ENGLISH WESTERNERS' SOCIETY 

LAST UPDATED

 20 July 2010

Book Reviews for November, December 2009, January, February, March, April, May , June and July 2010 now added

CUSTER ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN

LAST UPDATED 

20 July 2010

The next Gathering is planned to take place in York in November 2010 subject to finding a suitable venue.

The May 2010 Gathering will be in Kendal on Saturday 21st May.

WESTERNERS PUBLICATIONS LIMITED

LAST UPDATED

  20 July 2010

Accounts for 2009 Published

See the latest comments on the book Hill of the Sphinx by David Jackson a leading authority on the battle of Isandlwana.  Get your copy whilst stocks remain of this limited edition publication

'THE PEOPLE OF THE BUFFALO'

STUDIES IN HONOUR OF

DR. JOHN C. EWERS

Coordinated and Edited by the late Colin F. Taylor and Hugh Dempsey

Volume 1 and 2 now available only through

 Westerners Publications Limited in the UK.

'Ravenous Monsters in Society'

A reprint, with notes, of “A Terrible Quintette” by John Newman Edwards, originally published in the St. Louis Dispatch in November 1873 and represents the beginning of the manufactured ‘Robin Hood’ legend that attached itself to Jesse James.

Hook of Rorke's Drift: The Life of Henry Hook V.C.

Barry C. Johnson, is well-known within the English Westerners' Society for his outstanding biographical works on the lives of people who made their mark in the American West but here he provides a fascinating account of the life of Henry Hook whose participation at the battle of Rorke's Drift, where he was awarded his V.C. for his gallant conduct, was made famous in the film Zulu.  This book tells the real story of the life of this Gloucestershire born working man.