Robert M. Utley, editor and annotator of An Army Doctor on the Western Frontier: Journals and Letters of John Vance Lauderdale, 1864-1890...
An Army Doctor’s Frontier Revelations
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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...
Single Shot of Southern Comfort
In 1875, when U.S. Army wife Martha Summerhayes’s Army ambulance was being escorted through Arizona Territory, from Camp Apache to Camp Ehrenberg...
Ghostly Soldiers March On
In the winter of 1866-67, Lt. Keene led cavalrymen from Fort Sedgwick, Colorado, on a mission to rescue government wood cutters. After 21 hours...
The Blast at Steins Pass
December 7, 1897 Two cowboys, Dave Atkins and Ed Cullen, step inside the Steins Pass train depot in southwestern New Mexico a few minutes past 6...
Robbers of the Rails
Face it—nothing says “Old West” quite like a good, old-fashioned, American train robbery. The image is burned in our brains: a gang of masked men...
Above and Beyond the Call of Duty
About 1980, a planchet was discovered near the Arizona community of Wheatfields, just a few miles north of Miami, about 40 miles east of the old San...
On the Trail of Bigfoot
True West asked me to track down Bigfoot. Huh? You mean the giant, hairy beast that they do the television documentaries about? What’s next—ancient...