You know that old adage, “those who can, do; those who can’t, teach”? University of Texas Professor Michael Collins proves that saying wrong. For...
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Durango, Colorado
Along the Ute’s River of Lost Souls (today’s Animas River), you’ll find “water town,” first labeled as Urango by the Basque and later named after...
Was He a Hero?
How did Buffalo Bill Cody survive the ravages of time? He has a prestigious historical center in Cody, Wyoming, named in his honor and is the theme...
True Texas Cowboys
As a teen in the 1880s, my great-grandfather Tolbert Alexander Burford worked as a wrangler and cowboy during the end of the great cattle drives. In...
Northern Pacific’s Peaks and Valleys
St. Paul, Fargo, Jamestown, Bismarck, Glendive, Billings, Livingston, Bozeman, Missoula, Sandpoint, Spokane, Yakima, Tacoma. These are some of the...
Casper, Wyoming
Wild Bunch outlaw Tom O’Day may not have entered Casper willingly (in 1903, he was tried and jailed for stealing a herd of horses nearby), but many...
Geocaching Adventure
Rain had fallen for more than 24 hours, so it was not a typical morning in Phoenix, Arizona—cold, wet and the air thick with the smell of crushed...
Walk the Read
Do you know the history behind...the pedometer craze sweeping across the nation? Look to the Old Order Amish, who naturally log more than the...
Bookin’ It
Granville Stuart was a lot of things—merchant, miner, rancher, diplomat, vigilante—and an avid reader. His Montana cabin was filled with books...
There Will Be Oscars
The single element that both connected and distinguished David Milch's HBO series Deadwood from the Westerns that preceded it was that the corrupt...
The J. Golden Kimball Stories (Fiction)
This is a serious look at a humorous figure of the Mormon church, J. Golden Kimball. His gaunt figure, magpie voice and fiery delivery made him the...
Victorio: Apache Warrior and Chief (Nonfiction)
This famed Apache left historians with little written record with which to study his life. Although Dan Thrapp's biography adequately utilizes...