In her book, Izumi Ishii demolishes the simplistic stereotype of the Indian (in her case, the Cherokee) as a congenital drunkard. True, abuse of...

In her book, Izumi Ishii demolishes the simplistic stereotype of the Indian (in her case, the Cherokee) as a congenital drunkard. True, abuse of...
The author has spent a lifetime wandering the American West and Mexico. As one would imagine, he has seen and learned much in his travels. In this...
The social progress of Texan black women now surpasses that of black males and white females. In this unique anthology, regional historians...
What an intriguing book! Ed and Lon Maxwell rivaled the James boys in their career of horse stealing, robberies and killings, but none of it...
For a quarter of a century, undeclared wars crackled along the Arizona-Sonora border where more than 175 ranchers and young Sonoran men have been...
These two tense tales show Paine’s mastery of the Western and its heroes—men who not only take on trouble but ride straight over it. In “Dead Men in...
Several years ago, Kat Vinson contemplated purchasing five villas and operating them as a bed and breakfast in Camp Verde, Arizona. Before making...
A barrel of whiskey kick-started this frontier burg. The first business that opened on the site of Dodge City was George M. Hoover’s and John...
Pascal M. Kelly, born in 1886, turned out his first pair of spurs as early as 1903, in the Texas Panhandle town Childress. In 2008, one of his pairs...
Back in 1986, while participating in an “archaeological dig” at the site of the McSween house in Lincoln, New Mexico, I first met Bob McCubbin. To...
Tourists that spend their money to see rocks and falls are fools,” a shepherd told John Muir in 1869 during Muir’s fabled First Summer in the...
The “massacre” at Wounded Knee is still contentious today. Some historians consider it a battle in which a peaceful surrender of weapons went...