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Emmy Perez proves herself adept at POETRY writing free verse and prose poetry in GREGORY BRYAN. Paul this volume where her love of and con- Goble, Storyteller. South Da- JEFFREY ALFIER (photographer) cerns for the contemporary Southwest kota Historical Society Press. and LARRY D. THOMAS (poet). Bleak become obvious. Paperback, 204 pages, Music: Photographs & Poems of the American $29.95, SDHSPress. Southwest. Blue Horse. Trade paperback, RED SHUTTLEWORTH. Straight com. 42 pages, $15, BlueHorsePress.com. Ahead. Blue Horse. Trade paperback, “I am following Former Texas poet laureate Larry D. 117 pages, $16, BlueHorsePress.com. the dreams I had Thomas puts poems to Alfier’s photo- You can feel the burnt-grass wind, as a child,” wrote graphs in this absorbing look at creosote hear Hank Williams tunes playing on English-born artist bushes, cactus, crumbling ruins and rust- the juke box in some kicker bar and and children’s book ing cars. smell Copenhagen and bourbon on Red author Paul Goble (1933-2017). Shuttleworth’s breath in this outstand- As a young man, he moved to the SANDRA K. SAGALA (com- ing collection of stark yet beautiful American West out of love for the piler). Cody: A Collection poems. land and fascination with Ameri- of Poems on the 100th Anniversary of can Indians. He then devoted a His Death. Red Dashboard. Trade RED SHUTTLEWORTH. To Begin prolific career – and his prodigious paperback, 233 pages, $19.99, With. Bunchgrass. Chapbook, price not talent as a painter and writer – to RedDashboard.com. listed, PoetRedShuttleworth.Blogspot. retelling, in picture-book form, Sandra Sagala com. Indian history, stories and legends. has been on Wil- One of the West’s premier poets offers Goble’s work is infused with liam F. “Buffalo five stunning poems in this limited- respect for Native peoples and his Bill” Cody’s trail for edition chapbook. belief that everything in nature years, covering the shares a spiritual connection. obscure aspects of Goble’s The Girl Who Loved Wild the frontiersman JUVENILE Horses won the Caldecott Medal, and showman’s life, and his paintings are displayed such as his theatrical JOHNNY D. BOGGS. Top Soldier. worldwide. This biography/art career (Buffalo Bill Center Point. Hardcover, 285 pages, book, beautifully written and Cody on Stage) and his dalliance $33.95, CenterpointLargePrint.com. stunningly illustrated with Goble’s in movies (Buffalo Bill on the Silver A young Texas boy struggles while work, is a delight. Highly recom- Screen). Now she has compiled a waiting for his father’s return from the mended for the YA and adult poetry collection in conjunction Civil War and in the years immedi- reader. th with the 100 anniversary of his ately afterward, trying to discern if his – Nancy Plain death. Cody, who died on January dad was a hero or was, and remains, a 10, 1917, at age 70, inspired men coward. S.J. DAHLSTROM. The Green Colt. and women worldwide – including Paul Dry. Paperback, 164 pages, $8.95, poets. Here we get offerings from ALICE V. BROCK. The River of PaulDryBooks.com. anonymous poets to the famed Cattle. Pen-L. Trade paperback, 225 This is a story of the sacred bond be- poet scout, Captain Jack Crawford pages, $13.97, Pen-L.com. tween living things, told beautifully, with … from 19th Century writers to This middle-grade novel paints a vivid grace and quiet power and shows S.J. 20th and 21st Century contributors picture of hardship, perseverance, and Dahlstrom to be a big new talent. … from talented writers to, well, prejudice overcome in the post-Civil awful hacks. This collection – and War Southwest. LAURA B. EDGE (author) and Sagala’s observations – reveal the STEPHANIE FORD (illustrator). impact Cody had, and has, on MELANIE CHRISMER. Lone Star Tad Lucas: Trick-Riding Cowgirl. American history and literature. Legacy: The Texas Rangers Then and Now. Pelican. Hardcover, 32 pages, $16.99, – Johnny D. Boggs Pelican. Trade paperback, 144 pages, PelicanPub.com. $16.95, PelicanPub.com. This well-illustrated, informative biog- EMMY PEREZ. With the River on Our Recounting the 200-year history of raphy for children tells the life story of Face. University of Press. Trade the Texas Rangers, this book reads more Nebraska-born Barbara “Tad” Barnes, paperback, 96 pages, $16.95, uapress. like an encyclopedia, touching on high who was riding and rodeoing long before 26 arizona.edu. notes of a certain period or character. she married bronc rider Buck Lucas. 26 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE AUGUST 2017 CANDACE FLEMING. Presenting cover, 30 pages, $14.95, TheFort.com. seasons in Yosemite National Park. This Buffalo Bill: The Man Who Invented the The charming true story of Sissy book is a fun insight into how changing Wild West. Roaring Book. Hardcover, Bear, a 2-month-old Canadian black seasons affect bears in Yosemite’s forested 259 pages, $19.99, us.macmillan.com. bear cub that went to live with the high country. Using sources such as William F. Arnold family at The Fort, a Morrison, Cody’s autobiography as well as re- Colorado, replica of the historic Bent’s spected biographers, Candace Fleming Old Fort in southeastern Colorado. NONFICTION tells Cody’s story in a fashion that will Great vintage photos and beautiful il- appeal to young adults. lustrations by Christina Wald. CHRISTOPHER KNOWL- TON. Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden RACHELLE “ROCKY” GIB- NANCY OSWALD. Trouble Returns: History of the BONS. Big Buckaroo Goes to the Special A Ruby and Maude Adventure. Trade West. Houghton Mifflin Olympics. Tate. Hardcover, paperback, paperback, 208 pages, $8.95, Harcourt. Hardcover, 32 pages, $19.99, $10.99. FilterPressBooks.com. 448 pages, $29, Inspired by real-life heroes, this Continuing the adventures of 11-year- HMHCo.com. colorfully illustrated book continues old Ruby May Oliver and her mule, Christopher Knowl- the journey of Big Buckaroo. He and Maude, in the Colorado mountains of ton uses his business nephew, Firefighter Joe, join together the , Nancy Oswald blends the background – working and volunteer to coach at the Special rustic everyday life of a young girl grow- for Fortune Magazine Olympics. ing up in the mountains with historic and an investment descriptions of Colorado Springs, where management firm – to add insight JAMES J. GRIFFIN. A Ranger Re- Ruby must testify at a murder trial. to this history of the deemed. Painted Pony. Trade paperback, cattle industry. The first overview 128 pages, $8.99, PaintedPonyBooks. DONNA ALICE PATTON and history of the Old West cattle era com. EMILY CHASE SMITH. Saddle Up! in decades offers a fresh take on Another well-written young-adult Chase Smith. Paperback, 250 pages, the industry and the people. Some story by Jim Griffin whose understand- $11, RawhideRanch.com. figures, like cowboy Teddy Blue ing of how the Texas Rangers operated The gift of a weeklong stay at “Raw- Abbott and Easterner-turned- in the late 1800s shows his studious hide Ranch” Summer Camp brings temporary-Westerner Theodore immersion into the Ranger culture. An 12-year-old Bridget face-to-face with her Roosevelt, are familiar, but Knowl- easy, fast-moving read. dream of riding a real horse. A delight- ton introduces us to European ful read with a sparkling epilogue to and American investors, too, and JAMES J. GRIFFIN. A Ranger make all “horse lovers” smile. shows how technology helped fuel Grown. Painted Pony. Trade paperback, the beef craze. Some will argue 129 pages, $9.99, PaintedPonyBooks. VIRGINIA DRIVING HAWK with his theory of what happened com. SNEVE. Women: Traditionally to the allegedly rustled cattle in Texas Ranger youngsters Nate Sacred. South Dakota Historical Society 1880s-90s , but this re- Stewart and Hoot Harrison up against Press. Trade paperback, 102 pages, markable achievement should still outlaws, prairie fires and hostile Indians $16.95, SDHSPress.com. enjoy a prominent place alongside while trying to break in some new A prolific writer of books for young David Dary’s Cowboy Culture and Rangers. adults, Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve of- Walter Prescott Webb’s The Great fers this one based on the untold stories Plains on the bookshelves of West- WILLIAM GRILL. The Wolves of of women in her native culture. This ern buffs and historians. Currumpaw. Flying Eye. Hardcover, 80 book is a product of the author’s study – Johnny D. Boggs pages, $24, FlyingEyeBooks.com. of winter counts (calendar of events, Writer-artist William Grill retells originally painted on animal hides) and and reimagines “Lobo: The King of oral histories. BOB ALEXANDER. Whiskey River Currumpaw,” the short story in Ernest Ranger: The Old West Life of Baz Outlaw. Thompson Seton’s book Wild Animals I GINGER WADSWORTH (author) University of North Texas Press. Hardcov- have Known. Seton, of course, knew Old and DANIEL SAN SOUCI (illustra- er, 373 pages, $34.95, UNTPress.unt.edu. Lobo well – and so will older children tor). Seasons of the Bear: A Yosemite Story. With a name like Baz Outlaw, you in this handsome, thought-provoking Yosemite Conservancy. Hardcover, 32 might not suspect that he became a law- narrative. pages, $15.95, YosemiteConservancy. man. Not only was he a lawman, he was com. also one of the toughest and most effec- HOLLY ARNOLD KINNEY. Sissy Follow a mother bear and her cubs as tive Texas Rangers of the storied Frontier Bear at The Fort. Fur Trade Press. Hard- they learn and discover life during four Battalion.

