The Great Reset Is Upon Us! I enjoyed talking to this young man about history at the Tucson Festival of Books last weekend. The Eagle Has Landed He...
My 15th Annual Tucson Festival of Books Recap
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Articles
Amber And The Pursuit of Dust to Dust
Amber And The Pursuit of Dust to Dust March 19, 2025 As you may know I carry a sketchbook with me everywhere I go and often sketch random...
Truth Be Known
"No one is as wrong as the man who thinks he knows all the answers." “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” —Oscar Wilde “...
What Has Taught Me: Deb Goodrich
Deb Goodrich, a native Virginian, lives in northwest Kansas where she serves as the Garvey Texas Foundation Historian in Residence at the Fort...
Earp, Cowboy Songs & Prairie Hygiene
ASK THE MARSHALL What are your thoughts on Stuart Lake’s book Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal? Josh Taylor Austin, TX Much of Lake’s book comes from...
Black Gold on the Western Frontier
Black Gold on the Western Frontier The land Spanish explorers called “Colorado” was an untamed wilderness in the mid-nineteenth century. Yet...
Trails of the Old West
DISCOVERING AMERICA’S HISTORIC FRONTIER TOWNS From Arizona’s sunbaked deserts to Wyoming’s untamed wilderness, America’s historic frontier towns...
Kris Kristofferson— A Texan at Oxford
The scholar, songwriter, pilot also acted in dozens of Westerns If he’d done nothing but write Me and Bobby McGee, and Sunday Morning Coming Down,...
Three for the Road
The Bird Cage, the Butterfield and the Bunch The Gilded Theater In Old West history there are few cities as infamous as Tombstone, Arizona, and as...
The Frontier Characters of South Dakota
Calamity Jane, Wild Bill and George Custer roamed the Black Hills On July 2, 1874, George Armstrong Custer led a surveying expedition of around...
The Bowie Knife
The Bowie knife is an iconic symbol of American toughness and independence. Yet, its true origins are often misunderstood. The knife became...
The Kindled Flame 1835
A LONG ROAD TO THE BATTLE AT THE ALAMO Mexico had its hands full with Texas—the northern portion of its state Coahuila y Tejas—in 1835. Many...