Books

Award-winning journalist and author Sebring Davis and celebrated photographer Audrey Hall have combined their talents to create an exquisite pictorial that features homes designed by JLF Architects entitled Foundations.  JLF Architects was founded more than forty years ago and is based in Bozeman, Montana, and Jackson, Wyoming.  The homes showcased in Foundations are in both...

Dude ranches in America have been growing in popularity for decades. Lured by superb mountain or desert settings, clear, sparkling air, and a gloriously varied round of outdoor activities, hundreds of thousands of tourists every year decide to spend time at charming dude ranches across the West. The history of such vacation destinations is the...

Fort Worth is known as the city of cowboys and culture.  It’s the 12th largest city in the United States and one of the most popular tourist destinations in Texas.  According to many historians, Fort Worth is where the West began, and the Fort Worth Stockyards is the embodiment of that Western heritage.  Author J’Nell...

Back in March, Dolly Parton released a new album to coincide with a new book by James Patterson and herself. You can read more about the release here!  The new book has an audiobook attached. Not only will you be able to hear Dolly Parton read, but Kelsea Ballerini joins in to tell the story,...

In Along Came a Cowgirl: Daring and Iconic Women of the Rodeo and Wild West Shows, New York Times best-selling author Chris Enss introduces readers to the world of the early rodeo—and to the stories of the women whose names resounded in rodeo arenas across the nation in the early twentieth century.  These cowgirls dared...

Surveys show that riders over the age of 40 are the fastest-growing segment of the horse world, with those 65 and above seeing the biggest jump.  Since “60 is the new 40,” finding women in their 70s sitting in the saddle is almost routine. There are dozens of books, magazines, websites, and videos about horse training...

Since becoming sheriff of the quaint town of Dry Creek, California, in the early 1870s, Maude Overstreet strived to keep citizens safe and maintain order in her own quirky, but effective way. In the newest novel about the unique and less than graceful public official entitled Lady of the Law, Sheriff Overstreet finds herself on the...

All the world remembers Charlie Russell, Montana’s cowboy artist, who died in 1926 at the height of his career, but only a few remember his wife Nancy Cooper Russell. Russell married Nancy in 1896. He was half cowboy, half artist. He had achieved a local reputation for his drawings but had not dreamed of his possibilities.  Nancy became...