AUGUST 2017 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE 27 27 MIKE ANDERSON. Warren Ball- TOM CLAVIN. Dodge City: Wyatt lows. Utah State University Press. Trade park. Arcadia. Trade paperback, 127 Earp, , and the Wickedest paperback, eBook, 416 pages, $26.95, pages, $21.99, ArcadiaPublishing.com. Town in the American West. St. Mar- $21.95, UPColorado.com. Few baseball parks can match the tin’s. Hardcover, 400 pages, $29.99, Mark Dillon’s examination of history of Warren Ballpark, which us.macmillan.com. Montana’s vigilante period, originally opened outside of Bisbee, Arizona, in Dodge City, and Bat Mas- published in 2013, is now available in 1909 – making it older than Alabama’s terson get their due – again – and while paperback and eBook. Rickwood Field (1910). Tom Clavin mixes documented history with tales some historians question if SAMUEL K. DOLAN. Cowboys and SHELLEY ARMITAGE. Walking the not outright discredit, the author keeps Gangsters: Stories of an Untamed South- Llano: A Texas Memoir of Place. Univer- readers engaged by telling his story with west. TwoDot. Trade paperback, 329 sity of Oklahoma Press. Hardcover, 216 zest and humor. pages, $16.95, Rowman.com. pages, $24.95, OUPress.com. Samuel Dolan uses official records, Shelley Armitage sprinkles her mem- PETER COZZENS. The Earth Is newspaper accounts and oral histories oir with history, humor and facts on Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars to compile detailed accounts of gun living in the Texas Panhandle. And she for the American West. Alfred A. Knopf. battles in which the old West and the accurately captures, with vivid imagery, Hardcover, 544 pages, $35, AAKnopf. new West clash in ways that might have the haunting beauty of the Texas plains. com. inspired a Sam Peckinpah film. Peter Cozzens offers a moving history JOHN JAMES AUDUBON (author) of the conflicts between whites and MICHAEL DUCHEMIN. New Deal and DANIEL PATTERSON (editor). American Indians from the 1860s to Cowboy: Gene Autry and Public Diplomacy. The Missouri River Journals of John James Wounded Knee in 1890. University of Oklahoma Press. Hard- Audubon. University of Nebraska Press. cover, 316 pages, $34.95, OUPress.com. Hardcover, 445 pages, $75, DONALD L. CUTLER. “Hang Them Michael Duchemin’s book demon- NebraskaPress.unl.edu. All”: George Wright and the Plateau Indian strates that many of Autry’s 1930s One of John James Audubon’s most War. University of Oklahoma Press. musical Westerns were message movies colorful excursions was his 1843 trip Hardcover, 392 pages, $29.95, OUpress. supporting government policies during to the Upper Missouri country, in com. the Great Depression. search, not of birds this time, but of Donald Cutler details George quadrupeds. Daniel Patterson Wright’s career before and after his GLEN SAMPLE ELY. The Texas has unearthed portions of the original assignment to the Pacific Northwest in Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail Missouri River journals thought to have this valuable contribution to the history 1858-1861. University of Oklahoma been destroyed. of our nation’s 19th Century Indian Press. Hardcover, 354 pages, $34.95, policies. OUPress.com. JOHN P. BOWES. Land Too Good for From 1858-1861, Butterfield Overland Indians: Northern Indian Removal. Uni- JOHN W. DAVIS. The Trial of Tom Mail passed through northern Texas on versity of Oklahoma Press. Hardcover, Horn. University of Oklahoma Press. its way from St. Louis to . 328 pages, $29.95, OUPress.com. Hardcover, 358 pages, $29.95, OUPress. Well-documented, fascinating stories The case studies of the Delaware, com. of pioneers make this book relatable to Seneca, Cayuga, Odawa, Oneida, John W. Davis does a masterful job today’s lives. Wyandot, Potawatomi and Shawnee of making the trial of America’s most tribes provide useful insights into their famous stock detective come to life. AUSTIN FISHER (editor). Spa- removal to Kansas and ultimately In- ghetti Westerns at the Crossroads: Studies in dian Territory. PATRICK DEAREN. Bitter Waters: Relocation, Transition and Appropriation. The Struggles of the Pecos River. University Edinburgh University Press. Hardcover, PHILIP CHAMBLESS and MIKE of Oklahoma Press. Hardcover, 256 304 pages, $110, EdinburghUniversity- RYAN. The Great American Turquoise pages, $29.95, OUPress.com. Press.com. Rush 1890-1910. Sunstone. Trade paper- Patrick Dearen gives us a scholarly, Twelve essays reappraise some back, 243 pages, $26.96, detailed, sobering history of environ- standards and illustrate the diversity of SunstonePress.com. mental abuse, complete with maps and the Euro-Western genre. Serious film In the late 1800s, the market for tur- captivating photographs in this look at scholars will glean plenty of material quoise boomed, and the search for the one of the Southwest’s most famous, worthy of discourse. blue and green stones exploded in New and troubled, rivers. Mexico and later across the Southwest. DAN FLORES. American Seren- This is a thorough, well-illustrated his- MARK C. DILLON. The Montana geti: The Last Big Animals of the Great tory of the turquoise rush. Vigilantes 1863-1870: Gold, Guns, and Gal- Plains. University Press of Kansas.

28 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE AUGUST 2017 Hardcover, 213 pages, $24.95, JANET GINGOLD (editor). The tion and its inhabitants in the boom KansasPress.ku.edu. LaVonne Houlton Compendium: Ponies, Po- years of the 1920s. A fascinating study of the wildlife of etry and Prose. AlphaGraphics Commer- the Great Plains and their exploitation cial Printing Services. Paperback, 212 MICHAEL R. GRAUER. Rounded by the human population. pages, $33, [email protected]. Up in Glory: Frank Reaugh, Texas Renais- Lovers of Morgan horses and horses sance Man. University of North Texas GLENN FRANKEL. High Noon: The in general will find an abundance of Press. Hardcover, 403 pages, $39.95, Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an material to interest them in this large UNTPress.unt.edu. American Classic. Bloomsbury. Hardcov- volume of stories, poems and captioned Not only does this book present the er, 377 pages, $28, Bloomsbury.com. pictures. complexities of artist Frank Reaugh, Glenn Frankel tackles the backstory it offers an overview of art during the of 1952’s High Noon. What started out BRUCE A. GLASRUD and MI- period. A fascinating profile. in screenwriter Carl Foreman’s mind CHAEL N. SEARLES (editors). Black as a testament to the United Nations Cowboys in the American West: On the PAUL L. HEDREN. Powder River: became an indictment of the anti- Range, On the Stage, Behind the Badge. Disastrous Opening of the Great Sioux War. Communist witch-hunt that spread University of Oklahoma Press. Trade University of Oklahoma Press. Hard- across America and led to Hollywood’s paperback, 250 pages, $24.95, OUPress. cover, 452 pages, $34.95, OUPress.com. blacklisting of several players, including com. Paul Hedren concentrates on the Foreman. A solid read. Essays by several authors note the beginning of the Great Sioux War of unsung contributions made by black 1876-77. He gives witness to hardships, MARK LEE GARDNER. Rough cowboys in our American West. A great incompetence and loss of life. A solid Riders: Theodore Roosevelt, His Cowboy collection. history laced with the latest in scholar- Regiment, and the Immortal Charge Up San ship. Juan Hill. William Morrow. Hardcover, DAVID GRANN. Killers of the Flower 352 pages, $26.99, HarperCollins.com. Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth CHARLOTTE HINGER. Nicode- There have been countless books writ- of the FBI. Doubleday. Hardcover, 336 mus: Post-reconstruction Politics and Racial ten about various facets of Theodore pages, $29.95, KnopfDoubleday.com. Justice in Western Kansas. University of Roosevelt’s life, but it’s unlikely that David Grann trains his well-honed Oklahoma Press. Hardcover, 280 pages, any offer the masterful mix of rousing reportorial instincts and a keen observa- $29.95, OUPress.com. storytelling and historical accuracy in tional eye on the greed-driven murders After the Civil War, the village of Mark Gardner’s book. that swept through the oil-rich reserva- Nicodemus was established in north-

