“Our Father, Who Art….”

“Our Father, Who Art….”

What did people do in Dakota Territory in the late 19th century? In the part that would become North Dakota—windswept, treeless, flat-as-a-pancake, cold-as-hell—they built churches. Small, intimate, full-on-Sunday churches. The Lutherans mainly built with white...
Chief Joseph and The Nez Perce In response to Candy Moulton’s, fine story on Chief Joseph in the Feb-March 2020 issue of True West, a reader wanted to know why the Army didn’t let the Nez Perce go to Canada and be rid of them...

Chief Joseph and The Nez Perce In response to Candy Moulton’s, fine story on Chief Joseph in the Feb-March 2020 issue of True West, a reader wanted to know why the Army didn’t let the Nez Perce go to Canada and be rid of them...

In response to Candy Moulton’s, fine story on Chief Joseph in the Feb-March 2020 issue of True West, a reader wanted to know why the Army didn’t let the Nez Perce go to Canada and be rid of them. Candy Moulton’s thoughts are italicized below. First, let me give you a...
La Frontiera

La Frontiera

During the 1820s the province of Texas was an ideal place for spreading terror. Comanche raiding parties swept down from the Great Plains to kill settlers or anyone who got in their way, and to kidnap women and children. The vastness of what is today Texas was a...
The Real Lonesome Dove

The Real Lonesome Dove

The Dallas Times Herald newsroom was abuzz that summer of 1985. Practically everyone had a copy of Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove. We knew or at least knew of McMurtry, the Archer City native often seen wearing his “Minor Regional Novelist” sweatshirt. Those of us...