From the journal
Dispatches on the Old West, the craft of the saga, and the road that made Robert "Rabbit" Gould.
How the Homestead Act actually worked: who could claim 160 acres, what proving up meant, and why half the families who tried it walked away with nothing.
Read more about The Real West: Free Land, Claim Shacks, and the Five-Year GambleIn Rabbit Gould's Colorado, a brand was law and a running iron was a loaded gun. The true history of cattle rustling in the 1870s and 1880s: how thieves worked, how cattlemen fought back,…
Read more about The Real West: Rustlers, Brands, and the Men Who Hunted ThemSeveral books in the Robert “Rabbit” Gould Saga ride with the great cattle drives, and no part of the Old West is more mythologized or more misunderstood. The real thing was slower, dustier, and…
Read more about The Real West: Life on a Cattle DriveTwelve books in, the saga of Robert “Rabbit” Gould is still riding. The thirteenth novel, Keeping a Promise, is on its way. The next ride Keeping a Promise is currently being written, with its…
Read more about What Is Next in the Saga: Keeping a PromiseThe Robert “Rabbit” Gould Saga is fiction, but the world it rides through is built on the real American West, a place of wagon trains, hard trails, and the long, uncertain journey toward something…
Read more about The Real West: Wagon Trains, Lawmen, and the Road to ColoradoBefore there was a frontier saga, there was a dairy farm in Rice Lake, Wisconsin, and a boy learning the value of early mornings and honest work. Roots in the heartland John Librande grew…
Read more about From a Dairy Farm to the Frontier: How the Saga BeganThe Robert “Rabbit” Gould Saga is one continuous story told across thirteen novels. You can dip in anywhere, but the saga rewards readers who follow the trail from the very first wagon wheel. Here…
Read more about Where to Start: A Reading Order for the SagaEvery saga needs a heart, and for thirteen novels of the American frontier, that heart is a young man named Robert Gould, the rider everyone calls Rabbit. A boy on a wagon train Rabbit’s…
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