From San Juan Pueblo, in present-day New Mexico, to Mexico City, Mexico, the Royal Road (El Camino Real) ran 1,500 miles through some of the most...
Following the Royal Road
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Great Train Robberies of the Old West
What a wonderful little gem of a book this is! For those who just want the action-packed, train-robbing stories of the Old West, it’s all here. ...
Great Train Robberies of the Old West
What a wonderful little gem of a book this is! For those who just want the action-packed, train-robbing stories of the Old West, it’s all here. ...
On Location!
Harry Goulding sure didn’t come across as a Hollywood Western hero. But he was. Harry got there by a meandering route, though. In the 1920s, he and...
Trailing the First Indian Person
“Yes, we have Standing Bear, too” Betty Davis tells me when I spy the photograph of the legendary Ponca chief at the Douglas County Historical...
Vengeance Moon
Harried from his Virginia home by a murder he didn’t commit, Mountain Man Matt Slaughter finds a wild Garden of Eden in the Big Horns, a loving...
Texas Showdown
Two novels by seven-time Spur winner Elmer Kelton about his home, west Texas, have been released in one volume. In the first novel, titled Pecos...
Under the Sunset Rim
In this Historical Romance written from the male point of view, Dave Weldon is an honest Montana cowboy temporarily out of work. He thwarts a...
Sunset Trail
In the first of this “Western Duo,” Sunset Trail has U.S. Agent Bruce Shane striving to thwart an illegal shipment of rifles meant to carve out a...
What pistol did Wild Bill Hickok favor?
What pistol did Wild Bill Hickok favor? David Edelen Millbrook, Alabama Hickok’s weapon of choice was the 1851 .36 caliber Navy Colt, although he...
What can you tell me about hat cords in the frontier military?
What can you tell me about hat cords in the frontier military? Richard T. Hernandez Fontana, California Hat cords were yellow for cavalry, red for...
If John Wayne was granted deferment from military service during WWII because he had a large family, wouldn’t this make him a draft dodger?
If John Wayne was granted deferment from military service during WWII because he had a large family, wouldn’t this make him a draft dodger?...