Experience the Advenuture You Write About! 866-399-2339 • www.DudeRanch.org AUGUST 2017 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE 29 western Kansas to welcome freedmen JENNIFER L. JENKINS. Celluloid Johnston’s prose can be difficult to as well as freemen. This carefully Pueblo: Western Ways Films and the Inven- penetrate, but the work is painstakingly researched book recounts the experience tion of the Postwar Southwest. University researched and has wonderful illustra- through the stories of three of Nicode- of Arizona Press. Hardcover, 227 pages, tions. mus’s most important and influential $45, UAPress.Arizona.edu. citizens. Charles and Lucile Herbert of West- LLOYD KEITH and JOHN C. ern Ways Features accepted, perpetu- JACKSON. The Fur Trade Gamble: HENRYK HOFFMANN. Four ated and popularized an often fantastic North West Company on the Pacific Slope, Hollywood Legends in World Literature: version of Arizona and Sonora that 1800-1820. Washington State University References to Bogart, Cooper, Gable and became embedded in the American Press. Paperback, 336 pages, $24.95, Tracy. BearManor. Hardcover, trade psyche through movie newsreels. WSUPress.wsu.edu. paperback, 944 pages, $52.95, $42.95, This well-researched narrative fills BearManorMedia.com. NATHAN A. JENNINGS. Riding a void in the literature of one of the Film-reference historian Henryk for the Lone Star: Frontier Cavalry and other important fur-trade spheres in Hoffmann shows how actors Humphrey Texas Way of War, 1822-1865. University North America: the vast Pacific North- Bogart, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable and of North Texas Press. Hardcover, 402 west. Here, the authors, now deceased, Spencer Tracy have shown up in novels, pages, $32.95, UNTPress.unt.edu. explore the workings of the North short stories, plays, poems and nonfic- Nathan Jennings traces the unique West Company and ’s tion books over the past 80 years. military from Mexican Pacific Fur Company, both important colonial days through the Civil War, giv- regional influences. CHUCK HORNUNG. Wyatt Earp’s ing the legendary Rangers a scholarly, Cow-boy Campaign: The Bloody Restora- sometimes rather dry examination. KATHY BLISS KLUMP. The Last tion of Law and Order Along the Mexican Roundup of the “Y” Cattle Company: Border, 1882. McFarland. Paperback, 316 THOMAS J. JOEL (author) and The Story of John Walter Klump and His pages, $39.95, McFarlandBooks.com. NICHOLAS J. WHARTON (maps). Association with the Partnership of Hurst, The author examines the post-Tomb- Landmarks and Historic Districts, Black, Kiehne, and Wiley in stone campaign he says is often mis- Second Edition. University Press of Colo- and Arizona. PetKat. Trade paperback, named “Wyatt Earp’s Vendetta Ride.” rado. Paperback, 216 pages, $26.95, 178 pages, $20, SSVHS.weebly.com. Chuck Hornung goes over well-covered UPColorado.com. Kathy Bliss Klump uses correspon- ground about the myths and legends This well-illustrated guide highlights dence and other documents to tell the surrounding Earp and the Denver’s 51 historic districts and more story of the rise and fall of the “Y” County war. than 330 landmarked properties, includ- Cattle Company (circa 1885-1898), one ing banks, churches, clubs, hotels, librar- of the largest cattle ranches in New MATTHEW CHRISTOPHER HUL- ies, schools, restaurants, mansions and Mexico and Arizona. BERT. The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory: show homes. How Civil War Bushwhackers Became JAMES H. KNIPMEYER. Cass Hite: Gunslingers in the American West. Univer- DAVID JOHNSON. John Ringo: King The Life of an Old Prospector. University sity of Georgia Press. Hardcover, trade of the Cowboys. University of North of Utah Press. Hardcover, 269 pages, paperback, 327 pages, $84.95, $29.95, Texas Press. Trade paperback, 366 $36.95, UofUPress.com. UGaPress.org. pages, $19.95, UNTPress.unt.edu. In the late 19th Century and into the Matthew Christopher Hulbert writes The second edition of this defini- 20th, Cass Hite wandered throughout that most memoirs by pro-Southern tive biography of the gunman, known the West, eventually confining himself bushwhackers during the Civil War primarily for his anti-Earp stance in to country in Glen Canyon, were, well, mis-remembered at best. A Tombstone, , in the where he died in 1914. Hite probably fascinating, well-researched read. 1880s, has been republished as a trade ensured his fame with his colorful letters paperback. to newspapers, discussing everything JOE JACKSON. Black Elk: The Life from mining to politics. of an American Visionary. Farrar, Straus MATTHEW N. JOHNSTON. Nar- and Giroux. Hardcover, 622 pages, $30, rating the Landscape: Print Culture and MARTHA KOHL (editor). Beyond FSGBooks.com. American Expansion in the Nineteenth Schoolmarms and Madams: Montana The story of the Oglala mystic best Century. University of Oklahoma Press. Women’s Stories. Montana Historical So- known for Black Elk Speaks (1932), this Hardcover, 242 pages, $34.95, OUPress. ciety Press. Trade paperback, 321 pages, book deserves a place alongside Angie com. $19.95, mhs.mt.gov. Debo’s , Robert M. Utley’s The Matthew Johnston discusses the Editor Martha Kohl presents the Lance and the Shield and Edwin Swee- expansion westward, 1825-1875, as stories of Native, Anglo, Hispanic, ney’s Cochise as an outstanding Ameri- depicted by early landscape artists such Black and Asian women in all walks of can Indian biography. as Thomas Cole and Asher B. Durand. life, creating a kaleidoscope of expe- 30 30 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE AUGUST 2017 riences of women who were rodeo TAMARA LEVI. Food Control and JOYCE B. LOHSE. Spencer Penrose: stars, suffragettes, forest rangers, union Resistance: Rations and Indigenous Peoples Builder & Benefactor. Filter. Trade paper- organizers, nurses, doctors, temperance in the United States and South Australia. back, 110 pages, $12.95, advocates and many other occupations Texas Tech University Press. Trade pa- FilterPressBooks.com. and fields of interest. perback, 232 pages, $39.95, TTUPress. This brief biography successfully org. recounts events in the life of Spencer VICTORIA LAMONT. Westerns: A Despite its somewhat stiff academic Penrose, who made his mark in mining, Women’s History. University of Nebraska title, this book addresses how colonialist agriculture, tourism and other areas Press. Hardcover, 194 pages, $55, settler societies dealt with indigenous across Colorado and into the larger NebraskaPress.unl.edu. peoples in attempting to bring “civiliza- West. In this scholarly study, Victoria tion” to them. Specifically, governments Lamont argues that women writers sought to control these “natives” by cre- RICHARD LOWITT. Twentieth-Cen- such as B.M. Bowers, Frances McEl- ating a dependency on food allotments. tury Oklahoma: Reflections on the Forty- rath and others should receive as much Sixth State. University of Oklahoma attention as the likes of Owen Wister, MARGOT LIBERTY. Horseback Press. Paperback, 424 pages, $24.95, and Louis L’Amour. Schoolmarm. University of Oklahoma OUPress.com. Press. Hardcover, 123 pages, $24.95, Oklahoma politics and historical JENNIFER J. LAWRENCE. Soap OUPress.com. development are reflected in this collec- Suds Row: The Bold Lives of Army Laun- Imagine teaching in the early 1950s tion of essays by Richard Lowitt. If you dresses, 1802-1876. High Plains. Trade in rural Montana. 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AUGUST 2017 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE 31 series of books chronicling the surveys RON McFARLAND. Edward J. Steptoe Women. Shadow Mountain. Hardcover, and building of the United States sec- and the Indian Wars: Life on the Frontier, 208 pages, $19.99, ond continental railroad by the North- 1815-1865. McFarland. Trade paperback, ShadowMountain.com. ern Pacific. This volume covers the 260 pages, $39.95, McFarlandPub.com. Marianne Monson offers glimpses initial surveys through Edward J. Steptoe studied at West into the lives and frontier experi- and Montana and construction of the Point, served on the frontier in the Semi- ences of 12 women, from railroad through Minnesota. nole War, the Mexican War, Utah Terri- “boomer” Nellie Cashman to María tory and . Consider- Amparo Ruiz de Burton, the first Mex- MARK WILLIAM LUSK and able research went into Ron McFarland’s ican-American novelist, to NICOLE LeFAVOUR. Sawtooth-White book. driver Charley Parkhurst and even Cloud. Caxton. Hardcover, 128 pages, Makaopiopio, “The Spirit of Aloha.” $26, CaxtonPress.com. WILLIAM L. McGEE with SAN- Photographer Mark William Lusk’s DRA V. McGEE. Montana Memoir: The SHIRLEY ANN WILSON rich photographs capture the stark beau- Hardscrabble Years 1925-1942. BMC Pub- MOORE. Sweet Freedom’s Plains– ty of the high, wild mountains in Idaho. lications. Paperback, eBook, 138 pages, African Americans on the Overland Trails Nicole LeFavour’s contributions are $19.95, $9.99. 