When were numbers and letters put on playing cards? Bill Calloway Wilmington, Delaware I contacted an old friend, Dr. Lafitte, an expert on the...
When were numbers and letters put on playing cards?
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What rodeo really holds the claim as the “World’s Oldest Continuous Rodeo?”
What rodeo really holds the claim as the “World’s Oldest Continuous Rodeo?” Dee Anne Jackson Gilbert, Arizona The West’s first rodeo was an...
A huge debate I have with my pards is whether or not Hickok used a sash as a gunbelt. Will you settle this for us?
A huge debate I have with my pards is whether or not Hickok used a sash as a gunbelt. Will you settle this for us? Dan George Fremont, New Hampshire...
Limiting ourselves to the American West and to the 1800s, what was the longest distance a herd was moved?
Limiting ourselves to the American West and to the 1800s, what was the longest distance a herd was moved? Mike Franklin Poteet, Texas The longest...
I once read a book that stated about 400 deaths in the Old West were due to gunfights. Is this figure correct?
I once read a book that stated about 400 deaths in the Old West were due to gunfights. Is this figure correct? Michael J. Glaze Seattle, Washington...
The Price of Pride
In this Western Romance set in the 1890s, Sarah Brighton, an opinionated journalist from St. Louis, travels to wild and wooly Santa Fe, New Mexico,...
The Rebel: Johnny Yuma
Riding away from a lost war, Confederate Johnny Yuma has two vows to keep: He must find a dead friend’s sister and rejoin his father, sheriff of...
The Saddlemaker’s Wife
A Berkley Prime Crime novel, this story has little to do with making saddles. When Ruby McGavin’s husband of six months commits suicide, she is...
Stone Song
Could Crazy Horse’s pursuit of his Spirit Rider be an unspoken sacrament, or was his unyielding devotion to the Oglala’s survival the true vision?...
History May be Searched in Vain: A Military History of the Mormon Battalion
(Thank heavens for subtitles attached to mystifying “poetic” book titles.) A number of good books on the Mexican War’s Mormon Battalion have been...
The Day Coffeyville Bled
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...
Honest Horses
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...