Our public schools traditionally spend little time and effort on either Canadian or Mexican history. Why is that? Consequently, Americans are mostly ignorant of the Mexican Revolution of 1913-14....

Most Americans have probably heard of the African-American cavalry troop or soldiers known as "Buffalo" soldiers and, perhaps having seen black cowboys in the movies and TV, assume some...

The cattle trail era only lasted a couple of decades beginning in 1866. End of the trail cow towns such as Abilene, Dodge City, Wichita, the stern trail...

Rebecca Conyers is homebound on a train headed for Texas after a visit with her aunt, when two cowboys begin harassing her, but lucky for her Tom Whitman comes...

Ever since The Virginian was published in 1903, the character contrast of the cowboy and the schoolmarm have been a popular and effective "western" plot formula. Ditto for male...

No, this is not a novel about our troops fighting Al Qaeda and Taliban in Afghanistan. Many readers might not be aware that the United States is only...

In this gun cracking, galloping "quest" or "road" western set around Arizona in 1888, seventeen-year -old Easterner and "greenhorn" Elizabeth DuBonnet journeys West in search of her mother...

The "Mountain Man" West has always been a popular subgenre with boys from the middle 19th century dime novels to the present. The attractions are obvious: action, adventure,...

The unique characteristic of the "Animal stories" genre is that main character is usually an animal. For their authors, the literary challenge is to win over the human reader...

It's 1822, eighteen-year-old Eastern farm boy, Sam Morgan, lights out west for St. Louis. He joins up with a fur brigade going up the Missouri River. Young...