FICTION Lancer: Hero of the West: the Santa Fe His Posse Leave Fort Sill to Go After White Affair Criminals in the Indian Territory

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BOB BRILL from Judge Isaac C. Parker, Stowell and FICTION Lancer: Hero of the West: The Santa Fe his posse leave Fort Sill to go after white Affair criminals in the Indian Territory. The AMY HALE AUKER Brill Productions/CreateSpace danger and adventures they encounter Ordinary Skin: Essays from Willow Trade paperback, 182 pages, $11.99 searching for wanted men is informative BobBrillBooks.com Springs about lawmen of the West. The book Texas Tech University Press In this installment of the Lancer se- keeps you wondering what’s the next ob- Hardcover, 182 pages, $24.95 ries, the hero is hired to find and rescue stacle they will find. This is fun to read TTUPress.org Burnie Kane and Burnie’s little half- and educational on how criminals were Amy Hale Auker has a way with Chinese son Robert. The assignment apprehended in the 1880s. words. She brings the skills with sound takes Lancer to the KKK-controlled – Lowell F. Volk and imagery and insight learned as a town of El Macho, New Mexico Terri- B.J. DANIELS poet to her prose, making the act of tory, where he faces off against the bru- Cowboy’s Legacy reading enjoyable in and of itself. These tal Romo brothers, who simply execute Harlequin essays capture the author’s musings anyone they don’t like. Things really Mass-market paperback, 384 pages, about hiking, camping, birds and their start popping for Lancer when Robert’s $7.99 nests, intermittent pond creatures, grandfather, a Chinese warlord, arrives HQNBooks.com plants, animals and whatever else with a small private army to fetch his Romance novels are not always about captures her fancy. Most entries, to my grandson. overpowering leading men, women with satisfaction, deal with going horseback JIRI CERNIK heaving bosoms and a lot of shedding after cattle on the Arizona ranch she The Shots at Iron Mountain: A Story of of clothing. For example, consider New calls home. Many of the essays come to Two Men – Tom Horn and Geronimo York Times best-selling author B.J. Dan- no certain conclusion – as if the author Dorrance Publishing Company iels’s Cowboy’s Legacy. The main charac- drifted away, lost in thought, allowing Trade paperback, 199 pages, $16 ters are drawn to one another after one the reader to do the same. DorrancePublishing.com of them is almost killed. True devotion – Rod Miller Jiri Cernik uses broad brush strokes is tested in a time of crisis with everyone SUE BOGGIO and MARE PEARL to depict Tom Horn, his work among remaining fully dressed. Cowboy’s Legacy Long Night Moon the Apaches and Geronimo and the is the continuing saga of the Cahill University of New Mexico Press events in Wyoming involving the death family. In the third installment, we find Trade paperback, 312 pages, $24.95 of a 14-year-old sheepherder’s son, Wil- that Sheriff Flint Cahill’s love, Maggie UNMPress.com lie Nickell. This is fiction, and the au- Thompson, has been abducted just as Unexpected fatherhood thrusts thor has relied heavily on the historical they were planning to start their lives Santiago “Santi” Silva through a door record, while adding his own interpreta- together. The main suspect is Cahill’s ex- he didn’t know existed until that fateful tions. While Horn was involved with wife, who continues to carry a torch for moment when Rosalinda, the mother of Geronimo, and this book has periodic him but won’t cooperate with authori- a 3-year-old boy, shows up at his family’s interludes related to that story line, it ties. With time running out, Maggie and New Mexico ranch. Santi’s life quickly would have been stronger to separate Flint have to rely on each other in order resembles a tornado’s aftermath after he the Arizona events from the Wyoming to make it out alive. Fans of Daniels’s is called back from a blossoming career events. They have no direct connection work will not be disappointed in this in San Francisco. Having discovered the and the bounce back and forth slowed imaginative and thrilling love story. identity of the child’s grandma, Rosa- the narrative. SCOTT HARRIS linda’s current boyfriend brews a plot to JAMES D. CROWNOVER Coyote Courage extort money from said grandma. Twists The Ox That Gored Scott Harris and turns worthy of any country high- Five Star Publishing Trade paperback, 130 pages, $10 way mountain pass abound. The plot Hardcover, 331 pages, $25.95 Harris52.com speeds along at a good pace. Detracting Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar This Brock Clemons Western starts to the speed are the multiple “players” James Crownover takes you on out a little slow but once it gets past the who have confusing back histories and adventures into the Indian Terri- background information, it picks up the addition of plot items thrown in that tory through the eyes of Deputy U.S. and becomes interesting. Clemons, a seem to have been added for appear- Marshal Lee Stowell and his posse in stranger, rides into Dry Springs needing ance's sake. Sometimes, less is better. the late 