Don Blevins often ferrets out the quirky elements in history, and he has just added another gem to his fine works on Texas history. The subjects...
A Priest, a Prostitute & Some Other Early Texans (Nonfiction)
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Oklahoma Rough Rider (Nonfiction)
Never heard of Billy McGinty? Most of us haven’t, but this guy did everything. He was an Oklahoma cowboy, a Roosevelt Rough Rider, a performer with...
Paul Andrew Hutton
The best thing about being a Distinguished Professor is the freedom one enjoys from the demands of others and the unfailing inspiration provided by...
Retreat at the Homestead Ranch
The first night Duaine Hagen spent at the Homestead Ranch was not exactly pleasant. He, a friend and a cousin reached the high elevation Wyoming...
A Good Enough Mine
The silver mine was good enough in 1878 to birth Tombstone, Arizona. And it was good enough in 2007 when the mine opened for public tours, bringing...
Dashing Through the Snow
Just because winter is here doesn’t mean that you have to say good-bye to riding. In the right conditions and with the right gear, you can enjoy the...
Worst Turkeys of the West
Writing about Western history as a not-by-a-damn-sight Robert Utley, traveling across the West as a not-by-a-damn-sight Candy Moulton, absorbing...
Kemo Sabe Unmasked
The history of the Texas Rangers is the history of Western movies. When Broncho Billy Anderson told director Edwin S. Porter that he could ride like...
Outlaw Trail Collection
Back in the early 1970s, when a handful of Country singers and songwriters decided that they could bypass the stranglehold of the Nashville...
Stranger on Horseback
Every so often a Western sneaks up on my blind side and surprises me. I’ve always respected Jacques Tourneur as a director, and his better known...
Radio Westerns
Speaking of Rangers on the radio, Old Time Radio Catalog (otrcat.com) is a company that offers a huge variety of radio programs on disc for...
Creepy Bastards
Dwight Yoakam and Kris Kristofferson are two singers who have played complete bastards in any number of movies. So the prospect of the two of them...