The Women of Crooked Creek: A Western Short Story Collection by MK McClintock offers a new way of telling stories about the Old West - Crooked Creek, Montana Territory in this case. Each short story builds upon the one before it or sets the stage...

Nineteen-year-old Arianna Quincy feels like it's time for her to leave the farm where she was raised with seven other siblings. She doesn't want to be a farmer's wife, or anyone's wife for that matter. Instead, she wants to get a job and decides that...

“You never know what may prevail around each bend of a Twisted Trail” - James Huble. An apt quote for the author’s book, Twisted Trails: A Collection of 18 Western Short Stories, Each With a “Twist.” In Rio del Oro - “You swim in river,...

And the Wind Whispered by Dan Jorgensen contains several scenes that are so exciting that they become almost impossible to put down. The discovery of a dead man’s body in a cave by a trio of young reporters gets the ball rolling. Later there is...

What a sensational book Black Indian, Red Heart (White Justice) is in telling the story of the events leading up to and including the Indian War of 1862. The main characters that I couldn’t help but cheer on and root for are the Indians....

Dud Washburn has reached that point in life where each day is the same as the one that came before it. Between cattle drives and womanizing, Washburn just doesn't see much of a future. However, when a chance find of an old map suggests treasure,...

They Rode Together: The Landon Saga, Book 7 is a historical western written by Tell Cotten. Sheriff Rondo Landon is losing his position in Empty-lake in light of his friendship with Lee Mattingly and failure to apprehend the gunfighter after his and Brian Clark's killing...

Peril By Ponytail (Bad Hair Day Mysteries) by Nancy J Cohen is a murder mystery. Marla and Dalton have gone on their honeymoon, but not to the sun kissed beach that Marla was hoping for. Instead, they are on a dude ranch in Arizona, owned...

An Ill Wind by James P. Hanley is a really good western fiction. As An Ill Wind opens, we find ourselves in Planting, Kansas, and meet Sheriff Luke Atwell. Planting is a typical western town and we are immediately drawn in as we are introduced...

In Against the Wild Green Range by Paul F. Murray, 22-year-old Alexia Rourke inherited the family ranch after her father's passing and she was determined to keep it running. However, a lot was not going well and the strain of keeping it all together was...