Dellie Blachly overcame tragedy to bring higher education to her sons. Dellie Blachly was a shrewd, driven and courageous woman—in her time...
Raising Them Right
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Frederick Nolan
Frederick Nolan March 7, 1931 - June 15, 2022 An English historian redefined the scholarship on Billy the Kid. The one thing that...
Robert M. Utley
Robert M. Utley October 31, 1929 - June 7, 2022 A former student’s personal tribute remembers a great historian, mentor and friend. Robert M....
My Stage Partners
Fred Nolan and Robert Utley could riff with the best of them. In April of 2012, I was giving a history talk in a tent on the concourse of Ruidoso...
Truth Be Known
Old Vaquero Sayings “Be careful when you follow the masses; sometimes the M is silent.” Quotes “Life can’t defeat a writer who is in love...
Home on the Range
For four decades, former Nebraska homesteader-turned-frontier photographer Solomon D. Butcher posed homesteader families and their livestock in...
What History Has Taught Me: W.K. (Kip) Stratton
Author, Historian, Poet W.K. (Kip) Stratton wrote the Los Angeles Times bestseller The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the...
Cowboys, Shotguns and Hackamores
Where did Cowboys like John Ringo and Curly Bill Brocius live? Walt Serefin Shawnee, Kansas They spent much of their time in Galeyville, Arizona...
Western Roundup: July/August 2022
PRESCOTT FRONTIER DAYS’ WORLD’S OLDEST RODEO Prescott, AZ, June 28-July 4: The 135th annual rodeo celebrates the 50th anniversary of the release of...
Ridin’ the Rails
Historic Train Excursions Coast to Coast From North Carolina to California, Montana to Texas, “ridin’ the rails” is reminiscent of days gone by,...
Riding for the Guidon
U.S. Cavalry School at Little Bighorn Battlefield is a real-life history lesson. I stood on the banks of the Little Bighorn River at Medicine Tail...
Muskogee, Oklahoma
The historic city celebrates its music, history and Old Glory. Anyone of age in 1969 when Merle Haggard released his megahit song “Okie From...