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Top 10 Western Museums of 2007
Charles Lummis had a vision when he founded the Southwest Museum of the American Indian 100 years ago, starting a small museum that would grow into...
A Fate Worse Than Death
The title of this book is a bit misleading, but the subtitle, “Indian captivities in the West, 1830-1885,” clears up the subject matter. The phrase...
Arizona Sheriffs
A nice, compact history of the Arizona lawmen who attempted law and order, and sometimes succeeded, taking us from the territorial era to the...
John B. Armstrong: Texas Ranger and Pioneer Ranchman
Western writers have an endless supply of subject matter if they plan on turning out biographies of every lawman who ever lived. Thus we have John...
Yellowstone Denied
The American West was hard country during the 1860s-1890s. Men with uncommon ambition achieved fame and fortune, but Gustavus Doane was not one of...
Rio Bravo/ The Cowboys
This Burbank-based company specializes in fitting DVD packages with bells and whistles, like last year’s John Ford collection, which contained the...
Frontiers
These Yale colleagues have excellently converted a college textbook into a concise, readable history, reminding me of narrative historians Ray...
Boomtown Saloons
This is a story that informs how we learn other people’s stories. Archaeology is more than just digging around; when done right, it relies on...
Hard and Noble Lives
Talk about six degrees of separation. Although, in a tight cattle community in Wyoming’s Hoback Basin of Sublette County, it only makes sense. The...
Tough Towns
With a direct and amusing style sure to please today’s readers, author Smith regales us with well-researched episodes of Western justice delivered...
One Man With Courage Makes A Majority
February 15, 1900 Today is supposed to be Wells Fargo Express Agent Jeff Milton’s day off. But someone telegraphed in sick, so he is working the run...