1800s. With warrants in hand money to buy supplies so he can con- – Sandy Whiting DECEMBER 2017 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE 19 19 tinue his quest to find his father. After once and for all. Bob Herzberg writes a JAMES D. CROWNOVER getting a lead from Huck, a 12-year-old lot of books on film history, mysteries Tales of the Last Frontier boy who runs the livery, Clemons finds and some Westerns. This one meanders Five Star Publishing work with Ray Hinton at the mercantile. once in a while but moves fast. Hardcover, 314 pages, $25.95 When outlaws try to take merchandise – Edward Massey Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar without paying he steps in and stops Chock full of colorful stories of D. LÁSZLÓ CONHAIM th them, starting an adventure to rid the Comanche Captive Tularosa Basin 19 Century life, Tales town of the outlaws. The book is an of the Last Frontier gives fascinating Five Star Publishing easy read once the story gets going and Hardcover, 224 pages, $25.95 insights into everyday people doing will keep you interested in what hap- Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar everyday jobs. Award-winning James D. pens next. When does a captive stop being a cap- Crownover aimed to give voice to people – Lowell F. Volk tive? In this tale of a white woman ver- whose lives are generally overlooked. To that, he has done an outstanding job in BOB HERZBERG sus the Indians versus the U.S. military, The Outlaws Hennessey either all will lose or all will win. At the this last of the Five Trails West series. At times hard to decipher due to his overuse Solstice Publishing heart of this story is a mother’s love for Paperback, 260 pages, $3.99 her child, who is part Comanche. After of dialect, the general idea is clear. His SolsticePublishing.com. her “rescue,” she strives to return to him characters are drawn clearly and cleverly Jed Tully and Ty Brody plan to rob regardless of the cost. In a Gordian knot with tidbits of forgotten facts tossed in. a greedy merchant’s store. Wait! They of various Indian tribes, Army units Cattle drives, avenging Indians, a curious find the place already robbed and that and forts, the woman, Laura Little, and yet hilarious Mexican cattle breed, a de- greedy so-and-so murdered. That Hen- Captain Scott Renald, fight each other sert rescue and a story of slavery fill the nessey gang did it. You guessed it, Jed and then alongside each other to keep pages with yarns that not only educate and Ty are blamed for the robbery, him from being court-martialed and for but entertain. Crownover’s writing is wanted for murder and forced to ride her to find and keep her son. At times strong with carefully crafted story lines. with those Hennesseys to save their it is devilishly hard to keep the players – Melody Groves hides. You’ll have to read it to see if straight. they are able to put an end to the gang – Melody Groves

20 20 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2017 ESTERN MUSIC W. M I C H A E L F A R M E R W Blood of the Devil, The Life and Times of Yellow Boy, Mescalero Apache Book Two Five Star Publishing Hardcover, 372 pages, $25.95 JIM WILSON Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar White Rose It took courage to publish this densely packed, scholarly, Buscadero Productions, $17 SheriffJimWilson.com 140,000-ish word work of fiction. The reader gets his money’s worth in Apache culture, language, characters and stories trac- Jim Wilson’s 12-cut collection of ing the life and times of Yellow Boy. The narrative vehicle is covers by the likes of Guy Clark, Chuck the autobiography of an Apache boy from 1860 to 1951. He Pyle, Merle Haggard, Hank Cochran and befriends, fights and loves friends, foes and women, including Hayes Carll takes me witches, shape-shifters and multiple wives. It takes a bit of con- happily back to the Deep South honky-tonk centration to keep everyone and everything straight. Thirteen music of my youth. I grew up in Natchez, pages of reference material covering Apache and Spanish Mississippi, a river town 90 miles north of language, as well as characters and geography, help us. Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I’ve still got family – Edward Massey in Mississippi, Louisiana and in Houston, places close to my heart, places slapped FRANK LESLIE OLLIE around this past summer by Hurricane Revenger REED JR. Harvey. Five Star Publishing Hardcover, 279 pages, $25.95 So it was with bittersweet nostalgia that I listened to this CD just Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar before, during and after Harvey. Carll’s lyrics, from the intoxicating song “Beaumont,” about going from Beaumont to Houston “with Revenger is a “Western Duo” about Mike Sartain, known as a white rose in my hand,” took on a poignancy after Harvey that the Revenger, who induces revenge on those who have done I had not felt when listening to it before the hurricane. But I could harm for people who are unable to seek revenge for themselves. not help but smile from the inside out hearing Wilson sing about The two stories follow the same thin plot throughout the book. liking