Louis Otrega elevated his craft to collectable art and influenced a generation of gear makers. This is the most comprensive overview of his life, art, and career and the first book-length work on rawhide braiding in North America, charting changes in horse gear over five decades. Chuck Stormes and Don Reeves introduce readers to an itinerant cowboy who strove for a level of craftsmanship and artistry what the market expected- and to be the best in his field.

The Spurs of James J. Wheat
Pioneer Collector
by Bruce Bartlett

More than just a collection of awesome spur photographs, this book provides good information for spur aficionados and collectors. This is the collection of late West Texas oilman James J. Wheat of Loving County, a pioneer spur collector with the means for the best. The spur makers covered in this book range from the 1880 to some of the modern day craftsmen.
Hardback.

Cowboy Park
by John O. Baxter

A century ago, when Texas, New Mexico and Arizona outlawed steer roping contests, there was one place a southwestern roper could go to hone his skills; Cowboy Park, the arena established in Cuidad Juarez, Mexico, just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. During the formative years of Rodeo that preceded the first Calgary Stampede in 1912, Cowboy Park promoted the sport of steer roping and provided a ready training ground for up-and-coming champions. This is the story of that period of time along with photographs, many published for the first time
Hardback

Portrait of a Texas Ranch
by Wyman Meinzer and Henry Chappell

The famous 6666 Ranch of Texas is captured in Photography by Wyman Meinzer, the official Photographer of the State of Texas. Red Steagall says, "Wyman Meinzer and Henry Chappell take you on an unbelievable journey through the beauty, the grandeur and the drama of one of the most magnificent ranches on the planet".
This is a nice, big hardback book that you are sure to enjoy.

Tom Ryan and the Cowboys of the 6666 Ranch
by Susan Hallsten McGarry

This retrospective of works by Cowboy Artist, Tom Ryan. This is the largest grouping of Ryan's work ever gathered in one place. This book is a must for Tom Ryan fans. Paperback.

One Ranger A Memoir
BY H. Joaquin Jackson and David Marion Wilkinson

In this adventure-filled memoir, Joaquin Jackson recalls what it was like to be the Ranger who responded when riots threatened, violence erupted , and criminals needed to be brought to justice across a wide swath of the Texas-Mexico border from 1966 to 1993.Hardback

One Ranger Returns

By H. Joaquin Jackson with James L. Haley.

How to Make Cowboy Horse Gear
by Bruce Grant
Bridles, hackmores, reins, reatas, quirts, and riding crops are shown how to be made in this book. This book also features a special section on how to make a saddle. Paperback.

Leather Braiding
by Bruce Grant
This book has step by step instructions, detailed illustrations, and facinating information of leather braiding. This book is said to be the definitive book in this field. Paperback.

Encyclopedia of Rawhide and Leather Braiding
by Bruce Grant
Combing al the braiding from Leather Braiding and How to Make Cowboy Horse Gear Bruce Grant has also added over 200 pages and 350 illustrations to make this a book to be used as well as read. Hardback.

Braiding Fine Leather
by David W. Morgan
Techniques used are developed from Australian whipmaking shops. Shows step by step instuctions and illustrations to give you a close up look at braiding.Paperback.

Reinsman of the West
by Ed Connell
The California method of training horses from the hackmore to the spade bit. Paperback.

Knots, Hitches and Their Uses
by John Sharp
This book is directed primarily toward the horseman and packer in its portrayal of halters, packhorse hitches, foot ties, and bosal wraps and knots. Also includes help with tying up a boat, sewing on a button and tying a shoelace. Paperback.

The Art of Braiding- Revised Edition
Written & Illustrated by G. Hought
Has 4 new projects to get started with color illustrations with more tips and hints to get started braiding.

The Art of Braiding-Bosal I
Written & Illustrated by G. Hought
This book is designed to go with her previous books The Art of Braiding-The Basics. It is a very detailed and complete for braiding a basic working bosal.

