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RED SHUTTLEWORTH of theater and gritty prose on a moving A note on reviews 1900: Daykin, Nebraska; 1901: Volin, journey of the Roaring ’20s, Western South Dakota; 1902: Portales, New Mexico style. Most book reviews in this issue Territory; 1903: Cawker City, Kansas; are condensed versions of ones 1904: Tyrone, Oklahoma Territory; 1905: published in Roundup between Goldfeld, Nevada; 1906: Branchville, POETRY October 2017 and June 2018. Texas; 1907: Idalia, Colorado; 1908: Reviewers include: Stan “Tex” Wallace, Idaho; 1909: Homer, California Banash, Michael F. Blake, Johnny Bunchgrass Press D. Boggs, Lynn Bueling, Tom TACEY M. ATSITTY Chapbooks, no prices listed Rain Scald: Poems Carpenter, Thomas D. Clagett, PoetRedShuttleworth.blogspot.com Tom Clavin, Thomas Cobb, Paul University of New Mexico Press The first of the Americana West series Colt, Carol Crigger, James A. Trade Paperback, 88 pages, $18.95 of 100 short plays and monologues set UNMPress.com Crutchfield, Phil Dunlap, Kirk in Western states from 1900 to 1999 re- Ellis, Chris Enss, Ralph Estes, W. Tacey M. Atsitty writes Michael Farmer, Glenn Frankel, veal Westerners, young and old, wolfers her book of poems Micki Fuhrman, Rachelle “Rocky” and newlyweds, Wyatt and Virgil Earp from an intimate Gibbons, James J. Griffin, Melody and wives Sadie and Allie coping with a viewpoint of her Groves, Harlan Hague, Doug new century in a changing West. Navajo culture, which Hocking, Abraham Hoffman, RED SHUTTLEWORTH lends credence to this, Linda Jacobs, Richard Lapidus, 1910: Larson, North Dakota; 1911: her debut collection. Preston Lewis, Jean A. Lukesh, Sidney, Montana; 1912: Parker, Arizona; She sprinkles her Bill Markley, Edward Massey, 1913: Brogan, Oregon; 1914: Lusk, poems with hyphenated Ann McCord, Monty McCord, Wyoming; 1915: Frisco, Utah; 1916: word pairs that spice Robert D. McKee, Rod Miller, Chesaw, Washington; 1917: Fairbury, the poems in meaningful ways that Phil Mills Jr., David Morrell, Nebraska; 1918: Tolstoy, South Dakota; caught the eye of this reviewer: 1919: Tinnie, New Mexico John Mort, Candy Moulton, SD cloud-pull, word-water, word- Nelson, Robert Nott, Nancy Plain, Bunchgrass Press spill, et al. With a master’s of fine Richard Prosch, Quackgrass Sally, Chapbooks, no prices listed arts in creative writing, several Ollie Reed Jr., Stuart Rosebrook, PoetRedShuttleworth.blogspot.com prestigious awards and published Sandra K. Sagala, Vernon Schmid, An old man tries to rob a nun. An work in various journals, she has Candace Simar, Larry D. Sweazy, Arizona baseball player copes with built a solid foundation to continue Rod Timanus, Loyd Uglow, Lori the loss of a leg and end of a career. Van Pelt, Lowell F. Volk, Sandy growing and producing reputable A homesteader reads a newspaper and work such as this volume. Whiting. R.G. Yoho and Michael wonders what has become of her miss- Zimmer. – Lynn Bueling ing husband. The Americana West series continues with beauty, wit, comedy and tragedy. MARLEEN BUSSMA Saddle Up for Cowboy Poetry RED SHUTTLEWORTH Self-published 1920: Nicodemus, Kansas; 1921: Forgan, PLAYS Audio CD, $13 Oklahoma; 1922: Winnemucca, Nevada; MarleenBussma.com 1923: Fort Stockton, Texas; 1924: Como, RED SHUTTLEWORTH Colorado; 1925: Quartzburg, Idaho; 1926: Marleen Bussma has a refreshing way Rumors and Borders: Eight Western Plays Termo, California; 1927: Marmarth, of describing ranch life from the point Humanitas Media Publishing North Dakota; 1928: Plevna, Montana; of view of a woman who has truly lived Trade paperback, 156 pages, $14.99 1929: Cherry, Arizona the ranching experience. The CD shares HumanitasMedia.com Bunchgrass Press the spirit of women who pioneered Originally produced in the 1990s, Chapbooks, no prices listed ranching in the West and who still do so these eight one-act plays reveal Red PoetRedShuttleworth.blogspot.com today. Shuttleworth’s vision of the Ameri- From the all-black settlement of Nico- JOHNNY CASH can West, past and present, filled with demus, Kansas, to a Texas bunkhouse, Forever Words: The Unknown Poems twists, humor, wit, sympathy, fantasy, a Colorado train depot, the California Blue Rider Press savagery, tough yet vulnerable men and desert, Dakota Badlands and other stark Hardcover, 144 pages, $25 women – and the beauty of language. locations, Red Shuttleworth takes lovers PenguinRandomHouse.com 22 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE AUGUST 2018 Billed as a collection of newly dis- Fergus is a charmingly imperfect “ev- covered, unpublished poems, this slim eryman’s equine” whose exploits lead SANDRA DALLAS book includes mostly song lyrics that him over, under and through all manner Hardscrabble Johnny Cash put aside (often with good of obstacles as he strives to reach the Sleeping Bear Press Hardcover, 244 pages, $15.95 reason). Despite the occasional gem, bigger, better prize that beckons, always SleepingBearPress.com Forever Words is for diehard Man in just a litter farther away … and on the Black fans. other side. A pleasure for all ages. Twelve-year-old Bluebelle “Belle” (author) and KARLA K. MORTON ANNE BROYLES KE Martin and her large Wooden Lions (illustrator) LEWIS family, having lost their Arturo and the Bienvendido Feast Texas Review Press farm in Iowa, venture Trade paperback, 92 pages, $10.95 Pelican Publishing Company out onto the Colorado TexasReviewPress.org Hardcover, 32 pages, $16.95 PelicanPub.com prairie to claim a The 2018 Western Heritage Wran- homestead. In 1910, gler Award-winning collection gives us Young Arturo and his grandmother dryland farming and life copperheads, coyotes, cattle, cats, frogs, are making a welcome dinner for the in a soddy are as hard as they’ve dogs, vultures, doves and other beasts boy’s aunt and fiancé, but when a ever been. Rattlesnakes, blizzards, and bugs in an elegant and heartwarm- headache forces Arturo’s Abue to rest, swarming grasshoppers and real ing tribute to animals. For animal lovers the boy has to take over. Told in English hunger fail to dislodge the Martins, and those who love words written from and Spanish for children in pre-kinder- and Belle, “wild as a rabbit,” learns the heart. garten to third grade. to love the wild land. Hardscrabble, TIM CHAMPLIN which includes a helpful glossary, Tom and Huck’s Howling Adventure: The is simply yet powerfully told and JUVENILE Further Adventures of Tom Sawyer and provides the middle-grade reader Huckleberry Finn JEAN ABERNETHY with a realistic look at life on the Fergus and the Greener Grass Five Star Publishing plains, with its changing joys and Hardcover, 234 pages, $25.95 sorrows. Trafalgar Square Books Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar Hardcover, 40 pages, $15.95 – Nancy Plain HorseAndRiderBooks.com An allergy-induced coma sends a

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AUGUST 2018 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE 23 present day 13-year-old boy time-travel- are either sheer genius or spookily to record her childhood spent in South ing to a rendezvous with Mark Twain’s clairvoyant. A happy, entertaining book Dakota and Montana. Her daughter, a storied characters and setting in a rous- about a truly wondrous dog. second-generation working artist, has ing extension of Twain’s Tom Sawyer lovingly recounted these tales of life on DORIS FISHER (author) and SARAH and Huckleberry Finn adventures. the plains. COTTON (illustrator) JIM KRISTOFIC (author) and Jackson Sundown: Native American LOIS V. HARRIS NOLAN KARRAS JAMES (illustrator) Bronco Buster Lotta Crabtree: Gold Rush Fairy Star Black Sheep, White Crow and Other Pelican Publishing Company Pelican Publishing Company Windmill Tales Hardcover, 32 pages, $16.99 Hardcover, 80 pages, $17.99 PelicanPub.com University of New Mexico Press PelicanPub.com Paperback, 120 pages, $19.95 Straightforward but well-told and With the California Gold Rush reach- UNMPress.com nicely illustrated biography of Jackson ing a feverish peak, it was up to child Eight delightful tales from Navajo Sundown, the trick-riding Nez Perce performers called “fairy stars” to keep Country, told, as the seasons turn, by an Indian who rode with