If walls could talk, one of the most interesting stories any walls in the West could tell would come from the Beaumont Hotel in Ouray, Colorado....
The Kings of the Beaumont
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Articles
The Emperor’s Old Guns
Imagine the elevator of a posh Vegas hotel opening its doors, revealing a man holding a toilet paper torch, wearing a king-sized sheet clad around...
Run Out of Town On a Rail
A Western romance comes to life while I ride on Amtrak’s Southwest Chief. I feel its authenticity—from the close-up scenery speeding past the window...
Horse Trading for a Better Guthrie
Many nights, during the late 1970s, Ralph McCalmont had to remind himself he was trying to save Oklahoma's "magic city." Opposition was so loud and...
Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War
Ages 9-12: Luke and Jenny Bartlett are vacationing in Lincoln, New Mexico, with their mom while Dad is on duty in Iraq. Suddenly, the ghost of a...
Brides of the West (Fiction)
This collection of historical romances consists of three novellas set in Texas. The protagonist in each story is a mail-order bride. True to the...
Black Rock Cañon
When horse hunters Del Rockwall and youthful Tie Taylor drift through Montana’s backlands looking for wild mustangs, they encounter two sights that...
Burn English (Fiction)
Burn English unbelievably abandons his successful New Mexico horse ranch and drifts north. Contemplating suicide, he wants to get away from a...
Virgin River (Fiction)
Mountain Man Barnaby Skye and his two Indian wives, Mary of the Shoshone and Victoria of the Crow, drift through the golden summer of 1857 living...
Bud Ballew: Legendary Oklahoma Lawman (Nonfiction)
Deputy Sheriff Bud Ballew’s district near Ardmore, Oklahoma, in the first two decades of the 20th century bristled with restless oil boomtowns....
A Few Good Horses (Nonfiction)
Pierce Burns brings us the true story of his family during the Depression years in West Texas. The family ranch, begun in 1873 by his grandfather,...
Life of a Soldier on the Western Frontier (Nonfiction)
The primary purpose of the Western frontier army was to subdue Indians. The reason it took so long was because the Indians could probably smell...