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A note on reviews Kansas; 1972: Hobart, Oklahoma; 1973: dialog and setting in the 2019 Spur win- Gerlach, Nevada; 1974: Plainview, Texas; ner for juvenile fiction. Most book reviews in this issue are condensed 1975: Glenwood Springs, Colorado; 1976: versions of reviews of current WWA members’ Rattlesnake Station, Idaho; 1977: Devils KARI BOVÉE books published in Roundup between October Den, California; 1978: Hettinger, North Girl With a Gun: An Annie Oakley 2018 and June 2019. Staff reviewers include: Stan Mystery “Tex” Banash, Johnny D. Boggs, Jim Beaver, Dakota; 1979: Missoula, Montana Irene Bennett Brown, Lynn Bueling, Tom Carpen- Bunchgrass Press SparkPress ter, Thomas D. Clagett, Carol Crigger, James A. Chapbooks, no prices listed Trade Paperback, 329 pages, $16.94 Crutchfield, Kirk Ellis, Glenn Frankel, Micki PoetRedShuttleworth.blogspot.com GoSparkPress.com Fuhrman, James J. Griffin, William Groneman Red Shuttleworth’s “Americana Annie Oakley joins ’s III, Melody Groves, Harlan Hague, Charlotte West” series of 100 short plays and Wild West show after competing against Hinger, Doug Hocking, Abraham Hoffman, monologues set in small towns Frank Butler, the show’s star. To her Linda Jacobs, Gregory Lalire, Gail L. Jenner, dismay, she isn’t welcomed by everyone, Gregory Lalire, Jean A. Lukesh, Bill Markley, presents readers with an Osage Indian soon making almost as many enemies as Milana Marsenich, Edward Massey, Matthew P. confronting the president of a failing Mayo, Denise F. McAllister, Ann McCord, Monty bank during the Great Depression to a friends. But when her roommate/assis- McCord, Robert D. McKee, Phil Mills Jr., David middle-aged divorcee walking around tant is murdered, circumstances beg that Morrell, James McGrath Morris, John Mort, Liberal, Kansas, in an astronaut suit in she investigate. The story moves well Candy Moulton, Robert Lee Murphy, Larry Len the 1970s. Filled with humor, pathos and will hold your interest to the end, Peterson, Richard Prosch, Ollie Reed Jr., Don and dry Western wit, these plays range especially all you Annie Oakley fans. Reeves, Vicky J. Rose, Stuart Rosebrook, Sandra from theater of the absurd to touch- K. Sagala, Nancy B. Samuelson, Vernon Schmid, S.J. DAHLSTROM ing portraits of small-town America Anne Schroeder, Mike Searles, Candace Black Rock Brothers – a grim, honest look at the West told Simar, Deanne Stillman, Larry D. Sweazy, Rod Paul Dry Books through a poet’s voice. Timanus, Loyd Uglow, Cynthia Vannoy, Lori Trade paperback, 210 pages, $9.95 Van Pelt, Lowell F. Volk, Sandy Whiting, R.G. PaulDryBooks.com Yoho, Michael Zimmer and the late Randy Lee Thirteen-year-old Wilder Good ac- Eickhoff. JUVENILE cidently breaks an Indian lance point FRANCIE M. BERG that has been in his family for genera- PLAYS Buffalo Heartbeats Across the Plains: The tions. Wilder dreams of returning the Last Great Hunts and Saving the Buffalo broken pieces of the lance point to Black RED SHUTTLEWORTH Dakota Buttes Visitors Council Rock Bluffs, a mountain where obsidian 1930: Long Creek, Oregon; 1931: Red Hardcover, 256 pages, $34.95 can be found. This family-friendly story Desert, Wyoming; 1932: Modena, Utah; HettingerND.com is about kids who use their wilderness 1933: Elberton, Washington; 1934: Rulo, The winner of this year’s Spur for best skills to achieve a difficult goal. An ex- Nebraska; 1935: Strool, South Dakota; juvenile nonfiction is a superb achieve- cellent book for middle-aged readers. 1936: Carrizoza, ; 1937: ment. It covers everything about buffalo Hoxie, Kansas; 1938: Hominy, Oklahoma; JONI FRANKS (author) 1939: Palisade, Nevada; 1940: Bryan, you can imagine and some things you RAQUEL RODRIGUEZ Texas; 1941: Sunbeam, Colorado; 1942: hadn’t even imagined – from the devel- (illustrator) opment stages of a buffalo bull’s horns, Boise, Idaho; 1943: Kief, North Dakota; Corky Tails: Tales of a Tailless Dog 1944: , California; 1945: to the uses Plains Indians made of dif- Named Sagebrush: Sagebrush and the Glentana, Montana; 1946: Springerville, ferent parts of a buffalo’s body, to how Butterfy Creek Flood Arizona; 1947: Wagontire, Oregon; a buffalo bull would fare in showdowns with Mexican fighting bulls. Xlibris 1948: Hulett, Wyoming; 1949: Garrison, Paperback, 54 pages, $24.99 Utah; 1950: Adrian, Washington; 1951: JOHNNY D. BOGGS Xlibris.com Lincoln, Nebraska; 1952: Blunt, South Taos Lightning Dakota; 1953: Socorro, New Mexico; Tiny fairy people called Shuns – a 1954: Ulysses, Kansas; 1955: Vici, Center Point Large Print married couple named Acorn and Rain- Oklahoma; 1956: Ely, Nevada; 1957: Hardcover, 316 pages, $34.95 bow and their baby, Termite – are in Weatherford, Texas; 1958: Sterling, CenterPointLargePrint.com danger from a terrible storm and flooded Colorado; 1959: Bruneau, Idaho; 1960: When teenager Evan Kendrick’s dad Butterfly Creek. Luckily, Sagebrush, Trinidad, California; 1961: Beach, North is injured after betting his home on win- the lovable talking Corgi puppy, and his Dakota; 1962: St. Regis, Montana; 1963: ning a cross-country race from Galves- brave and capable human, Young Miss, Prescott, Arizona; 1964: Burns, Oregon; ton to New England, Evan is forced to engage in search and rescue. Attractive 1965: Thermopolis, Wyoming; 1966: ride 1,800 miles on his father’s ornery illustrations and thoughtful action fulfill Wheeler, Washington; 1967: Wendover, mustang. With quirky characters and a the message that “all lives matter.” Utah; 1968: Cozad, Nebraska; 1969: course rooted deep in American history, Gregory, South Dakota; 1970: Wagon Johnny D. Boggs proves he’s a master of Mound, New Mexico; 1971: Liberal, AUGUST 2019 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE 21 21 ALLEN MORRIS JONES ten familiars, layers of truths, humor MATTHEW BAUGH (editor) (author and illustrator) and love, often with twists that amuse The Lone Ranger and Tonto: Frontier Montana for Kids, The Story of Our and surprise. Nesbitt’s Spur Award- Justice State winning poem, “Prairie Center,” is an Moonstone Books Bangtail Press honest, spot-on depiction of the cycles Trade paperback, 307 pages, $19.95 Hardcover, paperback, 48 pages, $19.95, of life and death and love and loss in a MoonstoneBooks.com quintessential Western landscape, writ- $12.59 In the hands of these 12 Western BangtailPress.com ten by someone who knows it, and of writing pros (including a clutch of Spur it, intimately. In this year’s Spur winner for illus- winners), the sequel to The Lone Ranger trated children’s book, Montana’s great RED SHUTTLEWORTH Chronicles packs some serious storytelling history comes to life, not just for readers Homeward punch. We follow the imagined, off- who live in Montana, but also for those Blue Horse Press screen adventures of The Masked Man who visit Montana, want to learn about Trade paperback, 64 pages, $12 and Tonto from the time they are still hale Montana or simply love Montana. Here BlueHorsePress.com and hearty all the way to post-retirement. are the first peoples, when horses came, bison, Lewis & Clark, mountain men, Red Shuttleworth’s slim volume of JOHNNY D. BOGGS Indian wars, steamboats, miners, the poems ranges from haiku-like verse to MacKinnon railroad, homesteaders, vigilantes and longer monologues and plays from his Center Point Large Print th ranchers. 