crawfish and liking rice, liking “girls that treats me nice” in As Sartain rides into towns he is almost always met by men try- “Baton Rouge,” written by Clark and J.C. Crowley. ing to kill him, but he kills five or six men instead. When he is With cuts such as Haggard’s “Everybody’s Had the Blues” and not killing men who are trying to kill him, he is making love to Cochran’s “Don’t You Ever Get Tired of Hurting Me,” Wilson, a every woman he meets. The author writes about surroundings Texan, steps away from his usual cowboy songs. But he brings me – in a building or outside – in vivid detail. The book’s repetitive, back to the places and the music that – even after all these years though, and it’s easy to figure out what is going to happen. – feed my soul and vibrate in my bones. The CD goes good with – Lowell F. Volk beer, too. MATTHEW P. MAYO Stranded, A Story of Frontier Survival JUDY JAMES Five Star Publishing Christmas in My Hometown Hardcover, 244 pages, $25.95 Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar J Spur Productions, $19.29 JudyJames.com A true heart-tugging page-turner, Stranded is based on a true account of 14-year-old Janey Riker, left alone in 1849 at This 13-track album came out a year the base of the Rocky Mountains. Traveling westward from ago, past deadline for the December 2016 Missouri with her pa and two brothers, she stays back at camp Roundup, so I figured I’d single it out for while they hunt buffalo. They never return. Facing a harsh this holiday season. winter alone, Janey pushes back despair while relying on the It’s exactly the kind of Western Christmas CD I like, including things her father taught her back in Missouri. The cold brings a few holiday standards but focusing on songs with special appeal frostbite, wolves, bears and gnawing hunger. She learns to to Western music fans, selections such as the title cut by David depend on herself. Comforted by writing in her diary, she John, “Christmas Cowboy Style” by Michael Martin Murphey survives long enough to be found by Salish Indians. Vivid de- and Rob Quist and, my favorite, “Corn, Water, and Wood” by scriptions and scintillating details round out this gripping tale Carol Ashford Elliott and Wendy Waldman. of survival, fear and hope. James, host of the Western music radio program Cowboy Jubilee – Melody Groves (JudyJamesRadio.com), has a voice as clear and pleasing as silver bells, and the inclusion of the Pagosa Springs (Colorado) Girls RANDI A. SAMUELSON-BROWN Choir on “Corn, Water, and Wood” and “Do You Hear What I The Beaten Territory Hear?” is a special treat. Five Star Publishing *** Hardcover, 338 pages, $25.95 Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar E-mail Ollie at [email protected] and send CDs to him at DECEMBER 2017 P.O. Box 2381, Corrales, NM 87048. ROUNDUP MAGAZINE 21 This tale of the Denver demimonde government. While the story involves may not even be the worst of the lot. in the late 19th Century is harsh, gritty much action, the narrative repeatedly Readers will have to decide for themselves and unforgiving. And hard to read. bogs down owing to the author’s over- in this rock-solid, riveting tale. Annie Ryan has known no life outside use of past-tense being verbs and the – Carol Crigger of prostitution. She raised her two past-perfect tense. SUSAN MAY WARREN daughters in the trade and also lured in – Rod Miller A Matter of Trust the teenaged daughter of her late sister, PAT STOLTEY Revell dead from the emotional toll of whore- Wishing Caswell Dead Trade paperback, 336 pages, $14.99 dom. Drug and alcohol abuse, betrayal, RevellBooks.com Five Star Publishing lies, distrust, treachery and violence are Hardcover, 230 pages, $25.95 The Peak Rescue team is on the job all part of daily life at Ryan’s saloon – Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar again in this contemporary romance. This specializing in horizontal refreshments The story opens with the discovery of time the story centers on Gage Watson, – and while Annie often harps on the Caswell Proud’s body propped against who must rescue a U.S. senator’s brother importance of family, familial relation- a tree in the Illinois woods. Obviously – and do so with the beautiful senator ships serve no beneficial purpose for murdered, his throat has been cut. Who in tow. The wayward brother proves his these people. A well-written and engag- has done it? Authorities, though lacking ability on the mountain, and the sena- ing first novel. on the frontier, aren’t overly concerned tor shows that she can keep up with the – Rod Miller because Caswell richly deserved to rescuer, too. MIKE J. SPARROW die. Everyone in the small village of JOHN T. WAYNE Native: Manifest Destiny, Book One Sangamon is suspect, but especially Blood Once Spilled: The Gaslight Boys Five Star Publishing his 14-year-old half-sister, Jo Mae. She Mockingbird Lane Press Hardcover, 494 pages, $25.95 is pregnant, Caswell having sold her Trade paperback, 300 pages, $20 Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar body to nearly everyone in town from MockingbirdLanePress.com First in a planned trilogy, Native tells the time she was big enough to be used. John T. Wayne has penned a tale of of a young Lakota man’s attempts to The novel is filled with flawed charac- Southerners trying to bring order to their fend off the encroachment of trap- ters, only a couple who have generosity lives after the Civil War. The protagonist pers, the military, settlers and the U.S. of spirit and deserve sympathy. Caswell returns from the war only to find the land

