A quintessential “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” innovator who had little formal education and was himself a mere stagecoach driver would go...
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The Deadwood Stage
“Rumbling noisily through the black canyon road to Deadwood, at an hour long past midnight, came the stage from Cheyenne, loaded down with...
Denver or Die!
David A. Butterfield was the right man, with the right idea, for the right place. A passenger and freight stage run from Atchison, Kansas, to...
The Frontiersman’s Mexican Loop Holster
"Before leaving the train, I had prudently strapped to my waist a new (how distressingly new) Colt’s six-shooter, that looked and felt a yard long...
Preservation: Petroglyphs in Peril
Petroglyphs in Peril First off, Nine Mile Canyon in eastern Utah is misnamed. It’s actually about 40 miles long. But it’s accurate to say that the...
Amazing Girls of Arizona (Children’s Book)
Young Adult: The young women described in these 11 short profiles reflect the ethnic diversity, varied lifestyles and resourceful character one...
Unbridled Dreams (Fiction)
In this Christian Romance, Irma Friedrich is the spoiled teenage daughter of a banker and a matchmaking mother. Rather than settle for finishing...
Tom Horn: Competent and a Killer
Incompetence is not a word to associate with Tom Horn, for from his teenage years until his death, he more than once proved he was the opposite. Of...
Val Kilmer Returns
Ever since Val Kilmer first appeared as a parody of Elvis in the 1984 comedy Top Secret!, he's had one of the most interesting careers in Hollywood...
Devil Canyon Shoot-Out
APRIL 9, 1905 Navajo County Sheriff Chet Houck and his deputy Pete Pemberton hop a train from Winslow, Arizona, to Canyon Diablo (Devil Canyon), 26...
The Training Ground (Nonfiction)
Although the subtitle of Martin Dugard’s excellent book is “Grant, Lee, Sherman and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-48” and the author protests that...
Unbridled Cowboy (Nonfiction)
When Bob Fussell edited his grandfather’s memoirs, he wondered if the stories were true. Consulting his cousin for suggestions, the response was...