For those who love the Western genre, there is no shortage of thrilling adventures to dive into. From classic tales of cowboys and outlaws to modern takes on the genre, there is something for everyone ...
Stacey Lee's YA novel Under a Painted Sky showcases the danger and the beauty of life on the Oregon Trail for a Chinese-American girl and a runaway slave. After a tragic accident forces them to go on ...
True Grit meets Yentl in Larison’s evocative debut, Whiskey When We're Dry. In the post-Civil War West, 17-year-old Jessilyn Harney’s father dies, leaving their financially strapped homestead in her ...
In the 19th century, an estimated one in four cowboys were Black, but you’d never know from reading and watching western books and films. This canon has served as an act of cinematic and literary ...
The “Moby Dick” of Western novels, and the source material for one of the most famous television miniseries of all time, Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic offers something for everyone.
EDUCATION BEFORE VERDUN — Arnold Zweig—Viking ($2.50). Eight years ago U. S. readers were mostly unaware that the late great German Army had been made up of human beings. To the few that read it, a ...