(Thank heavens for subtitles attached to mystifying “poetic” book titles.) A number of good books on the Mexican War’s Mormon Battalion have been...
So the real story is that the Dalton Gang was led by a woman, and she was secretly married to Bob Dalton and bore him a daughter. Her sister, who...
In 1999, the U.S. Forest Service and the National Endowment for the Arts awarded Paula Morin a grant to research the impact of wild horses in the...
This is a marvelous salute to the multitude of Texas sheriffs during the first half of the 20th century, and all the complimentary adjectives I can...
In the second half of the 19th century, the white, middle-class concept of home was assumed to be a perfect model for civilization in the American...
Probably because he also writes novels, Haley gives us the opposite of a stodgy textbook history of the Lone Star State. Best of all, he is candid....
Duane Smith is the finest mining historian and writer I personally know. With this new book, that is both a blessing and a curse. The book is...
Oftentimes, when older Westerns depict wagons or stagecoaches, only one set of wheel tracks are shown. Why is that? Troy Carlile Tulsa, Oklahoma It...
You probably remember the story of Lt. John Dunbar. During the Civil War, he goes crazy—and somehow rallies Union troops to a victory. Army...
April 30, 1884 A heavy spring thunder-shower sweeps across Main Street in Medicine Lodge, Kansas, as four riders splash up Kansas Avenue from the...
It’s hard to get in a Butch Cassidy frame of mind in downtown Denver, but I’m trying. For one, I tell myself that the rooms in the Burnsley...
When he was 13 years old, poet Red Shuttleworth came to a realization about the Old West. While on a school field trip in 1958 to the Jewish...