20 Century playwriting project. In one Hardcover, 500 pages, $34.95 poem, he finds “A platoon of old guys CenterPointLargePrint.com JOHN D. NESBITT sits the cafe counter…” and in another, Double-crossed and wounded by his Castle Butte he finds “A deadfall bar, sawdust floor, partners after a robbery, saddle tramp pine planks across greasy, grimy wood Five Star Publishing Sam MacKinnon begins a quest for barrels.” This book gives this award- Hardcover, 257 pages, $25.95 vengeance – but that plan gets sidetracked Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar winning poet a leg up on future recogni- when he comes across a teenage girl and tion. Alden Clare is left to care for both her two younger siblings stranded in the family land – on the verge of foreclo- New Mexico desert. This novel was in- sure – and their ailing, alcoholic father. spired by Pasó Por Aquí, Eugene Manlove Alden’s girlfriend takes up with his best FICTION Rhodes’s classic novella that became the friend. Then Cash and Alden’s ne’er-do- G.K. AALBORG 1948 Western movie Four Faces West. well brother, Grant, join a rough gang. River of Porcupines When Cash and Grant are murdered, C.J. BOX Five Star Publishing Wolf Pack: A Joe Pickett Novel Alden is drawn into the mystery. John Hardcover, 218 pages, $25.95 D. Nesbitt’s lean, vivid prose delivers an Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar G.P. Putnam’s Sons engrossing, exciting tale. Hardcover, 384 pages, $27 Young trapper Garth Cameron is no Penguin.com stranger to women, but the chaste Metis Three people (and a dog) are murdered beauty Ilona Baptiste is the object of POETRY in Arizona. We don’t know why, only that more than Garth’s affection. Rival trap- the scene is marked by its viciousness. DEANNA DICKINSON per Louis Savard would gladly break Meanwhile, Joe Pickett, who has been McCALL any man in two who would challenge reinstated as a Wyoming game warden, I’ll Ride Thru It his claim to Ilona. When Savard kid- is communicating with his counterpart in naps her, Garth and veteran woodsman Self-published another district. It seems wildlife, weak- Audio CD, $17 (includes shipping and Rene strike deep into the Rockies after ened from the winter, are being chased handling) them. DeannaDickinsonMcCall.com by drones until they die. This fast-moving AUSTIN MYSTERY WRITERS story is edge-of-your-seat exciting. Backed by musicians Randy Huston (GALE ALBRIGHT, editor) and Jim Jones, Deanna Dickinson Mc- Lone Star Mystery Writers: 14 Texas IRENE BENNETT BROWN Call praises stockmen, ranch women, Tales of Crime Miss Royal’s Mules horses, cowboys and all things Western Five Star Publishing Wildside Press in this collection of 14 original poems. Hardcover, 233 pages, $25.95 Trade paperback, 187 pages, $12.99 Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar Ranchers, ranch women and fans of WildsidePress.com will likely nod with ap- In the Flint Hills of Kansas in 1900, proval and understanding. The theme for this anthology is “any crime, any era – as long as it’s set in Jocelyn Belle Royal needs a job. Her JOHN D. NESBITT Texas.” There are but a few stories mother died when she was young, her Rangeland and Prairie: Western Poems that qualify as truly Western. Among father recently passed away, and she just lost the farm she had once saved. Find- RR Productions them are Larry D. Sweazy’s excellent Paperback, 23 pages, price not listed “Point Blank, Texas,” a sparse, gritty ing herself destitute and determined to buy back the farm, she joins a mule drive. The poems in John D. Nesbitt’s short story that was named a 2018 Spur Award finalist. Irene Bennett Brown’s writing is kind, chapbook offer rediscoveries of forgot- generous, suspenseful and adventurous. 22 22 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE AUGUST 2019 ESTERN MUSIC CHRISTINE CARBO W A Sharp Solitude Atria Books Trade paperback, 356 pages, $16 SimonAndSchuster.com BARRY WARD Fans of C.J. Box and Craig Johnson will love Christine Coyotes & Cattle Carbo’s suspense novels set in Glacier National Park. A Sharp Barry Ward Music, $15 Solitude features a female FBI agent investigating the murder BarryWardMusic.com of a journalist. The agent’s motives become conflicted when The lyrics in Ward’s “The Light at the the suspect – who has disappeared in the mountains – turns End of the Trail,” the final song in this 13- out to be the father of her daughter. cut CD, lay out the theme of this album in case you hadn’t caught CAROL WRIGHT CRIGGER on before. Five Days, Five Dead But it’s the light at the end of the trail Five Star Publishing That’s the light that will lead you home Hardcover, 282 pages, $25.95 This CD is mostly about going home – or Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar wanting to. In some cases, not surprising China Bohannon is one tough lady. Feminine and proper, because Ward is a man of deep religious she is resourceful and independent. Though the other opera- faith, it’s the heavenly home. Ward sings tives at the Doyle & Howe Detective Agency consider China about that in “… End of the Trail,” his song an office fixture, she proves her mettle in investigating kidnap- “Saddle Up,” the traditional “Wayfaring ping and murder. While the male detectives are away, China Stranger” and “Wake Up Dancing,” written wrestles with the baffling disappearance of a woman whose sister appears alternately fearful, suspicious and unconcerned. OLLIE by Gary Duffey, Angie Russell and John REED JR. Colgin. I’m partial to “Saddle Up.” C.K. CRIGGER Saddle up my pony, boys, I want to ride away Hometown Homicide To the sky, where the nights will turn to day Black Opal Books I’m going to meet my boy there Trade paperback, 257 pages, $14.99 We are going to ride away BlackOpalBooks.com Ward is a Kansas rancher and farmer, a fact that shows up An attention grabber from start to finish. C.K. Crigger’s vividly in the title track and in “That Old Barn,” both written by personal knowledge of the region enhances the story of a Ward and both about visiting places you wish were still home. combat medic returning to her hometown. When murder and “Coyotes & Cattle” is my favorite track on this solid CD, the mayhem upset the calm of the community, the recovering song that touches me most deeply. It tells of a man stopping by medic finds herself at the center of deadly events. his abandoned ranch before heading back to the nursing home C.K. CRIGGER in town. He has come to hear some familiar and much-missed The Woman Who Built a Bridge sounds from his younger days. Wolfpack Publishing The coyotes began with an amen chorus Paperback, 294 pages, $8.99 The cattle they joined in, of course WolfpackPublishing.com For true West, that’s better than the The 2019 Spur winner for romance novel is a different sort Sons of the Pioneers. of historical romance, and the heroine is a decidedly differ- Musical note ent sort of woman. No shrinking violet, enterprising January You might have read previously in Schutt is a woman bent on making her own way. She wants Roundup about WWA poets Karla K. to be left alone, not drawn into the political struggles facing and and others in the small valley where she has settled. Morton Alan Birkelbach Lisa Carver their efforts to visit and write poems ELIZABETH CROOK about many of this country’s national The Which Way Tree parks. Little, Brown and Company Now, they have written a song, “Go Hardcover, 279 pages, $26 Around,” which supports the preser- LittleBrown.com vation and protection of the parks. A former slave is killed saving her daughter and stepson New Mexico artist Lisa Carver from a panther in the Texas Hill Country of the 1860s, send- wrote the music and provides the ing the daughter, who has been mauled, on a relentless quest vocals for the song, which is avail- for vengeance. In less capable hands, this could have been a Karla K. Morton and able on iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify, Alan Birkelbach routine adventure story, but Spur winner Elizabeth Crook Amazon, Google Play, Tidal, Deezer and more. gives The Which Way Tree a literary flair by letting the brother, Benjamin, tell the story in a series of letters to a judge. *** E-mail Ollie at [email protected] and send CDs to him at P.O. Box 2381, Corrales, N.M. 87048. AUGUST 2019 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE 23 Award-winner James Crownover interviews the men of Oro JUNI FISHER writes dialogue with the best of them. searching for information and a lead to The Girls From Centro It’s clear, crisp, spot-on and delightful. the killer’s identity. Sheep Pen Cañon, however, jumps from Pen-L Publishing W. M I C H A E L F A R M E R Hardcover, trade