Before the growth of the pharmaceutical industry, folks relied on “natural” remedies, and one of the most popular was a simple lemon. Potpourri of...
West Texas in the Rain Shadow
Texas Tech University Press has recently published West Texas author Joyce Gibson Roach new collection of short stories The Land of Rain Shadows:...
Divine Intervention
According the experts there should not be less than five men to pull a successful train robbery. One to hold the horses and one on each side of the...
Cattle is King
Most often, when that phrase is used to describe the Old West, we think of Texas. And while cattle were important to Texas, we find it was just one...
The Australian Jesse James
Can a film be a Western if the story takes place on the other side of the globe? Writer-Director Matthew Holmes makes a convincing case. “In the...
Illuminating the Past
As book review editor at True West magazine, I receive hundreds of books a year from the largest publishers to the first time author. Every book has...
Hays in an Uproar
Deputy U.S. Marshal James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok converses with the bartender at Paddy Welch’s in Hays City, Kansas. Without warning, two 7th...
Remembering Butch Cassidy
Charles Kelly was a Salt Lake City printer when he got to know cowboy artist Charlie Russell. The friendship pushed Kelly to further investigate...
Custer’s Last Stand
Steven Kohlhagen’s Chief of Thieves, based on 32 historical characters and 12 fictional ones, is a saga that crisscrosses the American West between...
Warren Earp’s Lover?
Wyatt Earp’s younger brother, Warren, worked around Willcox as a bartender, stagecoach driver and livestock inspector. On July 6, 1900, Johnny...
Writing Bill Tilghman’s Biography
Zoe Agnes Stratton was a 22-year-old school teacher when famed lawman Bill Tilghman came-a-courtin’. Despite the difference in ages—he was 48—the...
The First Frontier
Any book that challenges the idea of frontier, and the traditional idea of the “American Western Frontier,” I am drawn to because I believe it gives...