Buddies in the Saddle

This is a darn curious book. I really had to force my way through parts of it, and then other parts just took off like fireworks. Part of th...

Just in time for Halloween: a Shirley Jackson story, "The Bus" from The Saturday Evening Post.

Today’s post may seem off topic, but I’m making a cowboy-up effort here to corral it in. Waiting to get around to a couple of James Reasoner...

I had a birthday this week. Following the example of Charles Gramlich, I decided to consider the past year in terms of the books I’ve read. ...

The Western Literature Association has been meeting over in Prescott, Arizona. Some among this group of scholars have been happily reinventi...

I’ve read more of Black Cowboys of Texas , which I discussed in the last post . This time, I read through the middle section, “Cowboys and t...

Ever since reading David Cranmer’s terrific story “ Miles to Go ,” I’ve been wanting to visit this topic. It’s a little off the main trail f...