Cowboy Concertina

$25.00

Real Singing Cowboys

$16.95

One Hundred Poems

$24.95

Family of the Land

$29.95

Won the Wrangler Award for best photography book in 2013
from  the
National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum

True West Magazine chose it as the best
Cowboy Photography Book in 2013

Settlers of the Western Woods

$26.00

American Legend:
The Real-Life Adventures of
David Crockett

$25.95

Since he first dreamed of a career in photography,
Guy Gillette has traveled regularly to his wife’s family’s ranch,
located outside the small town of Crockett, Texas.
When Gillette first came to the Porter Place,
as the ranch has always been known, he began to photograph
the Porter family and their land. Thanks to Gillette’s sense
of composition, these wonderful black-and-white photographs,
dating from the 1940s, led to his career as a magazine photographer.
Collected here for the first time, they document small-town
life in East Texas, where Guy Gillette’s sons, the musical duo
the Gillette Brothers, still run cattle. A Family of the Land
offers a portrait of a community over a half century during which
remarkably little has changed.

Settlers of the Western Woods

 What most baby boomers know about the legendary frontier figure David “Davy” Crockett has been gleaned from the Walt Disney movie and television series starring Fess Parker. In American Legend: The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett, WSU English professor Buddy Levy presents a fuller profile of the man who made Tennessee famous in the early 1800s. It’s not just a master heroic outdoorsman who emerges; the consummate politician and ferocious fighter for underdog causes shines through as well.

Born August 17, 1786, Davy Crockett found his independent spirit and developed his frontier skills on the open road at the age of 14, when he ran away from home for two years. It was a scenario that repeated itself over the course of his lifetime, as Crockett went from adventure to adventure—on the rugged frontier, into the hallowed halls of the U.S. House of Representatives, and to his death at the Alamo on March 6, 1836.

This may be the definitive story of Crockett’s life, more so than Crockett’s own 1834 autobiography, in which he capitalized on his own pop-culture hero status rampant at the time. Levy has obviously researched every inch of Crockett’s life but is careful he doesn’t let myth overpower the truth, even though it’s obvious Levy admires his subject.

Still, American Legend is not without its dramatic moments. Crockett’s killing of a 600-pound black bear depicted on page 109 is as thrilling as any fictionalized adventure story.

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