The up-to-date authoritative and standard reference of first choice for the serious student of Freemasonry. Many other available encyclopedias are out of date, heavy-going or fanciful. The 1996 edition of this work is a must-have. It is written with a North American bias.

Those interested in British or Continental Freemasonry will need to supplement this book with others such as "Dizionario Massonico" by Luigi Troisi (published by Bastogi), Frederick Smyth's "A Reference Book for Freemasons" and "Freemasons Guide and Compendium" by Bernard E Jones.

No serious Masonic researcher should be without Coil's Masonic Encyclopedia. It's pretty much as simple as that. Within its pages is a wealth of useful Masonic information presented in an easy to read format. While Coil's must be considered a secondary source, it presents an enormous amount of hard to find information at your fingertips and proves indispensable in the search of primary sources. Of the major Masonic encyclopedias, Coil's is the most up to date with its second edition being released in 1996. It contains information on European developments and Prince Hall Masonry that is no where to be found in other such publications. I highly recommend this work.

This one of the most powerful books about Chief Joseph that i have had the pleasure to read. The stirring narrative from a native Nez Perez,really puts me in the story and makes me very,very angry about the way we have treated Native Americans,Will Henry was one of the most gifted and talented western writers of all time. I wish his books would make a comeback on the bestseller lists.

The book moved me and made me think about the hardships that the Indian peoples went through, especially the Nez Perce. It had lots of neat little points, and a different perspective of Chief Joseph. This was probably the best story that I've read.

I just recently started reading weterns. I have so far read 7 Lamour books which I think were great, also the famous SHANE which also was great, and this book "summer of the gun" was yet another one I chose to read to expand my selection of authors. Will Henry I'm sure is more famous for other titles as I see I am the first one writing a review on this, but I really did find this book to be very entertaining. I appreciate that he didn't spend too much time on scenery (which i think gets a bit too descriptive in other books) and he spend more time on dialogue which I find I prefer a lot more of. The story felt real and the action was believable as well. I would rate it PG or PG-13 for language but I did like it too because of that.
I give it a 4 star because it isn't excellent, but it IS very solid and a very good book.
Try it.

Tim Reed