBS' American Experience adds to its lineup of Western offerings with new episodes on Billy the Kid and Custer's Last Stand.

Movie Review: Cowboys & Aliens

HistoryNet Staff | Published: October 06, 2011 at 11:44 am
Jon Favreau's film Cowboys & Aliens leans heavy on special effects but remains an entertaining nod to the traditional Western.

Book Review: Wanton West, by Lael Morgan

HistoryNet Staff | Published: October 06, 2011 at 11:18 am
In Wanton West author Lael Morgan looks at the seedy side of life on the Montana frontier, that of Old West prostitutes.

Book Review: Jeans of the Old West, by Michael Allen Harris

HistoryNet Staff | Published: October 06, 2011 at 11:00 am
Author Michael Allen Harris steps into the history of jeans, farther back even than the very first pair of Levi Strauss' denims in the 1870s.
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