On vacation in the Black Hills of South Dakota, a stiff President Calvin Coolidge cut a comical figure, wearing cowboy boots and a 10-gallon hat, as...
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Ethnic Fare
“Those were exciting days. A regular pageant of non-descript people, coming and going, all the time. “I have but to close my eyes to live it all...
What Would Billy Say?
With the convoluted and contested efforts during the past decade to dig up Billy the Kid, we wondered what a Billy the Kid expert might ask the...
A New Comanche Hero
Johnny D. Boggs continues to give us some of the best Westerns of his career. He hits the readers’ interest dead center with two fast-paced, but...
Wildwood Stables
Grades 3-7: No matter how much classmates tease her, nothing interests eighth-grader Taylor Henry as much as horses. In Daring to Dream, when a...
Blue-Eyed Devil
Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are back after their wild ride in Appaloosa in Robert Parker’s Blue-Eyed Devil. This time they are on the wrong side...
The Functional Side of Cowboy Boots
All the men were well shod in good looking riding boots, except the cook. I learned that the boots were mostly made by a boot maker named Hyer, of...
What’s in His Head?
In his 1910 treatise, Medical Education in the United States and Canada, Mr. Abraham Flexner reported the following startling words to the Carnegie...
The Best BBQ Joints in Texas
Coming from South Carolina, I arrived in Dallas in 1984 and was shocked at what they called barbecue in Texas. It wasn’t pig meat. It was beef. And...
Heil Hitler Away! (English Version)
For those of you who may have wondered what book laid on the reading table next to Adolph Hitler’s bed, you might be surprised to learn it was...
Bad Day at Round Rock
July 19, 1878 Sam Bass has a bold plan. He and his outlaw band will case the bank in Round Rock, Texas, one more time and then strike tomorrow, a...
Framing the West
In Mackay, Idaho, a rugged cowboy and his trusty steed have braved the winter weather and harsh terrain to save a tender calf, with only a beacon of...