22 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2017 ESTERN VIDEO he expects to claim in danger of being lost to carpetbaggers. W A turnabout of the story shows him working in league with his pre-war detractors as they try to protect their rightful possessions. Mix in a wife with a little voodoo and you have The Good, the Bad and the Ugly another in Wayne’s series of “Gaslight Boys” novels. Blu-ray, $29.95; DVD, $19.95 – Lynn Bueling Kino Lorber KinoLorber.com HOWARD WEINSTEIN Galloway’s Gamble Few films have seen their resurrection Five Star Publishing through the home market be as consistent, Hardcover, 313 pages, $25.95 or as complicated, as Sergio Leone’s third in- Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar stallment in his adventures of The Man with James and Jake Galloway certainly live a colorful life grow- No Name. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly has ing up in Serenity Falls, Texas. Their mother, a respectable been released on DVD woman, happens to run a saloon and brothel that are more in the United States like a rescue mission – her “doves” must attend morning more than five times. Bible classes before servicing clients in the evenings. Through The “Extended Cut,” re- the years, James and Jake experience a variety of adventures leased in 2002, included reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird, Huckleberry Finn and scenes that were in the Blazing Saddles before returning to join their mother and an original Italian version eclectic crowd of citizens in a final, all-in gamble against C. COURTNEY but removed for the U.S. villainous bankers, plantation owners and cattle barons intent JOYNER release in 1967. on foreclosure and destruction. The characterization is solid, Newly dubbed by Clint Eastwood and Eli and readers will bond with the main players by book’s end. Wallach, as no English version of the scenes had ever previously – Loyd Uglow existed, this material had actually been a bonus feature on the 1998 DVD but in silent form only and had never been inserted KAREN WILLS into an English release of the film until the extended cut. River with No Bridge The extended version also restored the much-needed Lee Van Five Star Publishing Cleef sequence in which he meets with the soldiers before East- Hardcover, 304 pages, $25.95 Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar wood and Wallach are captured, scenes of Wallach recruiting his gang and some not-so-needed additional time with Wallach Karen Wills writes from her home in Northwest Montana wandering the desert. about Montana, this time Butte, in a style slow and so de- As in the reconstruction of Sam Peckinpah’s Pat Garrett and Bil- tailed at first it strikes one as wordy. Persistence is rewarded ly the Kid or Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil, Leone’s epic now exists by a story and writing that starts to charm. That charm is in multiple versions with histories behind each. Like Peckinpah’s remarkable because the story is one trial after another for and Welles’s films, the inclusion of cut scenes gives The Good, the poor Nora Flanagan, who emigrates from Ireland to preju- Bad and the Ugly a new, and different, editorial rhythm that not diced Boston with a drunken father who dies. She continues everyone favors. It’s not what we’re used to, and it feels off. Also, on to Butte to a husband who dies, a lodger who seduces not everything trimmed was United Artists’ random butchering, and abandons her, a job in a brothel and an out-of-wedlock but choices made in conjunction with the producer. son who self-righteously estranges himself from her. It is the All this cinematic dissection ultimately boils down to: Which involvement in Nora’s life that charms and keeps one going. version to watch? The reader doesn’t know how she kept on going through all Kino Lorber has supplied the perfect answer with its new of her challenges, but if she did, we can too. two-disc edition of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Recognizing – Edward Massey all of the changes and debate around the film, Kino has included SUMNER WILSON the extended cut and the traditional release. The extras from A House of Men all versions are numerous, with new commentary by historian Five Star Publishing Tim Lucas and archived MGM commentaries by critics Richard Hardcover, 283 pages, $25.95 Schickel and Sir Christopher Frayling. Multiple featurettes in- Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar clude original interviews with Eastwood and Wallach, a detailed A feud between ranching cousins that began in childhood account of the restoration and an examination of the astonishing simmers for years until it leads to tragedy