Robert LeRoy Parker—born April 13, 1866, in the small town of Beaver, Utah, to Mormon parents Maximilian and Ann Parker—spent his early years in...
Following Butch and Sundance
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Word Baron
In over 75 books from the Rivers West series to those on the Baron family of Texas, Jory Sherman has brought to life a complex mix of stories and...
A Rancher’s Big Heart Goes the Distance
When C.B. Irwin rode into an arena and announced an event, he did not need a megaphone for this big man had a booming voice. Although his Stetson...
Entertaining the Masses
With a face seen by millions because it has been on more than 100 TV documentaries and a career as a professor of history at the University of New...
Cheyenne Breakout
At 10 p.m. on September 7, 1878, Little Wolf, Dull Knife, Wild Hog and over 300 Northern Cheyenne warriors, women and children fled Darlington...
Trailing Doc Holliday through Colorado
Doc Holliday first saw Denver in 1876. Although his reputation was made in Texas, Dodge City and certainly Tombstone, it was to Colorado that he...
Writing at the Bend of the River
As a young man, Bill Gulick thought his future was on the baseball diamond. He was battling his way up through the semi-pro leagues, when at age 21,...
Rodeo Flight School
Offspring of a Percheron stud and a Mexican hot-blood mare, the big black colt born on the Frank Foss ranch of Southeastern Wyoming may have lacked...
On the Edge of the Abyss
It is late August, but the air is crisp as I board the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad in Durango, Colorado. The firemen are already...
Trailing Lewis and Clark
The Missouri River northwest of Bismarck, North Dakota, is not the same river explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark saw in 1805, even though...
It Happened in the West
A Tennessean by birth, James A. Crutchfield (Jim to his friends) says he became a Westerner by choice, and when he has the choice, his preferred...
Lost to History
A few years before the Civil War, one of the most violent episodes in Western American trail history played out on a mountain meadow in Southern...