The New Mexico Territory has one helluva hard case on the loose! Jim Jones’s The Big Empty (Five Star, $25.95) whips up the intense landscape of New...
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Burt Alvord, Biddy Doyle and the Bisbee Caper
Burt Alvord was a big strapping, swarthy-looking fellow with a bald pate and an IQ that was said to be considerably less than the size of his waist,...
Arizona Senator Henry F. Ashurst
Henry Fountain Ashurst was one of the first two Senators elected when Arizona became a state in 1912. The other was the irrepressible former...
Did Any Indian Tribes Break Treaties the Way the U.S. Government Did?
Did any Indian tribes break treaties the way the U.S. government did? Walter Reed Chandler, Arizona Yes. And the most warlike tribes were the most...
The Western War Between the States
Among the thousands of volumes treating the American Civil War rare is the study venturing west of the Mississippi River. Andrew E. Masich’s Civil...
Colt’s Paterson—the Foaling of a Legend
Firearms buffs generally associate Colt’s Paterson revolver, the first truly practical revolver, with the year 1836, when this revolutionary handgun...
John J. Kloehr Downs a Dalton
John J. Kloehr was a prominent citizen of Coffeyville, Kansas, a man who owned a sizable livery operation. When the Dalton Gang tried to rob both...
Marion Hedgepeth Crosses Tracks with Serial Killer H.H. Holmes
Old West train robber Marion Hedgepeth helped unmask serial killer H.H. Holmes. The two were in a Missouri jail and came up with a con scheme:...
Charlie Connelly Cut Short
Charlie Connelly was a teacher, first in Indiana and then in Kansas when he moved there in the 1880s. In 1892, he was looking for a little extra...
She Was the Best Man of the Party
The name Juliet Brier doesn't leap to mind when thinking about the courageous women who endured the wagon train trip to California. But it should....
A Woman’s Work is Never Done
The Plains Indian women’s role in the buffalo hunt was no small thing. “Theirs was harder work than buffalo hunting,” explained John C. Ewers, in...
Kill or Be Killed
Since Owen Wister published The Virginian in 1902 and Zane Grey published The Last of the Plainsman in 1908, Western authors have mined the West’s...