that touches both Ennio Morricone score. families. Steel Fixx blames Honus Rust for the death of Some reviews have argued the color of the prints is too yellow, Fixx’s daughter, who had married Rust’s son. Fixx removes an adjustment made so that old visual elements would match his grandchildren from Rust’s house and takes them home with the new. Even if noticed, Leone’s epic looks glorious. with him. Rust vows to recover them. Rust is arrogant and *** cares little for the feelings of others, even in his own family. C. Courtney Joyner writes in many formats, including screenplays, fiction and nonfiction. E-mail him at DECEMBER 2017 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE 23 [email protected]. Stimulated by alcohol and an incipient and speeches by Cecil B. DeMille (The powerful and entertaining – Broken Ar- mental instability, Rust fans the flames Squaw Man, The Plainsman), George row (1950), 3:10 to Yuma (1957), Cowboy and outrage leads to outrage. Fixx is Stevens (Shane, Giant) and John Ford (1958). Matthew Carter and Andrew not blameless as he responds in kind to (Stagecoach, The Searchers), has become Patrick Nelson have compiled 10 essays, Rust’s violence against his family and a mythical moment for Hollywood and five of which focus on Daves’s West- property. Tension builds to an explosive First Amendment rights. But much of erns. There is a lot of good information end that will leave you turning pages this history has been misremembered, and intriguing analysis but too much rapidly. misinterpreted and actually made up. repetition, and the academic prose – Harlan Hague Relying on a stenographer’s transcripts won’t appeal to many readers. from that meeting, Kevin Brianton MICHAEL LYNN CREWS explains what really happened at the Books Are Made Out of Books: A Guide NONFICTION Beverly Hills Hotel and why. One of to Cormac McCarthy’s Literary Infuences the best and most important Hollywood University of Texas Press KEVIN BRIANTON histories to come out in years. Hardcover, 332 pages, $35 Hollywood Divided: The 1950 Screen – Johnny D. Boggs UTexasPress.com Directors Guild Meeting and the Impact MATTHEW CARTER and ANDREW This book is not for the casual reader. of the Blacklist PATRICK NELSON (editors) Or even for fans of Cormac McCarthy, University Press of Kentucky Refocus: The Films of Delmar Daves which I am. Combing newly available Hardcover, 156 pages, $45 archives, the author uses early drafts of KentuckyPress.com. Edinburgh University Press Trade paperback, 240 pages, $29.95 McCarthy’s novels, notes, correspon- When legend becomes fact, print the EUPPublishing.com dence and other original material to ex- facts. Finally! On October 22, 1950, Although he wrote and directed many plore the writer’s inspiration and influ- during the height of the Red Scare, genres, Delmar Daves (1904-1977) is ences, as well as allusions to the works Screen Directors Guild members met to best remembered for his Westerns. No of philosophers, artists and writers. vote on the dismissal of guild president surprise, perhaps, since one of his first Demonstrated are similarities in theme, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, a strong oppo- movie jobs was as a prop boy for The phraseology, sounds and other arcane nent of an anticommunist loyalty oath. Covered Wagon (1923). While not all comparisons. So detailed is the work, The meeting, remembered for actions of his attempts hold up, many remain one almost expects to be enlightened to

24 24 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2017 the fact that McCarthy uses the same Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Law Indians had to be “full-blood”; “mixed- 26 letters of the alphabet in his writing enforcement icons of the Old West may blood” Indians were ineligible because as, say, Herman Melville. “Scholarship” consume headlines and notoriety, but the infusion of “white blood” excluded seems to be the driving force behind these man-hunters made immeasurable them as being more educated and assimi- this work, which will probably prove a contributions to frontier justice as only lated. Bureaucrats held a stereotyped view valuable reference for scholars studying DeArment can report. of mixed-bloods as corrupt, devious, and McCarthy. – Stan “Tex” Banash not “real” Indians because they didn’t live – Rod Miller on reservations or didn’t “look” like Indi- BRANDI DENISON ans. Ellinghaus focuses on the Chippewa/ ROBERTO CURTI Ute Land Religion in the American West, Tonino Valerii: The Films 1879-2009 Anishinaabeg, Arapaho, the Five Tribes, the Eastern Cherokee, Cheyenne, and McFarland University of Nebraska Press Paperback, 226 pages, $39.95 Hardcover, 305 pages, $55 Lakota. The 1934 Indian Reorganization McFarlandPub.com NebraskaPress.unl.edu Act, often considered as a victory for In- dian rights, nonetheless was influenced by As a director of Italy’s spaghetti Don’t be misled by the academic- the blood theory. The chapter on Virginia Westerns, Tonino Valerii is overshad- sounding title of this book. Brandi Indians getting classified as “colored” by owed by a couple of Sergios – Leone Denison has