How did the term “cowpoke” come about? Mike Franklin Poteet, Texas The dictionary states that “cowboy” is from 1725 and originally meant just what...
How did the term “cowpoke” come about?
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Wickenburg, Arizona
An 1862 gold rush near Yuma, Arizona, spurred the interest of gold prospectors including an Austrian named Henry Wickenburg. His discovery of the...
The Hart Brand
Fourteen-year-old Caleb Hart is ready to live the American dream when he ventures west to ride the Hart Brand range for his uncompromising uncle,...
The Tobermory Manuscript
This mystery is centered around an actual 1870s land scheme in which an Englishman named Lord Dunraven and his cohorts fraudulently acquired...
What shirts were popular in the Old West?
What shirts were popular in the Old West? Katrina Allen Linden, Arizona Most shirts were pullovers and had buttons (or sometimes laces) only partway...
Valles Caldera: A Vision for New Mexico’s National Preserve
Beyond either side of Interstate I-25, which runs north and south through the center of New Mexico, many natural wonders await the curious. I know,...
Camino del Norte
Despite its Spanish title, this book is mostly about the I-35 corridor and the Texas cities along this north-south highway: San Antonio, Austin,...
Heaven is a Long Way Off
During an earlier episode in this “Rendezvous” series, Mountain Man Sam Morgan married a Crow Indian girl in Wyoming against her family’s wishes. In...
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L’amor: The Adventure Stories
Louis L’Amour has thrilled countless readers with the adventures of Hondo, Jubal Sackett and Radigan. But the “Yondering Man” from North Dakota also...
A Half-Breed Son-of-a-Basque
Like two horses harnessed together, the West of change and the West of complexity alternatively gallop and prance, slip and stumble,” writes Richard...
The Bloodiest Feud
Feuds are funny things - with one act of violence leading to another (and another and another), it’s sometimes hard to figure out what all the fuss...
Fiddling with History
David Crockett wore many hats during his lifetime (1786-1836) beside his trademark coonskin. He is remembered as a farmer, hunter, volunteer...