paperback, 300 scene to scene without using a clutch. The Last Warrior pages, $24.95, $15.95 Despite the glitches and head-scratchers Pen-L.com in this story, Crownover’s story is inter- Five Star Publishing esting. Hardcover, 380 pages, $25.95 With the publication of her debut Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar novel, we find JOHN NEELY DAVIS Michael Farmer brings the voice of out that The Chapman Legacy award-winning the Mescalero Apache to life. The story singer-songwrit- Five Star Publishing of Yellow Boy, a character throughout Hardcover, 374 pages, $25.95 this series, reveals turn-of-last-century er Juni Fisher is Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar also skilled and Apache faced with changing life styles. It venturesome at The Chapman men are a tough tells of determined ignorance from auto- writing fiction. bunch, a family of fighters. This book cratic government overseers, but also the The Girls From tells their story from the late 1800s to determination of the Apache to main- th Centro is about the latter part of the 20 Century. The tain their way of life and their dignity. women from Nogales, Mexico, Chapman men will be confronted with the actions of a soulless, brazen killer, W. M I C H A E L F A R M E R crossing the border into Arizona in Knight of the Tiger search of a better life for themselves the horrors of war and the utter cruelty and their children. Certainly it’s a visited upon one of them in a Korean Five Star Publishing POW camp. Hardcover, 349 pages, $25.95 timely topic, but what makes this Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar novel important is the impressive PATRICK DEAREN Henry Fountain (whose father Albert technique Fisher displays in writing Apache Lament it. Rather than the linear narrative Fountain was murdered), now going by you’d expect from a rookie novelist, Five Star Publishing the name Henry Grace, becomes a medi- Hardcover, 274 pages, $25.95 cal doctor, returns to Las Cruces, New Fisher moves her story back and Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar forth across the border and through Mexico and opens a practice. However, the years as she braids together the Ranger Company A, made up of within days, longtime acquaintance Pan- stories of a mother who crossed eight men – each with his own dark cho Villa needs help and Henry, feeling into Arizona with her infant secret – pursues a small band of free- a sense of obligation, rushes to aid Villa, daughter in 1948 and a mother who ranging Mescalero who have who is determined to return Mexico to slipped across the border with three been raiding and killing white settlers. the rightful ruler – himself. daughters in 1971. Fisher’s novel is As they travel, conflicts develop among the Rangers. The book is full of twists ANDREW J. FENADY gripping, harsh, unsettling, unpre- The Christmas Trespassers dictable and beautifully written. that will keep you guessing what is go- ing to happen next. Pinnacle – Ollie Reed Jr. Mass-market paperback, 374 pages, $7.99 LOREN D. ESTLEMAN KensingtonBooks.com JAMES D. CROWNOVER Wild Justice: A Page Murdock Novel Originally released as The Runaways If These Walls Could Talk Forge Books by Berkley Books in 1999, Owen Wister Five Star Publishing Hardcover, 224 pages, $26.99 Award recipient Andrew J. Fenady’s Hardcover, 317 pages, $25.95 us.macmillan.com/TorForge novel has been reissued under a new title Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar Wild Justice, Loren D. Estleman’s 13th with three bonus short stories told by Two mid-teen boys, Demps and Page Murdock novel, is a road trip that Fenady’s “Wise Old Man of the West.” Coop, are sent to live in an old cabin winds through the history and land- W. M I C H A E L G E A R located far away from all other humans scape of the West, all the while captur- Flight of the Hawk: The Plains while the influenza epidemic of 1918 ing the hearts and minds of the men rages. Bored stiffer than starched under- and women who set out to make it their Five Star Publishing wear in subzero weather, the boys resort home. Hardcover, 275 pages, $25.95 Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar to reading old newspapers that have SAM FADALA been plastered to the walls, noting who This novel, part two in a series, is set Death Stalks Apache Oro was murdered, where, when and sup- around the time of the and posedly why. But nothing is ever what it Sundown Press among the fur trappers and Indians. appears to be. Trade paperback, 307 pages, $14.99 John Tylor, having been accused of SundownPress.com treason for taking part in the Aaron Burr JAMES D. CROWNOVER Arizona Ranger John Briggs is sent conspiracy, has fled into the wilderness. Sheep Pen Cañon to Apache Oro to find the killer of the He is being pursued by Fenway McK- Five Star Publishing women who lived at the Citadel. This eever, one of the evilest villains to grace Hardcover, 324 pages, $25.95 story will keep you guessing as Briggs the pages of a novel. Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar

24 24 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE AUGUST 2019 ESTERN VIDEO JON GOSCH W Deep Fire Rise Latah Books Trade paperback, 219 pages, $16.50 LatahBooks.com Bend of the River The day Mount St. Helens blew (May 18, 1980) is a histori- Kino Lorber cal event that will remain in memory as long as those of us Blu-ray, $29.95 close enough to be covered in ash live. Jon Gosch has written KinoLorber.com a vivid and compelling story of the characters who lived Years ago, at the Scottsdale, Ari- around the volcano: the foolhardy, the criminals, the unbe- zona, convention, I sat on a panel lievers and those with a strong sense of duty, all of whom about the future of Westerns. There have a place in history. was the usual doom and gloom and JAMES J. GRIFFIN starts of debates that carried on into Tough Month for a Ranger the bar, but I’d brought up the subject Fire Star Press of the popularity of Western comic Trade paperback, 274 pages, $14.99 books. Miles Swarthout jabbed me, of FireStarPress.com course, saying, “Well, I guess we should Packed full of action, this novel gives “trials and tribula- all start boning up on Superman!” A tions” a new definition. This modern-day tale of a Texas voice out of the audience said, “That’s Ranger, and all that happens in a single month, reminds read- not such a bad idea.” ers of the stories of Royal Canadian Mounted Police who The voice was Bill Gulick’s. “always get their man.” As a Western, it’s refreshing to see it Bill was one of the first people I met set in the modern day. C. COURTNEY JOYNER at the WWA and was always interested HARLAN HAGUE in new ways to bring readers to the Home to Wyoming genre. Comics, television, movies, brilliant novels and works Graycatbird Books of nonfiction were all part of Bill’s history. Bill thought Trade paperback, 245 pages, $14.75 comic books were a great way to encourage young readers, Laced with historical Wyoming moments, Harlan Hague’s having had his own The Hallelujah Trail adapted as a comic tale of pioneering in the early West is a sequel to A Place for when the Burt Lancaster/John Sturges epic comedy was Mei Lin, his 2017 Will Rogers Medallion winner for Western released. For television, he had written several pilots but romance. Settling on a small ranch, a tough former also episodes of Hotel de Paree starring Earl Holliman and and his Chinese spouse merge culture and unrelenting forti- directed by Andy McLaglen. tude to become significant leaders in Jackson Hole. It was the sale of Bend of the Snake to Universal in 1952 SCOTT HARRIS that, Bill said, “changed my writing life,” when it was made Battle on the Plateau by Anthony Mann into Bend of the River. Kino Lorber has Dusty Saddle Publishing just released this Technicolor follow-up to Winchester ’73 for Paperback, 238 pages, $8.99 the first time on Blu-ray. The most visually sumptuous of the ScottHarrisWest.com Mann/Stewart films, Bend of the River still has that streak of Taking