Voice in the American West

It is the confluence of differences, in its lands and peoples, that forms the American West. The book series Voice in the American West seeks the headwaters from which the West arises, its stories in first person and in every iteration of voice, in images as well as words, in line and color as well as sound and speech.
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Small Town Author
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9781682832547
Pub Date: May 2025
More than fifty years ago, John R. Erickson took a vow of discipline. Every day, he would retreat to some quiet place and write for four hours. For nearly as many years, readers have eagerly awaited...
Texas Red
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9781682832257
Pub Date: November 2024
An essential Western autobiography of America's most beloved cowboy poet.
Bad Smoke, Good Smoke
A Texas Rancher's View of Wildfire
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 9781682832417
Pub Date: August 2024
From his home on the Texas Panhandle, John R. Erickson, rancher and author of the bestselling Hank the Cowdog series, saw firsthand the raw power of two megafires that swept across the high plains in...
On Becoming Apache
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781682830598
Pub Date: April 2020
A spiraling exploration of Apache life, mythology, and identity
Light in the Trees
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780896729520
Pub Date: January 2015
A memoir of home, nature, and change in the American West, Light in the Trees makes cultural and environmental topics personal through a narrator’s travels between past and present, rural and urban....
Ordinary Skin
Essays from Willow Springs
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781682830062
Pub Date: July 2017
Amy Hale Auker's first book of essays, Rightful Place, was the story of a woman finding beauty in her place, the Llano Estacado. Her new collection of creative non-fiction, Ordinary Skin, explores her mid-life transition with prose poems and essays that illustrate a new terrain as well as new ways of being in the world.
Touching on faith and body image and belonging, these essays explore our role in deciding what is favorable or unfavorable, as well as where we some day want to dwell, and who came before us. In that touching, they feel their way with observations about current affairs, drought, mystery, and the hard decisions that face us all as we continue to move toward more questions with fewer answers. This exploration is informed and softened by hummingbirds, Gila monsters, bats, foxes, bears, wildflowers, and hidden seep springs where life goes on whether we are there to see...
Rightful Place
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9780896728875
Pub Date: August 2014
From the Texas panhandle to the mountains of Arizona, Amy Auker has lived the cowboy life—as wife, as mother, as cook, as ranch hand, as writer. In fine-grained detail she captures the prairie light,...
If I Was a Highway
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 9781682830109
Pub Date: July 2017
Michael Ventura owned only one car his entire life: a green ’69 Chevy Malibu. Its wheels have crisscrossed the American landscape over more miles than a round trip to the moon. From Times Square...
In My Father’s House
A Memoir of Polygamy
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9780896726468
Pub Date: January 2009
Before Big Love, before Eldorado, a groundbreaking memoir explored polygamy, not with outrage but with honesty and grace. In 1984, when polygamous groups knew little but the fear and pain of secrecy and hiding, Dorothy Allred Solomon, the twenty-eighth of forty-eight children, went public with her family’s story. Descended from five generations of Mormon polygamy, Solomon evokes the fervor and dedication that bound the Allreds to “living the Principle.” She vividly renders the persecution and poverty she knew as a child, the joyous awe of a father’s too-rare presence, and an abiding hunger for autonomy. Confronting the paradox of a faith that seals loved ones as families for eternity but casts them as outlaws in the here and now, she traces the events that culminated in her father’s 1977 assassination, a tragedy that rocked all Utah. Now, more than a quarter century later, Solomon revisits her story in a new...
The Hell-Bound Train
A Cowboy Songbook, Second Edition
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780896729629
Pub Date: October 2016
Glenn Ohrlin (1926-2015) was a cowboy singer, working cowboy, rodeo rider, storyteller, and illustrator. In The Hell-Bound Train he has gathered dozens of his favorite songs, which chronicle the range and rodeo life he lived. Ohrlin was known for singing in an unornamented Western style, accompanying himself on the guitar and harmonica. Most of his repertoire comes from the period of 1875 to 1925. The book includes music and lyrics for songs such as "My Home's in Montana," "The Texas Rangers," and "Bull Riders in the Sky," along with Ohrlin's commentary on each work's provenance and meaning. This collection is a must-have for any fan of cowboy and folk music.

Small Town Author
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9781682832547
Pub Date: May 2025
Texas Red
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9781682832257
Pub Date: November 2024
Bad Smoke, Good Smoke
A Texas Rancher's View of Wildfire
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 9781682832417
Pub Date: August 2024
On Becoming Apache
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781682830598
Pub Date: April 2020
Light in the Trees
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780896729520
Pub Date: January 2015
Ordinary Skin
Essays from Willow Springs
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781682830062
Pub Date: July 2017
Rightful Place
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9780896728875
Pub Date: August 2014
If I Was a Highway
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 9781682830109
Pub Date: July 2017
In My Father’s House
A Memoir of Polygamy
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9780896726468
Pub Date: January 2009
The Hell-Bound Train
A Cowboy Songbook, Second Edition
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780896729629
Pub Date: October 2016