Chief Joseph but the miners entertained. This expertly old storyteller to young Kameron Nez, is best known as a rodeo rider – even written biography for juvenile readers who has had to give up his city life, cell- though he didn’t start competing in showcases the most successful among phone service and friends and relocate rodeos until 1912 when he was 49. them, Lotta Crabtree. to his grandmother’s sheep camp on the CATHERINE RADEMACHER SUSAN HOLT (author) and ROBERT reservation. GIBSON (author/illustrator); recounted CRANE (photography) MARTY RHODES FIGLEY by MARY GIBSON SPRAGUE Counting Colors in Texas The True Story of Jim the Wonder Dog Glorious Fourth of July and Other Stories Pelican Publishing Company The RoadRunner Press from the Plains Hardcover, 10 pages, $9.95 Hardcover, 100 pages, $16.95 South Dakota Historical Society Press PelicanPub.com TheRoadRunnerPress.com Hardcover, 71 pages, $19.95 Bilingual, hand-sized board book SDHSPress.com In Depression-era Missouri, Mr. Sam teaches pre-kindergarten children a few VanArsdale has his doubts about train- Catherine Rademacher Gibson cre- words and how to count to 10 in Eng- ing Jim as a hunting dog, but the pup ated her whimsical watercolor “memory lish and Spanish. soon exhibits traits that many believe paintings” and accompanying stories

24 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE AUGUST 2018 BETH JUDY Bold Women in Montana History Mountain Press Publishing Company Paperback, 264 pages, $14 Mountain-Press.com Some of Montana’s strongest women characters are brought to life in this well-written, impeccably researched work in the “Bold Women” series. Readers cannot help but admire the perseverance and grit of these amazing women. FRANK KEATING (author) and MIKE WIMMER (illustrator) Abraham Simon & Schuster Hardcover, 32 pages, $17.99 SimonAndSchuster.com An unforgettable journey through Abraham Lincoln’s life using many of Lincoln’s own quotes to tell the story of his upbringing, career and being elected president. The text is enhanced with beautiful oil paintings. SUSAN KRAWITZ Viva, Rose! Holiday House Publishing Hardcover, 233 pages, $16.95 HolidayHouse.com Thirteen-year-old Rose Solomon sets out to bring her brother home from revolutionary General Pancho Villa’s camp. An exciting story of Jewish traditions running along- side and often mixed with Mexican men and women fighting for freedom. Twists and turns abound. ern Mediterranean coastline in search of camels to serve as pack animals in the American Southwest. There, Rawhide MATTHEW P. MAYO Stranded, A Story of Frontier Survival and friends discover more perilous adventures. Five Star Publishing DONALD F. MONTILEAUX (author, illustrator) and Hardcover, 244 pages, $25.95 AGNES GAY (Lakota translator) Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar Muskrat and Skunk / Sinkpe na Maka A true, heart-tugging page-turner, based on a true account South Dakota Historical Society Press of 14-year-old Janey Riker, left alone in 1849 at the base of Hardcover, 32 pages, $19.95 SDHSPress.com the Rocky Mountains. Vivid descriptions and scintillating details round out this gripping tale of survival, fear and hope. A muskrat starts hitting a hollow log with a stick. A skunk soon joins him. Pretty soon, all the forest animals are dancing DAVID J. McLAUGHLIN with RUBÉN G. MENDOZA The California Missions Source Book to the rhythm. Award-winning storyteller and artist Donald F. Montileaux retells the Lakota story of the origin of the Pentacle Press Hardcover, 72 pages, $24.95 drum (with Lakota translation by Agnes Gay). UNMPress.com ANDREA M. PAGE The third edition of this sourcebook, which started when Sioux Code Talkers of World War II MissionsCalifornia.com was swamped with questions from Pelican Publishing Company mostly fourth-graders studying history, provides an overview Hardcover, 128 pages, $14.95 PelicanPub.com of the founding of those missions (1769-1823) as well as “key facts” about the 21 individual missions. This so-called history is a piecemeal ramble. Accurate sta- tistics and numbers have been tossed out the window. Readers ROD MILLER Rawhide Robinson Rides a Dromedary are left with little knowledge of the Sioux Code Talkers and little feeling of connection to them and their personal war Five Star Publishing Hardcover, 290 pages, $25.95 experience. Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar CANDACE SIMAR Rawhide Robinson scours the exotic locales of the south- Escape to Fort Abercrombie

AUGUST 2018 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE 25 Five Star Publishing Self-published moment when Rosalinda, the mother of Hardcover, 277 pages, $25.95 Trade paperback, 215 pages, $14.99 a 3-year-old boy, shows up at his fam- Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar JamesDBest.com ily’s New Mexico ranch. In 1862, teenager Ryker Landstad When Steve Dancy and his trusted JOHNNY D. BOGGS longs to escape the drudgery of his friend, Jeff Sharp, fail to reach an agree- The Raven’s Honor: A Sam Houston Story family’s Minnesota farm. Then comes ment with a wealthy mine owner, they Center Point the bloody Sioux uprising, and Ryker’s quickly run afoul of the Law – Ben Law, Hardcover, 500 pages, $34.95 world – and his family – are uprooted. a hired killer who truly loves his work. CenterPointLargePrint.com Written with an evocative clarity, this is Kicked out of the Texas governor’s a gripping tale of America’s westward office for refusing to take the oath of al- expansion. H.I. RUMNEY (editor) The Trading Post and Other Frontier legiance to the Confederacy, aging Sam REBECCA VAN SLYKE (author) and Stories: A Five Star Anthology Houston finds himself a stranger in his JESSIE HARTLAND (illustrator) Five Star Publishing own state. Lexie the Word Wrangler Hardcover, 407 pages, $25.95 Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar Nancy Paulsen Books WILLIAM GEAR Hardcover, 40 pages, $17.99 These 14 stories, several by Spur This Scorched Earth PenguinRandomHouse.com and/or Forge Rancher Lexie watches over baby let- Wrangler Hardcover, 704 pages, $27.99 ters that one day will be used in words. Award winners, US.macmillan.com/torforge/ Lexie herds words into sentences and span the frontier A prosperous Arkansas farm and hitches them together to tell a story. The experience from the Hancock whimsical, inspired drawings compli- the challenges family are ment the heartwarming tale that teaches of domestic life, ripped savagely the importance of spelling words cor- as in Vonn apart by the rectly. McKee’s apocalyptic “Wren’s Perch,” Civil War, the to the cinematic bursts of violence farm becoming FICTION in John D. Nesbitt’s “Riders From a ravaged shell Bordeaux” and Frank Leslie’s gritty of what it once LEO W. BANKS “Old Gun Wolf.” In Johnny D. was; the corn, Double Wide Boggs’s “The Judgment Tree,” tobacco, and cotton fields gone Brash Books about trailblazing legend Daniel back to the wild; the family torn Trade paperback, 345 pages, $11.59 Boone during his aging years in asunder by not only war but savage Brash-books.com Missouri, Boone is called upon to bushwhackers, deserters, recidivists Double Wide features the discovery of judge others but can’t avoid cross- and misanthropic butchers riding a severed hand that once belonged to examining himself as well. Michael on the fringes of the North and Prospero Smith’s catcher. Smith begins Zimmer’s “The Trading Post” South armies while pillaging and a quest to find his former catcher and paints a vivid picture of a long-lost murdering at whim. Scattered to the person who detached his hand, era even as it unsettles readers with the four winds, the Hancock accompanied by a beautiful television chilling surprises, and L.J. 