Max McCoy is a Spur Award-winning author and executive director of the Western Writers of America. Max McCoy is a Spur Award-winning author and...
What History Has Taught Me with Max McCoy
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Miles City, Montana
Miles City was primed for the Fourth of July. The fledgling town in eastern Montana Territory celebrated with music from Fort Keogh’s Fifth...
The Taylor Sheridan Universe
Producer and actor Wyatt McCrea, grandson of Western movie icon Joel McCrea, is enthusiastic about acting in The Contested Plains, about a...
Brave and True
Just in time for great summer reading, Tom Clavin’s latest Western history, Follow Me to Hell: McNelly’s Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier...
Amber Waves of Grain and Flowers
Kansas is still the breadbasket of America. Kansas pioneers knew their land was perfect for growing corn and wheat and an abundance of beautiful...
In Search of Hugh Glass
Travel the Rocky Mountain West to discover the truth about the legendary mountain man. If he had to do it over, there’s a chance Hugh Glass...
Spur Talk
The day Bill McDonald rode over the hill leading the Appaloosa, Slim and I were repairing the corrals. Slim was running Pete Coleman’s little...
Chalk Level Shoot-Out
The Youngers vs. The Pinkertons The Bushwhackers Score A Goal Shot Down in the Missouri Wilds Based on the research of John Langellier and Jack...
In the Lens of History
A century ago, the state of Montana was still one of the youngest states. The Rocky Mountain and Great Plains state received its star on Old...
Charlie Russell The Humorist
The legendary Montana cowboy is well known for his cowboy art, but he was also quite funny and sometimes ribald (some would say scandalous!). Here...
The Legendary Four Sixes Ranch
The ranch was founded 155 years ago by men and women who are as mythical as they are real. Ranching has always been something of a...
Yellowstone Cowboys
The real story of Teddy Blue and how he became Montana’s greatest cowboy. “We all got well lit up and went to a hot show on Blake Street,” wrote...