Few people have ever heard of the Piro-Manso-Tiwa tribe that is scattered around Las Cruces, New Mexico. In fact, the tribe isn’t even a...
The Invisible Indian Tribe
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True Westerners
William C. Porter
My favorite book is Michener's Centennial. I like an author who can draw you into history through family lines stretching over decades or, better,...
Depression-Era Treasure
In Phoenix, which means rebirth, the realization that history could be found deep beneath the Arizona dirt came when what is now America’s fifth...
Chris Enss
Tiger Woods and Buffalo Bill Cody are men who thought monogamy was a type of wood. They were legendary talents with flaws who were eager to...
Digging Up San Jacinto
All that’s left now is an old cistern sitting in a pasture where cows graze-a tree growing out of it, standing as the only sentinel to this place...
Jeff Hildebrandt
The essence of a great Western, to me, is John Wayne. I think his characters and the stories told, for the most part, convey the myth of the...
Sacred Ground
Ernest Marquez can remember back eight decades of joyfully playing in his family’s cemetery. “I remember looking at the old wooden statue of San...
The “New” Old Ancestors
For almost 80 years, archaeologists were pretty sure how and when the first humans came to the New World. A 1932 excavation of a prehistoric village...
Lynda A. Sanchez
The Lincoln County War comes alive at Fort Stanton through the ghosts that roam the nearby hills and the buildings on the parade ground. The...
Caleb Fox
"Redskin on one side of the mountain, redskin on the other" is what my aunts told me when I was a teen. My Cherokee family came to Arkansas on what...
Defender of the Black Hills
If Charmaine White Face has her way - and the international recognition she’s already gotten says she’s on that road - the Black Hills of South...
Gary Ernest Smith
I grew up on a ranch in northeastern Oregon. Each season brought with it its designated work responsibilities. The work seemed endless. As a boy, it...