Jim Masterson isn’t as well known as his brother Bat, but he actually spent more time in law enforcement than his older sibling; about 17 years. His...

It was a race to build a transcontinental railroad—one crew coming from the east, the other from the west, eventually to meet up in Utah. James...

Gary L. Stuart’s The Valles Caldera (Gleason and Wall Publishing, $14.95), the second in his Angus series following Ten Shoes Up, features the...

At age 20, Pierre Jean De Smet left his native Belgium and came to America, where, in 1821, he entered the Jesuit novitiate in Maryland. He studied...

“You Know My Name,” is a 1999 film that glorified Oklahoma lawman Bill Tilghman. Sam Elliott is one of my all-time favorite actors and this is...

We have this image of Old West saloons serving rotgut, but in wild Tombstone, A.T., Kelly’s Wine House served 26 wines imported from Europe and had...

Southeastern Arizona was contested ground. The few Americans who dared its dangers called the region the “Purchase,” after the 1854 Gadsden Purchase...

J. Stiles has won two Pulitzer Prizes for his last couple of books—one about Cornelius Vanderbilt and the other about George Armstrong Custer. His...

Did most Texas Rangers not wear badges until after the turn of the 20th century? Bob Dean Castroville, Texas The pre-Civil War Texas Rangers were...

Warning: Spoilers follow. The true odyssey of Hugh Glass is a fabulously thrilling action drama about one man’s obsession to survive under the most...

Curing ailments were quite popular in the 19th century. Patent medicines promised to cure everything from male impotency to unmentionable female...

Believe it or not, a 1936 German film, Der Kaiser von Kalifornien (The Emperor of California), was partially filmed in Sedona. The script allegedly...