In Blood on the Marias: The Baker Massacre (University of Oklahoma Press, $29.95), Paul R. Wylie has given us an outstanding look into a tragic chapter in Montana history. From traders of the Hudson’s Bay Company and explorers Lewis and Clark, Wylie carefully unravels a delicate weave of events that progressed over several decades. The peacemakers on both sides could not overcome those who disagreed with them. The proximity of the Canadian border added to the misunderstanding of cultural diffe
June 2016
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- Sutherland’s Ride Together
- Silent Film Actors were Tough
- Digging Billy the Kid
- How do today’s cowboy boots compare to those of the Old West?
- A True West Writer’s 40-Year Journey
- Judge Charlie Meyer
- Virginia Chow-Chow
- A Blast at the Tucson Train Station
- A Good Gun and a Trusty Horse
- A Few Quotations We Shouldn’t Forget
- A Song for the Good Times
- The Revenant Takes Home Oscars
- The Fur Trade In the American West
- Buffalo Bill’s Cowboy Band
- Tales of the West
- Curly Bill Laughs at His Fate
- Sweetwater Shoot-Out
- The Most Interesting Man in the World
- She Knew Because She’d Lived the Life
- What is a soogan?
- On the Old Gila Trail
- Ben Thompson Lawman
- Cold-Blooded Roommates
- Ranges on the Range
- Did Remington Capture Clanton’s Last Breath?
- Reno Gang’s Disappearing Money
- Arizona’s Quirky Diagonal Border
- Remington in Arizona
- An Epic Life of a Lawman
- Secrets from the Horse’s Mouth
- Northwestern Mystery Author Shares Favorite Reads
- Hangin’ Time
- How Far Would You Walk to Get Home?
- Can you shed some light on a photo of Red Cloud’s wife in a cabin featuring a Japanese katana sword on the wall?
- Harry Wheeler and the Rock Fight Gunfight
- 30-Love at Fort Apache
- Lucia St. Clair Robson
- Lakota Globetrotter
- “Vaulted” in Belle Fourche
- The Many Houses of Rachel Emma Allen Berry
- The Legend of Russian Bill
- The Best Western Movie Gunfights
- Two-Gun Men
- The Rise of the Toughest Texas Ranger
- She Was More Than a Big Nose
- Wyatt Earp’s Pistol
- Jesse James’ First Kill
- 13 Major Facts The Revenant Got Wrong
- Beyond the Border with Crook
- A Well-Traveled Corpse
- Mile-High Getaway
- Bronco Billy
- Tragedy on the Montana Frontier
- The Town Named for a Hairdo
- Wave of Violence
- An Unusual Hero
- J.C. Ives Visits the Grand Canyon
- What is your opinion of John Wesley Hardin?
- Curtain Close with The Comancheros
- Exiled Into Celebrity
- May was Always a Good Month in the Old West
- Indian with Bow Hits Mark
- Requiem of the Rustlers
- Bud Ledbetter, The Fourth Guardsman
- Blazing Pols
- Deadwood, South Dakota: Entertaining Guests Since 1876
- Ruthless Joe Sparrow
- Jesus Went West, Too
- The Wind and the Darkness
- Show Low vs. a Straight Flush
- Brazen Hazen
- Eating on the Move
- Freedom from the Freeway
- Dinner at the Devil’s Inn
- A Trifecta of Westerns
- Hopalong Cassidy
- What was the “Badger Game?
- Treasures from the Basement
- The Culture Bearers
- The Wizard of the Colorado River