Don’t bother getting the new Blu-ray of 1954’s Vera Cruz. Since it was the first movie to use SuperScope, an expanded 35mm process, that might...

As a terrific documentary on this 50th anniversary Blu-ray edition of 1961’s The Comancheros tells us, John Wayne came out of the 1950s looking to...

Mark Santiago tackles the issue of the Spanish deportation of Apache prisoners of war during the late 18th and into the early 19th centuries in The...

Roger L. Di Silvestro gives an accurate, lively account of Teddy Roosevelt’s formative years in the Dakota Badlands—warts and all. The Badlands...

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...