The Great Turkey Walk by 
Juneteenth Rodeo by
Timeless photos offer a rare portrait of the jubilant, vibrant, vital, nearly hidden, and now all-but-vanished world of small-town Black rodeos. Long before Americans began to officially commemorate Juneteenth, in the heat of East Texas, saddles were being cinched, buckles shined, and lassoes adjusted for a day on the Black rodeo circuit in honor of the holiday. In the late 1970s, as they had been doing for generations, Black communities across the region held local rodeos for the talented cowboys and cowgirls who were segregated from the mainstream circuit. It was to these vibrant community events that bestselling Texas writer Sarah Bird, then a young photojournalist, found herself drawn. In Juneteenth Rodeo, Bird's lens celebrates a world that was undervalued at the time, capturing everything, from the moment the pit master fired up his smoker, through the death-defying rides, to the last celebratory dance at a nearby honky-tonk. Essays by Bird and sports historian Demetrius Pearson reclaim the crucial role of Black Americans in the Western US and show modern rodeo riders--who still compete on today's circuit--as "descendants" in a more than two-hundred-year lineage of Black cowboys. A gorgeous tribute to the ropers and riders--legends like Willie Thomas, Myrtis Dightman, Rufus Green, Bailey's Prairie Kid, Archie Wycoff, and Calvin Greeley--as well as the secretaries, judges, and pick-up men and even the audience members who were as much family as fans, Juneteenth Rodeo ultimately seeks to put Black cowboys and cowgirls where they have always belonged: in the center of the frame.
The Laughing West by 
The Manly-Hearted Woman by 
Savage Mountain by
At the height of the Gold Rush, a group of trappers opens a trading post at the entrance of the Yosemite Valley. The leader of the endeavour is Jim Wallace, a ruthless trader with a twinge of conscience. He cheats the Indians out of their gold, but has an obvious affection for their ways and does not intend to be the catalyst of their destruction. Yet, once the Yosemite declare war on all white men due to Wallace's business practices, history races forward. An epic novel, packed with vivid portraits, magnificent vistas of the Yosemite, mountain chases, cliff-hangers, and epic confrontations with nature at its wildest. A great success with critics in America, simultaneously released in Europe and the United States.
Westerns by 
Women of the West by "Westerns" at the CSU Stanislaus library will include fiction and non-fiction stories of Indigenous, Black, Asian, and Latinae/x/o/a, and White stories because representation and Inclusivity are important in American History.
However, according to the Credo Reference database, Westerns are "Stories set in the American West during the second half of the 19th century that feature stock characters, incidents and settings. Westerns have dominated American popular culture in print as well as in radio plays, movies and television shows. The typical western features a cowboy or drifter who battles Indians or outlaws in order to defend a helpless or oppressed character, frequently female. ...." Per Ellen Donovan: Middle Tennessee State University, USA. Author(s).
~ C/S*
* About "C/S" or Con Safos slag. Its origin is unknown, but it may have originated from the ‘Pachuco’ culture in El Paso, Texas, and then been adopted by those in the Chicano Movement.
Grider, S. A. (1975). Con Safos: Mexican-Americans, Names and Graffiti. The Journal of American Folklore, 88(348), 132–142. https://doi.org/10.2307/539192
Wikipedia: Chicano - Visual Arts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicano
The African American West by 
The Compton Cowboys by 
Indian Tales and Others by 
Louis L'Amour by 
The Milagro Beanfield War by 
The Yogi of Cockroach Court by If you have any questions about Western books, please contact Librarian, Margarita Zamora Saunders.
Brokeback Mountain by 
Even Cowboys Carry Cell Phones by 
The Only Good Indians by 
Sarah Canary by 
Spaghetti westerns : a viewer's guide
Stolen Horses by