written a provocative case a fanatically racist bureaucrat in the 1920s and Corbucci. Yet Valerii, who died study of the dispossession of the Ute is particularly chilling. Ellinghaus suc- last year, had a successful run between tribe from western Colorado in the ceeds in informing readers that assimila- 1966 and 1977 – “episodic,” Italian film 1880s. Her focus is a broad one, tak- tion policy was far more complex than a historian Roberto Curti notes, “consis- ing in the broken promises of treaties, general view would suggest. tent in quality but numerically small … the controversial Meeker Massacre of – Abraham Hoffman almost all commercially successful.” September 1873, and the distinctions Curti puts Valerii’s life and his films, between history and public memory in CHRIS ENSS which include The Price of Power and My how whites have viewed these events The Pinks: The First Women Detectives, Name is Nobody, in perspective. Fore- and how Utes remember them. Whites Operatives, and Spies with the Pinkerton word by noted film scholar Sir Christo- acknowledge the spiritual values of the National Detective Agency pher Frayling. Ute Land Religion while overlooking TwoDot – Johnny D. Boggs how the Utes lost their lands. Denison Trade paperback, 169 pages, $16.95 Rowman.com describes the way two Ute women, ROBERT K. DeARMENT Enough about Allan Pinkerton and Man-Hunters of the Old West Chipeta and She-towitch, are seen as a Pocahontas role in rescuing Meeker other early American spies. Chris Enss, University of Oklahoma Press the prolific writer of brief histories often Hardcover, 344 pages, $29.95 women from captivity. The history of OUPress.com these episodes, presented as a revision- about women, provides a straightforward ist corrective to long-held stereotypes look at some of Pinkerton’s unheralded During the second half of the 19th and misperceptions of the past, make operatives. Pinkerton, founder of the Century, jurisdictional and other limita- this book a fascinating tale that con- Pinkerton National Detective Agency, tions restricted county sheriffs and nects past and present in surprising was the first to hire women detectives. U.S. marshals from pursuing offenders ways. Most of the stories here revolve around beyond borders. Criminals were often – Abraham Hoffman Kate Warne – “one of the Pinkerton elusive until banking and stagecoach Agency’s most competent detectives,” companies, cattlemen’s associations, KATHERINE ELLINGHAUS Pinkerton bragged – who gets credit for and the railroads rose to fill the void by Blood Will Tell: Native Americans and saving Abraham Lincoln’s life. This is an employing “noteworthy man-hunters … Assimilation Policy easy-to-read primer, but reading it leads gun-handy fighting men and detectives” University of Nebraska Press one to wish that someone would tackle a to arrest them. With unlimited jurisdic- Hardcover, 202 pages, $40 NebraskaPress.unl.edu full-fledged, in-depth, book-length biogra- tion and a network of law enforcement phy of Warne. operatives, man-hunters had an edge in Solidly researched based on archives tracking lawbreakers. Robert K. DeAr- and published studies, Katherine MARSHA V. GALLAGHER (editor) ment, a master at reporting on signifi- Ellinghaus’s book offers a powerful Travels in North America, 1832-1834, A cant characters of the Old West, writes indictment on federal government Concise Edition of the Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied about eight of the most successful and policies that were racist, inconsistent, fearless, describing how each operated, and insensitive regarding the status of University of Oklahoma Press American Indians after passage of the Hardcover, 573 pages, $34.95 their exploits, and various tactics used OUPress.com to capture an assortment of felons. The Dawes Act in 1887. In determining who best known man-hunter is Charlie A. could be enrolled as tribal members or Prince Maximilian traveled across the Siringo, who gained notoriety for chas- entitled to allotments, federal bureau- United States and ascended the Missouri River as far as what is today western ing Jesse James in addition to Butch crats based eligibility on bloodlines. 25 DECEMBER 2017 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE 25 Montana conducting a broad scientific administration by allowing Indians and of independent research by William survey of the country. It was a grueling mestizos a measure of local authority. Hazelgrove (whose sources are but a journey up a narrow, shallow channel However, Folsom wastes no words por- few previously published books) is one by steamboat and flatboat in 1832-33. traying Arredondo’s sensitive side. He of many problems with this text. One Along the way he collected flora and was a ruthless defender of New Spain blatant mistake is the author’s refer- fauna and ethnographic and economic who routinely employed torture and ral to the former President as “Teddy.” information on the Indian tribes he met public hangings. His victory in Texas’s Theodore refused to be addressed by that and on the fur trade. He saw the world bloodiest battle, the Battle of Medina name, stating