“I have just bought fifty-seven pounds of apples to make jelly for the winter; they were two and a half cents a pound,” wrote Mrs. E.M.H. of Lake...
Puttin’ Up the Pantry
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Articles
The Misery of Mining in the Old West
For many miners, the report of 34-year-old Dr. Anthony J. Lanza came a “day late and a dollar short.” Near the beginning of the last century, this...
Mapping the Black Hills: Valentine T. McGillycuddy
Valentine T. McGillcuddy, weak and on the verge of becoming an alcoholic after a stint as a doctor at the Wayne County Insane Asylum in Detroit,...
Patton’s First Two Notches
May 14, 1916 Second Lt. George S. Patton and his force, riding in Dodge touring autos, approach the San Miguelito Ranch from the south,...
Following Isabella
I admire books where a writer uses another writer’s book as a guide to the territory, as Ivan Doig does with a 19th-century diary in Winter Brothers...
The Savage Breed
The Savage Breed unfolds with a rush in a time and place rarely visited by the average Western writer. Randy Denmon takes the reader down a...
Time of the Rangers
Much history and legend of the Lone Star State involves the Texas Rangers. Mike Cox’s Time of the Rangers powerfully carries forward their story...
Sacred Memories
Texas is part of the South as well as the Rangers’ West. Sacred Memories is Kelly McMichael’s guide to Confederate statues on Lone Star courthouse...
Ten Deadly Texans
In Ten Deadly Texans, Lawrence Yadon, Don Anderson and Robert Barr Smith discuss the meanest hombres to encounter Rangers. Among them are Cullen...
Yours to Command
Harold J. Weiss Jr. tells the story of Ranger Capt. Bill McDonald in Yours to Command. A compulsive lawman, Ranger McDonald was also a deputy...
The Mythic West That Matters Now
In his famous 1893 frontier thesis, Frederick Jackson Turner argued that the juncture between the civilization of East and the savagery of the...
Vaquero in a Vacuum
I've heard it said countless times that if you can punch cows in Yavapai County, Arizona, you can punch cows anywhere. The rough, steep, brushy,...