Western author Win Blevins will receive the Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Contributions to Western Literature at the Western Writers of America...
Summer Reading: Give Your Heart to a Classic
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Texas Rising, the Alamo, Davey Crockett and John Wayne
The History Channel, on the boot heels of FOX News documentary series, Bill O’Reilly’s Legends & Lies: The Real West, has debuted its...
Country Star Marty Stuart Honors the Duke and the Lakota
As the sun went down on Saturday night May 23, 2015, in Winterset, Iowa, Marty Stuart and the Fabulous Superlatives, with special guest star, Opry...
A Homecoming for the Duke in Winterset, Iowa
On May 23, 2015, over 1,000 fans, friends, family, honorary guests and dignitaries, from as far away as Australia, Ireland and France, gathered in...
Legends & Lies, Icons, Billy the Kid and Saguaros
A century or so ago, railroad boosters and marketers discovered Arizona’s signature cactus, the saguaro, as the perfect symbol of the Southwest. The...
Memorial Day in the City of Angels
Salient rows of marble grace the 114 acres of the Los Angeles National Cemetery in the Westwood neighborhood of the sprawling metro area of Southern...
Cold Beer? Whiskey? How about a Hooper Spring Soda Water!
Thirsty travelers on the Oregon Trail had to have fallen down on their knees and thanked the Lord above when they reached the naturally carbonated...
Crook’s Western Destiny
As historians mark the conclusion of the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War and the beginning of the American Indian Wars that lasted from...
Rough Drafts 6/15
The Western Writers of America annual conference this month in Lubbock, Texas, will honor a writer I hold in great esteem, Win Blevins, with the...
The Legend of Sam and Major Dundee
Fifty years ago, director Sam Peckinpah’s controversial Major Dundee, starring Charlton Heston and Richard Harris was floundering at the box office....
When Johnny Came Marching Home Again
When the veterans came home from the battlefields and their postings far from home 150 years ago, the toll of the war was felt from the hamlets of...
Dancing at the Sheridan Inn
On May, 15, 2015, fifty years after the last guest stayed at the Historic Sheridan Inn of Sheridan, Wyoming, the famous hotel will reopen for guests...