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Unexpected fatherhood thrusts Baen Books JAMES D. BEST Santiago “Santi” Silva through a door Trade paperback, 259 pages, $16 Crossing the Animas he didn’t know existed until that fateful Baen.com 26 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE AUGUST 2018 It’s hard to dislike an anthology of horror Westerns that Two tales from the prolific Peter Brandvold – “.45 Caliber: begins with a story that begins: “Bubba Shackleford got off Town Under Siege” and “.45-Caliber: Left to Die” – featuring the train in Wyoming, eager to find some cannibals to shoot. Cuno Massey, another one of Brandvold’s edgy, not-your-Louis He loved his job.” Clearly the 16 authors in this collection L’Amour-style heroes. loved writing these works. BILL BROOKS C.J. BOX The Girl With the Flamenco Tattoo Vicious Circle: A Joe Pickett Novel Encircle Publications G.P. Putnam’s Sons Trade Paperback, 251 pages, $16.99 Hardcover, 367 pages, $27 EncirclePub.com PenguinRandomHouse.com A girl has been found dead in a Montana lake. 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AUGUST 2018 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE 27 27 The Fetterman Fight provides the cli- BRETT COGBURN Newt Jones as he goes looking for mactic scene of this well-written novel. Call Me Lonesome: A Morgan Clyde Matilda Redding’s grandson, Billy, But the focus of the narrative, a continu- Western, Book Two who has been captured by a renegade ation of Derek Catron’s Trail Angel, is Five Star Publishing Apache band. the romance between haunted Union Hardcover, 452 pages, $25.95 Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar PAUL COLT cavalryman Josie Angel and Annabelle Sycamore Promises Rutledge, a young Southern widow. Set in Indian Territory after the Five Star Publishing Civil War, Call Me Lonesome is a tale of JIRI CERNIK Hardcover, 357 pages, $25.95 The Shots at Iron Mountain: violence and revenge, reinforced with Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar A Story of Two Men – Tom Horn and crackling dialogue, vivid detail, solid Through meticulous research, the au- Geronimo research and worthy adversaries. thor takes his readers into the often self- Dorrance Publishing Company serving political intrigue and manipula- Trade paperback, 199 pages, $16 ANNE HILLERMAN tion of events that occurred regarding DorrancePublishing.com Cave of Bones: A Leaphorn, Chee & slavery in this novel that begins with the Manuelito Novel Jiri Cernik uses broad brushstrokes to adoption of the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska depict Tom Horn, his work among the Harper Act. Hardcover, 309 pages, $26.99 Apaches and Geronimo and the events HarperCollins.com D. LÁSZLÓ CONHAIM in Wyoming involving the death of a Comanche Captive Anne Hillerman (daughter of 14-year-old sheepherder’s son. The au- Five Star Publishing Tony thor has relied heavily on the historical Hardcover, 224 pages, $25.95 record, while adding his own interpreta- Hillerman) ably Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar continues her tions. When does a captive stop being a father’s tradi- captive? At the heart of this story is a JIM CHRISTINA tion in Cave of Jonah Blue white mother’s love for her child, who is Bones, her part Comanche. After her “rescue,” she Tuscany Bay Books fourth bestsell- Trade paperback, 280 pages, $12.95 strives to return to him – regardless of ing novel after JimChristina.net the cost. Spider Woman’s After his mother’s suicide, a young Daughter, Rock boy runs away from home and grows with Wings and Song of the Lion. MARY CONNEALY up to become a mountain man, scout Here, one of New Mexico’s Long Time Gone: The Cimarron Legacy, and rancher before running into his spectacular locales, the rugged lava Book 2 revenge-minded brother and sister. An wilderness known as El Malpais, Bethany House Publishers action-packed novel filled with bloody forms the dramatic centerpiece of Trade Paperback, 304 pages, $14.99 adventures, f-bombs and dialect. another engaging, atmospheric BethanyHouse.com THOMAS D. CLAGETT mystery in which a troubled The Boden clan has to pull together Line of Glory teenager discovers an ancient burial to figure out who is targeting family Five Star Publishing cave that has been looted. As a members and why. Are the ranch and Hardcover, 260 pages, $25.95 blizzard threatens, the repercus- its owners under attack because of the Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar sions of the discovery become Spanish Land Grant, or is something This well-researched historical novel increasingly lethal. Hillerman else afoot? It will take the entire family is told through the eyes of some lesser- describes New Mexico in vivid, to figure out who’s behind the mayhem. known figures – on both sides – in the fascinating detail, juxtaposing the modern Southwest with the Navajo ROBERT COOVER 1836 battle at the Alamo. Thomas D. Huck Out West Clagett builds tension and makes his traditions of her tribal-police characters. Immersive, informative W. W. N o r t o n & C o m p a n y characters feel incredibly real. Hardcover, 308 pages, $26.95 and entertaining. JAMES CLAY WWNorton.com – David Morrell Gunfghter’s Revenge Robert Coover mimics the Mark Pioneering Press Twain style of first-person Huck Finn BRETT COGBURN Trade paperback, 160 pages, $6.99 patois so well. An adventure story is PioneeringPress.com Buzzard Bait expected, and adventures are delivered, Pinnacle Fans of James Clay know what to although the modern eye and ear may Mass-market paperback, 330 pages, expect in his novels: Quite a bit of $6.99 have a bit of trouble working through shooting, a high body count and plenty KensingtonBooks.com the pitch-perfect Huck Finn turn of of action. Gunfighter’s Revenge has all of This action-filled novel takes you phrase. it, with a twist. on an adventure with “Widowmaker” 28 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE AUGUST 2018 STERN VIDE P. G R A DY C OX WE O Hellgate Five Star Publishing Hardcover, 272 pages, $25.95 Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar The Fastest Guns in the West: Rose LaBelle is kidnapped by Mason McCabe’s outlaw The William Castle Western Collection gang in Arizona. McCabe deals in kidnapped women, and Millcreek Entertainment his hideout, Hellgate, is aptly named. With help from one of DVD, $19.98 MillcreekEnt.com McCabe’s men and her own iron will, young Rose fights to save herself and other prisoners. Before making 1958’s House on Haunted Hill – and its Emergo skeleton – or 1959’s MICHAEL CRICHTON The Tingler’s electric buzzers in theaters, Dragon Teeth horror-maven William Castle was directing Harper Collins Hardcover, 295 pages, $28.99 his way out of film-noir back alleys and dusty HarperCollins.com Western streets. Columbia Pictures was Castle’s professional home for much of his career where he enjoyed the mentoring of Michael Crichton’s “newly discovered” novel dramatizes boss Harry Cohn, who got a kick out of the kid with the sense the so-called Bone Wars of the late 1800s in which two of exploitation and put him to work on Orson Welles’s The Lady paleontologists, Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker from Shanghai (1948) as associate producer. Cope, competed fiercely to see who could discover the most After learning from Welles, Castle dinosaur fossils in the American West. directed scores of second features through JAMES D. CROWNOVER the 1940s, like the atmospheric Whistler The Ox That Gored series, before being assigned to producer Five Star Publishing Sam Katzman’s Fort Ti, Columbia’s first 3D Hardcover, 331 pages, $25.95 Western. A smash hit in 1953, it guaran- Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar teed Castle would keep riding the Katzman James Crownover takes you on adventures into the Indian C. COURTNEY range. Territory through the eyes of Deputy U.S. Marshal Lee Stow- JOYNER Millcreek’s The Fastest Guns in the West: ell and his posse in the late 1800s. The William Castle Western Collection allows JAMES D. CROWNOVER a movie lover’s swan dive into the world of those Columbia B’s, Tales Of The Last Frontier with eight films on two discs: Five Star Publishing Klondike Kate (1943), Castle’s second film as director, is a Hardcover, 314 pages, $25.95 decently made tale of dancing girls arriving in a gold-rush town. Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar Harmless, ribald fun, it top-lines smarmy Tom Neal; his Detour Chock full of colorful stories of Tularosa Basin 19th Cen- co-star, Ann Savage; and Sheldon Leonard. tury life, Tales of the Last Frontier gives fascinating insights into Masterson of Kansas (1955) features a lock-jawed George Mont- everyday people doing everyday jobs. Cattle drives, avenging gomery as Bat, challenging pals Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, Indians, and other stories fill the pages with yarns that not played wonderfully by ace James Griffith, who carries the film. only educate but entertain. Battle of Rogue River (1954), another Montgomery vehicle, is a cavalry-versus-Indians tale, highlighted by decent action with B.J. DANIELS young Martha Hyer along for the ride. Cowboy’s Legacy Lex Barker is the stalwart hero of Duel on the Mississippi (1955), Harlequin with production values and Patricia Medina’s red hair captured Mass-market paperback, 384 pages, $7.99 HQNBooks.com in Technicolor. John Dehner and Warren Stevens are villains; Sheriff Flint Cahill’s love, Maggie Thompson, has been ab- over-baked, but fun. ducted just as they were planning to start their lives together. Conquest of Cochise, Katzman/Castle’s 1953 version of Broken The main suspect is Cahill’s ex-wife, who continues to carry a Arrow (1950), stars John Hodiak stepping in for Jeff Chandler, torch for him but won’t cooperate with authorities. and Robert Stack for James Stewart, in an OK time-waster with a decent message. At least they tried. B.J. DANIELS Shot in 3D but presented flat, Jesse James Vs. The Daltons (1954) Outlaw’s Honor features lots of guns, knives and fists coming at the camera, Harlequin Books injecting some “B” energy between dialogue scenes. Trade paperback, $7.99, 347 pages Richard Denning as Dennis Morgan’s drunken partner in HQNBooks.com The Gun That Won the West (1955) steals scenes in this version of the Saloon owner Darby Cahill’s attraction to a woman Winchester rifle saga. Finally, Uranium Boom (1956), a black- pickpocket leads the cowboy businessman on a journey to and-white quickie, could be the definition of the second-feature. learn the mysterious thief’s motive. As Darby falls for Mariah Nice transfers of long-forgotten B’s, and a bargain at 20 bucks. AUGUST 2018 William Castle would approve. ROUNDUP MAGAZINE 29 Ayres, he finds he must deal with a plains South Dakota ranch life in the en, including witches, shape shifters and violent man bent on killing the beautiful early 1970s, Randy Lee Eickhoff has multiple wives. tortured pickpocket. staged a rich drama of cultural turmoil JIM FERGUS and family upheaval. With storytelling MARY ELLEN DENNIS The Vengeance of Mothers: The Journals Cirque that’s quirky but polished, Eickhoff is a of Margaret Kelly & Molly McGill unique voice. Five Star Publishing St. Martin’s Press Hardcover, 266 pages, $25.95 LOREN D. ESTLEMAN Hardcover, 337 pages, $26.99 Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar The Ballad of Black Bart: A Novel StMartins.com Who isn’t interested in circuses? But Forge Books The long-awaited sequel to One Thou- even better, we are shown the smaller Hardcover, 240 pages, $24.99 sand White Women lacks the originality circuses and their finest acts. Combine US.Macmillian.com of its predecessor. Here, we read the all this with murder and there’s a rip- Black Bart, gentleman, poet and journals of an early participant in the roaring tale here, set in 1851 America. Wells Fargo stagecoach robber, goes “Brides for Indians” program beside the up against James B. Hume, a founding writings of a later entrant in the mis- HERNAN DIAZ In the Distance father of the art of detection, in this cat- guided effort to integrate the cultures and-mouse mix of detective story and through marriage. Coffee House Press Trade paperback, 256 pages, $16.95 Western. MARCUS GALLOWAY CoffeeHousePress.org W. M I C H A E L F A R M E R Snake Oil: Easy Pickin’s, Book One A young, broke Swedish immigrant Marianna’s Knight: The Revenge of Five Star Publishing heads east from California to find his Henry Fountain Hardcover, 268 pages, $25.95 Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar brother. 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30 30 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE AUGUST 2018 STERN MUS Hunt brings to life the exotic culture of Cahokia, North WE IC America’s prehistoric metropolis. Enthralling. W. M I C H A E L G E A R Flight of the Hawk: The River Five Star Publishing Hardcover, 271 pages, $25.95 Got something a little different for you this issue, gang. Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar Instead of reviewing CDs, I’m writing about a couple of John Tylor, disgraced and running from his treacherous books that should appeal to folks who care about music and the past, applies for work with well-known Missouri River-man, people who make it. Manuel Lisa in 1812. Lisa realizes that the British, among others, hope to take control of the Upper Missouri fur trade WILL KAUFMAN and that spies and saboteurs are everywhere. Woody Guthrie’s Modern World Blues KATHLEEN GIBBS University of Oklahoma Press Last Real Cowboy Hardcover, 312 pages, $32.95 OUPress.com 4RV Publishing Trade paperback, 286 pages, $17.88 This book, by a professor at the University of Central 4RVPublishing.com Lancashire (Yeah, that’s in England), gives us a view of Woody Jonathan, a member of the wealthy social swirl in New Guthrie most of us have not seen. The prevalent image of York City, temporarily leaves his fiancé to experience adven- Guthrie, born in Okemah, Oklahoma, ture in the West. Tasked by his father’s magazine to write and in 1912, is a freight-hopping, folksong- sketch ranch scenes, he encounters more than he expected. singing champion of the down and out and the put upon. He sang songs such JAMES J. GRIFFIN Blood Ties: A Texas Ranger Will Kirkpatrick Novel as “I Ain’t Got No Home” and “Hobo’s Lullaby.” But Will Kaufman writes about Sundown Press Trade paperback, 178 pages, $12.99 a Guthrie who was also an abstract SundownPress.com OLLIE painter, an illustrator and a sculptor; who dabbled in theories of dialectical A young lawbreaker is remanded to the supervision of REED JR. materialism (I Googled it, but it didn’t the Ranger, instead of being sent to prison, and becomes help much); and wrote about topics as diverse as atomic energy the Ranger’s sidekick as they ride in quest of the gang that and Ingrid Bergman. robbed the bank owned by the Ranger’s father. As you might anticipate, Kaufman’s writing has a strong JAMES J. GRIFFIN academic flavor. But he delivers a Guthrie who was a lot more Texas Jeopardy than a left-leaning hobo with a guitar. Fire Star Press Trade paperback, 314 pages, $14.99 FireStarPress.com GLENN OHRLIN The Hell-Bound Train: A Cowboy Songbook Texas Ranger Jim Blawcyzk stumbles into a nest of drug runners – part of a larger, elusive criminal outfit. He makes a Texas Tech University Press connection between the drug ring and the serial murders of Trade paperback, 288 pages, $24.95 elderly women in the area and that puts a pack of hit men on TTUP.ttu.edu his trail. A new edition of a book first published in 1973, Hell-Bound MELODY GROVES Train is as much cowboy as it is fun. That’s because Glenn Black Range Revenge Ohrlin (1926-2015) was a working cowboy, a rough-stock rodeo Five Star Publishing rider and a performer at cowboy poetry gatherings and Western Hardcover, 278 pages, $25.95 music festivals. This is a collection of his 100 favorite cowboy Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar songs, ranging from the well known, “Strawberry Roan,” to the Having come to New Mexico’s Black Range in search of not so much, “Riding Boy From Powder River.” gold, Andy Colton is wounded by Apaches and later cap- There are song lyrics here and sheet-music samples, but tured. The action continues at a fast pace as his three brothers the best parts are Ohrlin’s stories about the songs and his search for Andy and the Apaches search for the brothers. own adventures collecting them. For example, in a Burbank, California, cowboy bar, four strangers threaten to kill Ohrlin if (compiler) JANE SHEWMAKER HALE his singing doesn’t get better. Strangest thing about that is there Mysteries of the Ozarks Volume V was a cowboy bar in Burbank. Goldminds *** Trade paperback, 157 pages, $14.99 GoldmindsPub.com E-mail Ollie at [email protected] and send CDs to him at P.O. Box 2381, Corrales, NM 87048.

