In the morning of Sept. 28, 1874, Colonel Ranald Mackenzie and his Fourth Cavalry swept into Palo Duro Canyon. The soldiers burned Indian camps,...
Fires Can’t Blacken Colorado Springs
The Colorado city of Colorado Springs hasn’t been lucky when it comes to forest fires. The Black Forest Fire of 2013 and the Waldo Canyon Fire of...
Dirt Floor Paradise
Charles Goodnight—the “Father of the Texas Panhandle”—was not a man who took no for an answer. In 1877, when he ordered his brothers-in-law to build...
1776: A Continental Revolution
As the American colonists made their Declaration of Independence from the British monarchy on July 4, 1776, a chain reaction of political events...
Was Bat Masterson as handy with his fists as he was with a gun?
Was Bat Masterson as handy with his fists as he was with a gun? Jim Gaines Orangevale, California Bat Masterson lived and worked in a...
A Horror Maestro Goes West
When Director William Castle was grinding through his last Western film, 1955’s Duel on the Mississippi, B-movie immortality probably wasn’t on his...
Drum Beat
The Warner Archive release of Delmer Daves’s 1954 Drum Beat is cause for celebration. Daves’s Western classics in-clude the original 3:10 to Yuma,...
Paul Cool: History Sleuth on the Trail of the Truth
Paul Cool is an investigative historian, with the knowledge of a trained attorney and the experience to seek the truth in the details after more...
Rough Drafts 12/14
A flurry of top-notch beautiful Western art and photography books published this fall are perfect for the gift-giving holiday season. I recommend...
Grand Adventures of an Early American Explorer
David Chapin tells the compelling tale of Peter Pond, “a trader of some celebrity” in the far Northwest, and his adventures in the fur trade from...
A Tale of Vengeance and Redemption
Lucas Fume, Larry D. Sweazy’s new hero in Vegeance at Sundown (Berkley, $7.99) is rotting in a Tennessee prison for killing his friend and business...
Pueblo Rights in the Land of Enchantment
Malcolm Ebright, Rick Hendricks and Richard W. Hughes’ Four Square Leagues: Pueblo Indian Land in New Mexico (University of New Mexico Press, $65)...