The American West was vast, lonely and wild. Railroads made it a little less so for travelers, but for the engineers and their crews, the building...

During an era of official segregation in the U.S. Army, chaplains ministered to both black and white Union regiments fighting in the Civil War....

The legend of the Bascom Affair casts Lt. George Bascom in the worst possible, unfair light, blaming him for starting 11 years of bloody warfare....

In the iconic photograph, a group of stone-faced men stare stolidly back at the camera, giving no indication that theirs was a celebratory pose, an...

In just one short year, the Brown Palace had become one of the leading hotels in the frontier West. Its reputation was such that, in September 1893,...

If you’ve been looking for something different in a Western story, Doug Hocking may have the novel for you. Set in 1860s New Mexico, Mystery of...

The story of the Earp Brothers and Doc Holliday and the events leading up to the street fight in Tombstone have inspired enough fiction and...

David G. McComb’s The City in Texas is an informative and moderately entertaining history of urban development in Texas, including fact-filled...

Denver billionaire investor, philanthropist, wildcatter, telecommunications titan, and movie producer Philip F. Anschutz has written an outstanding...

Historians and aficionados of the American West must have been surprised when they first heard that FOX News’s Bill O’Reilly was going to follow up...

In 2011’s Yellow Rock, broken man Tom Hanner (Michael Biehn) is hired by sinister Max Dietrich (James Russo) to find his brother and nephew, who...

If I had been a member of the Corps of Discovery, I would have brought my own vial of smallpox vaccine. Meriwether Lewis’s supply lost its potency...