Farm and Ranch Spanish
by George Kelly and Rex Kelly
Translations used in the ranching and farming industries. Paperback.

True Unity
by Tom Dorrance
A willing communication between horse and human by the man that inspired Ray Hunt. Hardback.

Lyons on Horses
by John Lyons
John Lyons' proven conditioned-response training program. Hardback.

The Man Who Listens to Horses
by Monty Roberts
Patient communication between horse and rider is the basis of Roberts's join-up theory. Hardback.

True HorsemanshipThrough Feel
by Bill Dorrance and Leslie Desmond
The legacy of Bill Dorrance in a step by step, how to guide. Paperback.

Saddles
by Russel H. Beatie
A handsome, definitive history book of the saddle. Hardback.

Cowboy Culture
by Michael Friedman
American antiques shown in over 700 color photos. Revised edition. Hardback.

Cowboy Bits and Spurs
by Joice Overton
Color photos of bits and spurs with values of each. Hardback.

Cowboy Spurs and Their Makers
by Jane Pattie
Lavishly illustrated spurs in black and white and full color plates with a list of makers, locations, and characteristics of each. Hardback.

The Cowboy at Work
All About His Job and How He Does It
by Fay E. Ward
Do you have questions about the difference between buckaroos and cowboys? The cows that roam the deserts and the ones in the forest? This book can answer those questions. Written by a cowboy of 40 years, with drawings to illustrate his point. Paperback.

Trail To Ogallala
by Benjamin Capps
From south Texas to Nebraska, a novel of he great cattle drive.

Monte Walsh
by Jack Schaefer
First published in 1963, Monte Walshwas later made into a motion picture. Tells a story of cattle drives, cowboys and cowtowns. Paperback.

Shane
by Jack Schaefer
Classic literature of the American West. First published in 1949 and made into a movie in 1953. Paperback.

Cowboys Who Rode Proudly
compiled and edited by Evetts Haley, Jr.
Stories of 27 different people who shaped our modern ranching methods. Hardback.

Trails Plowed Under
by Charles M. Russell
In his stories, sketches and paintings, Charlie Russell, gives a picture of the early days in Montana and Wyoming. A western classic continuously in print for over sixty years. Paperback.

Six Years with the Texas Rangers
by James B. Gillett
First published in 1921, this book contains Gillett's classic account of his six years of service with the Texas Rangers. Paperback.

The Texas Rangers: Images and Incidents
by John L. Davis
History of the Texas Rangers from the Texas colonists to present day Rangers. Paperback.

The Texas Rangers:A Century of Frontier Defense
by Walter Prescott Webb
A history of the Texas Ranger as the state became colonized and their undying desire to uphold the law and do good as they saw it.

Lambshead Before Interwoven
A Texas Range Chronicle 1848-1878
by Frances Mayhugh Holden
Drawing by John Guerin
Holden tells of earlier events in the area and recounts some episodes that were omitted from Interwoven. Hardback.

Through Time and the Valley
by John R. Erickson
Story of the Canadian river of Texas. Erickson and Bill Ellzey rode the 140 mile river and tells their journey picturing what it was like 100 years ago. Hardback.

Panhandle Cowboy
by John R. Erickson
Foreword by Larry McMurtry
Straight forward book about the texture of modern cowbowing in the Oklahoma Panhandle. Hardback.

Cowboy Country
by John R. Erickson
Photographs by Kristine Erickson
Erickson tells his story of his days working on the Beaver River in 1978 and 1979 and the men he worked with in the land that is called Cowboy Country. Hardback.

Historic Ranches of Texas
by Lawerence Clayton
Paintings by J. U. Salvant
Includes the 6666, XIT, Y.O., Waggoner, Pitchfork and many other ranches. Paperback.

Life on the Texas Range
Photographs by Ervin E. Smith
Text by J. Evetts Haley
Photographs of the early 1900's by this pioneer cowboy photographer. Paperback.

