Best Reads (And They Aren't All Westerns)
Western writers share the books that most influenced their lives and craft.
By: TW Editors 07/01/2007
Sherry Monahan has just released Tombstone’s Treasures: Silver Mines & Golden Saloons from the University of New Mexico Press. Her other books include The Wicked West: Boozers, Cruisers, Gamblers and More; Taste of Tombstone, which won two Glyph Awards; and Pikes Peak: Adventurers, Communities & Lifestyles.
Solomon Spring
Michelle Black
Michelle tells a great suspense story linked to a natural spring held sacred for centuries because of its healing powers. Its focus on the Victorian era in the Old West is right up my alley!
A History of the Civil War
Benson J. Lossing
It’s the best book ever written about the Civil War, plus, it was passed down through by family. My Great, Great, Great Grandfather William Osgood, a Civil War veteran, bought this book for my Great Uncle Ken. Uncle Ken said his Grandfather told him it was the most accurate account of the war.
Our Deportment
John H. Young
This book, first published in 1881, is filled with Victorian etiquette, dress styles and manners.
Chesapeake
James Michener
When I read this 1978 book, following the history of a family that settled on the bay from the 17th-20th centuries, we had a house on the back bay in the Delmarva Peninsula. The history of the area and what it must have been like was captured so well in the book.
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie
The early 20th-century mystery, murder and mayhem in this 1934 book are awesome, as is that famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot! (I actually like all the books by Christie in which Poirot is the detective making use of his little grey cells.)
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