The rolling Appalachian foothills of northeast Tennessee, where George Maledon lies peacefully buried, is a long ways away from the 16-foot-long...
Cement Cowboy Nearly Dies
On the Ashes of My Campfire, This City is Built.” That inscription has graced a 2,000-pound, nearly eight-foot-tall cement statue of a cowboy for 86...
A Smatter of Smearcase
"I sometimes buy ‘cottage cheese’ of our milkman. My grandmother called it ‘smear-case.’ I spell it just as she pronounced it. She used to mix it...
The End of the West
Since Owen Wister’s The Virginian was published in 1902, Western novelists have returned to the era of the transitional West, which, according to...
Wild Times on the Alaska Frontier
Catherine Holder Spude’s latest book, Saloons, Prostitutes and Temperance in Alaska Territory, highlights the enterprising business owners, soiled...
Wister’s Trails West
Gary Scharnhorst’s Owen Wister and the West is the most in-depth biography of this Eastern-bred writer who has been credited with creating the...
A Russian Duke Out West
Lee A. Farrow’s Alexis in America: A Russian Grand Duke’s Tour, 1871-1872 is a well researched travelogue detailing Grand Duke Alexis Romanov’s...
Two-Fisted Texas Ranger Action
This is the sequel to Lodge’s 2004 novel, Charley Sunday’s Texas Outfit. This thriller brings ex-Ranger Sunday’s “outfit” together again in 1900 and...
On The Trail Of Custer
Raised in Manhattan, Spur Award-winner John Lubetkin’s first experience of Custer Country was in the early 1950s as a summer camper on a month-long...
“What if everything we know about Billy the Kid is wrong?”
One hundred thirty-four years have passed since Billy the Kid’s daring escape from the Lincoln County jail in New Mexico Territory. Sixty-three...
Raphael “Red” Lopez
Raphael “Red” Lopez killed six men—including five law officers—during a late 1913 rampage outside Salt Lake City. Posses thought they had him...
That Would be Mrs. Jerome, Thank You
Jerome, Arizona has a wild and wonderful history as a booming mining town in the early 1900s turned ghost town turned modern-day artist community....