In Search of the Golden West

“Pomeroy has given us an acute, engaging, and provocative book: a lively look at ourselves as dudes and dude-wranglers over a century in which both time and tide were westward running.”—Saturday Review

“[Pomeroy’s] book is small in the number of pages, but large in the research which has been distilled to fill these pages, and has copious footnotes to help the future researcher. Possibly more important for most readers, Pomeroy has chosen his material wisely, and has presented it vividly, with frequent well-turned phrases which often bring chuckles, and with flashes of insight that illuminate the entire story.”—Robert E. Riegel, Montana: The Magazine of Western History

“Wise is the author who selects a topic which invites reading. Earl Pomeroy has done this with his latest volume, In Search of the Golden West. Undaunted by the mass of material that remains of so recent an era, he has come up with a kaleidoscopic view that is a useful [book].”—Emmett A. Greenwalt, Pacific Historical Review