Books

Carli Jameson is the co-owner of a struggling horse training business who hopes winning a prestigious equestrian show will help gain clients.  She eagerly anticipates she and her horse Beau will do well in the competition and that her professional pursuits will improve.   Little did Carli know the day of the show Beau would...

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...

Photos by Audrey Hall Interview by Ross Ewald Photographer Audrey Hall and writer Chase Reynolds Ewald have published six Western lifestyle books together over the past 11 years. Here, they discuss their upcoming book Bison: Portrait of an Icon, the comeback story of an animal that was hunted to near extinction in the late 19th...

Hit the road Rachael Ray. There’s only room in this saddle bag for one cookbook and right now its Cowboy Cuisine: Beyond Biscuits and Beans. Award winning cowgirl poet, rancher, and cook Deanna Dickinson and cattle woman and master chef Gay Gardella have combined their talents to create a cookbook that delivers an array of diverse and...

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...

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...