1841-1869. University of Oklahoma labeled “essays,” but seem too brief for The general reader will enjoy Wil- Press. Hardcover, 232 pages, $29.95, the label. Rather, they, like photographs, liam McGee’s growing-up years when OUPress.com. offer vivid images of high country hik- he thumbed rides or rode in boxcars in Westward migration included un- ing, riding, camping and inspiration. search of work, picking fruit, working on counted numbers of African Ameri- ranches, building ships, joining the Navy, cans – escaped slaves, freed slaves and WILLIAM P. MacKINNON (editor). eventually forming a company to provide men and women born free. Drawing At Sword’s Point, Part 2: A Documen- sales and training support to the broad- on available documents, the author tary History of the , 1858-1859. cast industry. reconstructs the experiences of several Arthur H. Clark. Hardcover, 650 pages, representative black overlanders. $45, OUPress.com. JAMES D. McLAIRD. Hugh Glass The editor chronicles the widespread, Grizzly Survivor. South Dakota Histori- DAVID MORRELL. Stars In My if minor, influence of the Utah War in cal Society Press. Trade paperback, 238 Eyes: My Love Affair with Books, Movies, unexpected places through newspaper pages, $14.95, SDSHSPress.com. and Music. Gauntlet Press/Borderlands reports, letters and diplomatic corre- Hugh Glass was attacked by a griz- Press. Hardcover, 283 pages, $25, spondence. zly on the prairie of what is now South GuantletPress.com. Dakota. This excellent book examines David Morrell reveals his passion for BILL C. MALONE. Sing Me Back Glass and the fur trade, the creation of books, films and music in this volume Home: Southern Roots and . his legend by poet John G. Neihardt (The of 20 engaging essays on the likes of University of Oklahoma Press. Hard- Song of Hugh Glass) and novelist Freder- Henry James, Marilyn Monroe and cover, 355 pages, $29.95, OUPress.com. ick Manfred (Lord Grizzly), and finally the Frank Sinatra as well as Western icons A collection of articles previously grizzly bear on the plains. John Wayne, Steve McQueen and High published in various journals, all in the Noon. language of academe. Some passing dis- E.C. “TED” MEYERS. Mattie: Wyatt cussion of Jimmie Rodgers, Bob Wills Earp’s Secret Second Wife. Hancock House. JERRY NICKLE as told to C.J. and Austin’s Kenneth Threadgill and his Trade paperback, 286 pages, $19.95, DEL BARTO. Bringing Sundance Home. bar, but all pretty shallow and, frankly, HancockHouse.com. Self-published. Trade paperback, 244 kind of boring. Known by her family as Celie, by pages, $16.99, her husband as Mattie and by police BringingSundanceHome.com. KARA L. McCORMACK. Imagining records as Sally and Sarah, Old West A great-grandson shines light on Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die. buffs learned in 1953 that Celia Ann the life of his famous relative, the University Press of Kansas. Hardcover, Blaylock was the second wife of Wyatt . Jerry Nickle includes 206 pages, $27.95, KansasPress.ku.edu. Earp from 1871-1882. The author adds pictures of the period to illustrate the Kara McCormack uses Tombstone to immeasurably to this early unveiling of people and the countryside. delineate the war between the authentic Mattie Earp’s short life by explaining and the inauthentic, history versus the their mysterious years in Peoria, Illinois, MICHAEL P. O’CONNOR. The Chamber of Commerce. Although her and whereabouts in Kansas, Texas, New Wild West Meets the Big Apple. Pelican. argument that the white, macho West of Mexico and Arizona. Hardcover, 204 pages, $25.95, Henry Fonda and Hugh O’Brian was so PelicanPub.com. much hooey is irrefutable, McCormack MARIANNE MONSON. Frontier Grit: Michael O’Connor brings us a belabors a point that is hardly new. The Unlikely True Stories of Daring Pioneer sampling of prominent Western figures

32 32 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE AUGUST 2017 who had visited, lived for a time, or had sity of Arizona Press. Trade paperback, Something of a prequel to Richard adventures on the sidewalks of New 152 pages, $19.95, Shelton’s best-selling Going Back to York, including Bat Masterson, Pat UAPress.arizona.edu. Bisbee, Nobody Rich or Famous loops back Garrett, Buffalo Bill Cody, Wild Bill STEPHEN J. PYNE. The Southwest: into Shelton’s early years in Boise, and Hickok, , George Custer, A Fire Survey (Volume 4). University of before that to his forebearers, represent- Mark Twain, Jim Bowie and Davy Arizona Press. Trade paperback, 192 ed by the journals they kept. Shelton is Crockett. pages, $19.95, UAPress.arizona.edu. a keen observer and a terrific storyteller. Stephen J. Pyne evokes a deeper un- JOHN OLLER. The Swamp Fox: How derstanding of the meaning we make of MICHAEL A. SHEYAHSHE. Francis Marion Saved the American Revolu- fire and the experiences of those closest Native Americans in Comic Books: tion. Da Capo. Hardcover, 400 pages, to it. Woven throughout his essays are A Critical Study. McFarland. $26.99, DaCapoPress.com. references to literature and other works Paperback, 223 pages, $25, During the American Revolution, about legendary big burns. McFarlandPub.com. Francis Marion led a group of Patriot An in-depth look at comic books partisans in guerrilla warfare against B. BYRON PRICE (editor). Picturing through the eyes of an American Indian British regulars and colonial Loyalists : Portraits of the Land That reader, with commentary on the me- in the South Carolina frontier. John Became Oklahoma, 1819-1907. University dium’s cultural representation of Indian Otter documents the savagery on both of Oklahoma Press. Hardcover, 147 people. Originally published in 2008, sides in this study of a complex man. pages, $34.95, OUPress.com. and now available in paperback. This handsome volume chronicles al- BILL O’NEAL. Sam Houston: A Study most 90 years of visions of Indian Ter- BRUCE L. SMITH. Stories from in Leadership. Eakin. Trade paperback, ritory. Well-illustrated with insightful Afield: Adventures with Wild Things in 257 pages, $19.95, EakinPress.com. essays, this is a wonderful resource for Wild Places. University of Nebraska The state historian of Texas homes lovers of art and/or Oklahoma history. Press. Trade paperback, 222 pages, in on the leadership qualities of an $18.95, NebraskaPress.unl.edu. “assertive, independent, ambitious KENT D. RICHARDS. Isaac I. Ste- Visit wild places with Bruce Smith Type A personality.” This first-rate read vens: Young Man in a Hurry. Washington during his 30-year career as a wildlife provides a fine overview of Houston’s State University Press. Trade paper- biologist. A tapestry of adventure, life and times. back, $29.95, WSUPress.wsu.edu. natural history and personal journey This biography of Isaac Ingalls Ste- that is as interwoven as the worlds he R. ELI PAUL. Sign Talker: Hugh vens (1818-1862) is the third (revised) explores, from the snapping turtle bogs Lenox Scott Remembers Indian Country. edition of a work first published in of his Michigan youth to the crags of University of Oklahoma Press. Hard- 1991. Stevens is likely best remembered Montana’s Bitterroot Range. cover, 260 pages, $29.95, OUPress.com. as the governor of Washington Territo- Few people remember Hugh Lenox ry in the 1850s and for his involvement JERRY D. SPANGLER and DON- Scott today despite his “long, fascinat- in the Indian wars of that time. NA KEMP SPANGLER. Last Chance ing military career.” Eli Paul has edited Byway: The History of Nine Mile Canyon. and annotated the portion of Scott’s FERNANDA SANTOS. The Fire University of Utah Press. Paperback, massive and now obscure 1928 memoir, Line: The Story of the Granite Mountain 372 pages, $34.95, UofUPress.com. Some Memories of a Soldier. Hotshots and One of the Deadliest Days in This is a coffee-table book for histori- American Firefighting. Flatiron. Hard- ans, lovers of the West and people who THOMAS A. PERMAR. Navigating cover, 273 pages, $25.99, like out-of-the-way forgotten places. The the American West: A History. Western FlatironBooks.com. Spangler scholars have created nine big Sea Press. Trade paperback, 286 pages, Fernanda Santos tells the alarming chapters that trace the history of Utah’s no price listed. story of 19 men who were killed fight- Nine Mile Canyon from some non-spe- The book illustrates how several ing an Arizona wildfire in June 2013. cific date before 1800 to about 1936. people from a host of differing cul- Santos relies on many hours of inter- tures dealt with traversing the land views to draw a vivid picture of how CATHERINE HOLDER SPUDE that became known as the American the deadly fire affected the doomed fire- (editor). All for the Greed of Gold. Wash- West. The stories exhibit the ability of fighters’ family, friends and colleagues. ington State University Press. Paper- humans to overcome overwhelming back, 272 pages, $27.95, WSUPress. obstacles facing them in the forms of RICHARD SHELTON. Nobody Rich wsu.edu. mountains, vast deserts and abominable or Famous: A Family Memoir. University A blending of the diaries and reminis- weather. of Arizona Press. Hardcover, trade cence of William Jay Woodin and the paperback, $35, $19.95, 279 pages, comments of the editor, this is the best STEPHEN J. PYNE. The Northern UAPress.arizona.edu. account of the journey to the Klondike Rockies, A Fire Survey (Volume 3). Univer- in the late 19th Century. AUGUST 2017 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE 33 33 WILLIAM D. STREET (author) $45, OUPress.com. Written from a distinctly Mormon and WARREN R. STREET (editor). In 1879, writer Samuel Nugent (and family) perspective, the history Twenty-Five Years among the Indians and Townsend and photographer John surrounding the subject is sometimes Buffalo: A Frontier Memoir. University George Hyde, both from England, set simplistic and sugarcoated, often