Billy himself would have approved The late Val Kilmer’s acting career delved into films of so many genres—from Top Secret to Top Gun, from...
Val Kilmer’s ‘Billy’
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The Way West
Western historians and novelists are the trailblazers who inspire our curiosity and passion for America’s legendary lands and people Why do...
Building your Western Library
Arizona Author and Museum Director’s Five Favorite Biographies of Arizona Women Stuart Rosebrook, executive director of Sharlot Hall Museum in...
2025 WWA Spur Awards
Best Biography: The Sugar King of California: The Life of Claus Spreckels by Sandra E. Bonura (University of Nebraska Press) Best Contemporary...
Heroes and Heroines of the West
New biographies by James B. Mills and Chris Enss, plus a rollicking volume of Western short stories, a history of Fort Worth, and insightful bios of...
Will Rogers, the Chili Lover
He called it the cowboys’ caviar and a bowl of blessedness. any people know that Will Rogers was a Wild West show performer, vaudevillian,...
On the New Mexico Trail of Billy the Kid
Catherine and the Kid She was known in Kansas as “The Widow McCarty” and a resident in Silver City, New Mexico, described her as “a jolly Irish...
Brushy Billy
“What people choose to believe is a fact in itself.” —Leon Metz 1948 William V. Morrison is working as an investigator for a law firm in...
Martín Chávez
Forgotten Hombre of the Lincoln County War No participant of the Lincoln County War accomplished as much in his lifetime as Martín...
Billy Before Burns
Before the Myth was penned, The Kid had already become a Legend in Theaters, tabloids and the American Imagination There is no...
The Resurrection of Billy the Kid
Billy The Kid It all starts with that only known photo of Billy the Kid. He is standing there with a rifle, right? That’s what...
The $6 Million Shot
The Real Story Behind the Gun that Killed Billy the Kid They say history is written by the victors, but sometimes it’s pawned,...