Did Old West cowboys ever use a two-handed grip to fire their handguns? Dr. Byron LloydSnellville, Georgia Jim Roberts, top gun in Arizona’s storied...

Canyon, Texas
Chances are good you’ve seen Palo Duro Canyon, even if you have never been there. Georgia O’Keeffe regularly visited the canyon when she was the...

Billie Bierer’s Buffalo soldier Reads
In her novel The Audacity of Patience Levi, Billie Bierer based her lead character on the female Buffalo Soldier Cathy Williams. Shared here are...

Dragoons in Apacheland
William S. Kiser ably fills a historical void by covering the role of the U.S. dragoons in New Mexico, particularly the challenges they faced with...

Gunfighter in Gotham
Many deem Robert K. DeArment’s 1979 biography, Bat Masterson: The Man and the Legend, as essential reading. DeArment’s Gunfighter in Gotham attempts...

Texas Dames
In Texas, everything is bigger—even the accomplishments of the Lone Star State’s women. The collection of biographies contained in Carmen...

Something Big
Imagine charming outlaw Dean Martin kidnapping gorgeous Honor Blackman in a battle of the sexes that includes low comedy, fights (gun, fist and...

Honoring Elmore
The success of FX’s Justified, created by Graham Yost from Elmore Leonard’s short story “Fire in the Hole,” is by now as familiar as Raylan Given’s...

Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher
In Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis, Timothy Egan charts the career of Curtis from as far...

The Irish Influence
"Reader, when at the big hotels, call for the dish on the bill of fare called, ‘fillet de bouf et pommes de terre hachis a l’Hibernais,’ and you...

Surviving in Tucson…
I haven’t seen this many people on a college campus since I was making my way around the University of Texas in Austin for a Bruce Springsteen...

On Wild Bunch Time
The infamous Wild Bunch made a trip to Fort Worth, Texas, in November 1900 to attend the wedding of gang member Will Carver to Callie May Hunt, one...