The social progress of Texan black women now surpasses that of black males and white females. In this unique anthology, regional historians...
Black Women in Texas History (Nonfiction)
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Articles
Dime Novel Desperadoes: The Notorious Maxwell Brothers (Nonfiction)
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...
Wolves at Our Door (Fiction)
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...
Patterson: A Western Duo (Fiction)
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...
House of the Butterfly
Several years ago, Kat Vinson contemplated purchasing five villas and operating them as a bed and breakfast in Camp Verde, Arizona. Before making...
Dodge City, Kansas
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...
Signature Spurs
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...
How to Get Rich Buying Books
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...
Tramping Through Our National Parks With John Muir
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...
Witness to History
The “massacre” at Wounded Knee is still contentious today. Some historians consider it a battle in which a peaceful surrender of weapons went...
Fred King
The most expensive boots ever were a pair we made out of American Alligator, sporting gold leaf inlays with diamonds and rubies and going for $45K....
Oh, the Horror!
Director Neil Marshall (The Descent) has been talking about filming a Western, Sacrilege, which he describes as “Unforgiven, by way of H.P....