characters from his previous books, Scott Harris human darkness that marked all their collaborations. It’s not places them in Arizona’s Grand Canyon in a story that chugs as brutal as The Man from Laramie or The Naked Spur, but its along nicely. canvas is broader and its settler characters more inviting. SUSAN HENDERSON James Stewart is the man with the past trying to find a bet- The Flicker of Old Dreams ter life by escorting a wagon train through Oregon, only to Harper Collins run up against corruption in Portland that has to be settled Trade paperback, 299 pages, $15.99 with a shootout. Lori Nelson and Jay C. Flippen are the fine HarperCollins.com folks, Julie Adams and Rock Hudson epitomize new-money Mary Crampton’s clearest memory as a child was the day and grinning Arthur Kennedy threatens to smear blood her small Montana town’s star athlete died in an accident at the across all of them. grain elevator. The town blamed Robert, the victim’s younger Recommending Bend of the River is like telling someone to brother, and, as time wore on, the incident tore the town apart. read To Kill a Mockingbird. We’ve all seen it. We all love it. Now Robert is back to care for his dying mother and Mary is But this classic Western, written by one of the kind giants attracted to him, although he’s still ostracized by the locals. of the WWA, has never looked as beautiful as it does in this ANNE HILLERMAN release. The Tale Teller: A Leaphorn, Chee & Novel *** Harper Collins C. Courtney Joyner writes in many formats, including Hardcover, 304 pages, $26.99 screenplays, fiction and nonfiction. E-mail him at HarperCollins.com [email protected]. AUGUST 2019 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE 25 JAMES HITT CRAIG JOHNSON ANDREW J. FENADY Bodie Depth of Winter The Mustangers Black Horse Viking Pinnacle Hardcover, 160 pages, $18.43 Hardcover, 287 pages, $28 Mass-market paperback, 344 pages, BHWesterns.com PenguinRandomHouse.com $7.99 KensingtonBooks.com Engaged to the attractive daughter of Cady, Walt Longmire’s daughter, has the wealthiest man in the town, Josh been taken by Walt’s arch enemy, Tomás Ex- champion and World Thorn is a lawyer with a bright future Bidarte, leader of one of Mexico’s most War I veteran in the town of Bodie, California. But dangerous cartels. With Cady hidden Ben Smith when an equally attractive prostitute is away somewhere in Mexico and soon returns home beaten, raped and dares to fight back to go on the auction block, Walt fol- during the against a wealthy and powerful man, lows. He’s determined to rescue her as Great Depres- Josh is faced with a thorny decision. he dodges the U.S. border patrol, FBI, sion, where he This book is the kind of Western that Mexican authorities and everyone else runs into old every traditional novelist seeks to pen. who is dead set against him. pals and makes new friends – JANE ISENBERG JIM JONES and a few Murder in the Melting Pot The Lights of Cimarrón enemies. Smith Oconee Spirit Press Five Star Publishing takes a rancher’s young son under Trade Paperback, 207 pages, $14.95 Hardcover, 306 pages, $25.95 his wing, and both are caught up in OconeeSpirit.com Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar a fight to save a herd of wild Accused of committing a crime of When Tommy Stallings becomes mustangs from the slaughterhouse. which she is innocent, Miranda Breitner sheriff of Colfax County, New Mexico, Owen Wister Award recipient moves, 20 years later, to the Yakima he must track outlaws who are brutally Andrew J. Fenady has written one Valley and starts a bed and breakfast. killing ranchers and stealing livestock. of his finest and most touching All goes well until one of the crew Being new to the job, Stallings turns to novels. As a Hollywood producer certifying the grape harvest as kosher is a former sheriff for help in dealing with and screenwriter, Fenady sprinkles murdered. With crooked cops and other the murderous rustlers and in clearing in entertaining cameos by John forces plaguing the valley, Miranda himself of an accusation of bribery. Wayne, Will Rogers, Humphrey needs to step in before her B&B goes Bogart, Tom Mix and others. But broke. BETH KANELL I’m not sure about this bit part of a The Long Shadow: The Winds of “not so sober” cattleman named EASY JACKSON Freedom, Book One Johnny D. Boggs. Another “The A Bad Place To Die Five Star Publishing Wise Old Man of the West” short Pinnacle Hardcover, 300 pages, $25.95 story is included. Mass-market paperback, 346 pages, $7.99 Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar – Johnny D. Boggs KensingtonBooks.com Beth Kanell has mastered the craft of While heading west, Tennessee writing. What raises The Long Shadow, a Joe Leaphorn is back on the job. Smith, thinking she is going to be a Spur finalist for historical novel, above Bored with not only retirement, but missionary, finds out that she signed a merely entertaining tale is its strong also his recovery after being shot in the papers to be a mail-order bride. After story line, sense of place, historical refer- head, Leaphorn takes a consulting job her husband dies on their wedding ences, literary virtuosity and the strategic for a museum. A box of artifacts from night, she is saddled with a ranch and interposition of the unexpected. an anonymous donor is missing some three stepsons who constantly get into items and the museum wants to know trouble. It is a good, well-written read, MARK EDWARD LANGLEY Path of the Dead: An Arthur Nakai what happened. light and suspenseful. Mystery CHARLOTTE HINGER LINELL JEPPSEN and JEB Blackstone Publishers The Healer’s Daughter ROSEBROOK Hardcover, 207 pages, $24.99 Five Star Publishing No Man’s Land BlackstonePublishing.com Hardcover, 405 pages, $25.95 Wolfpack Publishing Arthur Nakai, an ex-Marine whose Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar Trade paperback, 196 pages, $8.99 job was to hunt smugglers of both drugs WolfpackPublishing.com Bethany Herbert, a young black and humans on the Mexican border, has woman, leaves the South for the prom- Weary Civil War veteran Jack Ballard retired to a quiet life. Or so he thinks. ised land of Nicodemus, Kansas, where drifts into a Texas community and rides When his wife Sharon, a TV reporter, is a small band of former slaves builds a right into a searing drought, a land kidnapped by a serial killer, he’ll have to life of freedom. A compelling story of feud, romance, hard cases, fistfights and draw on all his former skills to save her. endurance and backbone. gunfights. The easy writing style will satisfy fans of traditional Westerns. MILANA MARSENICH The Swan Keeper

26 26 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE AUGUST 2019 Open Books Wyoming in 1892 may be booming, This fourth collection of short stories Paperback, 256 pages, $15.99 but the rules are set by those with the by John Mort brings to mind the work of Open-bks.com money to buy. Some say that period, Flannery O’Connor’s broken characters. It’s 1928. In the craggy Mission give or take a decade, determined the The struggle, bewilderment and fragility Mountains of Montana, someone is economic and social structure of Wyo- of the folks “down along the Piney” in killing the majestic swans, just as they ming for the next hundred years. Robert the Ozarks is reflective of human experi- killed Lilly’s father. Strange images blur D. McKee’s story captures the era with ences that provide an image of all of us. witty dialogue and charm. 11-year-old Lilly’s recollection. Winter, DAVID C. NOONAN timidity and self-doubt erode her sanity ROD MILLER The Man From Misery until she sees her mother and sister Father unto Many Sons drawn into danger and enlists a friend to Five Star Publishing help prove her theory. Five Star Publishing Hardcover, 268 pages, $25.95 Hardcover, 265 pages, $25.95 Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar EDWARD MASSEY Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar After shooting a 12-year-old girl who Fugitive Sheriff Readers weary of familiar tales in is about to be burned to death, Emmet Five Star Publishing Western literature can always count on Honeycut is disdained by the town even Hardcover, 373 pages, $25.95 Rod Miller to break a fresh trail. Father after he is found not guilty of murder. Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar unto Many Sons does that splendidly. Saved by his former commander, Major Fugitive Sheriff opens with the mur- With an almost Shakespearean flair (the Kingston, Honeycut is asked to help der of Luke Willford Simms, sheriff title is from Henry VI, Part 3), Miller Kingston recover his niece, who has of Summit County in . introduces us to the Pate and Lewis been kidnapped to be sold as a slave. His son, Deputy John Willford Simms, families, both bound for new territories. ELLEN NOTBOHM determined to bring the killer to justice, J.M. MITCHELL pins on his father’s badge. A gripping, The River by Starlight Killing Godiva’s Horse historically accurate tale of a stalwart She Writes Press man’s search for justice in a turbulent Prairie Plum Press Trade paperback, 344 pages, $16.95 time of politics and greed. Paperback, 441 pages, $16.95 SheWritesPress.com PrairiePlumPress.com Ellen Notbohm’s exquisite prose MATTHEW P. MAYO Ranger Jack Chastain of the Na- shines in this historical novel, a Spur Timberline tional Park Service is an intriguing finalist this year for best traditional novel Five Star Publishing and welcome series protagonist. Truly and a Spur winner for best first novel. Hardcover, 200 pages, $25.95 refreshing, this novel contains plots It’s about a vibrant heroic woman whose Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar that involve Western lands rebellion, brains and ambition would have led to A high-country train wreck turns Kenya, rhino horn poachers, and life in prosperity and self-fulfillment in another into a blizzard-bound train wreck for New Mexico. Perhaps those elements era. Instead, she is victimized by an Roamer as a gang of gunmen absconds make this book unwieldy, but bless J.M. unenlightened medical profession. not only with a safe full of valuables but Mitchell for trying. He has taken on a also with a mysterious young woman. big, international, action-packed plot TRACIE PETERSON and They head into the high country with and it works. KIMBERLEY WOODHOUSE Out of the Ashes big, bold Roamer on their heels. Mayo KATHLEEN MORRIS tells the story with authority. And he Bethany House The Lily of the West knows how to spin a tale. Hardcover, 356 pages, $22.99 Five Star Publishing BakerPublishingGroup.com Hardcover, 341 pages, $25.95 TERRENCE McCAULEY Out of the Ashes, a 2019 Spur finalist Where the Bullets Fly Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar for romance, is a story of redemption. Pinnacle Inspired by her find of the final rest- Having survived the Syrian Revolt of Mass-market paperback, 345 pages, $7.99 ing place of Mary Katherine Haroney 1925, Jean-Michel Langelier has been KensingtonBooks.com in Prescott, Arizona, Kathleen Mor- left devastated by the horrors of war and Set in late 1880s Montana, Where the ris wrote her first historical novel. An the loss of a woman who was forced to Bullets Fly kicks off a series about Aaron orphaned young Kate left her home in marry a powerful but abusive man. When Mackey, a complicated and sometimes Davenport, Iowa, stowed away on a he and his sister Collette are invited to just plain nasty sheriff, and his black Mississippi riverboat, and forged her visit Curry, Alaska, he reluctantly agrees. deputy. Imagine a spaghetti Western way across the . This with flawed characters and nonstop ac- novel of Kate’s life, written in first LISA PRESTON tion. Or Rooster Cogburn, without the person, is based on historical research, The Clincher: A Horseshoer Mystery eyepatch and a whole lot meaner. letters and the author’s excellent imagi- Skyhorse Publishing nation. Hardcover, 254 pages, $24.99 ROBERT D. McKEE SkyhorsePublishing.com Gypsy Rock JOHN MORT When Patsy-Lynn Harper is murdered Down Along the Piney Five Star Publishing on the afternoon horseshoer Rainy Dale Hardcover, 290 pages, $25.95 University of Notre Dame Press shoes Patsy’s prize stud, Rainy becomes Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar Trade paperback, 200 pages, $20 the chief suspect. A comparative new- undpress.nd.edu AUGUST 2019 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE 27 27 comer to her small Oregon town, Rainy ing together would be improper, they to build new lives in Colorado. Inex- is an easy mark. Especially since some- pose as a married couple. That secret perienced travelers, they wind up in a one seems determined to set her up. becomes a heavy burden when Mary precarious situation when Lukas Yates, falls for the trail guide. also displaced, rides to the rescue. JOHN W. RAVAGE Black Star over Hollywood BRAD SMITH MARK WARREN Xlibris The Return of Kid Cooper Born to the Badge Trade paperback, 228 pages, $19.99 Arcade Publishing Five Star Publishing Xlibris.com Hardcover, 228 pages, $24.99 Hardcover, 257 pages, $25.95 John Ravage has written extensively SkyhorsePublishing.com Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar on African Americans in the West. This Fresh from serving 25 years in a In Mark Warren’s pages, the young time, Ravage takes the topic for a wild Montana prison for killing a dishonest confirms his calling – law fictional romp through post-Depression Indian agent, Nate Cooper, now consid- enforcement – in Wichita and Dodge. era Hollywood. Ted Masters, a gifted ered an old man for his ancient cowboy Wyatt is soft-spoken and low-key until dancer/musician from Memphis, Ten- ways in an age of horseless carriages, crossed by miscreants, all Texans and all nessee, leaves the “colored-only” is a classic example of the flawed hero. bad. The resulting fireworks only add to theaters behind and heads for Tinsel After revenging a young boy brutalized his notoriety and the respect in which Town, where he is swept into a vortex by a former guard, Cooper returns to he is held. The ending promises another of movie moguls, all bent on making his old stamping grounds. volume. him Hollywood’s first black singing/ (editor) dancing cowboy. CHARLIE STEEL L.J. WASHBURN Applejack & : Trinidad’s The Untamed West ERIC RED Law The Western Fictioneers Hanging Fire Condor Publishing Trade paperback, 565 pages, $22.99 Pinnacle Trade paperback, 139 pages, $12.95 WesternFictioneers.com CondorPublishingInc.com Mass-market paperback, 308 pages, $7.99 Western, mystery, romance and his- KensingtonBooks.com After leaving the family’s failing torical author L.J. Washburn edits The Can we say hyperbole? Hanging Fire Colorado ranch, Jack Martin, aka Untamed West, the third anthology of needs no exclamation marks. This Applejack, encounters an injured gun- Western Fictioneers. “Byrd’s Luck” by teeth-grinding, bare-knuckling, swash- slinger, who teaches him how to shoot Jeffrey J. Mariotte, a 2019 Spur final- buckling adventure keeps readers and survive. Young Jack rides into ist for short fiction, opens the anthol- turning pages long into the night. Yes, Trinidad, Colorado, where he is hired ogy. Other standouts include “Earthly it’s over the top in violence and gore. as Bat Masterson’s deputy, falls for a Riches” by McKendree Long and “A Yes, there are scenes that are not only fetching young woman and realizes the Deadly Decision at Adobe Wells” by Big improbable, but impossible. Yes, it’s a only way to take her hand in marriage Jim Williams. terrific read. is by becoming a wealthy rancher. GINA WELBORN and BECCA HAZEL RUMNEY (editor) TOM TATUM WHITHAM Contention and Other Frontier Stories Telluride Top of the World The Kitchen Marriage Five Star Publishing Outskirts Press Zebra Hardcover, 345 pages, $25.95 Trade paperback, 304 pages, $15.95 Mass-market paperback, 352 pages, $7.99 Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar OutskirtsPress.com Kensingtonbooks.com Seventeen stories from a wide selec- In this