In February 1989, television history was being made with the CBS broadcast of Lonesome Dove. Adapted from Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning...
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Arizona Historians Survive Cutback
After saving Arizona’s history since 1864, the Arizona Historical Society’s history almost ended, before cooler heads prevailed. Just past midnight...
Lobsters on the Frontier
Lobster salad, prepared by an inexperienced person who does not know what to exclude, is almost as dangerous as an unloaded gun in the hands of a...
Six-Gun Safety
Although loading blackpowder six-guns, which represent the era of 1840s-70s, require...
No End to its Trail
Downtrodden is the word that comes to mind while gazing at one of James Earle Fraser’s most famous artworks. A fatigued horse, head lowered and...
Klondike Kickstarter
He was too young to read the message scratched on the back, but four-year-old Richard Fike knew he loved the carriage clock he had found in Alaska...
The Last Shootist: A Classic Tale of the Wild West
Author Miles Swarthout’s The Last Shootist (Forge Books, $24.99), a much-anticipated sequel to his father Glendon Swarthout’s best-selling novel The...
True West’s “Old West Savior” Lynda A. Sánchez Shares Her Love of Good Books
Teaching is her vocation. Preservation is her passion. History is her muse. Lynda A. Sánchez, who moved to Lincoln, New Mexico, over 40 years ago,...
Rough Drafts 11/14
“Where does the West begin or end?” Dr. Albert L. Hurtado asked rhetorically in my graduate seminar on the West at Arizona State University. Is...
The First Westerns Star
Arkansas native Max Aronson was in New Jersey in 1903, trying to angle his way into movie stardom. Director Edwin S. Porter asked the 23 year old...
A New-Old Straight Shooter
In the firearms world, the name “Shiloh” has come to mean the maker of the finest quality modern reproductions of the famed single-shot Sharps...
History Unmasked
The history of North American horse culture is epitomized by the full-face horse mask in red trade cloth, with black velvet trim and seed blue star...