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...

Did Isaiah Lukens construct the air gun nicknamed “Great Medicine” that the 1803-’06 Corps of Discovery brought to impress the Indians on their...

With all the controversy about an alleged new Billy the Kid photo, a 2010 TW article examined an earlier controversy: an effort to dig up Billy and...

In the early 1950s, Hollywood partially dodged the ban on “excessive violence” for TV shows watched by children by having heroes like Hopalong...

Known as “The Register of the Desert,” there sits in the south-central part of Wyoming a haystack-looking rock—visible for miles, but with...

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...