Catherine Holder Spude’s latest book, Saloons, Prostitutes and Temperance in Alaska Territory, highlights the enterprising business owners, soiled...
Wild Times on the Alaska Frontier
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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....
Rough Drafts 5/15
Over the decades, numerous pundits and pessimists have announced the end of the West, Western films, Western novels, Western music and Western...
Broncho Billy Anderson
Max Aronson couldn’t ride a horse before he became the first real Westerns star. He got a start in “The Great Train Robbery,” and by 1904, he’d...
Tap into History at Helldorado’s “El Gato de Cristal”
If Tombstone is the “Town to Tough to Die” than the Crystal Palace Saloon should also be also known as “El Gato De Cristal.” Like a cat with nine...
Frank Canton
There are many stories of good-bad men in the Old West and one of the more interesting is Frank Canton. He was born, Joe Horner. Horner drifted in...