During the recent Arizona History Convention in Prescott, Arizona, a group of us were treated to keynote speaker Paul Andrew Hutton (who is on...
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Carson’s Cannons Win the Day
The First Battle of Adobe Walls, in 1864, was a sort of full-dress rehearsal for the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876. At the former, Col. Kit...
Frontier Photographers Reveal Our Past
From Daguerreotype views, through collodion, wet and dry, stereographs, to the film that I still use and cherish, Rachel McLean Sailor in Meaningful...
La Gente Nuevo of Spanish North America
Danna A. Levin Rojo’s Return to Aztlan: Indians, Spaniards, and the Invention of Nuevo México challenge the traditional interpretations of the...
Debut Western Rides Hard Across Arizona Territory
Jeff Guinn’s Glorious: A Novel of the American West is the old story of plucky pioneers defending themselves against a ruthless rancher; but then so...
July 2014 Events
A Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West. ADVENTURE Kit Carson Wagon Train Monte Vista, CO, July 30-Aug. 2: Named after the...
Bad Hand Mackenzie
Born into a prominent New York family on July 27, 1840, Ranald Slidell Mackenzie was destined to live his life seated in a McClellan saddle on the...
The Northern Plains to the Pacific Northwest
North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington mark their quasquicentennials—125 years since achieving statehood—this year and it is a good time...
Dead Is Better
Dead horses and dead men can be a hard sell in 2014, but not when it comes to a Charlie Russell painting. So says eminent Russell scholar Brian...
The Gang Slayer
December 19, 1854 Three American prospectors are traversing a miner’s trail in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains (see map below). As Capt....
Treasures of the Old West
When the Spanish explored the West, they discovered numerous ruins clinging to cliff sides and mountain tops. Today, many of these ancient Puebloan...
A Man to Match the Land
John Wayne had incrementally risen from three-day pictures to six-day pictures to ten-day pictures, with corresponding increases in salary but very...