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“In Search of the Night Herder,” TEXAS MONTHLY, June 2025
100 Western Women: The Bold, Brave, Gutsy Women of Arizona’s Past
100 Western Women: The Bold, Brave, Gutsy Women of Arizona’s Past
A Biography of a Mountain: The Making and Meaning of Mount Rushmore
A Home for Steamboat
Across the Crying Sands, Book 1 of The Women of Cannon Beach
Adventures of a Wild Heart
Anouk Krantz: Across The Americas
As Cowboy As They Come
Badger Clark: Poetry Wrangler
Battle Mountain
Blood Touching Blood
BOLEY RIDES AGAIN: Can the Rodeo Save a Historic Black Town?
Brenn Hill – The West That Money Couldn’t Buy
BROKE
Buckoffs and Broken Barriers
Buffalo Daze: The Times and Life of Jim Grinder
Buffalo Justice
Burnin’ Vein
Cal Poly Break-A-Wave
Carrie Ingalls the Forgotten Sister
Carrie Ingalls The Forgotten Sister
Comancheria
Cowboy Camp Poems and other lessons of life
Cowboy Meditations
Cowboy Sutra
Cowboy’s Legacy
CUTOFF
Dark Winds – Episode 307: “T’áá Áłts’íísígo (Just A Small Piece)”
Deadwood
Destined To Ride Alone
Devouring Time
Drinking Wild Water
DUDLEY BROTHERS RANCH
EASTERN WESTERN
Eight Decades in the Saddle
Elkhorn: A Fine Welcome
EMBERS IN THE WIND
ETCHINGS
Family Life on the Ranch
Forbearance: Poems
Ghost of Charlie Glass
Halloween on the Butterfield Trail
Hell on Wheels
Hell On Women & Horses
Horseman Cowman and Cowboy: The Story of Buddy and Laurie Montes
Impresarios of the Rodeo Arena: The Story of the Beutler Stock Contracting Legacy
JOEL NELSON
Just Call Me Pardner
Keepers of the West
KILLING FAITH
KING RANCH FAMILY IN THEIR OWN WORDS
LAST TRAIN TO FORTUNE
Lasting Promise
Law for a Lawless Land: New Mexico Territory’s Federal Judiciary, 1846-1912
Living The West
Long Shadows
Love is a War Song
Mac Schweitzer: A Southwest Maverick and Her Art
Narrow the Road by James Wade
Never Curse the Rain (The Adventures of Wilder Good #9)
Never Dull!
Nice Job, Cowgirl (From the Film Nice Job, Cowgirl: The Judy Wagner Story)
Nice Job, Cowgirl: The Judy Wagner Story
One-Armed Bandit
Outriding The Devil
Penitence
Ponderin’s … Western Stories Wrangled In Rhyme
Rambling Cowgirl
RANCH LIFE CENTER AT NATIONAL RANCHING HERITAGE CENTER
Return to Sender
Riders In The Sky: Romancing the West with Music and Humor
RIO GRANDE VALLEY AND THE BORDER CULTURE
Roads & Barbwire
Rodeo Gypsy
Rodeo Live
RODEO MAN
Rope the Blue Moon
Santa Fe Trail: Chasing the Big West
Savage Malice
Shadow of the Solstice
Somewhere Green
Stolen Cattle, Bleeding Boarders & Texas Rangers
Stories We Didn’t Tell
Storm on the Mountain
Storm on the Mountain
Story Of The Hired Hand
T Posts and Hay
Texas
Texas Red
The Apache Kid: Army Apache Scout, The Apache Kid Chronicles, Volume One
The Business of Killing Indians
The Busy Little Bee That Dreamed of Being a Cowboy
The California Rose
The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West
The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild
The Handgame of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache: Spirited Competition on the Southern Plains
THE HARD RIDE
The Invisible Lariat
The Last Cows: On Ranching, Wonder, and a Woman’s Heart
The Last Rodeo
The Life and Times of Jim Bridger
The Lowdown: “Pilot” (101)
The Master, By Vicki Stavig
The Moccasin Speaks
The Reading Ranch: Cowboy Tom
The Reel Thrilling Events of Bank Robber Henry Starr: From Gentleman Bandit to Movie Star and Back Again
The Return of the Sacred Red Rock
The River Ghost
The Sharpshooter the Showman: May Lillie, Pawnee Bill and their Wild West Show
The Thunder Head
The Undiscovered Country: Triumph, Tragedy, and the Shaping of the American West
The War on Illahee
The Wretched and Undone
They Were Cowboys
TIMBER LANDS
Today’s Wild West – Episode 704
Tough Luck: A Novel
True Women, True West
When Montana Outraced the East: The Reign of Western Thoroughbreds 1886-1900
Who?
Will Rogers and His Great Inspiration