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...

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? Jim Gaines Orangevale, California Bat Masterson lived and worked in a...

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...

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 is an investigative historian, with the knowledge of a trained attorney and the experience to seek the truth in the details after more...

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...

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...

Malcolm Ebright, Rick Hendricks and Richard W. Hughes’ Four Square Leagues: Pueblo Indian Land in New Mexico (University of New Mexico Press, $65)...

After the Civil War, Texas cattle headed to northern markets moved up trails through New Mexico and Colorado. Many of the Texans  driving those...