A Kansas native, the WWA Spur award-winning novelist Max McCoy was raised on the edge of the American prairie between Baxter Springs, Kansas, and...

A Kansas native, the WWA Spur award-winning novelist Max McCoy was raised on the edge of the American prairie between Baxter Springs, Kansas, and...
Before gold was discovered in January 1848 at Sutter’s Mill on the South Fork of the American River in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas east of...
Congratulations to our 2015 Best of the West winners! Along with this year’s pictorial voyage celebrating the American Indian, we bring you the...
The year 2014 will be remembered as an annum of historical reflection as historians grappled with the relevance of 19th-century history for a...
A flurry of top-notch beautiful Western art and photography books published this fall are perfect for the gift-giving holiday season. I recommend...
As the American colonists made their Declaration of Independence from the British monarchy on July 4, 1776, a chain reaction of political events...
Author Miles Swarthout’s The Last Shootist (Forge Books, $24.99), a much-anticipated sequel to his father Glendon Swarthout’s best-selling novel The...
“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...
Western historical art has two great masters to whom all later artists are compared: Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell. The peers have their...
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...
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...
Robert O’Connell’s brilliant biography, Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman (Random House, $28), is a well-researched...