adult novel, Cooper Stuart In this Spur finalist for romance, Zoe tion of writers with perceived and learns that protecting the family ranch de Fleur, a French immigrant, finds fascinating outlooks on the Old West. near Telluride, Colorado, in the 1970s herself fired from her job in New York, Baseball, cowardice, cannibalism, mal- might be much harder than it was for his and, unable to read or write in English, ice and revenge are coupled with blister- ancestors in the 19th Century. Now the responds to an advertisement that Nico, ing heat and high plains blizzards. enemies are subtler but no less danger- a young lad who has befriended her, lets ous cocaine-using developers and bank- her think is a request for a cook. She and ANNE SCHROEDER ers, along with uranium interests and Nico travel west, where she discovers she Walk the Promise Road: A Novel of the speculators in the budding ski industry. has answered the call for a mail-order bride. Prairie Rose Publications LOWELL F. VOLK Trade paperback, 265 pages, $15.99 Lukas Yates and the Roses C.M. WENDELBOE PrairieRosePublications.com Covenant Books Seeking Justice: A Tucker Ashley Western Mary Rodgers loses her mother, fa- Trade paperback, 259 pages, $17.95 Adventure ther and brother to the flu. Not wanting CovenantBooks.com Five Star Publishing to be left alone in her parents’ empty Lowell F. Volk is obviously passion- Hardcover, 235 pages, $25.95 house, Mary convinces her cousin, ate about writing. This story tells of Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar Philip – who is about to leave on a chance meetings, hope, tragedies and Tucker Ashley uses his formidable wagon train for Oregon – to take her romance. After the Civil War, two tracking skills in searching for Justice along. Since two single people travel- displaced Southern families set out Cauthier, a violent, bloodthirsty killer 28 28 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE AUGUST 2019 who has a score to settle with Tucker. ting hanged and decides to stick around to Tucker’s skill in tracking is matched figure out just what the heck is going on DAVID CROW by Justice’s knack for evasion, and the and how he can turn the tables on the bad The Pale-Faced Lie: A True Story pace of the pursuit varies from slow and guys, who are plentiful. This sounds like a Sandra Jonas Publishing House methodical to breakneck. traditional Western. But, it’s more Akira Hardcover, 345 pages, $28 Kurosawa than Zane Grey, told splen- SandraJonasPublishing.com C.M. WENDELBOE didly by Western Writers Hall of Fame The Marshal and the Sinister Still: A David Crow grew up on the inductee Richard S. Wheeler. Nelson Lane Frontier Mystery Nation in a dysfunc- Five Star Publishing G.R. WILLIAMSON Hardcover, 259 pages, $25.95 Hell Bound: A Peyton Bonner Novel tional family, with a mentally Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar Indian Head Publishing Trade paperback, 229 pages, $14.95 ill mother and a U.S. Marshal Nelson Lane is called in physically to aid local law enforcement when an G.R. Williamson has certainly given abusive father American Indian girl goes missing from life to a great Western character in the who between the Wind River reservation. Supposing mysterious traveling gambler, Peyton frequent her a runaway, Nelson agrees, but soon Bonner. The book was an excellent read, beatings runs into murder, bootlegging – this except for the author’s references to reminded David that his Cherokee is set during Prohibition – and human Jack Daniels, Whitman Samplers and heritage made him superior to the trafficking. Good dialogue and strong Coxey’s Army, which didn’t yet exist. . Crow’s father was a minor pacing fuel the plot. REAVIS Z. WORTHAM official in the Bureau of Indian CHARLES G. WEST Hawke’s War Affairs. Crow was a wild child, No Justice in Hell doing poorly in school and pulling Pinnacle off cruel pranks on innocent people. Pinnacle Mass-Market paperback, 422 pages, $9.99 Mass-Market paperback, 309 pages, $7.99 KensingtonBooks.com The family moved to New Mexico KensingtonBooks.com and and Washing- This Spur Award winner could have ton, D.C., making David’s educa- The task for John Hawk was simple been taken directly from today’s head- tion difficult due to his dyslexia and enough. Go find his friend Chief Walk- lines. This engaging and exciting story poor eyesight. Insensitive teachers ing Owl, convince him to return his starts with a sniper attack on four hikers told him he had no chance of a Blackfoot tribe to the reservation and in the Big Bend National Park in West decent future. Somehow Crow then report back to Fort Ellis. With Texas. And the reader is immediately survived all this negative luggage mixed results, the veteran Army scout launched into a thrilling and emotional and after many years came to starts back. Then he meets Bertie, Blos- roller-coaster ride of spellbinding adven- forgive the people who had made som and JoJo, three women who would ture. his life so difficult. change his focus and his entire trip. A – Abraham Hoffman Spur finalist for original mass-market MICHAEL ZIMMER paperback. Hard Ride Across Texas Five Star Publishing has teamed with Chuck Parsons, a re- JULIE WESTON Hardcover, 346 pages, $25.95 nowned historian of Texas and gunfight- Moonscape: A Nellie Burns and Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar ers, to produce a monumental biography Mystery Gage Pardell sets out to seek jus- of the gunman – the first book-length Five Star Publishing tice for the harm done his sister by study of Thompson since Floyd B. Street- Hardcover, 250 pages, $25.95 er’s Ben Thompson, Man with a Gun (1957). Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar Henry Kalb – and kills Henry. A classic blood-feud tale forms the structure of BRENDA CLEM BLACK In the third mystery about Nellie the story, with enough money to allow Black & Kiddo: A True Story of Dust, Burns and her dog, Moonshine, dead relentless hired hands to carry it out. Determination, and Cowboy Dreams bodies are turning up, there’s a strange Gage doesn’t lay in wait to take down religious cult, craggy lava fields and Et Alia Press the bounty hunters. He runs – and rides Trade paperback, 330 pages, $17.95 ominous caves to navigate, and an into a hornets’ nest of trouble. EtAliaPress.com ensemble of quirky characters. It’s the early 1920s, and Burns, a field photog- A daughter-in-law tells the story of her rapher, is adventurous, a natural sleuth NONFICTION husband’s parents, a singing cowboy and and speaks her mind. a feisty woman, and their unique love THOMAS C. BICKNELL and story. Their letters to each other, plus diary RICHARD S. WHEELER CHUCK PARSONS entries about their daily lives, enrich the No Name Ben Thompson: Portrait of a Gunfghter story and make the total package an easy, CreateSpace University of North Texas Press enjoyable read. Trade paperback, 328 pages, $20 Hardcover, 665 pages, $34.95 Amazon.com UNTPress.unt.edu BOB BOZE BELL The Illustrated Life and Times of Wild Bill In 1880s Montana, a drifter finds him- Thomas C. Bicknell, who has studied Hickok, The First Gunfghter self in the wrong town, barely escapes get- and written about Thompson for years, AUGUST 2019 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE 29 29 John Branch’s ability to capture the Dry Fly Publishing BRUCE A. GLASRUD and lyricism of the American West and the Trade paperback, 260 pages, $16.95 CARY D. WINTZ (editors) hard realities of modern “cowboy” MartyCampbellFieldTrips.com Black Americans and the Civil Rights living. A Spur finalist for contemporary The fifth edition of this guide to the Movement in the West nonfiction. author’s favorite family destinations University of Oklahoma Press GEORGE BRANDSBERG in Arizona, first published in 1999, Paperback, 296 pages, $29.95 includes valuable information on parks, The Deadly Snow: A Cold War Memoir OUPress.com trails, campgrounds, museums, ghost Cedartip Company In this important anthology, towns, lakes and other points of interest. Trade