Winner of the 2019 NIEA Western History book award. If you love cowboys, Indians, cattle drives, and horses, and you can't get enough of lawmen, gunfighters, gold miners, and ranching - you will love this book. If you love stories of real pioneers that lived during the rush to build our country, 'Looking Back' brings them to life. This book is a is a collection of fifty history columns written over the last fifteen years for Working Ranch Magazine. They are real accounts of the men and women who set out to find their place in the world. Each of these explorers and pioneers carved out a piece of the frontier for themselves and their families. All of them, Americans and immigrants alike, came in search of a better life.