cowgirl books

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...

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...

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...

Reminiscent of nineteenth-century British explorer Isabella Bird’s trek up Longs Peak in the Rocky Mountains with mountain man Jim Nugent, A View Most Glorious is the story of a strong-willed woman named Coraline Baxter and her determination to climb Mount Rainier to raise awareness for the suffrage movement in the late 1890s.  She needs help...

Journalist and magazine editor Darla Worden’s book covers Nobel Prize winner Ernest Hemingway, arguably the most influential American writer of his generation, and his time in Wyoming with his second wife Pauline Pfeiffer.  This is a stirring story that not only highlights an aspect of the famous novelist’s private life, but acts as travelogue through...

Raid of Souls by Kalen Vaughan Johnson is the riveting tale of a few dedicated, hardworking miners in northern California fighting against greedy, unscrupulous landowners hell-bent on destroying a town to get rich.  James MacLaren, one of the town’s leading citizens, is an honest man who wants to stop a corrupt finance network from getting...

There are those across the country that work in acres, not in hours.  And they believe farming is not merely an occupation or a job, but a tradition, a heritage.  Those farmers also know these days consumers are watching how they raise the food we eat.  They are keenly aware that customers want affordable food...