"Go west young man and grow with the country,” wrote one news reporter, and, at 17, Jack Swilling went west to do just that. Born John William...

"I prefer working where I can control things, and you can’t outdoors.” The surprising, almost stunning, part about that quote is that it came from...

Despite the television show’s invitation to return to “those thrilling days of yesteryear,” The Lone Ranger of the 1950s depicted times, places and...

On Christmas Eve in 1986, Clayton Moore flew into Houston, Texas, and discovered his luggage was lost, an unfortunate, but rather commonplace, event...

Regardless of whether a frontiersman carried a simple pocket-sized folding knife, a skinner, a camp knife or a full-sized fighting blade, he...

Like a heroic Mexican corrido, historian-musician Mark Lee Gardner’s Shot All to Hell: Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West’s...

Frontier Cavalry Trooper: The Letters of Private Eddie Matthews, 1869-1874, edited by Douglas C. McChristian, is a rarity amidst the books, diaries...

In Dirty Words in Deadwood: Literature and the Postwestern, Melody Graulich and Nicholas S. Witschi offer a smart collection of 11 essays that...

In the early morning hours of February 3, 1897, Frank Novak’s dry goods store—in the small Iowa town of Walford—went up in flames. The townspeople...

Mo Griffin’s Night Riders in the Tallgrass is an uncomplicated cowboy story that, once Griffin gets up to speed, becomes an enjoyable adventure....

Western artist and award-winning author Max Evans, best known for his novels The Rounders, Hi Lo Country, One Eyed Sky and Bluefeather Fellini, as...

Solomon Butcher first saw Nebraska in 1880 when he claimed homestead land in northeast Custer County. He had been working in Ohio as a traveling...