relying Press of Kansas. Hardcover, 525 pages, out across the Western frontier and on secondary sources with a celebra- $29.95, KansasPress.ku.edu. wound up documenting a travelogue tory bent. The book also suffers from Kansas frontiersman William D. and guide for compatriots who might frequent digressions and repetitions and Street, who died in 1911, chronicles be interested in investing in the West. wants more thorough proofreading. his life on the plains, circa 1861-78, in This version includes critical notes from this memoir that has only now been the editors and an introduction by West EDWARD B. WESTERMANN. Hit- published, thanks to his great-grandson, Texas A&M University professor Alex ler’s Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars: Compar- who edited the manuscript. Hunt. ing Genocide and Conquest. University of Oklahoma Press. Hardcover, 327 pages, KEVIN Z. SWEENEY. Prelude to LAURA TREVELYAN. The Win- $34.95, OUpress.com. the Dust Bowl: Drought in the Nineteenth chester: The Gun That Built an American Alternating between the Indian Wars Century Southern Plains. University of Dynasty. Yale University Press. Hardcov- and the Ostkrieg (Germany’s invasion Oklahoma Press. Hardcover, 192 pages. er, 242 pages, $22.98, YaleBooks.com. of eastern Europe), Edward Wester- $34.96, OUPress.com. Laura Trevelyan, a distant relative of mann demonstrates that the U.S. motive Kevin Sweeney details Major Stephen the Winchester family, researched and involved economic expansion and con- H. Long’s scientific expedition of 1820, wrote this absorbing book about the quering Native resistance. An excellent a journey from Omaha to Colorado to family who manufactured “The Gun example of comparative transnational Texas. The poorly provisioned group That Won the West.” history. met with nothing but privation and drought, leading cartographers to label PHILLIP THOMAS TUCKER. LARRY WOOD. Bushwhacker Belles: the region “The Great American Des- Death at the Little Bighorn: A New Look at The Sisters, Wives, and Girlfriends of the ert” into the 1840s. A fresh perspective. Custer – His Tactics and the Tragic Deci- Missouri Guerrillas. Pelican. Trade pa- sions Made at the Last Stand. Skyhorse. perback, 295 pages, $24.95, PelicanPub. NANCY J. TANIGUCHI. Dirty Hardcover, 464 pages, $27.99, com. Deeds: Land, Violence, and the 1856 San SkyhorsePublishing.com. Ozarks historian Larry Wood Francisco Vigilance Committee. University In yet another book about that fateful chronicles stories of the women who of Oklahoma Press. Hardcover, 294 summer day in Montana in 1876, Phil- supported Missouri’s Confederate ir- pages, $32.95, OUPress.com. lip Tucker argues that the battle’s real regulars during the bloody fighting in Nancy Taniguchi’s study of the turning point came when George Custer Kansas and Missouri. A good source for creation and activities of the 1856 San charged Medicine Tail Coulee Ford and novelists and scholars. Francisco Vigilance Committee is an that the fabled Last Stand on Custer indispensable addition to California Hill was more or less mop-up work for CHARLES E. WRIGHT. Law at history. and Lakotas. Little Big Horn: Due Process Denied. Texas Tech University Press. Hardcover, 315 SCOTT THYBONY. The Disappear- MICHAEL VINSON. Edward Eber- pages, $45, TTUPress.org. ances: A Story of Exploration, Murder, and stadt & Sons: Rare Booksellers of Western George Custer scholars and buffs Mystery in the American West. University Americana. Arthur H. Clark. Hardcover, alike will have to take notice of Charles of Utah Press. Paperback, 276 pages, 168 pages, $29.95, OUPress.com. Wright’s powerful indictment of Presi- $24.95, UofUPress.com. Michael Vinson does a masterful job dent Ulysses S. Grant, generals William Scott Thybony, a prolific NPR con- of telling the unique tale of an unlikely T. Sherman and , and tributor and an archaeologist, stays reso- bookseller in an unlikely location who Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer lutely committed to his scholarly style in combined his love of Western Ameri- for violating the due process clause of tracing, not so much telling, three tales cana with commercial ingenuity to the Constitution, General Order 100 of disappearance set in 1934 and 1935. become the premier source for Western (issued in 1863) and the Lieber Code on history. military conduct. The charges apply to S. NUGENT TOWNSEND (author) the “Indian Wars” of the 1870s. J.G. HYDE (photographer), ALEX QUENTIN THOMAS WELLS. HUNT and KRISTIN LOYD (editors). Defender: The Life of Daniel H. Wells. Utah PAUL R. WYLIE. Blood on the Our Indian Summer in the Far West: An State University Press. Hardcover, 420 Marias: The Baker Massacre. University of Autumn Tour of Fifteen Thousand Miles pages plus Appendices, Notes, Bibliog- Oklahoma Press. Hardcover, 336 pages, in Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, raphy and Index, $39.95, USUPress. $29.95, OUPress.com. and the Indian Territory. University of com. In this account of the 1870 massacre Oklahoma Press. Hardcover, 186 pages, of Piegan Indians on the Marias River 34 34 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE AUGUST 2017 in , Paul Wylie also JOHNNY D. BOGGS. Return to Red reveals how cover-ups by the military, PAUL COLT. Bounty of Greed. River. Pinnacle. Mass-market paperback, political intrigue and bureaucratic in- Five Star. Hardcover, 371 pages, $7.99, fighting all served to obscure events. 340 pages, $25.95, KensingtonBooks.com. Gale.Cengage.com/ This sequel to Borden Chase’s novel MARK ZWONITZER. The FiveStar. that became the unforgettable 1948 film Statesman and the Storyteller: John Hay, For a short period, Red River finds Mathew Garth, 20 years Mark Twain, and the Rise of American the one-horse town of later, gambling everything by mak- Imperialism. Algonquin. Hardcover, Lincoln, New Mexico ing one of the last great Texas cattle 608 pages, $35, Algonquin.com. Territory, was on the drives. The story moves with impeccable The connection between John Hay, national stage. In this pacing, from its stark beginning to the an adviser for several presidents, and historical novel, Paul fireball climax. Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain, Colt has filled in the empty places never jells, and while the research and in the convoluted story of the Lin- C.J. BOX. Off the Grid. G.P. Putnam’s anecdotes are first rate, the story is too coln County War. Constrained by Sons. Hardcover, 373 pages, $27, Pen- disjointed to succeed. what actually happened, the author guinRandomHouse.com. was not able to construct scenes in Set in Wyoming’s isolated Red Desert, which the players did what rational Joe Pickett’s family is drawn into the FICTION people might be expected to do intrigue of domestic terrorism while he – for the actions of the historical tries to protect a Middle Eastern friend. WILLIAM LEE ADAMS. Two Gun: characters often defied reason. The The stakes rise when Pickett learns that Legacy of a Promise. TDLAD. Trade pa- reader might be as confused as his daughter, April, naively becomes perback, 206 pages, $19.95, tdlad.com. the Lincoln townspeople in trying involved in the same terrorist plot Pickett William Adams tells of a single silver to understand who was in charge is pledged to disrupt. Perfect for readers dollar, illegally minted in 1804, given to during the troubles: the sheriff, the who love suspenseful mysteries. President John Adams who passed it on marshal or the Army commander to his kin. If the author had singularly who brought a force from Fort PETER BRANDVOLD. Days of followed the coin’s path, throwing in Stanton to Lincoln to restore order. Thunder. Five Star. Hardcover, 376 pages, family history along the way, the story When territorial and national au- $25.95, Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar. would be more understandable. thorities – including the governor The action writer introduces Norwe- and president – became involved, gian Dan Enberg, a shotgun rider for an RUDOLFO ANAYA. The Sorrows of they usually added to the turmoil Arizona stagecoach line, in two stories, Young Alfonso. University of Oklahoma by backing the belligerence of one “The Shotgun Rider” and “Two Smok- Press. Hardcover, 232 pages, $24.95, of the factions. Confusing? Get the ing Barrels.” OUpress.com. book. A good read. In this autobiographical novel, the – Harlan Hague PETER BRANDVOLD. To Hell on author recounts the life of a young a Fast Horse: A Western Duo. Five Star. boy, Alfonso, on the banks of the Hardcover, 386 pages, $25.95, Pecos River and plains of eastern New Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar. Mexico, his coming-of-age experiences Genteel Southern lady Millie Virginia Two new bold, fast-moving stories in Albuquerque and as an adult. comes to Idaho Springs, Colorado, of bounty hunters Lou Prophet and his in 1863 as a mail-order bride to find beautiful partner Louisa Bonaventure: KAY BETH FARIS AVERY. Unbro- her intended dead. An entertaining if “The Devil’s Ambush” and “Bring Me ken Spirits: Three Extraordinary Southern predictable blend of historical fiction, the Head of Chaz Savidge!” Colorado Women. Western Reflections. mystery and romance – plus one really Trade paperback, 252 pages, $18.95, cute goat. BILL BROOKS. Tom Dooley: American WesternReflectionsPublishing.com. Tragedy. Five Star. Hardcover, 350 pages, Unbroken Spirits, termed by the author JOHNNY D. BOGGS. The Kansas $25.95, Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar. as historical fiction and creative biogra- City Cowboys. Center Point. Hardcover, The story moves along with backstory phy, portrays the lives of three women. 