Books published by Old West Company

Volume Two, More Western Art. Don Kirk has been traveling the West for many years searching for the physical remains of the American West of the 1800's. He found many abandoned buildings with weathered clapboards sitting precariously on rotting cedar posts. He found desert towns with dilapidated boardwalks, squeaking windmills on the open plains, and boarded-up mine shafts. He found recreations of Old West villages built as movie sets for westerns, and he drew from scratch fictional towns to be built for the next great western theme park. These Pen & Inks were originally drawn back in the early 1990's for use on notecards, stationary, postcards, and art prints and this is the first reproduction of some of those works of art that you can use for coloring with pencil or crayon or for just looking at. Now you can flip through these pages and rediscover the Old West with Don Kirk's Western Art.

SP4 Kirk. My Remembrances of Life at Tompkins Barracks. San Antonio: Sweetwater Stagelines, 2019. ISBN: 978-1-7320075-0-5. 302 pages, 6X9 Tradecloth. Includes B&W photos by the author. A memoir. This is a brief look at three years in the life of a college-educated soldier drafted during the Vietnam War. It is one soldier's experiences, opinions, and frustrations, and the resultant rage he came away with because of his unwillingness to adapt to his situation. He made history with Project Orange Peel, a military protest that should have put him in the stockade. And, while stationed in West Germany, he came to the conclusion that something was horribly wrong with the military system. This book is written for those who were there.