Where does “Arizona” come from? Daniel Welsch Madrid, Spain Some claim the Southwestern state’s name comes from the Spanish zona arida, translated...
Where does “Arizona” come from?
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To what extent did telegraph companies help open the West?
To what extent did telegraph companies help open the West? Patrick Edwards Monson, Massachusetts Long-distance telegraphs first exchanged complex...
Rough Drafts 9/14
Looking for love? A romantic at heart? How about an Old West Romance!? As editor of the Western Books Department, I am fortunate to receive advance...
September 2014 Events
A Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West. ART SHOWS Quest For The West Art Show And SaleIndianapolis, IN, September 5-7:...
Gritty Realism Inspires Western Author Michael Zimmer’s Love of the West
Author Michael Zimmer was raised in Colorado, where he learned to break horses at a young age. Later, after his family moved to Indiana, he dreamt...
The Western Empire of Geography—and Geometry
In 1877 the New York World opined that “the western states and territories occupy vast tracts, empires in themselves, and their rapid settlement...
An Army Doctor’s Frontier Revelations
Robert M. Utley, editor and annotator of An Army Doctor on the Western Frontier: Journals and Letters of John Vance Lauderdale, 1864-1890...
Rollicking Western Filled with Adventure
Mojave (Pinnacle, $6.99), one of the better Western novels to come along in years, is proof that author Johnny D. Boggs is indeed one of the top...
Back-Alley Barbary Coast Murder Mystery
Set in 1876 San Francisco, California, against the backdrop of a smallpox epidemic and seething racial tensions, Emma Donoghue’s exquisitely crafted...
The Gilded General’s Eternal March West
Robert O’Connell’s brilliant biography, Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman (Random House, $28), is a well-researched...
Billy the Kid
Early on the morning of July 18, 1881, mail contractor Michael Cosgrove pulled into Las Vegas direct from Fort Sumner with the biggest news ever to...
Lewis Kingman
When Lewis Kingman peered down into the wasteland abyss of Arizona’s Diablo Canyon, the topography was a world away from the sandy dunes of his...