For 55 years, Robert M. Utley has been informing, entertaining and enlightening readers with his well-researched biographies and histories of the...
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The Painter’s Cabin
Visiting the Maynard Dixon cabin is like walking into a Maynard Dixon painting. For the last seven years of his life, Maynard and his wife, muralist...
Books: Rough Drafts
Springtime is awards season for books, television and film, and the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum of Oklahoma City recently...
The Dodge City Lawdog
Charlie Bassett’s story has been eclipsed—by the legends of Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson. Yet for much of the 1870s, Bassett was the law in Dodge...
A Hero One Day, A Victim Another
Sgt. Emanuel Stance was a hero, the first Buffalo Soldier to earn the Congressional Medal of Honor. He led a patrol against a group of Apaches in...
Legends in Levis
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...