Without a doubt, Nobody’s Horses is the best read of the year. Wild horses are as natural to the West as the rivers that run through it. This is the...
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Digging Up Massacres
Since the day it happened, Sand Creek Massacre has maintained its station as one of the most emotionally charged and con-troversial events in...
Range Story Tops Rare Book Sale
Forget the “blood and thunder” pulps, most readers appreciate a true-to-life range story. At least that’s what antiquarian bookseller Dudley...
On a Mission in San Antone
Dressed in cowboy hat and boots, I’m walking across the San Antonio Missions Visitors Center parking lot with my four-year-old son when a docent...
Preservation: Indian Days of ’76 Rodeo
Indian Days of ’76 Rodeo HIT: Indian high school students will be documenting Indian participation in the historic Days of ’76 Rodeo in Deadwood,...
Top 10 True Western Towns of 2007
Given to towns that have made an important contribution to preserving their pasts. We hope this award will encourage federal, state and local...
Broken Trail
Maybe it’s just me, but doesn’t it seem a tad presumptuous for the makers of this Western to already be referring to it as legendary? I expect they...
Singing Cowboys
Can you imagine Gunsmoke’s Festus belting out a tune for Miss Kitty? Why not? Do you think Roy Rogers and Gene Autry were the only singing cowboys?...
Mexican Gold Trail
The Huntington Library is reprinting some of its regional classics. This fine Gold Rush journal by George W.B. Evans was ably edited by the late...
The Clark Gable Collection: The Tall Men
Hollywood director Fritz Lang once remarked that Cinemascope was only good for snakes and funerals. Perhaps today he would have included snakes on a...
Austin, Texas
Waterloo, Texas? Yes, that’s what Austin went by back in 1837 before Mirabeau B. Lamar renamed the city two years later in honor of the “Father of...
Guns of Vengance Trail
Coming from the armories of film studios, including 20th Century Fox, Stembridge Gun Rentals, RKO and MGM, all of which sold their firearms...