500 pages, $33.95, thrown in, helping the reader understand Readers will enjoy reading these rather CenterPointLargePrint.com. what led to the murder made famous brief accounts of each woman. A Missouri teenager joins Kansas in folk songs and film. Not an uplifting City’s first National League team in story, but the insights into human nature J.v.L. BELL. The Lucky Hat Mine. 1886, and learns just how Western are interesting. Hansen. Trade paperback, eBook, 304 things can get on a baseball diamond. pages, $16, $7.99, HansenPublishing. com. AUGUST 2017 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE 35 35 R.H. BURKETT. The Adventures When a singer in a saloon is kid- This coming-of-age story follows of Dixie Dandelion. Wild Rose. Trade napped, detective Rance Dehner goes Tucker Beavers from 15 into young paperback, eBook, 286 pages, $15.99, out to save the “Songbird of the West.” adulthood on a New Mexico cattle $4.99, WildRosePublishing.com. Bullets fly, trails twist and mysteries are ranch in the 1880s. Although baseball Outlaws, warring Indians, wronged solved in another fast-moving tale by a figures into the novel, it is actually a soiled doves, murdered parents, a solid veteran of the traditional Western. metaphor for the larger plot. struggling ranch, romance, gunfights, saloons, drunken cowboys, Pinkerton BRETT COGBURN (editor). Show- JANET DAILEY. Texas Tall. Kens- agents and a quest for vengeance – The down. High Hill. Hardcover, eBook, 268 ington. Trade paperback, 249 pages, Adventures of Dixie Dandelion has it all. pages, $27.95, $4.99, HighHillPress.com. $26, KensingtonBooks.com. With stories by McKendree Long, Janet Dailey was a fixture in Western HARRY CASTLEMON (author) Michael Zimmer, D.B. Nelson and edi- romance fiction, a writer with a prodi- and CHARLES M. RUSSELL (illustra- tor Brett Cogburn, this is a fine collec- gious output. Sadly, Dailey never saw a tor). Frank on the Prairie. C.M. Russell tion of a dozen short stories. “Umpire cliché she didn’t like. Museum. Hardcover, 245 pages, $29.95, Colt” by Johnny D. Boggs and “Death OUPress.com. in the Wind River” by L.J. Fletcher are RUSTY DAVIS. Black Wind Pass. Five In 1903, Charlie Russell enhanced his particularly outstanding. Star Publishing. Hardcover, 242 pages, nephew’s copy of this boys adventure $25.95, Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar. novel, first published in 1868 under a BRETT COGBURN. Smoke Wagon. When Rory Carrick arrives home pseudonym of Charles Austin Fosdick Five Star. Hardcover, 382 pages, $25.95, after being gone 10 years, he finds his (1842-1915). Russell illustrated the Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar. entire family dead and strangers invad- novel with 11 watercolors. This “rarest Brett Cogburn wastes no time estab- ing his Wyoming ranch. Haunted by his of rare books” is reprinted in a facsimile lishing the setting in a lawless hell-on- past, he works to build a future. Un- edition with an introduction by Thomas wheels railroad town where Sheriff fortunately, surrounding ranchers have A. Petrie, vice chairman of the Great Morgan Clyde establishes a modicum other ideas. Falls, Montana-based C.M. Russell Mu- of law and order. Clyde has nightmares, seum board of directors, and collector/ engendered by his Civil War experience, PATRICK DEAREN. Dead Man’s dealer/appraiser Thomas Minckler. which help him understand the inevi- Boot. Five Star. Hardcover, 261 pages, table life-or-death showdown he faces. $25.95, Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar. STEVEN J. CLARK. Fountains of A leather pouch, containing gold nug- Fire. New Horizons. Trade paperback, BRETT COGBURN. Widowmaker gets and a tattered map fragment that 342 pages, $14.99, StevenJClark.com. Jones. Pinnacle. Mass-market paperback, is found in a dead man’s boot along the Well-financed eco-terrorists process 378 pages, $7.50, KensingtonBooks. Pecos River, launches this tale layered uranium tailings to build a bomb with com. with cowboys, , a wander- the intent to blow up Glen Canyon Robbed and shot, Widowmaker Jones ing widow, a rancher, a writer, , Dam. But when spilled radioactive sets off in pursuit of his assailant, a skeletons and a Dark Man. material sickens a Navajo truck driver, Mexican bandit feared on both sides of Danny Whitehorse and his crew uncov- the border. Jones is joined in his quest PHYLLIS DE LA GARZA. Lost er the plot. Well-written, but somewhat by a fat and sassy Judge and a Roundup. Silk Label. Trade paperback, diminished by editing errors. fetching gypsy circus girl. 245 pages, $17.99, SilkLabelBooks.com. Azalea Brown has suddenly become a JAMES CLAY. The Robin Hood of the PAUL COLT. The Bogus Bondsman. young widow and gets duped out of her Range. Black Horse. Hardcover, £14.50, Five Star. Hardcover, 236 pages, $25.95, ranch, cattle and horses by a gal who HaleBooks.com. Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar. claims to be her husband’s long-lost Detective Rance Dehner is on the Financier Jay Gould hatches a daughter. The author brings her knowl- trail of Ricky Cates, a vicious killer plan to take over the Texas and Pa- edge of horses, cattle (and cattle drives), who will gun down his own partners cific Railroad. Great West Detective weapons and trail cooking to this tale of without compunction but has convinced League operatives Briscoe Cane and a young woman’s struggle to stake her some people that he is a Western Robin Beau Longstreet, along with Pinkerton claim in a cattleman’s world. Hood, stealing from the rich to give to agents Reginald Kingsley and Samantha the poor. Maples, must try to find the person who BUTCH DENNY. Savage Winter: A is cashing in Gould’s counterfeit T&P Story of Wilderness and Survival. Self- JAMES CLAY. 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AUGUST 2017 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE 37 37 In the last installment of a trilogy, A.H. HOLT. High Plains Fort. Out- pages, $22.99, HarperCollins.com. Cash McLendon is back in Arizona laws Publishing. Trade paperback, 264 In Reconstruction Texas, 71-year- Territory to woo Gabrielle Tirrito. But pages, $24.95, AHHolt.com. old Jefferson Kyle Kidd accepts a $50 trouble strikes when Killer Boots, the A.H. Holt pens her story of life in payment to bring 10-year-old Johanna brutal henchman working for McLen- the fort and how a young leader rises Leonberger, captured four years earlier don’s bitter enemy, tracks McLendon to prepare the inhabitants for an attack and reared by , to her relatives and kidnaps Tirrito. This is a Western planned by a traitor leading a Coman- roughly 400 miles south. What follows you have to love. che raiding party. In an easy reading is a searing, beautifully told story as style, the author presents a story com- Captain Kidd and a girl, more HARLAN HAGUE. A Place for Mei plete with the characters and events that than “civilized,” form a bond during Lin. Five Star. Hardcover, 214 pages, might have been. their misadventures. $25.95, Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar. Set against the backdrop of Idaho’s A.H. HOLT. Ten in Texas. Outlaws WILLIAM W. JOHNSTONE with Sawtooth Mountains, the characters bat- Publishing. Trade paperback, 346 pages, J.A. JOHNSTONE. Colter’s Journey. tle harsh elements and hostile Indians $15.95, OutlawsPublishing.com. Kensington. Hardcover, 295 pages, determined to separate them from their Will Gantry stumbles upon Running $27.95, KensingtonBooks.com. meager mining claim and one another. Water Draw, where the land, sky and An Oregon-bound greenhorn teen- A passionate tale that touches the heart. gentle stream bounded by grassy banks ager from Pennsylvania teams up with ensnare him. Buying ranching acres on a one-eyed mountain man in 1845 to JEFFREY P. HAVENS. Lewis and the Texas/New Mexico border, he sets stop a gang of cutthroats from starting Clark: Fraught with Difficulties, Volume One. out to put down roots. an Indian war that could turn Wyoming FWD-LLC. Trade paperback, 274 pages, into a bloody battleground. $24.95, FraughtWithDifficulties.com. JAMES T. HUGHES. Jasper Spring. Jeffrey Havens writes a version of the Dog Ear. Trade paperback, 397 pages, JIM JONES. The Big Empty. Five often-told story of Lewis and Clark’s $19.95, DogEarPublishing.net. Star. Hardcover, 262 pages, $25.95, expedition from the perspective of An uncommon boy-meets-dog story. Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar. . He covers that part A fragile marriage is given new life In 1886, 21-year-old Tommy Stallings of the journey to the mouth of the Mis- when an abused boy, Ray, enters a cou- must track down an outlaw band led souri River, leaving expectations of the ple’s homestead. Highly recommended by the vicious Jake Flynt. The author’s promised second volume completing the for readers who yearn for tales about efforts to mix humor and tender family journey. people to whom honor is sacred. moments with the perils and rigors of a manhunt work better sometimes than W. HOCK HOCHHEIM. Last of the GREG HUNT. The Carroll Farm others. But in Flynt is a magnificently Gunmen: A Johann Gunther Adventure. Fight. Five Star. Hardcover, 212 pages, malicious character that readers will Lauric. Trade paperback, eBook, 300 $25.95, Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar. hang and rattle to the end in the hopes pages, $18.95, LauricPress.com. On the surface, The Carroll Farm Fight of seeing the outlaw get his due. After the stock crash of 1907, there is a simple tale of survival set during is unrest in Fort Worth, Texas, as the Civil War in Missouri. However, C. COURTNEY JOYNER. Shotgun: desperate people try to recover. An through the eyes of Mel Carroll, it is The Bleeding Ground. Pinnacle. Mass- outlaw gang robs and murders men and a scathing indictment of the folly and market paperback, 346 pages, $6.99, women. Johann Gunther of Remedies futility of war, as well as a plea for the KensingtonBooks.com. Detective Agency and his partner, Jefe, sanctity of life. Dr. John Bishop, who lost an arm are hired to find the killers of a former to outlaws and has replaced it with a Louisiana judge and soon become in- MARK C. JACKSON. An Eye for an double-barrel 12-gauge, is back in an volved in a much larger adventure. Eye, Book One. Five Star. Hardcover, 210 entertaining sequel to Shotgun that’s just pages, $25.95, as much fun as the original. This time, DOUG HOCKING. Wildest West. Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar. Bishop is hired to help John Buckland Abbey. 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Hardcover, 224 National Park in 1903 falls for a poor 38 38 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE AUGUST 2017 college student from Bozeman who Trade paperback, eBook, $15.95, $9.99, romance highlight this action-filled works as a pastry chef. But the way to TachyonPublications.com. Western. love finds obstacles while Ramsey and This “Mosaic Novel” – various Carrie serve as tour guides for famous stories, some originals, some reprints MATTHEW P. MAYO. The Outfit: singer Louise LaMarque, offering us the – details how liberal Vietnam vet Hap To Hell and Back. Five Star. Hardcover, opportunity to see the park as it was. A Collins and black gay Republican 314 pages, $25.95, Gale.Cengage.com/ great read! Leonard Pine came to unite as the most FiveStar. unlikely Texas crime fighters since the Unjustly imprisoned Rafe Barr is CARLA KELLY. For This We Are Sol- Lone Ranger and Tonto. offered a full pardon if he can find diers. Sweetwater. Mass-market paper- where the daughter of the governor has back, 240 pages, $8.99, CedarFort.com. JOE R. LANSDALE and JOHN been held after being kidnapped. This In this collection of short stories and L. LANSDALE. Hell’s Bounty. Subter- one will keep you awake at night until novellas set on Western military instal- ranean. Hardcover, eBook, 192 pages, you’ve finished. lations in the late 1800s, the author $40, $6.99, SubterraneanPress.com. keeps the Indian Wars authentic, while A dynamite-wielding bounty hunter KEITH McCAFFERTY. Buffalo taking you behind Army lives into the named Smith meets his demise in the Jump Blues: A Sean Stranahan Mystery. hearts of men and women. town of Falling Rock, but the Devil Viking. Hardcover, 304 pages, $26, gives him a chance at redemption. PenguinRandomHouse.com. ROBERT KNOTT. Robert B. Parker’s Smith is sent back to the West to rid the Two young Indians have a plan Revelation. G.P. Putnam’s Sons. Hard- world of a crazed killer named Quill intended to bring attention to the buf- cover, 336 pages, $27, who has sold his soul to even worse dei- falo’s plight. Unfortunately, the plan PenguinRandomHouse.com. ties than Satan. A fantastic, fun-filled goes badly awry. The result is murder in Just when Appaloosa lawmen Virgil corruption of genres. Keith McCafferty’s latest Sean Strana- Cole and Everett Hitch think everything han mystery. Highly recommended. is peaceful, they learn of a prison break PAUL JOSEPH LEDERER. In Our that has liberated a number of convicts. Time. Five Star. Hardcover, 337 pages, D.M. McGOWAN. The Making of Cole and Hitch, along with every other $25.95, Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar. Jake McTavish. Strategic Book Publish- lawman in the area, are on their trail. Paul Lederer knows how to write ing. Trade paperback, 229 pages, $15, Be prepared for mucho graphic vio- characters. The three Adair teenagers, SBPRA.com. lence. full-blood Cherokees living near the Jake McTavish has been a loner since 1916 Indian town of Broken Post, want his wife was murdered, but when two JOE R. LANSDALE. Coco Butternut. a better life than their parents had. This thugs waylay him and kill his dog … Subterranean. Hardcover, 88 pages, $25, story is supposed to be about Indian well, McTavish is awakened – “and a SubterraneanPress.com. struggles. Instead, it’s a gripping charac- whole lot meaner.” D.M. McGowan Hap Collins and Leonard Pine take ter study. writes in such an easy-to-read style, on an easy case, to deliver cash and with attention to detail and some retrieve the kidnapped remains of Coco JD MARCH. The Stacked Deck. Five unexpected twists and turns. Butternut, a prize-winning dachshund Star. Hardcover, 324 pages, $25.95, stolen from a pet cemetery. But then Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar. ROBERT McKEE. Killing Blood. their client turns up dead and this This author dared to show the reader Five Star. Hardcover, 216 pages, $25.95, unlikely Texas crime-fighting duo takes the disagreeable side of the hero, if you Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar. off on another spirited and rollicking can call a young, despicable gunslinger Brothers Frank and Billy Young are mystery adventure. a hero. A well-written tale by someone riding the train across the Wyoming who obviously understands the harsh plains when a robbery brings everything JOE R. LANSDALE. Dead on the frontier life in the 1880s. to a halt. An exciting Western with lots Bones: Pulp on Fire. Subterranean. Hard- of action, fine characters, a touch of cover, 296 pages, $40, L.J. MARTIN. West of the War. romance and even some philosophizing. SubterraneanPress.com. Wolfpack. Trade paperback, eBook, 342 The prolific master of multiple genres pages, $9.69, $2.99, LINDSAY McKENNA. Wind River pays tribute to the pulp writers that WolfpackPublishing.com. Wrangler. Zebra. Mass-market paper- influenced his formative years. Even if The teenage son of a prosperous back, 327 pages, $7.99, you don’t like pulp fiction with a liter- slave-owning family in Missouri gets KensingtonBooks.com. ary edge, Lansdale’s essay on pulps is caught up in the Civil War when his A love story between a best-selling worth reading. father is lynched by Unionists. After romance writer, Shiloh Gallagher, and a brief stint in the Confederate army, a black ops ranger, Roan Taggart, who JOE R. LANSDALE. Hap and he heads west. Gunfights, Indians, a works as a wrangler on a Wyoming Leonard: Blood and Lemonade. Tachyon. steamboat explosion and an interracial AUGUST 2017 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE 39 39 ranch, to which Shiloh comes from ranch in Wyoming, but he scorns his DEAN HALLIDAY SMITH. The New York City to escape a stalker. wealth. He has closed himself off since Wastage. Rowe. Trade paperback, 580 his fiancée left him years ago, so he’s pages, $20, RowePub.com. GINA L. MULLIGAN. From Across shocked when he allows Meredith Gray- Informative history of the Civil War the Room. Five Star. Hardcover, ling to stay with him. Bestselling author era, but too many story lines and head- 271 pages, $25.95, Diana Palmer continues the “Wyoming jumping from character to character Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar. Men” series. make this difficult to follow. An elegant Victorian tale, told in elegant Victorian prose. A struggling ANN PARKER. What Gold Buys. Poi- JOANNE SUNDELL. Arctic Will: writer of fiction falls head over heels soned Pen. Hardcover, trade paperback, Watch Eyes Trilogy, Book Three. Five Star. in love with a proper society damsel large print, eBook, 412 pages, 576 pages, Hardcover, 319 pages, $25.95, with the required Victorian dignity and $26.95, $15.95, $23.95, $9.99, Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar. modesty. PoisonedPenPress.com. Alaska in the first decade of the 20th