it was the name of a boy, with the eyes of an educated child – (1813), pushed back intrusions from the not a man. The truth goes much deeper. everything was new and wonderful and United States and decimated the cause His first wife, Alice, called him that, and so he noted details others overlooked. of revolution. Still, by 1821, Arredon- her sudden death left an emotional scar His accounts of Indians are fascinating, do’s disciple, Santa Anna, had become he did his best to bury, including the catching them in a transitional era when the new president of an independent name Teddy. Inexplicably, Hazelgrove manufactured goods were just becoming Mexico. Fascinating reading that fills a fabricates dialogue between Theodore available to them. gap for students of early Texas and of and others while no record of such utter- – Doug Hocking the Mexican Revolution. ances is offered as proof. Additionally, – John Mort BRADLEY FOLSOM there are no photographs to illustrate the Arredondo: Last Spanish Ruler of Texas WILLIAM HAZELGROVE narrative, which is inexcusable. and Northeastern New Spain Forging a President: How the Wild West – Michael F. Blake University of Oklahoma Press Created Theodore Roosevelt DOUGLAS C. McCHRISTIAN Hardcover, 324 pages, $34.95 Regnery History Regular Army O! Soldiering on the OUPress.com Hardcover, 267 pages, $29.99 Western Frontier, 1865–1891 RegneryHistory.com Arredondo came to prominence in University of Oklahoma Press 1811 with his brutal subjugation of the Despite a premise offering great po- Hardcover, 762 pages, $45 breakaway province of Nuevo Santand- tential (that the American West helped OUPress.com er. Arredondo was a military man, never create Theodore Roosevelt), this book The appellation “definitive work” a reformer, but showed some feel for is a major disappointment. The lack probably gets thrown around more than

26 26 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2017 merited. Not so with Regular Army of the beholder. Some of the Chey- sidy and the Sundance Kid, True Grit and O! If your purpose is to understand enne were indeed peaceful, but others The Wild Bunch. The argument goes that a soldier’s lot in life on the Western had been harassing settlers all through the first two summarized the classical frontier in the latter half of the 19th 1864. There was no dramatic, cinematic tradition while The Wild Bunch tore it all Century, this is your resource. Writ- charge into camp; there were, however, apart and established a new approach that ten in a comfortable style with touches many atrocities against women and future Westerns had to confront. With a of humor, McChristian examines children. Some Indians were slaugh- few exceptions (the argument continues), the soldier’s experience from enlist- tered; others put up a stiff, organized it has been downhill since then. Andrew ment to discharge, detailing daily life resistance. Finally, the chief villain of Patrick Nelson’s excellent analysis of Hol- from reveille to tattoo. The portrait he the piece, Colonel John Chivington, lywood Westerns between The Wild Bunch paints suggests “O!” might stand for was not exactly a monster, and the and the box-office failure of Heaven’s Gate “ordeal.” Meticulously compiled and commander back at Fort Lyon, Edward in 1980 ably demonstrates that there were referenced from original sources, the Wynkoop, was a sworn enemy who plenty of impressive Westerns released in book is a treasure-trove drawn from testified against him. Michno’s second that period and that only a few of them correspondence, journals, newspapers battle concerns the three hearings that were in the so-called debunking “revision- and personal anecdotes. In my research, followed the action, all of them biased; istic” category typified by Little Big Man. I’ve encountered sources bemoaning the his third is the postmodernist impossi- Nelson is particularly stimulating in his fact George Custer’s ill-fated 7th Cavalry bility of knowing anything for sure. discussion of the later Westerns of John was outgunned by the Lakotas and – John Mort Wayne. His first chapter has a university- their allies armed with repeating rifles. press tone. After that, it’s smooth riding. BILL NEAL McChristian enumerates the grains of Death on the Lonely Llano Estacado: The Have a pad and pencil handy because powder that explain why. Assassination of J.W. Jarrott, a Forgotten you’ll be writing down a lot of titles. Es- – Paul Colt Hero sential reading for fans of Western films. – David Morrell MARK THOMAS McGEE University of North Texas Press Katzman, Nicholson, Corman: Shaping Hardcover, 210 Pages, $24.95 HAROLD N. POMAINVILLE UNTPress.unt.edu Hollywood’s Future Henry Hathaway: The Lives of a Hollywood BearManor Media Add another victim to the deadly Director Trade paperback, 332 pages, $22.95 reputation of “Deacon” Jim Miller. In Rowman & Littlefield BearManorMedia.com Death on the Lonely Llano Estacado, cold- Hardcover, 304 pages, $95 Sam Katzman, James Nicholson case historian Bill Neal not only builds Rowman.com and Roger Corman helped transform a circumstantial case against Miller but Henry Hathaway (1898-1985) never