paperback, 404 pages, $14.50 18 historians CedarTip.com FRANCISCO CANTÚ writing 16 This fascinating book documents the The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from articles (two are the Border co-authored) Mitchell family, who were raising sheep examine the near Sundance, Wyoming, in April Riverhead Books 1959, and the health problems they and Hardcover, 256 pages, $26 struggle of PenguinRandomHouse.com African their livestock encountered after a “pur- Americans for ple snow fall.” The Mitchells believe it Son of a park ranger in Texas’s civil rights in was radiation fallout from government Guadalupe Mountains and a four-year the Western testing of atomic bombs. The govern- Border Patrol veteran, Francisco Cantú states, defined as the states west of ment denied responsibility, but George brings unique insight to this beauti- the Mississippi River. Blacks Brandsberg makes a strong case that fully written account of immigration suffered and endured both de jure there was a government cover-up. and backlash. A deserved double Spur winner for contemporary nonfiction and and de facto segregation in educa- JULIA BRICKLIN first nonfiction book. tion, housing, occupations and Polly Pry: The Woman Who Wrote the voting rights in Western states. West ROBERT A. CLARK (editor, Levels of discrimination vary TwoDot Books introduction) widely from one state to another, Hardcover, 206 pages, $24.95 The Killing of Chief but it is nonetheless shocking to GlobePequot.com Bison Books read of the lengths some localities Polly Pry (Leonel Ross Campbell), Trade paperback, 103 pages, $19.95 went to in keeping African Ameri- first female journalist for the BisonBooks.com cans from purchasing decent homes , was adventurous, outspoken and and attending schools. The articles Post This classic is back in print 30 years perhaps a creator of fake news. Did she expand the civil rights movement to after its original publication with a new really travel to Paris and Moscow or include efforts prior to the famous introduction by Robert A. Clark. The interview Pancho Villa in Mexico? Julia Brown v. Topeka 1954 Supreme book provides annotated accounts of Bricklin put in thorough work on this Court decision, some authors the Lakota leader’s death from He Dog, 2019 Spur finalist for biography, neatly tracing the origins of the movement Crazy Horse’s longtime friend; William giving readers an entertaining glimpse to the late 19th Century. Garnett, a guide and interpreter; and into what made Campbell tick. – Abraham Hoffman Valentine McGillycuddy, the medical DON BULLIS officer. Two Roads West New Mexico Historical Chronology: From TOM CLAVIN Paperback, 112 pages, $24.95 the Beginning ... Wild Bill: The True Story of the American TwoRoadsWest.com Rio Grande Books Frontier’s First Gunfghter True West magazine’s editor fills the Hardcover, paperback, 1,028 pages, St. Martin’s Press life and times of the “Prince of the $68.95, $58.95 Hardcover, 283 pages, $29.95 Pistoleers” with rare photographs and RioGrandeBooks.com us.macmillan.com/smp/ his own art, plus a fact-filled, fun nar- Don Bullis starts his chronology This historian’s approach offers a rative delivered with style, humor and with the discovery of dinosaur bones unique insight into the character of attitude. that date to 200 million years ago and James Butler Hickok’s life as a crack doesn’t rein in until 2017. In between, shot, a spy and scout for the Union JOHN BRANCH this hefty volume touches on signifi- The Last Cowboys: A Pioneer Family in Army, an effective lawman, a successful cant dates in the lives of colorful New the New West gambler, a terrible actor and a lifelong Mexico figures such as and womanizer. Tom Clavin’s research also W. W. N o r t o n & C o. and intriguing incidents reveals Hickok’s insecurities and his Hardcover, 288 pages, $26.95 such as the mysterious 1947 crash that WWNorton.com decline as eyesight and natural defenses would become known as The Roswell failed. This intimate and unflinching ac- Incident. count of the Wright family of Utah’s at- GREGORY CROUCH tempt to sustain their ranching heritage MARTY CAMPBELL The Bonanza King: John Mackay and in changing times benefits tremendously Arizona Family Field Trips the Battle over the Greatest Riches in the from New York Times reporter-at-large American West 30 30 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE AUGUST 2019 Scribner Apache culture, focusing on the Chir- 25-year war with the Apaches. Hardcover, 466 pages, $30 icahuas and Mescaleros. He covers the SimonAndSchuster.com latter half of the 19th Century and early THOMAS D. ISERN Pacing Dakota Gregory Crouch’s fascinating account 20th Century. This is an excellent resource of John Mackay, “the Bonanza King,” for a first-time student of Apache history North Dakota State University Press is a sweeping narrative of Nevada’s and culture. Hardcover, 264 pages, $29.95 NDSUPress.org Comstock Lode, providing insight into JOHN FARKIS New York City and Virginia City and Tom Isern presents a collection of es- The Making of Tombstone: Behind the the latter’s cast of characters as well as says in this volume that reflects on the Scenes of the Classic Modern Western 19th Century engineering, technology history and culture of the Great Plains. and social conditions. A Spur finalist for McFarland & Company A historian teaching at North Dakota Paperback, 250 pages, $39.95 historical nonfiction. State University who ranges widely in McFarlandBooks.com his Ford F-150, he relates his observa- JIM DeFELICE John Farkis takes readers behind the tions through writing and a public radio West Like Lightning: The Brief, scenes of the making of a movie that is program Plains Folk. Legendary Ride of the not a “Classic Modern Western” by any William Morrow means but certainly a cult favorite. GAIL L. JENNER Hardcover, 357 pages, $27.99 One Room: Schools and Schoolteachers in HarperCollins.com FORREST FENN and the Pioneer West CARLEEN MILBURN William Russell, Alexander Majors TwoDot Books Leon Gaspard: The Call of Distant Places and William Waddell’s Pony Express Trade paperback, 160 pages, $22 GlobePequot.com flashed in the historic spotlight for only The TIA Collection/Fenn Archive 18 months, April 1860-October 1861, Hardcover, 411 pages, $125 At one time, almost every child OldSantaFeTradingCo.com but Jim DeFelice smoothly delivers not taught at home was educated in a all the truths, myths and uncertainties Forrest Fenn and Carleen Milburn tell small, often isolated, one-room school. about the enterprise in this Spur finalist the story of artist Leon Gaspard and his One Room illustrates how much our for historical nonfiction. wife Evelyn Adell, who settled in the educational system has changed in 100- thriving art community of Taos, New plus years. Stories range from Nebraska CHRIS ENSS Mexico, in 1924 in this beautifully con- blizzards in which children perished Principles of Posse Management-Lessons ceived book filled with color reproduc- to glorious days of small classes and From the Old West for Today’s Leaders tions of the artist’s works, all revealing individual attention. TwoDot Press Gaspard’s incredible life, art and legacy. Paperback, 180 pages, $16.95 BRYAN L. JONES GlobePequot.com DENNIS HERRICK North of the Platte, South of the Esteban: The African Slave Who Explored Niobrara: A Little Further Into the Chris Enss masterfully intertwines America Nebraska Sand Hills stories of Old West outlaw chasing posses with management principles still University of New Mexico Press Stephen F. Austin State University Press Trade paperback, 232 pages, $22.95 relevant today. Included are more than Hardcover, 282 pages, $39.95 UNMPress.com SFASU.edu/sfapress 30 photos of lawmen and outlaws. Despite the lack of primary sources, Bryan L. Jones presents an absorb- CHRIS ENSS and HOWARD Dennis Herrick has written a book that, ing book about the residents, especially KAZANJIAN if not quite biography, offers a fresh per- ranch families, who live, work and