This beautiful hardcover is chock-full of maps, memorabilia, archival photos (300 in all), summaries of Western TV shows, and movie reviews, all spanning 100 years of one of the most exciting periods in American history. It includes 12 favorite cowboy recipes from the chuckwagon, plus the history o[...]

John Wayne is the most iconic cowboy actor of all time. His style brought to life a whole troupe of western characters, from rancher to cowboy to sheriff to scout. During his long career--in which he starred in over 175 films--Wayne's work became fundamental to our understanding of the Old West. But[...]

Dusty road shoot outs, roaming buffalo, bar brawls, gold, tragedy and genocide, damsels in distress, and cowboys riding off into the sunset--the taming of the Western frontier is one of the most colorful and fascinating periods of American history. In this beautifully illustrated and comprehensive b[...]

"The Hatfields and the McCoys" explores, with vibrant illustration, the historic feud between two iconic American families that ran for nearly three decades between 1863 and 1891. On the heels of the popular History Channel miniseries starring Kevin Costner, Bruce Wexler brings this chapter of Ameri[...]

Louis L'Amour, one of American's most beloved Western writers, wrote over 100 novels in a thirty-year career. With over 100 million books sold, he is one of the most popular writers ever to put pen to paper. His novels were written in a clean flowing style and featured highly detailed Western settin[...]

Explores the social implications of the close and changing neurobiological relationship between the individual and the environment, focusing on the difficulties individuals face in adulthood when the environment changes beyond their ability to maintain the fit between existing internal structure and[...]