Articles Archive

Legends in Levis

by | May 1, 2018

People need heroes and if they don’t have ‘em they have to invent ‘em. The Old West didn’t have that problem because they had an abundance of the...

Don’t Mess with the Lady

by Mark Boardman | Apr 30, 2018

Gladys Johnson Sims and ex-husband Ed Sims (photo) were in the middle of a Texas-sized custody battle over their two daughters. They both came to...

Brides for Indians

by Karen Casey Fitzjerrell | Apr 30, 2018

Jim Fergus’s sequel to The Vengeance of Mothers: The Journals of Margaret Kelly & Molly McGill: A Novel (St. Martin’s Press, $26.99) is based on...

The Riches of Cleopatra Hill

by | Apr 30, 2018

Nestled on the slopes of the cone-shaped Cleopatra Hill, Jerome was once the third largest city in Arizona and the pride of the territory. She was a...

From Frontier Soldier to Peacemaking President

by John Langellier | Apr 30, 2018

On March 4, 1869, a rather unlikely candidate took his oath of office as the eighteenth president of the United States. The image of Ulysses S....

A Running Fight

by Mark Boardman | Apr 27, 2018

Jesse Evans and his gang acted like they were headed to Mexico in early July 1880. But it was a fake, trying to fool the law. The outlaws turn and...

History, Heritage and Hospitality

by Melody Groves | Apr 27, 2018

Saloons, pubs and hotels played a major role in shaping the West. While saloons generally weren’t the largest buildings in a town, they were the...

California Gold Camps

by | Apr 27, 2018

Those early California Gold camps with their boardwalks, muddy streets, false-front buildings and tent houses were as vivacious as their names...

What History Has Taught Me: Allen Polt

by Allen Polt | Apr 26, 2018

This issue’s Ulysses S. Grant cover was illustrated by Allen Polt, a portrait artist who lives in Oro Valley, Arizona, and shows his art at Settlers...