Western-Specific Online Bookstore Presents Unique Nonfiction Titles

WritersWest.com has been designed to increase the visibility of books about the American West, especially those that aren't always found in traditional bookstores.

"I launched this Web site in 2003, " says K Cheatham, manager and web designer of Writers West (W2). "It is intended as an additional outlet for authors from small presses and those who have remaindered books and back-list titles. While many of the titles are fiction, Writers West also provides book lovers and researchers with many unique nonfiction titles. Most of them are autographed, too."

Recent nonfiction titles include Terry Halden's comprehensive book Ghost Towns and Mining Districts of Montana (2008), and the informative biographical data by Nancy M. Peterson's Walking in Two Worlds: Mixed-Blood Indian Women Seeking Their Path (2007). Peterson's other three books about western rivers (People of the Moonshell, People of the Old Missury, People of the Troubled Water) and the people who traveled and settled along them have won considerable praise. "It is a contribution to western literature, in that it concentrates on character more than events," wrote a Western American Literature reviewer. Yet it is hard to find Ms. Peterson's titles anywhere except at Writers West.

Some books are notables in their field, such. Ellen Gray Massey's Spur Finalist biography A Candle Within Her Soul, and Spur Finalist, Dennis Banks: Native American Activist, by Cheatham.

Detailed western history can be found in the two-volume set Sheridan County Kansas: A History Of Faith And Labor, edited by Charlotte Hinger. Two how-to books on the traditional western art of hitching horsehair, by award winning artisans Shoni and Ron Maulding, present another dimension at the site.

Bill Markley's Dakota Epic: Experiences Of A Reenactor During The Filming Of Dances With Wolves, Fran Armstrong's My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys and Sandra and William L. McGee's The Divorce Seekers: A Photo Memoir of a Nevada Dude Wrangler, all present 20th century information. The McGee title was highlighted in a Library Journal review: "...a fascinating social document spangled with many of the period's socialites and movie stars at their most vulnerable."

The W2 site also offers choice lightly-used books with themes exploring the 19th Century fur trade to contemporary issues of American Indian rights and land usage. Some of these are collectibles by such authors as Richard Erdoes, Wayne Gard and Vine Deloria, Jr. Several rare titles are available. (Traveler's Hand Book to Southern California, circa 1898; Warriors of the Rainbow: Strange and Prophetic Dreams of the Indian Peoples, with full-color artwork). And the site has single-copy library-bound children's books on western history.

"I search for books at estate sales and don't get books from distributors or publishers' remainder sales," says Cheatham. "Because of this, these titles are one-of-a-kind at Writers West."

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