Wild West Reviews
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Published: October 06, 2011 at 10:29 am
In his book The Lakotas and the Black Hills: The Struggle for Sacred Ground, author Jeffrey Ostler looks at the Lakota Sioux struggle to retain and then regain the Black Hills of South Dakota.
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Published: October 06, 2011 at 10:13 am
Chuck Parsons' book Captain John R. Hughes and Bob Alexander's book Rawhide Ranger, Ira Aten pay tribute to two of the celebrated cadre of Texas Rangers who tamed the Old West.
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Published: October 05, 2011 at 4:44 pm
Mike Cox honors the heroes of the Old West and Larry Johnson the outlaws of the Old West in these two entries from Turner Publishing's Historic Photos series.
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
THE DULL KNIFES OF PINE RIDGE: A LAKOTA ODYSSEYFamily histories through three or four generations are often told in works of fiction, and they are sometimes told in nonfictionworks, especially in books about prominent American families such as the …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Custer: The Controversial Life of George Armstrong Custer, by Jeffry D. Wert, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1996, $27.50 hardback. Will the real George Armstrong Custer please stand up? The man who died in a "Last Stand" at the Little …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
The Plains Indians, by Paul H. Carlson, Texas A&M University Press, College Station, 1998, $29.95 hardback, $15.95 paperback.It is the Plains tribes that have come to typify the term Indian, thanks largely to Hollywood's portrayal of them. Feathered war …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Little Bighorn Remembered: The Untold Indian Story of Custer's Last Stand, by Herman J. Viola, Times Books (a division of Random House), New York, 1999, $45.Indian accounts of the Battle of the Little Bighorn are fascinating and add much …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
MORT KÜNSTLER PORTRAYS HIS VISION OF THE OLD WEST IN HIS LATEST COLLECTION OF ARTWORK.
BY ANN THOMPSON THE DRAMATIC EVENTS that shaped the Wild West–and the extraordinary cast of characters who populated it–have long inspired artists and authors to …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West, 15281990, by Quintard Taylor, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1998, $29.95.Esteban, a Spanish-speaking slave, survived a November 1528 shipwreck in the Gulf of Mexico and became …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Judgment at Gallatin: the Trial of Frank James, by Gerard S. Petrone, Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock, 1998, $28.95.The State of Missouri vs. Frank James may not have been the trial of the 19th century, but it certainly ranks …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Frederic Remington: The Hogg Brothers Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, by Emily Ballew Neff with Wynne H. Phelan, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 2000, $49.95.In New York City in the 1920s, Will Hogg built up the …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
The Klondike Quest: A Photographic Essay, 18971899, by Pierre Berton, Boston Mills Press, Erin, Ontario, Canada (an affiliate of Stoddard Publishing Co.), 1997, $34.95.One hundred years ago, Klondike fever was the hottest thing going in the North American West. …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Frontier Children, by Linda Peavy & Ursula Smith, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1999, $24.95.Children should be seen and heard, even those youngsters who lived in the 19th-century West. If the roles played by women on the frontier have …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Montana's Righteous Hangmen: The Vigilantes in Action, by Lew. L. Callaway (ed. by Lew. L. Callaway, Jr.), Univ. of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1997, $21.95 paper.After gold was discovered at Bannack in 1862 and Alder Gulch (Virginia City) in 1863, …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West, by Stephen E.Ambrose, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1996, $27.50. No disrespect to William Clark (a good man who needs a good biography of his own), but …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
'The Encyclopedia of Native American Biography: Six Hundred Life Stories of Important People, From Powhatan to Wilma Mankiller, by Bruce E. Johansen and Donald A. Grinde, Jr., Da Capo Press, New York, 1998, $22.50 paper.Among the 600 life …
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