The Rascal Highwayman

The Rascal Highwayman

John Boessenecker’s new biography of Black Bart, plus three new history-travel books, a Southern Plains adventure and a collection of rip-roaring Western tales. Who really was Black Bart? Prolific, award-winning Western historian John Boessenecker seeks to answer this...
Rowdy Cowboys, Outlaws, and Blood Feud

Rowdy Cowboys, Outlaws, and Blood Feud

L.R. Millican’s life in Lampasas, Texas, was both lucky and legendary. Lampasas, for a time, was on the edge of a lively frontier in Texas, and much blood spilled as that border exhaled dust and stampeded westward. Rowdy cowboys, outlaws and others shooting up saloons...
Two Rode Together

Two Rode Together

Oliver Loving and Charles Goodnight made history in 1866, and 120 years later Larry McMurtry made them legends. The Goodnight-Loving Trail has inspired songwriters and novelists. Cattleman Charles Goodnight became one of the iconic figures of Texas and the West—and...
Kingman Kin

Kingman Kin

  Here’s a classic film story that involves my hometown, Kingman, the Hotel Beale and my shirttail kin. As the story goes, Buster Keaton was traveling through Kingman in 1924-25 and he stayed at the Hotel Beale. When he went into the bar for a drink, he happened...