Few movie producers can claim to being enshrined on the surface of the moon. Larry Zeug is the exception: “When I worked at Rocketdyne, I was in the...
Rough Drafts 6/13
Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana revealed exciting news at our True Westerner celebration honoring them, on March 9, during Arizona’s Tucson Festival...
“A Killer is What They Needed”
n the year 1886, Commodore Perry Owens became sheriff of Apache County, Arizona Territory. He had no regular law enforcement background, but he was...
Outlaws
Outlaws: Songs of Robbers, Rustlers, and Rogues is like having someone sing you a book of stories. “John Hardy,” “Sam Bass,” “Cole Younger” and...
A Lawless Breed
With A Lawless Breed: John Wesley Hardin, Texas Reconstruction, and Violence in the Wild West, authors Chuck Parsons and Norman Wayne Brown have...
Top Five Koblas Reads
At any moment, Minnesota native John J. “Jack” Koblas was likely to break out into an animated talk about baseball, Science Fiction, Horror or...
June 2013 Events
Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West. ART SHOWS PRIX DE WEST Oklahoma City, OK, June 7-8: An invitational contemporary...
Drinking with the Friars
After moving to White Oaks, New Mexico, in 1886, Albert Zeigler was awaiting 10 gallons of “very fine wine,” as the pioneer put it, that ox teams...
Custer’s Dash
Courageous. Brilliant. Foolhardy. Ambitious. Insubordinate. Aloof. Flamboyant. Vainglorious. These are all terms used by contemporaries and...
The Windsor Widow
Mark Jones thought he was having a leisurely haircut in the small Colorado town of Del Norte that he and his wife had chosen for their retirement....
A Feel-Good Story
The first time I visited the Pine Ridge Reservation in the southwest corner of South Dakota, I stopped at the Wounded Knee Memorial—and I couldn’t...
Which Dodge City dance hall star was shot in her sleep at the mayor’s home?
Which Dodge City dance hall star was shot in her sleep at the mayor’s home? Don Schneider North Ogden, Utah Beautiful and talented, Dora Hand was...