To The Point
Twenty Years Running in Front of a Train
It’s full steam ahead as we barrel into our third decade.
Features
Another Bad Man Gone To Hell
The Life and Times of a Border Bandit.
Six-guns & Sluggers
How 150 Years ago baseball’s Cincinnati Red Stockings invaded the West by rail and seeded the national pastime across the Western frontier.
The Wonders Of The West
Discover our collective past, curated and interpreted in the best history museums of the Western United States.
Death of A Mountain Man
Jedidiah Smith's Last Trail.
Departments
Try, Try Again
The Burrow Gang’s first holdup wasn’t exactly a success.
Braggin’ Rights
The Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum is the biggest museum in Texas.
Classic Western Art Rules the Day
The Coeur d’Alene Art Auction in Reno, Nevada, realized over $17 million.
When Cap Guns Were Cool
Back in the 1940s through the 1960s, we kids played outdoors a lot, and we lived our make-believe adventures with the coolest toys ever—cap pistols.
Last of a Breed
Jesse Jefferson “Bear” Howard’s legendary life bridged two centuries.
Jesse James and the Road to Gallatin
The early outlaw years of Missouri’s legendary outlaw trail can be discovered on a road trip across the Show-Me state.
Pampered Pioneers at the Broadmoor
Experience the finest in hospitality and gourmet dining at Colorado Springs’ grande dame.
Kit Carson’s Horseback Duel
Kit Carson vs The “Great Bully of the Mountains.”
San Angelo, Texas
West Texas history is celebrated along the banks of the Concho River.
Western Roundup
For December 2019.
Hero Of The Plains
Ask The Marshall.
What History Has Taught Me: Jack Blades, Rock Musician
Rock ‘n’ roll bassist-singer Jack Blades has been a touring professional rock musician since he joined the San Francisco funk band Rubicon in 1976. In 1982, he co-founded the rock band Night Ranger, which he is currently touring with. He is also well known for his on-again, off-again membership in the rock groups Damn Yankees, Shaw Blades, Tak Matsumoto Group and Revolution Saints. All told, he and his bands have sold more than 25 million albums. Blades and his wife, Mollie, have been married since 1977. They have two sons, Colin and James.
Western Books & Movies
Mountain Man Adventure
Review of Lane R. Warenski’s Grizzly Killer: White Snake.
Western Showman Extraordinare
Review of Prentiss Ingraham's Buffalo Bill Cody, A Man of the West.
Soldiering On The Fronteir
Review of Eli Paul's The Frontier Army: Episodes from Dakota and the West.
True Grit’s 50th Anniversary
John Wayne’s Oscar-winning performance as Rooster Cogburn in the Paramount film culminated the greatest year in Western film history.
Bloody War, Bitter Peace
A new Apache history of Nana’s War, plus a collection of essays on the frontier Army, a new Spillane-Collins Western, an enlightening biography of Buffalo Bill and a mountain man adventure in the 1830s West.