moviemaking with low-budget films also against the prominent ranching gained the accolades of fellow directors in the 1950s and ’60s aimed at teens. family that hired the killer of South John Ford, Howard Hawks, Anthony To give you an idea about their reputa- Plains homesteader J.W. Jarrott. Neal Mann or Sam Peckinpah. But over a long tions, Katzman, who started his career develops his case with the precision of career (1932-1975), he directed many in the 1930s, was called “The King of a prosecuting attorney, which he was entertaining Westerns – Rawhide (1951) Crap.” Although Katzman (Jesse James for 20 years in West Texas, and conveys rarely gets its due – not to mention the vs. the Daltons) and Corman (The Shoot- his findings with the skill of a novelist. well-regarded The Lives of a Bengal Lancer ing) produced a number of Westerns, Behind Jarrott’s murder is a tale of land (1935), Kiss of Death (1947) and Call Mark McGee focuses on better-known fraud and resistance to change between Northside 777 (1948). Hathaway never “crap”: juvenile-delinquent, science 1901 and 1903 when the South Plains earned an Academy Award nomination fiction, horror and rock’n’roll cheap- began the evolution from a ranching but directed John Wayne to his Oscar- ies like Rock Around the Clock, I Was a economy to today’s farm economy. In winning performance in True Grit (1969). Teenage Werewolf and The Little Shop of Death on the Lonely Llano Estacado, Neal Harold N. Pomainville has written an Horrors. The book lacks depth and focus blows the dust off the obscure 1902 overdue and insightful look at the life and but serves as a fine primer for film buffs. murder and illustrates how elusive jus- films of a director described as a “mad- tice could be in the Old West. man” (Jeremy Slate) and a “paranoiac” GREGORY F. MICHNO The Three Battles of Sand Creek: in – Preston Lewis (Gregory Peck). True Grit’s Kim Darby Blood, in Court, and as the End of ANDREW PATRICK NELSON said: “I hate him.” The price tag will turn History Still in the Saddle: The Hollywood off most readers, but Pomainville’s book Savas Beatie Western, 1969-1980 paints a clear portrait of a director who Hardcover, 233 pages, $29.95 University of Oklahoma Press could be, as Earl Holliman said, “terribly SavasBeatie.com Trade paperback, 249 pages, $19.95 tough” or “tender and caring.” Most ac- “Sand Creek” and “Massacre” OUPress.com tors might debate the latter. are inextricably linked, but Gregory 1969 is considered a pinnacle year for – Johnny D. Boggs Michno shows that history is in the eye Western films because of Butch Cas- BOOK REVIEWS (continued on page 35) DECEMBER 2017 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE 27 27 BOOK REVIEWS (from page 27)

ALAN K. RODE and White Christmas. This biography idol who looked like a block of granite Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film (the first about Curtiz) is thorough and sometimes acted like one. These University Press of Kentucky and vastly entertaining, with numer- modestly budgeted movies were models Hardcover, 642 pages, $50 ous hilarious examples of Hungarian of gritty realism, terse storytelling and KentuckyPress.com immigrant Curtiz’s mangled English. psychological complexity that made a Michael Curtiz was a legendary “Bring on the empty horses!” he shouts lasting impression on Sergio Leone, Sam workhorse director for Warner Bros., before an action scene. Numerous Peckinpah and Clint Eastwood. The brilliant in just about any genre: crime, photographs. basic plotline was always the same – a war, horror, pirate, romance, comedy, – David Morrell man whose wife has been killed seeks musical, Western. In the latter category, vengeance on those involved. Some of ROBERT SINGER and GARY D. he directed , and the outlaws, haunted by their deed, seek Dodge City Virginia City RHODES (editors) Santa Fe Trail with Errol Flynn, The Refocus: The Films of Budd Boetticher a break from their past. But redemp- Boy from Oklahoma with Will Rogers Jr., tion is rare – the only certainty is death. Edinburgh University Press The Proud Rebel with Alan Ladd, The Hardcover, 259 pages, $110 Outside of his 1989 autobiography, this Hangman with Robert Taylor and The EUPPublishing.com is the first full book on Boetticher, but its relentlessly academic style (and breath- Comancheros with John Wayne (Cur- Budd Boetticher was a competent taking price) will make it slow-going for tiz was so ill with cancer that Wayne journeyman director of movies and all but his most devoted fans. Still, like directed much of that film). Curtiz’s television in the 1950s and ’60s. But he others in the Refocus series, it’s a valuable greatest achievement is Casablanca, with has one important claim to fame: the contribution on a significant but over- other notable titles including The Charge six “Ranown” Westerns he made be- looked filmmaker. of the Light Brigade, The Adventures of tween 1956 and 1960 starring Randolph – Glenn Frankel Robin Hood, The Sea Hawk, Yankee Doodle Scott, the handsome, stoical matinee Dandy, Mildred Pierce, The Breaking Point

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