A Writer Who Speaks for the Dead

A Writer Who Speaks for the Dead

You have to relish a writer who describes Benjamin Franklin as an 18th-century Groucho Marx. Lucia St. Clair Robson is not only one of America’s finest historical novelists, but she also has verve. Her first book, Ride the Wind (1982), a fictional account of the...
Caught in the Crossfire

Caught in the Crossfire

One hundred years ago, Willie Nickell, the 14-year-old son of a contentious homesteader who had brought sheep into cattle country, was murdered on July 18 near the family homestead in the Iron Mountain region northwest of Cheyenne. After a six-month investigation,...
Lady Sadie

Lady Sadie

Following the death of her husband, Wyatt Earp, in 1929, at the age of 63, Josephine Sarah Earp, who Wyatt called “Sadie,” spent a great portion of her life defending the old lawman’s reputation. For years, writers and film makers attempted to tell the famous Kansas...