Steven Kohlhagen’s Chief of Thieves, based on 32 historical characters and 12 fictional ones, is a saga that crisscrosses the American West between...

Wyatt Earp’s younger brother, Warren, worked around Willcox as a bartender, stagecoach driver and livestock inspector. On July 6, 1900, Johnny...

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...

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...

There were a number of ways a young man could become a cattleman. He could hire out as a cowboy, gather and brand mavericks until he had enough to...

What can you tell me about the town of Fairbank, Arizona? Chalmer Davidson Poplarville, Mississippi The railroad arrived in what became Fairbank,...

In Tombstone in early 1882, the Reverend Endicott Peabody, a recent arrival from Boston preached a sermon titled The Eleventh Commandment: Thou...

Bunkhouses served as the cowboy’s residence when he wasn’t out on roundups or driving cattle to market. His fellow cowboys became family. The cook...

For fans of Elmore Leonard, William Morrow has published a collection of the Michigan author’s short stories Charlie Martz and Other Stories: The...

Troops serving in the frontier American West spent most of their time on routine matters, occasionally punctuated by hard campaigning, but they also...

The question comes up every so often about the Jesuits burying their hordes of gold before the King Carlos and the Spanish government expelled them...

In your June 2015 column, you discussed animals killed in 1925’s Ben-Hur. Wasn’t a man killed during the chariot race in the 1959 version? Paul...