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The Five Star Publishing Rescue Me author brings the series full circle at the Hardcover, 494 pages, $25.95 Revell Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar end, reuniting Simon and Buell and the Trade paperback, 336 pages, $14.99 First in a planned trilogy, Native tells life they left behind. RevellBooks.com of a young Lakota man’s attempts to DAVID THURLO Deputy Sam Brooks has a past to out- fend off the encroachment of trap- Kill the Heroes: A Charlie Henry Mystery run and a future filled with challenging pers, the military, settlers and the U.S. Minotaur Books rescues in Warren’s novel. Sam won’t be government. Hardcover, 292 pages, $26.99 doing the work alone. He has the Peak MinotaurBooks.com MICKEY SPILLANE and MAX Rescue team to help. But within the Pawn-shop owner and former Army ALLAN COLLINS crew there is a tangled web of romantic The Bloody Spur: A Caleb York Western Sergeant Charlie Henry is seated beside alliances. 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They chase produced this collection of short fiction the problems for those who cross Bran- one another through the pages in a race and nonfiction as a fundraiser for the non are just beginning. to see who catches whom first. nonprofit Recording Library of West Texas, which produces audio recordings KEVIN WOLF C.M. WENDELBOE Brokeheart The Marshal and the Moonshiner: A of newspapers, magazines, books and special shows for the visually impaired. North Star Editions Nelson Lane Frontier Mystery Trade paperback, 248 pages, $14.99 Includes the Spur finalist short story Five Star Publishing NorthStarEditions.com Hardcover, 251 pages, $25.95 “The San Angela Stump Match of Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar 1876” by Johnny D. Boggs. Welcome to Brokeheart, a Colorado mining town where a newcomer called Someone has been murdered on the RICHARD S. 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36 36 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE AUGUST 2018 ETHAN J. WOLFE Alexi is blunt about his family and the In the first volume of his study of The Devil’s Waltz hardships of an Indian living on, and people who influenced the history of Five Star Publishing off, the reservation. the American West, Philip Anschutz Hardcover, 264 pages, $25.95 focused on 50 business leaders. This Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar MAX McCOY sequel casts a much wider net – some Paroled from prison, likeable Jack Elevations: A Personal Exploration hundred individuals in a wide variety of Posey and his brother plan to arrest of the Arkansas River fields, including U.S. presidents, Indians, Tom Spooner, the West’s most wanted University Press of Kansas authors, suffragists and many others. outlaw. Unfortunately, Jack’s brother is Hardcover, 320 pages, $27.95 KansasPress.ku.edu wounded and unable to continue, leav- DON LAGO ing Jack to finish the job. Travels take Max McCoy’s insightful The Powell Expedition: New him all over the West. For readers who exploration of the Arkansas River Discoveries About John Wesley enjoy 1930s’ pulp Westerns. is like an old Powell’s 1869 River Journey familiar love R.G. YOHO University of Nevada Press song. Blending Boot Hill Valley Hardcover, 396 pages, $39.95 journalistic Outlaws Publishing UNPress.nevada.edu skills with that Trade paperback, 230 pages, $8.29 OutlawsPublishing.com of a natural- John Wesley Powell’s first born story- expedition Chance McBride pins on the badge teller, McCoy down the in Boot Hill Valley and runs into the tells a story of Green and Ramsey boys, who rule the town with exploration Colorado guns and fists. After McBride is hor- and devastating human disregard. rivers in 1869 ribly wounded, he turns into a drunk. It is also the story of people: Utes, remains one of But you can’t keep a good man down Spaniards, American trappers, the West’s – especially when a strange Arapaho explorers, gold and silver miners, great adven- shows up to help McBride regain his ranchers and farmers. McCoy’s tures. Unlike self-respect and his shooting hand. choice of following the river from so many other its Colorado source to the Okla- books on the subject, Don Lago homa border in a kayak adds color moves the spotlight off Powell and NONFICTION and excitement. The author’s onto his crew. A wealth of new BOB ALEXANDER and DONALY exploration coincides with his data expands our basic under- E. BRICE encounters with the river and standing of the expedition, its Texas Rangers: Lives, Legends, and himself. origins and its aftermath. The Legacy – Vernon Schmid disappearance of the Howland University of North Texas Press brothers and William Dunn in the Hardcover, 656 pages, $34.95 wilds of southern Utah is exam- UNTPress.unt.edu KENNETH L. ALFORD (editor) ined. Conjecture (readily admit- A rare attempt to chronicle the Texas Utah and the American Civil War: The ted) and tangential wanderings Ranger organization from the rough Written Record pervade the text, resting comfort- and tumble frontier to the present in The Arthur H. Clark Company ably alongside nuggets of deep one volume. Nothing is left out, from Hardcover, 864 pages, $60 research that rewrite important OUPress.com the early days before the formation of aspects of Powell’s story and offer the Frontier Battalion to the Mexican A valuable volume that compiles insight on Western exploration. Revolution and beyond, warts and all. government records, territorial records, – Bob Clark newspaper reports and historians’ ac- SHERMAN ALEXI counts related to Utah in the Civil War You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me: A J. CLARK ARCHER, RICHARD years. The book does not change the Memoir EDWARDS, LESLIE M. HOWARD, fact that Utah Territory essentially sat Little, Brown and Company FRED M. SHELLEY, DONALD A. out the Civil War. Hardcover, 457 pages, $28 WILHITE and DAVID J. WISHART LittleBrown.com PHILIP F. ANSCHUTZ Atlas of Nebraska Sherman Alexi details his often- Out Where the West Begins: Creating and Bison Books stormy relationship with his mother, Civilizing the American West Hardcover, 256 pages, $34.95 Lillian, and his attempts to forgive her University of Oklahoma Press BisonBooks.com during her struggles with cancer and Hardcover, 304 pages, $34.95 This historical atlas features more OUPress.com after her death. Using poetry and prose, than 300 colorful maps, charts and photos detailing and comparing various AUGUST 2018 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE 37 37 Amy Hale Auker brings the skills with University of Oklahoma Press ROBERT M. UTLEY sound and imagery and insight learned Hardcover, 488 pages, $34.95 The Commanders: Civil War Generals OUPress.com as a poet to her prose. These essays cap- Who Shaped the America West Frank Little’s great-grandniece writes ture the author’s musings about hiking, about the firebrand labor leader who University of Oklahoma Press camping, birds and their nests, intermit- Hardcover, 243 pages, $29.95 was accused by federal officials of being tent pond creatures, and whatever else OUPress.com a socialist and was regarded, Jane Little captures her fancy. Fighting Indians was not the Botkin tells us in her preface, as the only mission of RANDI LYNN BEACH “black sheep of the family,” and who the seven Westlands: A Water Story wound up being “hanged ignominiously Western University of New Mexico Press from a railroad trestle.” Meticulous department Hardcover, 113 pages, $39.95 research, forceful writing. UNMPress.com commanders CHARLES BOWDEN Photojournalist Randi Lynn Beach, treated here, The Red Caddy: Into the Unknown with whose documentary and thus Robert Westlands: A Water Edward Abbey Story has won film festival honors, Utley ranks University of Texas Press little remembered Christopher C. showcases the still-photography side Hardcover, 101 pages, $21 Augur over the much more of her story in this thought-provoking UTPress.utexas.edu book. Focusing on the Central Valley celebrated George Crook. That’s After Charles Bowden’s death, the of California, Westlands documents the only one of many surprises in this chance finding of a manuscript in his dangers facing farmers and those who insightful book by Utley, who files resulted in this newly published depend on farming in the arid West. contends that only one commander book concerning Edward Abbey. Count- adapted to the changed circum- MICHAEL F. BLAKE ing the foreword by Luis Alberto Urrea, stances – Crook. Utley calls The Cowboy President: The American this thin volume holds plenty of meaty arrogant, ambitious Nelson A. West and the Making of Theodore writing between the covers. Miles “perhaps the frontier army’s Roosevelt most detestable officer” who TwoDot MARGARET CASTERLINE “influenced the settlement of the Trade paperback, 320 pages, $16.95 BOWEN and GWENDOLYN JOSLIN West far less than his grand Rowman.com HILES Jersey Gold: The Newark Overland hyperbole would suggest.” No Michael F. Blake details not only how Company’s Trek to California, 1849 hyperbole, though, from Utley. He native New Yorker Theodore Roos- tells it as he sees it. evelt’s time in the West shaped him for University of Oklahoma Press Hardcover, 