Following the 16th-century Spanish entrada into the future states of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, centuries of war and uneasy peace defined life...
Western Legend
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Stuart Rosebrook
Beeves, Barons, and Barbed Wire
In 2017, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas towns are celebrating the sesquicentennial of the first cattle drives on the Chisholm Trail—from South Texas,...
Western Adventure
Lee Martins’ The Last Wild Ride (CreateSpace, $7.35) tells the story of Sam Jefferies, a rugged cowboy carrying a death wish until he is asked to...
A Lyrical History of the West
Sure ’nuff cowboy songs and stories from a sure ’nuff cowboy—does it get any better than that? Edited by Charles Seeman, executive director emeritus...
‘Never Take No Cutoffs’
Roman slave and poet-playwright Terence famously wrote in his 163 B.C. play Heauton Timorumenos, “Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto,” or “I...
Kill or Be Killed
Since Owen Wister published The Virginian in 1902 and Zane Grey published The Last of the Plainsman in 1908, Western authors have mined the West’s...
A Trail of Vengeance
Few conflicts between the United States government and tribes of the Western United States in the 19th century have created as much literature as...
Get Your Kicks on Route 66 with Doc and Wyatt
Did you know that Doc and Wyatt got their kicks on Arizona’s Route 66 decades before Tod and Buz? Well, maybe not exactly, but they did get their...
In Search of Doc Holliday
October 26, 1881, Tombstone, Arizona Territory, 2:48 p.m. The unforgettable smell of death and gunpowder hung in the air like eternity. The wails of...
Charge Into The Old West!
A century and a half ago, the nation was on the move. Just two years after the Civil War, millions of veterans and their families on both sides of...
Guerrilla Warriors
A century and a half after the Civil War, the romance and reality of Western outlaw history remains a favorite subject of historians, re-enactors,...
Sabers & Spurs
In literature, film and television, the role of the U.S. cavalry in the history of the American West has been as romanticized as any major element...