Wild West Reviews
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Published: August 10, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Wyatt Earp biographers Glenn Boyer and Casey Tefertiller square off about Earp, their respective research and claims made about one another's scholarship.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 8:11 pm
Reviewed by Alexander Cook By Dale L. WalkerForge (Tom Doherty Associates), New York, 2004
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it clearly drives one of the coolest cats in the frontier history business, Dale L. Walker. In 2000 …
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:11 pm
Reviewed by Luc NettletonBy Wayne BethardTaylor Trade Publishing (Roberts Rinehart), Lanham, Md., 2004
No doubt practicing pharmacist Wayne Bethard, of Longview, Texas, wouldn't recommend too many of the medicines he introduces in this 256-page book, but taken as …
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:11 pm
Reviewed by Chrys Ankeny By R. Eli PaulUniversity of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2004
Anyone with an interest in the Wild West or the Indian wars knows about the fight the Sioux (or Lakota) Indians put up against white settlers …
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:11 pm
Reviewed by B.B. SwanBy Larry E. MorrisYale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 2004
During the Lewis and Clark Expedition, now being commemorated 200 years later, the members experienced enough adventures for a lifetime. The actual journals produced by …
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:11 pm
Reviewed by Chrys Ankeny By Serle ChapmanPavey Western Publishing, Billings, Mont., 2004
This is a beautiful book and a special book. It not only provides a colorful multivoice perspective on the important but sometimes overlooked Bozeman Trail but also …
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