368 pages, $34.95 – Gregory J. Lalire the American presidency but also how OUPress.com his love of the land helped shape the This book focuses on the experiences West. aspects of Nebraska. Well-written and of members of the Newark Overland insightful articles by outstanding Great HELEN H. BLISH (author), AMOS Company in traveling across the North Plains experts make this resource a treat BAD HEART BULL (illustrations) and American continent to the California for researchers and/or their local refer- MARI SANDOZ (introduction) gold fields. Sponsored by Newark, New ence library. A Pictographic History of the Oglala Jersey, civic leader John S. Darcy, this Sioux: 50th Anniversary Edition RILLA ASKEW company was the first to arrive in Cali- Most American: Notes from a Wounded University of Nebraska Press fornia, lured by the prospect of riches Hardcover, 648 pages, $95 there for the taking. Place NebraskaPress.unl.edu University of Oklahoma Press A Pictographic History of the Oglala KEVIN BRIANTON Trade paperback, 162 pages, $19.95 Sioux (1967) combined more than a de- Hollywood Divided: The 1950 Screen OUPress.com cade of research by Helen H. Blish and Directors Guild Meeting and the Impact Exceptional, thoughtful essays by more than 400 drawings and script nota- of the Blacklist an Oklahoman whose insight into the tions by Oglala Lakota Amos Bad Heart University Press of Kentucky dramatic and sometimes cruel develop- Bull made at the Pine Ridge Reservation Hardcover, 156 pages, $45 KentuckyPress.com ment of a people picks the scabs off the between 1890 and his death in 1913. wounds, historical and contemporary. Blish’s original photographic plates, During the height of the Red Scare, AMY HALE AUKER presumed lost when the first book was Screen Directors Guild members met to Ordinary Skin: Essays from Willow published, have been digitally scanned. vote on the dismissal of guild president Springs Joseph L. Mankiewicz, a strong oppo- JANE LITTLE BOTKIN nent of an anticommunist loyalty oath. Texas Tech University Press Frank Little and the IWW: The Blood Hardcover, 182 pages, $24.95 That Stained an American Family Relying on a stenographer’s transcripts TTUPress.org from that 1950 meeting, Kevin Brianton

38 38 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE AUGUST 2018 explains what really happened. of 14 European nations and how the Canyon had died.” Peter Cooper’s writ- show’s performances affected countries. ing is cutting-edge. JULIA BRICKLIN America’s Best Female Sharpshooter: the MARK CLATTERBUCK (editor) MICHAEL LYNN CREWS Rise and Fall of Lillian Frances Smith Crow Jesus: Personal Stories of Native Books Are Made Out of Books: A Guide University of Oklahoma Press Religious Belonging to Cormac McCarthy’s Literary Infuences Hardcover, 209 pages, $24.95 University of Oklahoma Press University of Texas Press OUPress.com Trade paperback, 260 pages, $25 Hardcover, 332 pages, $35 Annie Oakley’s rival, Lillian Fran- OUPress.com UTexasPress.com ces Smith (1871-1930), could fire and Mark Clatterbuck assembles the This book is not for the casual reader. reload a single-shot rifle 25 times in a testimony of 15 prominent Crow Or even for fans of Cormac McCarthy. minute while hitting a bulls-eye 32 feet Christians, as well as three non-Indian Combing newly available archives, the away. This well-researched book pro- practitioners, all from southeastern author uses early drafts of McCarthy’s vides a vivid back-stage view of what it Montana. He summarizes the history novels, notes, correspondence and other was like to travel with Wild West shows of white missions, which have evolved original material to explore the writer’s at the end of the 1800s. to Crow control. Unusual, readable, inspiration and influences, as well as often entertaining. allusions to the works of philosophers, FLANNERY BURKE artists and writers. A Land Apart: The Southwest and the JAMES L. COFFEY, RUSSELL M. Nation in the 20th Century DRAKE and JOHN T. BARNETT ROBERTO CURTI University of Arizona Press Graham Barnett – A Dangerous Man Tonino Valerii: The Films Trade paperback, 424 pages, $30 University of North Texas Press McFarland & Company Inc. UAPress.arizona.edu Hardcover, 373 pages, $29.95 Paperback, 226 pages, $39.95 Like many historians who have UNTPress.unt.edu McFarlandPub.com written about the American Southwest This gem of a Western biography is As a director of Italy’s spaghetti before her, Flannery Burke, an associ- about someone you’ve probably never Westerns, Tonino Valerii is overshad- ate professor of history at St. Louis heard of, but who was a fascinating owed by a couple of Sergios – Leone University, attempts in A Land Apart: character. George Barnett willingly and Corbucci. Yet Valerii had a success- The Southwest and the Nation in the 20th wandered both sides of the legal line, as ful run between 1966 and 1977. Curti Century to squarely solve the questions, lawman, enforcer, bodyguard, killer and puts Valerii’s life and his films, which “What and Where is the Southwest?” bootlegger. include My Name is Nobody, in perspec- tive. MATTHEW CARTER and JIM COMPTON ANDREW PATRICK NELSON Spirit in the Rock: The Fierce Battle for JOHN MARTIN DAVIS JR. (editors) Modoc Homelands Texas Land Grants, 1750-1900: A Refocus: The Films of Delmar Daves Washington State University Press Documentary History Edinburgh University Press Paperback, 318 pages, $27.95 McFarland & Company Inc. Trade paperback, 240 pages, $29.95 WSUPress.wsu.edu Paperback, 196 pages, $49.95 EUPPublishing.com An excellent recounting of the McFarlandPub.com Although he wrote and directed Modoc War of 1872-1873. Contrary An in-depth look at the history of many genres, Delmar Daves (1904- to contemporary newspaper accounts, Texas and the land grants (some of 1977) is best remembered for his West- government reports and the prejudice the largest public land distributions in erns – Broken Arrow (1950), 3:10 to Yuma of white settlers, the Modocs were a American history) that formed not only (1957) and Cowboy (1958). Matthew largely acculturated people, adopting the Republic but influenced the growth Carter and Andrew Patrick Nelson have the white man’s clothing and working of other areas. Well-researched. compiled 10 essays, five of which focus as ranch hands and laborers. H. ALAN DAY with on Daves’s Westerns. PETER COOPER LYNN WIESE SNEYD Johnny’s Cash & Charley’s Pride: Lasting FRANK CHRISTIANSON (editor) Cowboy Up! – Life Lessons The Popular Frontier: Buffalo Bill’s Wild Legends and Untold Adventures in from the Lazy B Country Music West and Transnational Mass Culture Morgan James Publishing University of Oklahoma Press Spring House Press Trade paperback, 212 pages, $17 Hardcover, 252 pages, $32.95 Trade paperback, 251 pages, $17.95 MorganJamesBuilds.com OUPress.com SpringHousePress.com Most of these stories involve horses William F. Cody took his Wild West Entertaining, enlightening stories and the wisdom H. Alan Day acquired show on two tours of Europe between about country-western music icons and dealing with them. He also shares what 1887 and 1906. In this anthology, nine not-quite-icons by a master of music he has learned from airplanes, bobcats, contributors and editor Frank Christian- journalism. “Hearing that Johnny Cash windmills, postholes and even people. son assess the influence of Cody’s tours had died was like hearing the Grand The anecdotes pass along insights AUGUST 2018 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE 39 39 whose relevance reaches beyond the Three students of the West have of the stories here revolve around Kate fence lines of the ranches from which combined their expertise in economics, Warne, “one of the Pinkerton Agency’s they originate. history and digital records to take an in- most competent detectives.” depth look at our country’s homestead- PATRICK DEAREN RICHARD W. ETULAIN Castle Gap and the Pecos Frontier, ing phase of land development. Ernest Haycox and the Western Revisited KATHERINE ELLINGHAUS University of Oklahoma Press TCU Press Blood Will Tell: Native Americans and Hardcover, 184 pages, $29.95 Trade paperback, 200 pages, $22.50 Assimilation Policy OUPress.com prs.tcu.edu University of Nebraska Press Richard Etulain does a masterful job Patrick Dearen first published his Hardcover, 202 pages, $40 of assessing Ernest Haycox’s proper NebraskaPress.unl.edu work on the Pecos River country of place in the pantheon of Western writ- West Texas in 1988 and has updated Based on solid research in archives ers. Etulain credits Haycox with many it with Castle Gap and the Pecos Frontier, and published stories, this book offers a now-standard tropes. Revisited. Dearen knows the region well powerful indictment on federal govern- SCOTT EYMAN from his many hikes across its often ment policies that were racist, inconsis- Hank & Jim: The Fifty-Year Friendship foreboding landscape and from numer- tent and insensitive regarding the status of Henry Fonda and James Stewart ous conversations and interviews with of American Indians after passage of Simon & Schuster old-timers. the Dawes Act in 1887. Hardcover, 367 pages, $29 ROBERT K. DeARMENT MARY F. EHRLANDER SimonAndSchuster.com Man-Hunters of the Old West Walter Harper, Alaska