book review

Springtime and summer beckons nature lovers with a wide range of activities including hiking, birdwatching, and horseback riding.  Some combine birdwatching with hiking and horseback riding.  According to a variety of national news outlets, birdwatching has taken flight as America’s number one hobby.  All bird watchers need is an inexpensive pair of binoculars and a...

Meghan Callahan was just like most girls her age.  She enjoyed being outdoors, spending time with her friends, and, most of all, horseback riding. Her parents lovingly noted that she was “horse crazy.”  Horses offered a whole new view of the world and Meghan wanted that.  She becomes a confident rider on the back of...

Grilling and Campfire Cooking from the Everyday Cookbook Collection by Jo Ann Martin and Vickie Hutchins (Gooseberry Patch Publishers). Cowgirls working their ranch or traveling from rodeo to rodeo in their campers and having to come up with tasty meals on the fly will appreciate the new book Grilling and Campfire Cooking by Jo Ann Martin...

Horseback Riding in Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks by Dana P. Damron (SweetGrass). The scenery of Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks is indescribably gorgeous, and one of the best ways to enjoy the extraordinarily varied scenery of both primeval reserves is on the back of a horse. Author and equestrian Dana P. Damron shares his...

Iron Women: The Ladies Who Helped Build the RailroadBy Chris Enss (TwoDot). When the last spike was hammered into the steel track of the Transcontinental Railroad on May 10, 1869, at Promontory Point, Utah, Western Union lines sounded the glorious news of the railroad’s completion from New York to San Francisco.  For more than five...

With Taylor Sheridan, Ed Ruscha and Josh Brolin... Sam Shepard —actor, director, and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright — lived and loved in New Mexico.  This new, hand-numbered, 2000-copy limited edition collects personal Sam stories of cruising Shiprock with a date in his ‘40 Ford, reminiscing at his dad’s Bernalillo cabin, drinking at the Pink Adobe, and...

Two-time Spur Award winning author C.K. Crigger delivers a compelling, action-packed romance with her new title, The Yeggman’s Apprentice. First, a definition: A “yeggman” is a burglar, specifically a person who breaks into safes.  In Crigger’s book, set in the early 20th Century, the yeggman’s apprentice is a young woman.  Wilkie (Wilhelmina) Van Slyke is...

There’s nothing like a good mystery, especially when it involves a wild mustang.  Desert Dust is a fascinating whodunnit that begins with a well-known photograph of a palomino stallion taken in Wyoming in 1945.  Las Vegas Police Investigator R. J. Gillian became acquainted with the famous image of the horse, Desert Dust, as a child...