Prior to his rendezvous with destiny, Pat Garrett—like many frontier vagabonds—dabbled in several occupations, including buffalo hunting. Before he...

Texas’ Regulator-Moderator War was one of the worst feuds ever.  Dozens of folks died in the east Texas conflict between 1839 and 1844.  But bad...

In the years following the Mexican War and the Gadsden Purchase the United States was planning to survey a wagon road along the 35th Parallel that...

Texas Christian University Press continues to be a publishing leader in creative Western fiction, with Gerald Duff’s innovative novel Playing Custer...

Will you find the TV documentary on Pancho Villa and the Mexican Revolution that aired years ago? Mike Donaldson Tye, Texas I know of the American...

Bill Boren believed in revenge.  No matter who the target was. The former Confederate soldier was a fighter in Texas’ Lee-Peacock Feud at the end of...

The Mullan Road: Carving a Passage through the Frontier Northwest, 1859-62, edited by Paul D. McDermott, Ronald E. Grim, and Philip Mobley (Mountain...

Growing up in Portales, the perfect small town—with a regional university—was great. We even had Billy the Kid’s hideout. I got the history bug from...

With a stage robbery anything could happen. It depended on the robbers and the behavior of the passengers. A well-known and presumably well-liked...

With droughts, floods and fire headlining the news across the West this past year, TwoDot’s publication of The Great Divide, a companion book to the...

Click here for the rebuttal from Jeff Aiello, Co-Executive Producer of the upcoming documentary Billy The Kid: New Evidence The juggernaut of...

A bull bison looked at me from the diorama at the Boot Hill Museum in Dodge City, Kansas, when I began to hear a rumble. As the sound in the room...