Book Chase

  Cormac McCarthy is said to be one of the best authors ever produced in America, and Blood Meridian is said to be his finest novel. The man...

 I first read Elmer Kelton’s Stand Proud  sometime back in the eighties,  and that was plenty long enough ago for this re-read to feel like ...

  Sandra Dallas is known for her historical fiction about the ordinary people who chose to make new lives for themselves in northwest Americ...

  Union officer John Chenneville suffered a terrible head wound shortly before the end of the Civil War, and he remains in a Virginia hospit...

  Set primarily in the 1870s and 1880s, Kathleen Grissom's novel Crow Mary is a fictionalized look at the very real Cypress Hills Massac...

Clip from an Elmore Leonard Youtube Video Elmore Leonard is best known for his crime novels, several of which were made into successful Holl...

I only discovered Thomas Berger’s 1964 novel Little Big Man after watching its 1970 movie version starring Dustin Hoffman in the title role....

As it turns out, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, who was a thirty-one-year-old English teacher at the time, struck literary gold in 1940 with the ...

I particularly enjoy reading history books that manage to put a more human face on figures from the past, books that offer the reader more t...

Even today, it’s hard to avoid the names Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid when traveling around the Utah, Wyoming, South Dakota area like ...

David Fisher’s Legends & Lies: The Real West, an oversized book of 285 pages of text and historical photos, was published in 2015 as a c...

I have now re-read Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove two times since first discovering it in a Houston B. Dalton bookstore shortly after it wa...

Three summers ago, a friend with longtime family ties to Wyoming suggested that we visit Fort Phil Kearney while I was wandering around that...

Elmer Kelton was really something. Born on one ranch in 1926, and growing up on a different   one, Kelton had plenty of time to observe the ...