Fort Kearny, the first U.S. Army post on the Oregon Trail, was a busy place after its founding in 1848. During one 18-month period following the...
August, the Dirty Low-Down Month
That's how Wild Bill Hickok would have described it in 1876, if he'd lived to tell the tale. The month actually started out very profitably for the...
A Defiant Outlaw-Hero Ballad
You know you’re in Texas when a pair of ski-masked men rob a crowded bank and nearly every customer pulls a gun and opens fire. The impromptu posse...
T.J. Stiles
Rural Minnesota native and Carleton College alumnus T.J. Stiles moved to New York City to attend graduate school at Columbia University in 1986. New...
Outrunning the Apaches
In the Arizona wilderness of 1881, 20-year-old courier Frederick Russell Burnham knew that the assignment from Neil McLeod, one of Tombstone’s many...
Tales of a Legendary Western Life
J.P.S. Brown writes books about the true life of the cowboy, not the saloon and bodice tales that so enthrall other practitioners of the genre. His...
Apache History from the Ndee
The long title of Lori Davisson’s Dispatches from the Fort Apache Scout: White Mountain and Cibecue Apache History Through 1881 (University of...
The Most Significant July Event in Western History
It's probably a three-way tossup, depending on where your interests lie. It could be July 1, 1862 when President Lincoln set the route for the first...
John P. Langellier
Without the 1950s’ ABC series, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, I probably would have taken an entirely different career path, especially after our...
Hot Brand: Red River Rides Again
Award-winning author Johnny D. Bogg’s gift for memorable storytelling rises to its highest level in Return to Red River (Kensington, $7.99), the...
Is “remada” an English derivative of the Spanish word remuda?
Is "ramada" an English derivative of the Spanish word remuda? John Hay Prescott Valley, Arizona I checked the dictionary Larousse and found “ramada”...
Do Indians not have facial hair?
I have been watching Westerns ever since I was a child and have never seen an Indian with a beard or mustache. Do they not have facial hair? Curtis...