Perhaps the greatest example in the Old West of making lemonade out of lemons is what happened in Dakota Territory in the 1870s. That’s when the...

On May 10, 1875, a new judge came to the bench in Fort Smith, Arkansas. His territory covered about 74,000 square miles in parts of Arkansas and the...

Ann Kirschner, university dean of Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York, is a strong and determined historian who finds...

Shadow on the Mesa ($15) is a solid Western from Hallmark, starring Kevin Sorbo, Greg Evigan and Barry Corbin. They offer fine support to Wes...

This is a fine look at an important part of Montana history: how Montana transformed from territory to statehood while profoundly influenced by...

WILLA-award-winning author Amy Hale Auker has been an essayist, until Winter of Beauty (Pen-L Publishing, $14.97). The story is mainly about Shiney,...

Art of the American Frontier: From the Buffalo Bill Center of the West (Yale University Press, $45) accompanies a major exhibition of paintings,...

The evolution of bronze Western sculptures in the formative years of the medium is the subject of The American West in Bronze, 1850-1925...

Deep in the subconscious spirit of the people of the Americas is a love affair with the horse. While the modern horse did not come to the Western...

Two Universal Westerns have been released on blu-ray as “40th Anniversary Editions,” High Plains Drifter ($20) and My Name is Nobody ($25). Although...