Long before air conditioning, automobiles, interstates and high-speed air travel, American transcontinental railroad com…
Get Your Kicks! Load up the car and get Western on ten scenic historic highway tours across the region this summer.
In 1927, the first Route 66 signs were posted from Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California, and the legend of the…
Anarchy on the Rails How the Pullman strike brought America to its knees
In 2019, Jack Kelly’s The Edge of Anarchy: The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in Ameri…
Trails, Rails, and Automobiles Adventure awaits the traveler who follows the legendary routes of Arizona’s earliest wagon roads, railways and highways.
Arizona’s scenic highways and welcoming Old West communities make the Grand Canyon state one of the best places to spend…
Love, Luck, and Lead A new biography on Wild Bill Hickok, plus Darren L. Ivey’s second volume on Texas Ranger history, a showdown on Old West myths and a Chisholm Trail history.
In the pantheon of Old West publishing history, James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok is a biographical anomaly. Compared to h…
Rough Drafts These are the writers who will be attending/presenting at the 11th Annual Tucson Festival of Books!
The 11th Annual Tucson Festival of Books will be held at the University of Arizona on Saturday and Sunday, March 2-3, 20…
The Lens of History A small band of determined photographers captured the humanity and the enormity of the construction of the transcontinental railroad for future generations.
Since the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869, the entrepreneurial “Big Four” rail barons of the…
Rails West … And East! Rediscover America along the historic route of the transcontinental railroad in honor of the 150th anniversary of its epic construction.
“It is done!” These three words shot out across the Western telegraph to the world on May 10, 1869, at the moment Centra…
Dark and Bloody Ground An exoneration of Lt. George Bascom, and new histories about the Sooner boomers, stock and range detectives, a classic Western novel and how trauma and violence shaped the Pleasant Valley War.
With nearly 300 years of history to investigate the Apache-Spanish-Mexican-American conflict, many historians choose to …
No Bull Jeb Rosebrook tapped his roots to forge rodeo cowboy Junior Bonner.
In the early 1970s, Hollywood filmmakers were leaving the studio back lots of Los Angeles with fresh screenplays in hand…