Mars needs cowgirls. Whether the aliens have much interest in deadly Daniel Craig or leathery old Harrison Ford has not been established, but...

Western Heritage, edited by Paul Andrew Hutton (University of Oklahoma Press, $19.95), is an excellent selection of prize-winning magazine articles...

Britt Johnson, a former slave, is put to the ultimate test to reclaim his family after a band of Kiowa takes them during the Elm Creek raid in 1864...

Following his hunting trail on Morning Peak Mountain, Jubal Young hears the explosive finale of a land wrangle between his farmer Pa and the...

Once again six-time Western Writers of America Spur award winner Richard S. Wheeler shows how smooth prose and careful historical accuracy, combined...

Olivia Wilde is America’s newest outlaw lady as the mysterious Ella in the Sci-Fi Western Cowboys & Aliens. Wilde’s Ella is a throwback Western...

Jedediah Smith made the first reported crossing of California’s unpredictable and treacherous Sierra Nevada Mountains. Deep snows had forced him and...

I was in Taos, New Mexico, in May 2010 lecturing on Davy Crockett when executive producer Denis Stewart tracked me down. Stewart, an old pro who had...

You wouldn’t know it today when you drive across Colorado and Wyoming, seeing cattle grazing with sheep herds nearby, that a century ago such...

Considering all the guardian angels who have looked over the Galveston Railroad Museum for more than a quarter century, where were they in the early...

The Westerns often had it wrong. They made gunfights so neat and clean, even with all the blood and bullet holes. Most cinematic gunfights went like...

August 7, 1871 Charles Couger is sitting on a bed reading a newspaper in the American House in Abilene, Kansas. Four shots are fired from outside...