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...

A nice, compact history of the Arizona lawmen who attempted law and order, and sometimes succeeded, taking us from the territorial era to the...

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...

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...

These Yale colleagues have excellently converted a college textbook into a concise, readable history, reminding me of narrative historians Ray...

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...

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...

With a direct and amusing style sure to please today’s readers, author Smith regales us with well-researched episodes of Western justice delivered...