Edgar award-winning historian Howard Blum’s The Floor of Heaven reads like a novel and has the scent of a best seller and future screenplay. His...

Joe Sonderman has turned out a nice addition to the annals of Route 66 history. His book is a good overall history of the highway as it was...

The stories of cowboy life on the Chisholm Trail are often recounted; even John Wayne shared a slice of Chisholm cowboyin’ in 1948’s Red River. But...

They thought they were just buying out the family business—the hotel Joe Duncan’s folks had owned off-and-on for decades. The two-story, pink...

The sign above the building front is optimistic, to say the least: Most Interesting Spot. Where Real Indians Trade. Nobody trades at the Kewa Pueblo...

In the last 30 years, “...cookery has made immense strides thanks to the importation of French, Italian, German and English cooks, seconded by the...

The Old West frontier town was dirty, dusty, smelly and often dangerously unhealthy. In those early days most people did not understand or...

January 11, 1886 Captain Emmet Crawford is on the brink of victory. Yesterday, his punitive raiding party of three officers, one medic, one...

This librarian up in Idaho is giving C.J. Box the evil eye. Murder is in this dame’s heart, and Box figures he’s about to take that big sleep. A...

“I felt like crying, for the sacred hoop was broken and scattered. The life of the people was in the hoop, and what are many little lives if the...

“In the bag,” he said as he opened it and removed two objects, “is the broken shell of the iron kettle, a pebble from the butte, and a piece of the...

With drawn six-guns, Tiburcio Vasquez rode rampant across early California to become one of the Golden State’s most colorful desperados. Vasquez was...