A born storyteller, the California ranch girl has worked hard at her craft to become a successful Western novelist and screenwriter. ...
Lee Martin
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Articles
Hallowed Heroes Sacred Lands
A dual biography of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, plus a novel of the Mexican War, a history of slavery on the border, a classic Western and a...
Idaho Trout
Idaho may be synonymous with potatoes, but trout has been a pioneer staple since it was first settled where cold rivers, streams and creeks were...
Magnet for Miners
A tour of Western Montana is rich in mining heritage, ghost towns and living history centers. Gold seekers started flooding into western Montana in...
The Return of Crazy Horse
The Tale of the Empty Chamber
Billy the Kid vs. Joe Grant - An Eyewitness Revelation January 10, 1880 Bob Hargrove’s saloon in Old Fort Sumner, New Mexico, is packed with...
Hickok’s Twist of Fate
Wild Bill’s 1870 drunken brawl with Custer’s troopers is as legendary as the man of many names he killed. On July 17, 1870, Wild Bill Hickok...
A Hero’s Journey from War to Peace
The federal government’s betrayal of Army Scout Chato is still a stain on American history. In 1934 Chato, well into his 80s, a shiny silver medal...
Crazy Horse’s Final Vision
The prophetic Lakota leader’s final days still haunt us today. There were too many tongues. Crazy Horse sought quiet on solitary walks on the...
Big Irons on the Block
Rock Island and Morphy firearms auctions ring up big profits. Marty Robbins famously sang about a stranger who came out of the West wearing a "big...
If it Moves, If it Spins, You’ll Find it Here
This truly was the “engine” for Albuquerque. The first thing Rabbi Isador Freed did in 1920, as he de-parted the train in a dusty New Mexico town,...
America’s Sherlock Holmes
William J. Burns proved a worth competitor to the Pinkertons...for a time. For a few years in the early 20th century, the William J. Burns...