Some of the greatest conversations of my life have been the ones I was blessed to share with Louis L’Amour. Mr. L’Amour’s knowledge of the Old West,...

Two Experts Weigh In Randolph Farmer sets out to explain the man behind a legend in “Curly Bill:” Horse Thief, Cattle Rustler, Murderer, Lawman...

Dale Morgan was an indefatigable researcher who wrote vivid history. Celebrated for studies of the fur trade and trails, he planned a multivolume...

With gripping details, Chris Enss’s portrayals in Bedside Book of Bad Girls: Outlaw Women of the Midwest revisits times and circumstances that...

When it comes to author Thom Hatch’s latest effort, The Last Outlaws: The Lives and Legends of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (New American...

“A visit inspires love of country; begets contentment; engenders pride of possession; contains the antidote for national restlessness. It teaches...

In its day, the “queen of the row” cost three times more for a trip upstairs than any other bordello charged in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Miss Laura...

"All the cookin’ o’ course was done at the fireplace….  Later, when we got pigs, father smoked ham an’ bacon for the winter. First after the hogs...

Scottsdale is named after Winfield Scott, but not the one you’re thinking of. The bustling, upscale city (population 221,000) takes its name from a...

In September 1897, Jefferson Randolph Smith arrived in Skagway, Alaska, to make his fortune. Most people headed north to strike it rich in the gold...

In rock ’n’ roll’s first across-the-charts hit, written on a paper bag in 1955 by Carl Perkins, the singer admonishes his dance partner not to step...