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...

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...

I loved to go to my grandmother’s house. She loved to cook, and she would sing and hum while she fried up the best potatoes and eggs you have ever...

Cochise biographer Edwin R Sweeney fell in love with the West like a lot of us: through television and a good school library. Raised in and near...

Historians know that they need sympathetic understanding of the lives they are examining, but also that no one can tell them how or where to find...

In Dusty Richards’ Ambush Valley (Pinnacle, $6.99), Deputy U.S. Marshal Chet Byrnes moves to Arizona Territory to escape a Texas feud. He wants to...

Ronald D. Parks engaging account, The Darkest Period: The Kanza Indians and Their Last Homeland, 1846-1873 (University of Oklahoma Press, $34.95)...

James C. Robbin’s The Real Custer—From Boy General to Tragic Hero (Regnery History,$29.99) is a well-written 400-page epic adventure that details...

As the United States commemorates the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, historians have had an opportunity to revisit the legacy and lives of...

When actor and director Steve Ihnat approached Stephen Lodge to work with him on a screenplay that eventually became The Honkers, Lodge had no idea...

Each year Western Writers of America (WWA) adds a distinguished writer to the Western Writers Hall of Fame (HOF). With the breadth and depth of...

William Quantrill addressed his ragtag army on the evening of August 20, 1863. “Boys, this is a hazardous ride, and there is a chance we will all be...