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...
John B. Armstrong: Texas Ranger and Pioneer Ranchman
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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...
Tracking the Great Bear
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark wrote often of encounters with Ursus horribilis—grizzly bears—as they made their pioneering journey across the...
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...
Tracking the Great Bear
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark wrote often of encounters with Ursus horribilis—grizzly bears—as they made their pioneering journey across the...
Birth of a State
November 16 dawned warm and sunny in Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory, in 1907. Citizens of the Twin Territories had been traveling for days to get to...