Sherry Monahan admits she didn’t read her first Western until she was in her thirties—she was hooked on Agatha Christie. A native of New Jersey, she...
Focusing on an era after the railroads provided viable visitor access to the West but before the rise of the automobile, J. Philip Gruen’s...
New lawman Wyatt Earp tries to figure out who killed a prostitute in John Shirley’s Wyatt in Wichita: A Historical Novel. “When I could,” Shirley...
Women of the wild West were tough. Michael Rutter’s Boudoirs to Brothels: The Intimate World of Wild West Women illustrates their fortitude, bravery...
Thirty years before the American Colonies’ Declaration of Independence, Juan Bautista de Anza II was born at the Spanish Empire’s presidio outpost,...
From the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans, in peacetime and on bloody fields of war, Henry L. Abbot engineered the infrastructure of a new...
This year True West marks the conclusion of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War—the beginning of the post-war West, and the 125th memorial of the...
“I knew Wyatt Earp...I was an assistant prop boy then...and he told me about the fight at the O.K. Corral.” John Ford’s statement to Peter...
Like Volume I, The Touch of Roy and Dale is a collection of letters, photographs and anecdotes from people whose lives were touched by Roy Rogers...
What I have seen, lived and painted is only a chapter in the saga called the West. What we used to call the future is now the past. It is called the...
Art collectors were not surprised that the world-famous cowboy artist Charles M. Russell got his highest sale of the year with an American Indian...
If Wild Bill Hickok was buried in Deadwood, South Dakota, in 1876, why was the bullet that killed him buried in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1910? You...