“Where does the West begin or end?” Dr. Albert L. Hurtado asked rhetorically in my graduate seminar on the West at Arizona State University. Is...
Rough Drafts 11/14
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Stuart Rosebrook
Masters of Western Art
Western historical art has two great masters to whom all later artists are compared: Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell. The peers have their...
Rough Drafts 10/14
As summer turns to fall, my memories of the annual June gathering of Western Writers of America inspire me every day. A highlight of the conference...
The Sundance Kid Rides Again — in New York City!
If you were a boy growing up watching Westerns in the 1960s and 1970s, you either wanted to be Butch Cassidy or the Sundance Kid after Paul Newman...
The Gilded General’s Eternal March West
Robert O’Connell’s brilliant biography, Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman (Random House, $28), is a well-researched...
Gritty Realism Inspires Western Author Michael Zimmer’s Love of the West
Author Michael Zimmer was raised in Colorado, where he learned to break horses at a young age. Later, after his family moved to Indiana, he dreamt...
Rough Drafts 9/14
Looking for love? A romantic at heart? How about an Old West Romance!? As editor of the Western Books Department, I am fortunate to receive advance...
Rough Drafts 8/14
The summer is heating up and publishers are beginning to release news on their fall catalogs. One book I’ve been looking forward to is Max Evans...
Robert E. Lee’s Legacy East and West
As the United States commemorates the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, historians have had an opportunity to revisit the legacy and lives of...
Edwin R. Sweeney’s Passion for the West Revealed
Cochise biographer Edwin R Sweeney fell in love with the West like a lot of us: through television and a good school library. Raised in and near...
Rough Drafts 7/14
During the recent Arizona History Convention in Prescott, Arizona, a group of us were treated to keynote speaker Paul Andrew Hutton (who is on...
Crusade for Justice on Minnesota Frontier
In August 1862, President Abraham Lincoln’s Army of the Potomac was being fought to a standstill by Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia...