“Yesterday's Yarns”  Price: $16.95

Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5, 240 pages; 77 photos and illustrations
 by Ken Overcast is a collection of stories from the Real West. Ken says that, "Except for the itty bitty parts I made up, they're all plum true." Actually, some are completely historically accurate, while many of the others don't have a shred of truth. In both cases, the reader is instantly transported to a more innocent time and place where real cowboys still spin yarns around their roundup fires.

“Stories From The Living Room” $15.95

Author Jon Garate, last of the old time cowboys from the Madeline Plains has created for you an evening, (or many evenings) in the living room of the old homestead ranch house to relive the stories, events, and activities of the pioneers and homesteaders of the Old West.

Here was a time when people, without the modern electronic forms of entertainment, used to get together, have a big supper, and then gather in the living room where the old timers would visit, and tell their stories. (Oral histories) This is an art form which has pretty much faded into oblivion, what with all the modern forms of entertainment.

Sometimes with tongue in cheek humor, sometimes serious, but always authentic, Jon, a master story teller, brings it all back to life for you with many marvelous stories, illustrations, and bits of wit and wisdom. Stories of cowboys, Indians, horses, cows, coyotes and rattlesnakes; the one room schoolhouse, windmills, hand dug wells, and windmills; branding, buckarooing, and building fences. And many, many more.

Many rich and rustic illustrations.