Native Son Film icons Henry Fonda and James University of Oklahoma Press Bison Books Stewart had a five-decade friendship Hardcover, 344 pages, $29.95 Hardcover, 196 pages, $29.95 that stretched from their struggles as OUPress.com BisonBooks.com New York City actors to their rise and Late 19th Century criminals were of- A biography of Walter Harper decline as Hollywood stars. A fascinat- ten elusive until banking and stagecoach (1892-1918), who, along with Episcopal ing study in contrasts. companies, cattlemen’s associations and Archdeacon Hudson Stuck’s tutelage, the railroads employed “noteworthy endured far-below zero weather in DONALD L. FIXICO man-hunters … gun-handy fighting men some of Alaska’s remotest places. Most “That’s What They Used to Say”: and detectives” to arrest them. Robert famously, the two were the first to climb Refections on American Indian Oral K. DeArment writes about eight man- Mount Denali in 1913. Traditions hunters, describing how each operated, KIM ENGEL-PEARSON University of Oklahoma Press their exploits and various tactics. Writing Arizona 1912-2012: A Cultural Hardcover, 253 pages, $34.95 OUPress.com. BRANDI DENISON and Environmental Chronicle Ute Land Religion in the American West, University of Oklahoma Press Like a basket-maker, Donald Fixico 1879-2009 Trade paperback, 291 pages, $24.95 weaves his own experience throughout OUPress.com University of Nebraska Press this insight into the power of storytell- Hardcover, 305 pages, $55 Writers like Sharlot Hall and Zane ing. His mixed heritage (Shawnee, NebraskaPress.unl.edu Grey have created Arizona. The author Sac-Fox, Seminole and Mvskoke Creek) A provocative case study of the dis- samples these word pictures at 25-year allows him to share the rich complex possession of the Ute tribe from western intervals demonstrating how our percep- permutations of oral traditions. Colorado in the 1880s. The broad focus tions have changed from a land to be BRADLEY FOLSOM takes in the broken promises of treaties, exploited and peopled by cardboard Arredondo: Last Spanish Ruler of Texas the controversial Meeker Massacre of backdrop Indians to one to be cherished and Northeastern New Spain 1873, and the distinctions between his- and protected where Indians write of University of Oklahoma Press tory and public memory in how whites themselves. Hardcover, 324 pages, $34.95 have viewed these events and how Utes OUPress.com CHRIS ENSS remember them. The Pinks: The First Women Detectives, Arredondo came to prominence in RICHARD EDWARDS, JACOB Operatives, and Spies with the Pinkerton 1811 with his brutal subjugation of the K. FRIEFELD and REBECCA S. National Detective Agency breakaway province of Nuevo Santand- WINGO TwoDot er. Arredondo was a military man, Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New Trade paperback, 169 pages, $16.95 never a reformer, but showed some feel History Rowman.com for administration by allowing Indians University of Nebraska Press A straightforward look at some of the and mestizos a measure of local author- Hardcover, 294 pages, $45 Pinkerton National Detective Agency’s ity. Fascinating. NebraskaPress.unl.edu unheralded women operatives. Most

40 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE AUGUST 2018 STEVE FRIESEN with FRANÇOIS LINDA M. HASSELSTROM fiddle, the family’s emphasis on favorite CHLADIUK Gathering from the Grassland: A Plains Bible passages and their strong values Lakota Performers in Europe: Journal – all found in the “Little House on the Their Culture and the Artifacts They Left High Plains Press Prairie” series. Behind Trade paperback, 320 pages, $19.95 HighPlainsPress.com DOUG HOCKING University of Oklahoma Press Tom Jeffords: Friend of Cochise Hardcover, 315 pages, $39.95 Through a daily journal, Linda M. OUPress.com TwoDot Hasselstrom opens a window onto a Trade paperback, 202 pages, $16.95 Steve Friesen’s research is an out- year of her life on the western South Rowman.com standing example of a public history Dakota prairie. Whether she turns her Tom Jeffords left no personal journals or partnership between a historian, a col- attention to daily life, recollection of writings behind to chronicle his life. That lector (Belgian collector François Chla- times and people past, philosophic med- Jeffords and the Chiricahua Apache leader diuk’s 300-plus images of the Lakota itations or conservationist concerns, her Cochise became friends during the time and their artifacts illustrates the book) topics find thoughtful consideration. of conflict known as the Apache Wars is and the book’s subject, the Lakota tribe. PETER H. HASSRICK (editor) well known, but just how, where and when MARSHA V. GALLAGHER (editor) Albert Bierstadt: they first met remains unknown. A good Travels in North America, 1832-1834, A Witness to a Changing West biography of an important figure. Concise Edition of the Journals of Prince University of Oklahoma Press Maximilian of Wied Hardcover, paperback, 217 pages, $60, HARRY HOIJER (compiler) and (translator/editor) University of Oklahoma Press $35 THOMAS R. WIER Hardcover, 573 pages, $34.95 OUPress.com Tonkawa Texts: A New Linguistic Edition OUPress.com Handsomely illustrated book re-ex- University of Oklahoma Press Hardcover, 299 pages, $45 In 1832-33, Prince Maximilian amines the art of German-born Albert OUPress.com traveled across the United States and Bierstadt (1830-1902), who “observed ascended the Missouri River as far the changing urban landscape in the This new edition improves on an- as what is today western Montana East alongside rapid upheaval in the thropologist Harry Hoijer’s 1972 book. conducting a broad scientific survey of American West.” Published in conjunc- Primarily for linguists, this book is part of the country. His accounts of Indians are tion with the same-titled exhibit that the Recovering Languages and Literacies fascinating. runs through September 30 at the Buf- of the Americas initiative. falo Bill Center of the West and appears DAVID GRASSE MARK HOLLABAUGH The Bisbee Massacre at the Gilcrease Museum November 3 The Spirit and the Sky: Lakota Visions of through February 10. the Cosmos McFarland & Company Paperback, 272 pages, $39.95 WILLIAM HAZELGROVE University of Nebraska Press Hardcover, 264 pages, $50 McFarlandPub.com Forging a President: How the Wild West NebraskaPress.unl.edu David Grasse examines the 1883 Created Theodore Roosevelt While interesting for its recounting of Arizona crime known as the Bisbee Regnery History aspects of Lakota culture, much of the Massacre and the resulting trial of the Hardcover, 267 pages, $29.99 RegneryHistory.com book attempts to explain away discrepan- outlaws involved. Granting that frontier cies between astronomical expectations justice could sometimes be a brutal Despite a premise offering great po- concerning objects in the sky and scant affair, reading the court proceedings as tential (that the American West helped historical and cultural records. reported in surviving transcripts and the create Theodore Roosevelt), this book press makes the reader shake his head is a major disappointment. Hazelgrove HELEN ADDISON HOWARD in amazement. fabricates dialogue between Roosevelt Saga of Chief Joseph: Bison Classic Edition and others while no record of such ut- JAMES A. HANSON Bison Books terances is offered as proof. Trade paperback, 380 pages, $19.95 Provisions of the Fur Trade: The BisonBooks.com Encyclopedia of Trade Goods, Vol. 6 STEPHEN W. HINES Museum of the Fur Trade A Prairie Girl’s Faith: The Spiritual Thanks to a new reprint of this classic Hardcover, 458 pages, $110 Legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder biography first copyrighted in 1941, Chief FurTrade.org WaterBrook Press Joseph’s name and exploits have been This hefty tome, which continues the Hardcover, 224 pages, $21.99 refreshed. WaterBrookMultnomah.com author’s comprehensive review of fur- DARREN L. IVEY trade artifacts, focuses on the material A folksy supposition of Laura Ingalls The Ranger Ideal, Volume 1: Texas Rangers culture surrounding primarily food-re- Wilder’s personal religious beliefs based in the Hall of Fame, 1823-1861 lated trade items that found their way to on snippets drawn from Wilder’s chil- University of North Texas Press the early frontier, including chocolate, dren’s books. The author’s conclusions Hardcover, 672 pages, $39.95 spirits and even soaps. rest on the hymns Pa played on his UNTPress.unt.edu

