April 16, 1881 Traveling mostly by rail, Bat Masterson has just covered 1,100 miles to come to the aid of his estranged brother Jim. Bat was just in...

Melody Groves continues her award-winning Colton Brothers Saga in Kansas Bleed, putting the brothers in the middle of Bloody Kansas.  When fiery...

In the last decade, with the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery exploration of the West in 2004-2006, and the current...

How do you solve a murder case that’s 150 years cold? It’s not easy, not when you can’t examine the victims’ bodies, and all you have to go on is a...

In the introduction to Edmund G. Ross: Soldier-Senator-Abolitionist, author Richard A. Ruddy commented: his interest in this subject “began in part...

Rick Steber needs little introduction to many readers of True West.  The author of more than 30 books, Steber has long been fascinated with...

For decades, the Mandan people of the northern plains, whose vast and well-organized communities greeted French trappers and Lewis and Clark, were...

What most folks don’t know about Maynard Dixon is he spent most of his life and career in the metropolitan art center of San Francisco. I fell in...

Fort Laramie is one of the great frontier posts in the West, now restored as a national historic site with a complete complement of structures: Army...

2014-02-24Ask most people to name a river that flows in North Dakota, and you’ll probably hear the Missouri (we thank you, Lewis and Clark) and...

To the Lakota, it was the Moonshell River; to the French explorers, La Rivière North Platte; to the Americans, the North Platte. Whatever its name,...

The Hill Country in Texas is steeped in rich history, and you can still step back in time when you visit. The area boasts historic sites, music,...