in- Cowboys, Creatures, and Classics: The spective on one of the most elusive men teract in the Nebraska Sand Hills area. Story of Republic Pictures in early American history. One of the Hardcover, 264 pages $35 VALERIE SHERER MATHES four survivors of the disastrous Narvaez and Lyons Press expedition of 1528, Esteban traveled PHIL BRIGANDI Reservations, Removal, and Reform: LyonsPress.com from Florida across today’s southern The Mission Indian Agents of Southern states and into Mexico during an eight- Spur finalist Chris Enss and film California, 1878-1903 producer Howard Kazanjian document year trek. Republic Studio’s up-and-down history University of Oklahoma Press DOUG HOCKING Hardcover, 344 pages, $36.95 in this handsomely illustrated book. It The Black Legend: George Bascom, , OUPress.com lacks depth, but casual film buffs will and the Start of the Apache Wars The tribes of Southern California enjoy it. TwoDot Books were peaceful people, many having W. M I C H A E L F A R M E R Hardcover, 373 pages, $24.95 converted to the Catholic religion, Apacheria: True Stories of Apache GlobePequot.com adopting agriculture, and wearing white Culture 1860-1920 In his well-researched book, Doug people’s clothing. Their biggest problem TwoDot Hocking explores in a reasoned and was dealing with white settlers who Paperback, 216 pages, $18.95 professional manner the facts, myths and coveted their land and water rights and Rowman.com participants involved in the flashpoint were untroubled by trespassing or filing W. Michael Farmer displays a won - incident, known as the “Bascom Affair,” fraudulent claims on Indian land. derful appreciation and sympathy for blamed for starting the American Army’s AUGUST 2019 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE 31 31 JOHN D. McDERMOTT, R. ELI PAUL and SANDRA J. LOWRY (editors) All Because of a Mormon Cow: Historical Accounts of the Gratton New from Candy Moulton Massacre, 1854-1855 AVAILABLE APRIL 2019 University of Oklahoma Press Hardcover, 222 pages, $29.95 PRE-ORDER AT OUPRESS.COM OUPress.com A fascinating example of how messy the historical record can get. The editors offer a succinct account of Lieutenant John Grattan’s disastrous meeting with Lakotas regarding a cow that had strayed from a Mormon wagon train into an Indian village. The meeting turned deadly and ended with the deaths of Grattan, an interpreter and 29 soldiers. After the summary, the editors offer 80 expertly annotated accounts that take on an eerie Rashomon quality as the stories contradict each other, exaggerate and perpetuate errors. DAWN NELSON Family Tree Recipes: Cooking with Cowgirl Uncorked, Volume IV Gray Dog Press Spiral bound, 129 pages, price not listed You know you’re not in for a typical cookbook when the author’s introduction says that the genesis for this volume was “a mishap with a bottle of apple moonshine and a batch of cookies.” Recipes range from “Cowboy Biscuits” to “Smashed Grasshopper Pie.” MARK J. NELSON White Hat: The Military Career of Captain William Philo Clark

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32 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE AUGUST 2019 University of Oklahoma Press Texas A&M University Press W. K . S T R A T T O N Hardcover, 280 pages, $29.95 Hardcover, 304 pages, $40 The : Sam Peckinpah, a OUPress.com TAMUPress.com Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making Since Lieutenant William Philo Clark A clearly written, imaginatively of a Legendary Film wore a white hat, the Indian scouts he researched and thought-provoking ac- Bloomsbury commanded in the mid-1870’s gave him count of indigenous people encounter- Hardcover, 352 pages, $28 the name “White Hat.” This 2019 Spur ing borders and living in borderland, Bloomsbury.com winner for biography details Clark’s sometimes even bisected by the interna- The Wild Bunch, the defining movie military service from West Point to his tional boundary. The 2019 Spur winner of director Sam Peckinpah’s career is adventures on the Great Plains and his for historical nonfiction will be of use considered among the best – if not the duties at Army headquarters. not just to academicians but to the sub- best – Western movie ever made. W.K. jects of his research. ROBERT NOTT Stratton chronicles the film’s turbulent The Films of Budd Boetticher WILLIAM REYNOLDS history, how it started as an idea formed by a Hollywood stuntman and wound up McFarland & Company Joe De Yong: A Life in the West polarizing movie critics and moviegoers Paperback, 192 pages, $39.95 Alamar Media McFarlandBooks.com Hardcover, 320 pages, $50 when first released in 1969. Insightful and engaging. Robert Nott explores the work of AlamarMedia.com iconic Western director Budd Boettich- He was born in Missouri, became ROBERT N. WATT er, whose life was filled with adventures a cowboy and eventually moved to “I Will Not Surrender the Hair of a Horse’s worthy of his films. Nott makes clear Montana and became an artist – and Tail”: The Campaign 1879 that Boetticher’s place in the pantheon he wasn’t Charles M. Russell. William Casemate Publishers of great Western directors is justified. Reynolds details the life, times and Hardcover, 328 pages, $49.95 multiple careers of Joe De Yong (1894- CasematePublishers.com BILL O’NEAL 1975), a protégé of Russell who made John Chisum: Frontier Cattle King This is a scholarly, extensively re- movies with Tom Mix and served as a searched book that too often meanders Eakin Press historical consultant on many Western off topic into areas of explanation only Trade paperback, 164 pages, $19.95 films. 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OSSELAER Acid West: Essays Arizona’s Deadliest Gunfght: Draft Screenwriter Jeb Rosebrook’s memoir Resistance and Tragedy at the Power FSG Originals tells the charming and often revealing Trade paperback, 416 pages, $17 Cabin, 1918 story behind the movie Junior Bonner, a FSGOriginals.com University of Oklahoma Press Steve McQueen/Sam Peckinpah clas- Alamogordo, New Mexico-based Hardcover, 294 pages, $29.95 sic. Numerous photographs. OUPress.com Joshua Wheeler’s debut book, a Spur KERMIT SCHWEIDEL finalist in contemporary nonfiction, is a In this fascinating, yet totally mad- Folly Cove: A Smuggler’s Tale of the Pot gorgeously crafted meditation on some of dening, account of fairness and justice Rebellion the more bizarre corners of his home turf, gone awry amid the public hysteria sur- by turns hilarious and disturbing, and rounding World War I, Heidi Osselaer Cinco Puntos Press Trade paperback, 266 pages, $16.95 always thought provoking. Subjects range examines the Power shootout facts CincoPuntos.com from cattle bleached white by the world’s to paint a chilling portrait of skewed first nuclear blast at Trinity to the annual American values of the time. Everyone Kermit Schweidel ran a successful ad UFO festival in Roswell. involved in the events that transpired agency in Dallas and then, midcareer, that fateful morning in early 20th Cen- returned to his hometown of El Paso, Reviews and listings tury Arizona, and especially the after- Texas, and became embroiled in one of To submit a book for possible re- math, should be considered a victim of the biggest pot heists of the 1970s. This view, mail one copy to Editor, Roundup this needless, violent confrontation. witty, engaging Spur finalist for con- Magazine, 10 Dovela Road, Santa temporary nonfiction book recounts the Fe, NM 87508 as soon as available. BRENDEN W. RENSINK amazing episode, weaving in the voices Professional advance reading copies Native but Foreign: Indigenous of the border rats who signed on – a are also accepted. In the Chute is an advance listing of forthcoming books. Immigrants and Refugees in the North kind of Oceans 11 of marijuana smug- Information should be emailed to American Borderlands gling set against the turbulent context [email protected] at least six of the era’s foreign and domestic wars. months before publication.

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