AUGUST 2018 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE 41 Volume one of a planned three-vol- A balanced, thoughtful and readable University of Oklahoma Press ume set, this book starts with Stephen F. account of the debate over American Hardcover, 318 pages, $34.95 OUPress.com Austin and ends with Lawrence S. Ross. imperialism at the time of the Spanish- It’s packed with the lore of origin, bru- American War. Apaches were not reckless fighters, tal Indian fights, Cynthia Ann Parker but shrewd tacticians who set careful NANCY TYSTAD KOUPAL (editor) and the introduction of the Walker Colt, Pioneer Girl Perspectives: Exploring Laura ambushes and held to mountain country among other highlights of the period. Ingalls Wilder because of the cavalry’s clumsiness there. The soldiers were often poor, CHRISTOPHER KELLY and South Dakota Historical Society Press illiterate, sickly immigrants who were STUART LAYCOCK Hardcover, 317 pages, $29.95 America Invaded: A State by State Guide SDHSPress.com given bad food, bad clothing and who slept two to a bunk. to Fighting on American Soil A scholarly investigation of the life History Invasions Press and literary endeavors of Laura Ingalls MARINELLA LENTIS Hardcover, 414 pages, $25.95 Wilder. Many essayists contributed to Colonized Through Art: American Indian AmericaInvaded.com this examination of Wilder’s life and Schools and Art Education, 1889-1915 A “snapshot of the waves of invasion impact on American literature. University of Nebraska Press that have touched all fifty American BENJAMIN R. KRACHT Hardcover, 422 pages, $65 states and Washington, DC.” Readers Kiowa Belief and Ritual NebraskaPress.unl.edu get brief tidbits of Revolutionary and University of Nebraska Press A searching look at the federal Civil War battles, Indian fights, etc. Hardcover, 362 pages, $75 government’s assimilationist goals of More Wikipedia than scholarly. NebraskaPress.unl.edu educating Indian children from 1889 JAMES C. KEARNEY, BILL STEIN In 1935, the Santa Fe (New Mexico) to 1915. Focusing on Indian schools and JAMES SMALLWOOD Laboratory of Anthropology sponsored in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and No Hope for Heaven, No Fear of Hell: a field school that sent five graduate Riverside, California, Marinella Lentis The Stafford-Townsend Feud of Colorado students to southwestern Oklahoma writes of how the schools emphasized County, Texas, 1871-1911 to study the Kiowas. Benjamin R. the art skills of drawing, making baskets University of North Texas Press Kracht has relied on the field notes and and weaving blankets to give students Trade paperback, 287 pages, $21.95 research by James Mooney and Alice UNTPress.unt.edu marketable skills. Marriott to examine Kiowa cosmology. Between families, extended families, JOHN A. LOMAX BENJAMIN R. KRACHT Adventures of a Ballad Hunter distant relatives and other characters, Religious Revitalization among the the 60 people involved are more than an University of Texas Press Kiowas: The Ghost Dance, Peyote, and Trade paperback, 275 pages, $18.95 author should be expected to keep track Christianity UTPress.com of, let alone a reader. Still the reports University of Nebraska Press Since John A. Lomax’s memoir, of gunfights, murders, bushwhackers Hardcover, 315 pages, $75 and political intrigue make fascinating NebraskaPress.unl.edu released in 1947, has long been out reading. of print, this republication is most Benjamin R. Kracht details how the welcome. Lomax queried small town BRIAN KILMEADE and DON Kiowas, forced into reservation life, newspapers and libraries and roamed YAEGER experimented with new religions and the American Southwest seeking songs Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of movements, including the Ghost Dance, of the cowboys. New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped peyote and Christianity to adapt and America’s Destiny create a new culture. JEFFREY A. 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42 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE AUGUST 2018 JAMES J. LOPACH and JEAN A. DOUGLAS C. McCHRISTIAN insensitivity; and Indian resistance to LUCKOWSKI Regular Army O! Soldiering on the injustice, well told in a compelling nar- Jeannette Rankin: A Political Woman Western Frontier, 1865–1891 rative. University Press of Colorado University of Oklahoma Press TED MEYERS Trade paperback, 316 pages, $26.95 Hardcover, 762 pages, $45 Chief Joseph: Trail of Glory & Sorrow UPColorado.com OUPress.com Hancock House Absorbing, comprehensive and Written in a comfortable style with Trade paperback, 720 pages, $39.95 insightful biography of Montanan HancockHouse.com touches of humor, Douglas C. Mc- Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973), who in Christian examines the soldier’s experi- Relying on contemporary Nez Perce, 1916 became the first woman elected to ence from enlistment to discharge, military, civilian, newspaper and other Congress. Originally published in 2005, detailing daily life from reveille to published accounts, the author paints a this well-received biography is now out tattoo. A treasure-trove drawn from cor- well-written and vivid portrait of Chief in trade paperback. respondence, journals, newspapers and Joseph, chronicling his extraordinary HUGH T. LOVIN personal anecdotes. accomplishments while putting to rest Complexity in a Ditch: Bringing Water to much of the mythology. the Idaho Desert MARK THOMAS McGEE Katzman, Nicholson, Corman: Shaping Washington State University Press Hollywood’s Future GREGORY F. MICHNO Trade Paperback, 244 pages, $26.95 WSUPress.wsu.edu BearManor Media The Three Battles of Sand Creek: in Trade paperback, 332 pages, $22.95 Blood, in Court, and as the End of In this collection of essays, the author BearManorMedia.com History sets forth well-reasoned arguments and Sam Katzman, James Nicholson Savas Beatie historical insights about the struggle Hardcover, 233 pages, $29.95 and Roger Corman helped transform Idaho experienced in “greening up the SavasBeatie.com moviemaking with low-budget films plain.” in the 1950s and ’60s aimed at teens. “Sand Creek” and “Massacre” JAMES W. MARTIN Although Katzman (Jesse James vs. the are inextricably linked, but Gregory Banana Cowboys: The United Fruit Daltons) and Corman (The Shooting) Michno shows that history is in the eye Company and the Culture of Corporate produced a number of Westerns, Mark of the beholder. Some of the Chey- Colonialism McGee focuses on juvenile-delinquent, enne were indeed peaceful, but others University of New Mexico Press science fiction, horror and rock’n’roll had been harassing settlers all through Hardcover, 252 pages, $65 1864. There was no dramatic, cinematic UNMPress.com cheapies. charge into camp; there were, however, A banana cowboy, James W. Martin VERITY McINNIS many atrocities against women and Women of Empire: Nineteenth-Century writes, “was a tough, efficient herder of children. Some Indians were slaugh- Army Offcers’ Wives in India and the fruit … who worked on the land, wore U.S. West tered; others put up a stiff, organized a Stetson, rode a horse or mule, often resistance. University of Oklahoma Press carried a pistol.” The author makes an Hardcover, 285 pages, $34.95 SHERRY MONAHAN with JANE intriguing comparison of how frontier OUPress.com PERKINS mythology played a part in “cowboy” Verity McInnis examines the roles The Golden Elixir of the West: Whiskey colonialism in Central America and the of military officers’ wives and their and the Shaping of America Caribbean in the late 19th and early 20th significance and influence as nations TwoDot centuries. explored the reaches of their empires. Hardcover, 236 pages, $24.95 Rowman.com ANDREW E. MASICH McInnis studied British wives in India Civil War in the Southwest Borderlands, and American wives on the frontier. Sherry Monahan teams with Jane 1861-1867 The entries clarify and humanize the Perkins, who helped establish High University of Oklahoma Press day-to-day activities. West Distillery in Park City, Utah, in Hardcover, 429 pages, $34.95 2008, to trace the history of booze in OUPress.com ROBERT AQUINAS McNALLY the West – and it’s one raucous history The Modoc War: A Story of Genocide at While the Civil War in the eastern the Dawn of America’s Gilded Age lesson that follows Western whiskey portion of the United States has been from Lewis & Clark to the modern day. University of Nebraska Press researched, reviewed and discussed in Hardcover, 409 pages, $34.95 JOHN H. MONNETT (editor) agonizing detail for decades, the West- NebraskaPress.unl.edu Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight: Indian ern clashes have gone largely ignored. A deeply researched book that closely Views This book covers the military strate- examines the causes and consequences University of Oklahoma Press gies and maneuvers as well as civilian of the Modoc War. A sad tale of stereo- Hardcover, 248 pages, $29.95 involvement in the Southwest. OUPress.com typing Indians as savages; bureaucratic

AUGUST 2018 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE 43 A different picture of the December called buffalo — and their demise and Rowman & Littlefield 21, 1866, Fetterman Fight in northern comeback. Hardcover, 304 pages, $95 Rowman.com Wyoming, emerges as a result of John SAMUEL M. OTTERSTROM H. Monnett’s use of previously unpub- From California’s Gold Fields to the Harold N. Pomainville has written an lished sources and newly discovered Mendocino Coast: A Settlement History overdue and insightful look at the life interviews, both of varying lengths, with across Time and Place and films of Henry Hathaway (1932- Oglala and Northern Cheyenne leaders University Of Nevada Press 1975), who directed John Wayne to his and warriors. Hardcover, 224 pages, $44.95 only Academy Award (for 1969’s True UNPress.nevada.edu Grit). GARY E. MOULTON The Lewis and Clark Expedition Day by The volume’s detailed scholarly DEAN A. 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