When a young “newsie’s” mother, a Century is an unforgiving land, espe- JOHN D. NESBITT. Destiny at Dry soothsayer named Drina, is strangled in cially for a team of Chukchi sled dogs Camp. Five Star. Hardcover, 253 pages, their Leadville, Colorado, hut, only Inez and their human “guardians,” Anya and $25.95, Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar. Stannert seems caring enough to help Rune. The struggle of humans and hus- Young cowboy Whit Barnett be- the child find the woman’s body, which kies plays out against the backdrop of friends a drifting cowboy, J.R. Dunbar, has mysteriously disappeared. Ann the brutal All Alaska Sweepstakes Race. who has ridden into the area looking Parker’s historical depiction of daily life for work. The story moves quickly once in the 1880s is spot on. WALLACE J. SWENSON. Laramie: Dunbar clashes with the ranch foreman, Journey to the White Clouds. Five Star. a man named Kelso, your worst night- MATT PRESCOTT. The Hardcover, 360 pages, $25.95, mare of a supervisor. Then, a suspicious Cincinnati. Tortuga. Trade paperback, Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar. death of an old cowhand with a secret eBook, 258 pages, $14.95, $2.99, In the fourth of the “Journey to the compels Dunbar to get to the bottom of Amazon.com. White Clouds” series, young Simon the mystery. Cincinnati’s trail crosses that of Em- Steele and Buell Mace find themselves brey Denman, a man who needs to get at Fort Laramie and take jobs at a KELLY OLIVER. Coyote: A Jessica a lot of money to Missoula, Montana. nearby roadhouse where each, in his James Mystery. Kaos. Trade paperback, He hires Cincinnati for protection. The own way, contributes to the success of eBook, 323 pages, $15.99, $1.99, story does move along quite well, is the place while attempting to sort out KaosPress.com. easy to read and enjoyably paced. their own lives and futures. Corruption and greed run rampant on the Montana plains, not unusual in the S.K. SALZER. Frontier: Powder River. MIKE THOMPSON. The Turbulent quest for oil. Murder, drugs and human Pinnacle. Mass-market paperback, 326 Trail. Five Star. Hardcover. 288 pages, trafficking are not far behind, spread- pages, $6.99, KensingtonBooks.com. $25.95, Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar. ing from the oil fields to the Blackfeet Dr. Daniel Dixon, embittered by the No matter what he does, Charlie Reservation. loss of his wife in childbirth, moves with Deegan keeps getting into trouble. No his high-spirited young twins to Johnson matter what kind of trouble, Charlie DAVID OSBORNE. Carly’s Revenge: County, Wyoming, to start anew. He Deegan’s guardian angel pulls him out A Carly Barton Novel. Five Star. Hard- quickly learns that he has landed in the of it. Great entertainment! cover, 226 pages, $25.95, midst of a savage range war, and few Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar. men – neighboring ranchers and lawmen BEN TYLER. Mabry’s Challenge. Aided by a drunken famous gun- alike – are to be trusted. 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The adventures they encounter as Harlequin.com. her people are destroyed by Spanish, they pursue the outlaws will keep you in Ren Colter may own an enormous Mexican and American invaders. suspense.

40 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE AUGUST 2017 JULIE WESTON. Basque Moon: A One of a series retelling Arthurian TRAPPINGS (from page 24) Nellie Burns and Mystery. Five legends, the author says The Grub Rider Star. Hardcover, 250 pages, $25.95, is the story of Sir Gareth. Wanting to each year. In addition to visual artists Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar. become a “Keystone Rider” (Knight and sculptors, the exhibition presents Basque sheepherders play a promi- of the Roundtable?), Gabe (Gareth) the work of saddlemakers, engrav- nent role in this interesting mystery serves in the ranch-house kitchen for a ers, luthiers and the makers of bits, novel set in 1923 Idaho. An intricate, year before rancher “Art” sends him to spurs, knives, hats and boots. There are well-told story. rescue the sister of a woman who came examples of hitched horsehair, braided asking his help. rawhide and tooled leather. The artistry ALETHEA WILLIAMS. Náápiikoan and craftsmanship of the new work on Winter. CreateSpace. Trade paperback, MICHAEL ZIMMER. Billy Pinto’s display attracts high-end collectors. 286 pages, $19.95, Amazon.com. War. Five Star. Hardcover, 231 pages, The key phrase here is “new work,” In this work of historical fiction, the $25.95, Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar. says Linda Stedman, curator of the ex- author tells of the abduction of a young When Billy Pinto, a young half-blood hibition. “The entries must be produced Mexican girl who is kidnapped by the , sees the men who raped within the last 12 months.” Stedman Apaches, then stolen, sold or traded and murdered his mother set free, he has been involved with the exhibition through the years. Yet she does not try retaliates by ambushing the killers and since 1988. She manages all aspects of to escape, and finally earns a place of kidnapping the judge’s granddaughter. the event. She is particularly proud of importance with the Piika´ni tribe. That sets in motion a manhunt that the educational component of the Dry only makes it more difficult for the Creek Arts Fellowship. JERRY WILSON. Across the Cimar- county sheriff to track down the kid- In a special partnership with the ron. Mongrel Empire. Trade paperback, napper and rescue the girl. Cancer Centers of Northern Arizona, 213 pages, $18, MongrelEmpirePress. the Dry Creek Arts Fellowship presents org. MICHAEL ZIMMER. Charlie Red. the Expressive Arts Discovery Program Set primarily atop a chicken coop Five Star. Hardcover, 238 pages, $25.95, that is devoted to “promoting healing floating down the flooded Cimarron Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar. through free artistic workshops.” Since River, the novel flashes back to the 1892 Book Five in the “American Legends 2005, more than 200 cancer patients, land rush into and Collection” – a series so well-crafted “in various stages of treatment and land in Indian Territory and the subse- some readers actually believe the recovery,” have participated in work- quent six-plus decades in the lives of a author’s premise that the books come shops covering such art forms as poetry, young couple that homesteaded there. from a depression-era oral history proj- printmaking, glassblowing, music ap- ect – Charlie Red is the tale of an express preciation and bronze sculpture. CALLAN WINK. Dog Run Moon. company shotgun guard on the trail of Throughout its history, the exhibition Dial. Hardcover, 256 pages, $26, stolen payroll money. has been held in various locations. This PenguinRandomHouse.com. year, the Museum of Northern Arizona An impressive debut collection of MICHAEL ZIMMER. The Rusted will be the host. Admission is $12 for contemporary stories set mostly in Sun. Five Star. Hardcover, 270 pages, adults and $8 for students (with ID), Wyoming and Montana. The nine $25.95, Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar. American Indians (with tribal affilia- stories are told with humor and a keen A sick and wounded man kills two tion) and youth (10–17). Admittance is understanding of the human psyche. opponents in a gunfight in an isolated free for children younger than 10, and town, then comes back to town to MNA and DCAR members. ETHAN J. WOLFE. All The Queen’s clear his name and finds himself in the September in Flagstaff is a month of Men. Five Star. Hardcover, 281 pages, middle of the war. Another good read. the year that the tourism bureau doesn’t $25.95, Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar. tout. It’s a month for the locals to enjoy. President Arthur requires the as- Reviews and listings The days are warm and beautiful and the nights are cool. Kids are back in sistance of Murphy, no first name, and To submit a book for possible school, and there’s no snow on the gives us Book Three of the Regulator review, mail one copy to Editor, nearby San Francisco Peaks. So, it’s a Series. His charge: to find, apprehend, Roundup Magazine, 10 Dovela good time to visit Flagstaff and explore and shut down an operation of rustlers Road, Santa Fe, NM 87508 as soon the Museum of Northern Arizona and that is threatening the U.S. economy. as available. Professional advance the Trappings of the American West. reading copies are also accepted. Who knows what art may again JAMES C. WORK. The Grub Rider: In the Chute is an advance listing beget? A Keystone Ranch Story. Five Star. Hard- of forthcoming books. Information Information: Museum of Northern cover, 286 pages, $25.95, should be emailed to roundup- Arizona: Musnaz.org; Trappings of the Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar. [email protected] at least six months American West: DryCreekArts.com. before publication.

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