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Across the Old Southwest

Across the Old Southwest

by | Mar 29, 2020 | Features & Gunfights

Wyatt Earp, Pat Garrett and Wild Bill Hickok were tough lawmen of the West. But no outlaw ever wanted Bass Reeves on his trail. “Outlaws tried to avoid him at all cost if they could,” Art T. Burton tells me. “Once given the warrant for arrest, if you tried to hide,...
Pillars of the Plains

Pillars of the Plains

by | Mar 29, 2020 | Features & Gunfights

Two of the most recognized women in the Old West are Sacajawea and Elizabeth Custer and both of them have stories tied to the history of western North Dakota. Their stories are just two of many connected to this Great Plains landscape. Captain William Clark and...
Big Dreams, Far Horizons

Big Dreams, Far Horizons

by | Feb 6, 2020 | Western Books & Movies

American historian and biographer Henry William “H.W.” Brands Jr. has been a prolific and consistent chronicler of U.S. history since his first book, Cold Warriors: Eisenhower’s Generation and American Foreign Policy, was published in 1988. Brands’ 30th history book,...
Where the West Comes Alive

Where the West Comes Alive

by | Jan 30, 2020 | Features & Gunfights

The West is still where Americans go to find a new life, and the risks can be huge. The woman who cashes out her retirement to rebuild a ramshackle mercantile in a lost mountain town is taking a chance. So is the bespectacled gent from that strange land east of the...