Railroads were open season for Oklahoma and Indian Territory outlaw gangs. Glenn Shirley, the late historian of Oklahoma’s frontier history of...
Renegades of the Rails
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Art T. Burton
Bass Reeves Finally Gets His Due
Who was Bass Reeves? Historian Art Burton has spent much of his life on the trail of the elusive lawman’s life. Reeves’s life from slave to...
The Seminole Burnings
Deputy U.S. Marshal Bill Tilghman's Courageous Work was the Greatest of His Legendary Career. The largest and most sensational criminal trial that...
The Wildest Town in Indian Territory
Muskogee, Oklahoma’s early years as a frontier outpost were violent, dangerous and unpredictable. Welcome to Muskogee, the rip-roaring and most...
Outback Outlaw, Mystical Hero
Jandamarra aka “Pigeon” led one of the first rebellions of Australian Aboriginal people armed with firearms in Western Australia. The indigenous...
Bass Reeves: The Invincible Lawman
Born into slavery, the Arkansas native became a lauded, and legendary U.S. deputy marshal. Bass Reeves began his life as a slave in the state of...
Man with a Badge
Bass Reeves might be the most famous—and mistakenly identified—black lawman in the West. In recent years there has been an influx of images...
Bass Reeves and Hollywood
The real law-and-order hero’s long and Winding road to cinematic and television fame. Interest was generated in Hollywood on Western lawman Bass...
Cherokee Bill
Bold, Brazen Bank-Robbing Bandit of the Indian Territory
The Black West: Real and Imagined
Michael K. Johnson’s Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos: Conceptions of the African American West is an important tome chronicling the history of...
Was Bass Reeves the Real Lone Ranger?
With a budget of $250 million, this summer’s Disney movie, The Lone Ranger, will be the largest of any Western ever made in cinema history. Yet just...
Sam Sixkiller
Sam Sixkiller: Cherokee Frontier Lawman is a very important book, if only for the fact that it is one of the first, if not the first, biographies of...