On March 17, 1876, U.S. Army Col. Joseph J. Reynolds led six cavalry companies on an early morning attack against a Northern Cheyenne village on the...
Lighting the Fuse
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Highway of History, Last Chance Byway: The History of Nine Mile Canyon
Lately engaged in a tug-of-war between archaeologists and energy developers, Nine Mile Canyon lies in the middle of hundreds of square miles of...
War and Peace in the West
Peter Cozzens’s The Earth is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West (Alfred A. Knopf, $35) is the most comprehensive,...
Ranger with Attitude
In his sixth Ranger-related book, Whiskey River Ranger: The Old West Life of Baz Outlaw (University of North Texas, $34.95) retired U.S. Treasury...
Building Your Western Library: Mike Cox
Third-generation journalist Mike Cox was born in Amarillo and raised in Austin. After 20 years of working for newspapers, he went to work for the...
The Tombstone Mystique
What’s it mean to market authenticity? That’s the question Kara McCormack, a postdoctoral teaching fellow in the Thinking Matters Program at...
Angels and the Bad Men—and Women
Deadwood’s story, as revealed in Deadwood Saints and Sinners (Farcountry Press, $14.95) by Jerry Bryant and Barbara Fifer, is more than Calamity...
Rough and Rugged Arizona
Mary MacGreggor and Cal Davis love and hate each other from day one. Here in 1880s Arizona Territory, they are meant to be together, both however,...
Audubon’s Wild West
John James Audubon, revolutionary bird artist and founder of modern ornithology, traveled the American frontier in pursuit of his goals and recorded...
The Boundless West
Someone once said, “Shakespeare has tragedies, the rest of us just have messes.” Fortunately for President Thomas Jefferson, his vision of a...
The Irish at the Alamo
The Alamo’s Forgotten Defenders—The Remarkable Story of the Irish During the Texas Revolution by Phillip Thomas Tucker (Savas Beatie LLC, $29.95)...
The Buffalo Soldiers
John P. Langellier explores the challenges and opportunities provided African-Americans following the Civil War Fighting for Uncle Sam: Buffalo...