Whatever the Wind Delivers
by Janet M. Neugebauer and Walt McDonald
Foreword by Laura Bush
Poems and photographs of West Texas. Hardback.

Bob Kleberg and the King Ranch
A Worldwide Sea of Grass
by John Cypher
A historical account of Bob Kleberg and the infamous King Ranch told by the top assistant to the man who started it all. Paperback.

Life on the King Ranch
by Frank Goodwyn
Foreword by Bruce S. Cheeseman
A story ofGoodwyn and his ranch friends, of the heritage that was theirs, the way they worked, the tales they told, and the fun they had on the largest cattle operation in America. Paperback.

How Come It's Called That?
Virginia Madison and Hallie Stillwell
Names of places in the Big Bend country of West Texas. Paperback.

Tales of the Big Bend
by Elton Miles
Stories of the Marfa Lights, the Murder Steer and other Big Bend Tales. Paperback.

Shades of the West
by Ted Gray
This autobiography follows Ted Gray through 55 years of cattle, horses, ranching, friendship and trading.

The Story of the Big Bend National Park
by John Jameson
Tells the story of how the park was founded in 1944 up to the present. Explains how it was difficult to get the park approved and discusses what is used for in present day.

God's Country or Devil's Playground
Edited by Barney Nelson
In this anthology of Nature Writing, Nelson gathers nearly sixty literary perspectives on the landscape and life of the Big Bend Region, broadly defined as Trans-Pecos Texas and northern Chihuahua, Mexico. Paperback.

Portraits of the Pecos Frontier
by Patrick Dearen
Dearen spent years tracking down stories from the Pecos River country of West Texas. He paints word portraits of his travels through this wide stretch of land. Paperback.

I'll Gather My Geese
by Hallie Crawford Stillwell
The autobiography of a lady who, at age 19, went to teach school on the Mexican border. Paperback.

Cowgirls: Women of the American West
by Teresa Jordan
Situates the cowgirl in history and literature as an American original from the sympathetic to the nitty-gritty. Paperback.

Going Over East
Reflections of a Woman Rancher
by Linda Hasselstrom
She discusses the routine demands of her family's cow-calf operation in South Dakota. Paperback.

A Road of Her Own
Women's Journeys in the West
Edited by Marlene Blessing
Stories by twenty different women writers each of whom offer their own unique story of a different road in the west. Hardback.

Women Who Charmed the West
by Anne Seagraves
From the Victorian era of the 1800's through the turn of the century she discusses famous women actresses with descriptive text and elegant photographs. Paperback.

High Spirited Women of the West
by Anne Seagraves
Profiles ten courageous women who shaped history of the West with text and photographs who became the America's early feminists. Paperback.

Women of the Sierra
by Anne Seagraves
It takes the reader back to the 19th century with rare photographs and text. The stories illustrate the lack of equality between men and women. Paperback.

Hell on Women and Horses
by Alice Marriott
Foreward by Margot Liberty
18 months of vistiting cattle ranches across 13 states learning about ranchers lives. She explains how ranch women live, work, have children, manage houses, and go out on the ranges. Paperback.

The Crossing
by Cormac McCarthy
Volume two of the Border Trilogy. A novel set in southern New Mexico during the years before World War II. Paperback.

Cities of the Plain
by Cormac McCarthy
The last book of the Border Trilogy, this is a story of friendship, manhood, and uncertainty. Paperback.

The Spur
Photography by David R. Stoecklein
The Spur will show you the different styles and varieties of western spurs that have emereged throughout the decades in different regions of the American West. Collectors of these rare and intricate tools have each written sections about what differentiates one style from another.

Best Remudas
By Jim Jennings
The Remudais defined as "the herd of horses from which those to be used for the day are chosen." The ranches in this book received the Best Remuda Award because of the quality of their remudas. This book is the story of the ranches, but it is also the story of the tool the ranches use on a daily basis- the horse.