James West was the American Bond on horseback. When he rode on screen in the 1965 delirious madhouse CBS series Wild Wild West, he, in the person of...
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Ship ’em Out
It was a situation that just asked for trouble. In late June 1917, several locals of the International Workers of the World (“Wobblies”)—led by Big...
Tombstone’s Flying Monster
One of the West’s most fascinating cold cases involves a flying monster, a dying town and a disappearing photograph. For decades, people have been...
Con Man’s Curse
Standing over six feet tall, the broad shouldered Josias M. “Si” Tanner stepped up to Jefferson Randolph “Soapy” Smith on the night of July 8, 1898,...
Truce
When assessing the contributions of Western actor Buck Taylor, suffice it to say that his star on the Kanab, Utah, walk of fame sits between those...
Juneau, Alaska
Juneau, Alaska’s mining heritage stretches from 1880 when a Tlingit chief directed Richard Harris and Joe Juneau to gold deposits. The resulting...
Best Stories of the American West
The 20 short stories in this first volume vary from a 1953 Elmore Leonard reprint to more contemporary stories set in the “new” West. The topics...
Hawks and Eagles
Wandering young Joe Good returns to his Fort Willow homestead to find his peaceful father, Vincent, gunned down on orders of land-grabbing rancher...
California Desperadoes
Between WWI and II, writers such as Stuart Lake and Walter Noble Burns penned popular, but careless, studies of Western outlaws and lawmen. They did...
Lone Star Pasts
Attempting to define the difference between memory and reality, this book essentially is a collection of essays written to honor the Texas myth...
The Cowboy Girl
As biographies go, this is no doubt the best I have read in years. Clayton’s narrative story of Caroline Lockhart begins in her young reporter...
Fort Concho and the Texas Frontier
In 1952, Haley’s excellent Fort Concho was published in a short press run that guaranteed it would become not only a classic of Texana but a rare...