Fortunes were built when the west was won, so this weeks book is Shotguns and Stagecoaches: The Brave Men Who Rode for Wells Fargo in the Wild West by John Boessenecker.

Continuing our history of the Wild West, this weeks book is Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers by Doug Swanson

This month, I’m looking at the Wild West, starting with a fictional Weird West book, Black Badge Novel 1: Cold As Hell by Rhett Bruno.

Since I’m now learning about various religions and world myths, I thought a good place to start would be with a broad overview, making this weeks book The World's Religions by Huston Smith.

What happens when trips to space go wrong? That’s what we learn with this weeks book, Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew by Michael Leinbach.

Continuing our trips to space, this weeks book is Packing for Mars by Mary Roach.

This month, we’re moving into space, starting with the brilliant women who helped us get there with Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly.

Before really jumping into my religious studies, I found a book that asks…Why? So I did a soft start last month with The Road to Eleusis. Now I start the real work with Huston Smith’s Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief.

Rounding out resilience is the most well known book on the topic, Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl.

From author Ryan Holiday comes this weeks book on the topic of resilience, The Obstacle is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph.

Continuing with resilience, this weeks book comes from Amanda Knox, who has first hand experience on the topic, making this weeks book Free: My  Search for Meaning

This months my theme is Resilience, starting with a story of frontier resilience, making this weeks book Diverging Roads by Rose Wilder Lane.

Rounding out the month, this week’s book ties together the magic of mind altering substances, and religion, which is perfect since I’m moving into learning about different religions, making this weeks book The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries by R. Gordon Wasson; Albert Hoffman; Carla P. Ruck.

Further following where nature might take the mind, this weeks book is DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Dr. Rick Strassman.

Continuing additional studies into how psychedelics may have contributed to magic and witchcraft, this weeks book is The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley.

The month of May is historically when the witches year kicked off, so we’re starting this month with The Witches' Ointment: The Secret History of Psychedelic Magic by Thomas Hatsis.

In what is arguably the government’s most well known “secret”, this weeks book is Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America by Annie Jacobsen.

Continuing with government shenanigans, this weeks book is Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion by Gary Webb.

This month, we’re looking at some of the hinky things our government has gotten up to, starting with Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill.

As usual, we end our month with a book about a president, making this weeks book Barack Obama: Conservative, Pragmatist, Progressive by Burton I. Kaufman.

What about criminals who have entered the vernacular as American Folk Heroes. Were they really heroes? Or degenerate killers? This weeks book, Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde by Jeff Guinn will provide insight into that question.

Is homicide ever justified? Let’s find out as we read another autobiographical piece, Why Gary Why? by Jody Plauche.

This autobiographical piece, Waiting to Be Heard, was written by Amanda Knox following her release after her own Kafkaesque trial.

In March we’re looking at crime, specifically murder, starting with this dystopian fiction piece by Franz Kafka, The Trial.

Continuing our learning about the president’s, this weeks book is about our 43rd president, George H Bush, making this weeks book Bush by Jean Edward Smith.

This week we take a look at women from the poorest of circumstances, who fought back to change their circumstances, with Mafia Queens of Mumbai: Women Who Ruled the Ganglands by Hussain S. Zaidi.

Modern warriors who are fighting for women’s rights are explored in this weeks book, The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht edited by Karen Jones

This month, I’m looking at women who fought back, starting with Juanita Broadrick’s book You’d Better Put Some Ice on That.

The last Sunday means it’s time for the next president, making this weeks book The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House John F. Harris