When the Spanish explored the West, they discovered numerous ruins clinging to cliff sides and mountain tops. Today, many of these ancient Puebloan...

John Wayne had incrementally risen from three-day pictures to six-day pictures to ten-day pictures, with corresponding increases in salary but very...

No man is an island, isolated from his time and place, so exploring the world of a historical individual not only gives a sense of reality to his...

Considering George Armstrong Custer died nearly 140 years ago, it’s remarkable that so many feel they know him today. Some think of him as the...

Florence Mildred Campbell was desperate to be the wife of John Rathom, a star reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1896, with whom she was...

  I know someone is into Billy the Kid as soon as they ask me what he was really like, as if I knew him personally. Some people are Kid Krazy,...

Ask anyone to name a Chiricahua Apache, and you will probably hear “Cochise” or “Geronimo.” But the first name coming to my mind is always Allan...

In the 1960s, James Warren and Forrest J. Ackerman’s Famous Monsters of Filmland was such a runaway success, covering old and new Horror movies, the...

Reportedly born around 1886, Rafael “Red” López was a bad man. He killed six men—including five law officers—in late 1913 near Bingham, Utah. Then...

Who doesn’t like a mystery? And a saga of vengeance? Cynthia Leal Massey Death of a Texas Ranger (Globe Pequot, $16.95) combines these two genres...

If you’re looking for a place to jump in to Loren Estleman’s enormous output, his novel of Wyatt Earp’s vendetta, Bloody Season; or his tale of the...

In American Carnage: Wounded Knee, 1890 (University of Oklahoma Press, $24.89), Jerome A. Greene, former research historian for the National Park...