One of a new generation of Texas historians, Glen Sample Ely takes up his literary bowie knife and slices Texas into two different states in Where...

In The Case of the Indian Trader, we learn that for more than 40 years, Billy Malone had cultivated a trusting relationship with the Navajo Indians....

Bronco Bill Walters was a cowboy’s cowboy, but he took a wrong turn down the outlaw trail in the 1890s. And as Karen Holliday Tanner & John D....

In his Great Sioux War Orders of Battle, Paul Hedren closely examines the Army’s 28 deployments in the 1876-77 Great Sioux War. He finds that...

Richard Kluger re-creates the 1853-54 conflict between whites and Puget Sound Indians in The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek. The little remembered...

David L. Bigler and Will Bagley, an excellent team, join up again with The Mormon Rebellion. The coauthors consider the almost bloodless Mormon War...

I have driven cattle in New Mexico, Colorado, Texas and even in Uruguay and beyond, participating in everything from city slicker-type drives to...

A party is always going on at Larimer Square. Maybe that’s why somebody just handed me a shot of tequila. Oh, well, when in Denver.... When I first...

I have spent years traveling overland trails in the West; some might say I have an obsession for traveling three miles an hour in a covered wagon....

It just didn’t seem right that a tombstone was propped up in front of an antique store in Mayer, Arizona. That’s what a casual shopper felt, getting...

“Bartlesville is an interesting blend of Western, Native American and energy history. When I think of this fascinating place, it brings to mind...

After the 13 Colonies rebelled against King George III, fife, drums and trumpets kept field commands attune to men in the heat of combat or on the...