Zane Grey was the most important Western novelist, writing the best-selling Riders of the Purple Sage (1912). Candace Kant has done a scholarly,...

Zane Grey was the most important Western novelist, writing the best-selling Riders of the Purple Sage (1912). Candace Kant has done a scholarly,...
Here’s a collection of some of the more interesting 20th-century Texas eccentrics Fowler calls “performing artists.” Like the millionaire who played...
This lavishly illustrated book is the companion volume to an exhibition at the Washington State History Museum. Schwantes and Ronda discuss how the...
Even the protracted, chaotic writing of Tom Swift could not destroy this uplifting story about the life of Charles Bender. As a young Ojibwa Indian...
Susan G. Clark knows her subject well. A professor of Wildlife Ecology and Policy Sciences, she has written many books on this topic. Clark draws...
Calif. Parks’ Death Knell? Citizen action led to the creation of the California State Parks system more than 100 years ago—and similar action has...
While watching our favorite Western movie or TV characters eat a sumptuous meal at the local boarding house, café or sitting around the old...
The Big Trail (1930) succeeded in recreating, from the widest vistas to the smallest details, the saga of those men, women and children who crossed...
Word is out that Robert Downey Jr., fresh from his success as Tony Stark in the summer blockbuster Iron Man, may be cast in the Brian Grazer/Ron...
Harvey House is History In January, we wrote about ongoing efforts to save the historic Havasu Harvey House in Seligman, Arizona. Today, the circa...
Thanks to an inquiry from my electrician friend Rob Brown of Montrose, Colorado, I am treating you to a medical discussion of Old West hangings....
For most of his life, Henry Martinez had no idea he was part of history. He grew up in the western New Mexico town of Reserve, population 336 today,...