Book Reviews
This Far-Off Wild Land
- Published May 13, 2013
- Written by Barton H. Barbour
A Scottish emigrant, Andrew Dawson (1817-1871) worked at Pierre Chouteau Jr. and Company’s Upper Missouri trading posts from 1847 until 1864. After superintending Fort Benton from 1854 onward, he retired to Scotland. By then, government freighting contracts and commerce with overland migrants, soldiers and miners had supplanted the old-time Indian trade.
The Red Man’s Bones
- Published May 13, 2013
- Written by Jesse Mullins
Rising from inauspicious beginnings to national and even international fame, only to fall victim to his own hubris and naivete, artist George Catlin (1796-1872) charted a career of risk-taking extremes that took him from the Northeast and then to Europe for more than three decades as an ex-pat, before dying in his home country.
Outlaws
- Published May 13, 2013
- Written by Marvin O'Dell
Outlaws: Songs of Robbers, Rustlers, and Rogues is like having someone sing you a book of stories. “John Hardy,” “Sam Bass,” “Cole Younger” and “Jesse James” are all song titles that remind the listener of hours spent reading and researching Western history.
A Lawless Breed
- Published May 13, 2013
- Written by James M Smallwood
With A Lawless Breed: John Wesley Hardin, Texas Reconstruction, and Violence in the Wild West, authors Chuck Parsons and Norman Wayne Brown have added much to the history, legend and lore of the misspent life of a premier Texas murderer. This is the best biography
“A Killer is What They Needed”
- Published May 13, 2013
- Written by Jo Baeza
n the year 1886, Commodore Perry Owens became sheriff of Apache County, Arizona Territory. He had no regular law enforcement background, but he was one of the finest marksmen in the territory.
