When silver was discovered above La Cienega de San Vicente (The Marsh of St. Vincent) in the 1870s, Silver City, New Mexico, was born. It soon...
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Articles
From Homesteaders to Wolfers
For 50 years, almost nobody remembered Evelyn Cameron or what she'd done in the territorial days of early Montana. Her name wasn’t in history books...
The West’s Greatest Chiefs
They were the leaders of the Indians, whether they conducted war with their traditional enemies, resisted the European invasion, practiced spiritual...
Dude! Where’s My Ranch?
Teddy Roosevelt knew what he was talking about. To appreciate properly his fine, manly qualities, the wild rough-rider of the plains should be seen...
The Best Bad Things
“I have seen purer liquors, better segars [sic], finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirk and Bowie knives, and prettier courtesans here...
Buffalo Bill’s Columbus Adventure
In May 1883, the population of the small frontier town Columbus, Nebraska, swelled by 73 people when several passenger cars and six boxcars of...
Sanctuary Ranch (Fiction)
Jess McLain, a Country singer and pro-rodeo cowboy, owns a ranch in Wyoming where he takes in young people who need a fresh start. But Jess is also...
Nickel-Plated Dream (Fiction)
You could call him a ghost gunman of the Wild West shows for he was part of a vanishing breed. Back in the glory days of Guy Madison, Roy Rogers and...
Military Chronicler
Sandwiched between his first writing and editing jobs with the Valley Morning Star in Harlingen, Texas, and his current gig as a history professor...
Moonlight and Skies
“No message, no agenda, no nothin,’ just a little bunch of songs I’ve always liked.” That’s what Don Edwards says about this record, and his comfort...
Living With the Land
Toss another log on the campfire and relax a spell with 14 cowboy originals from Sarah Barchas. On Living with the Land, she rounds up calves, birds...
The Turquoise Trail
The scenic, winding back road between Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico, is called N.M. 14 but is popularly known as the Turquoise Trail. Pueblos...