So they’re not really family—so what. These guys have been playing Saturday matinees at Toronto’s Cameron Public House for nine years, so they’re...
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Eleven Stories
Texas songster Bruce Robison makes music that slips on all soft and comfortable, like a good old flannel shirt. The CD opens with a wonderfully warm...
Between The Two
Where else in the world of Gospel music can one hear the phrase “there’s a hitch in my get-a-long” or be urged to get on board Salvation’s Line?...
Cherokee Rose (Fiction)
This is one more retelling of the brutal treatment of the Cherokee people who were displaced in winter l838 from their homes in the Smoky Mountains...
The Adventures of Johnny Vermillion (Fiction)
What more profitable and baffling way to rob than by magic? Dashing Johnny Vermillion, head of the Prairie Rose Theatrical Company, proves his four...
Is there any truth to the story about cowboys who dug up a corpse and poured whiskey down his throat?
Is there any truth to the story about cowboys who dug up a corpse and poured whiskey down his throat? Marina BenderMesa, Arizona The bizarre event...
Who was Arizona’s first famous show biz personality?
Who was Arizona’s first famous show biz personality? Kathy CollinsPhoenix, Arizona That would be Charlie Meadows of Payson. Charlie won most of the...
The Billy Buff War
Billy the Kid’s legend has hovered over the landscape of the American West for 125 years, a Hindenburg of hype and fantasy, always there to nourish...
The Desert Southwest (Nonfiction)
Our Western prehistory is so full of mystery that any clues we can find are welcome. By looking to the pots left behind by prehistoric peoples in...
The Doctor Wore Petticoats (Nonfiction)
The Western frontier, dominated by the male gender, did not take kindly to female physicians. Yet, most female doctors succeeded despite the overall...
The Oatman Massacre (Nonfiction)
On a trek to find the “Land of Bashan” as prophesied in the Book of Mormon, Roys Oatman led his family of nine into the brutal Sonora Desert. On the...
God’s Country, Uncle Sam’s Land: Faith and Conflict in the American West (Nonfiction)
The West is the home of individualism, liberty and religious freedom. Well, not always. Three tragic exceptions to this mythology are examined at...