Patricia Nell Warren has plucked a sagebrush bouquet of her very best commentaries, blogs, investigative reports and historical essays from a half century of her bestselling literary career. Her articles remind us that we must look beyond the obvious to see the real West. Her literature confirms the West is vast and people come here for many reasons.

MY WEST reveals a lifetime of experience that all began with a Montana kid on a saddle pony who looked out on the range at old Indian mounds and longed to know who built them, and why.