As the SUV rounds the curve, I can see the Associated Press bulletin flashing into newsrooms across the world: “URGENT: Last Casualties of the...
Black Bart’s Bad Day
November 3, 1883 The Sonora-Milton stage rattles along, empty, save for the driver. Reason E. McConnell has been on the road for three hours since...
Roger Archibald
“Is that pencil?” mocks Western artist and Arizona native Roger Archibald. When people’s eyes first fall upon his black-and-white depictions of...
Keepers of the Seed
A partnership allows the first Cornhuskers to save the ancient Eagle Corn seed. The last 50 kernels of Eagle Corn were kept in a mayonnaise...
Silver City’s Treasure
Susan Berry grew up in Silver City, New Mexico, a place she remembers as “not a lot happening, but loaded with potential.” She spent 36 years of her...
Sauerkraut Scout
Karl May was a man of many parts, to say the least. Part Zane Grey, part P.T. Barnum, part Soapy Smith, part Walter Mitty, part Nietzsche, part...
Salty Thieves
“Another Robbery, This One On the Yukon, Netted $7,000,” read the August 31, 1898, headline in The Helena Independent. These clever thieves had used...
From Vaqueros to Buckaroos
“He is ever a picturesque figure, whether in groups or dismounted and standing alone on the great prairie, watching the train flash past him,...
Land-Hungry Pioneers
It’s hard to believe, but if it were not for Honest Abe, America would never have had: 1. Daniel Freeman 2. Little House on the Prairie 3. Marty...
Song of My Heart
Christian Romance readers will enjoy Kim Vogel Sawyer’s latest book Song of My Heart, portraying 22-year-old Sadie Wagner, the member of a large and...
Blood Storm
Novelist Bill Brooks has spun a Five Star Western that comes to the aid of strumpet Liddy Winslow. After opening a Deadwood escort service, she...
The Loner: Inferno
You’ve read it before: the unknown rider comes to a nameless town. In this J.A. Johnstone tale, our unknown owns up to being a Kid Morgan, following...