We lost some heavyweights last year, and we loved them all. Looking back on 2024, it is no exaggeration to say our history world took some major...
Legends of the Fall
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Jana Bommersbach
Wild & Free
The One and Only Jana Bommersbach 1945-2024 A whirlwind of ink and drama, Jana Bommersbach never blinked in the pursuit of a great story. Ever. She...
A Sad Farewell to Jana Bommersbach
Our wonderful historian, columnist, and friend, Jana Bommersbach, who wrote our Old West Saviors column has died at age 78 after battling a long...
Shooting Back
Jana Bommersbach Has Passed While we were finishing this issue we got word that our beloved columnist, author and friend, Jana Bommersbach passed...
What History Has Taught Me: Jana Bommersbach
Journalist, Historian, Novelist
Tejano History Under One Roof
The entire history of early Texas—from a Spanish viceroyalty, to ownership by Mexico, to the Republic of Texas to statehood—was lived by the man who...
Return to Fort Apache
One could argue there is enough negative about the history of Fort Apache that people might not want to come,” Karl Hoerig admits. “It’s a...
The Mother Lode Spirit
Ed Arata’s history with Sutter Creek, California, goes back to the Mother Lode days when gold was plentiful and his grandfather worked at the Knight...
America’s Cowboys Get Their Due
First, thanks go to the Franciscan priests who established 21 missions along the California coast starting in 1769, bringing with them the first...
Miss Yakama Nation’s Yakama War
Emily Washines believes Yakama War history offers more than “us vs. them.” This former Miss Yakama Nation knows the American Indian perspective of...
The Painter’s Cabin
Visiting the Maynard Dixon cabin is like walking into a Maynard Dixon painting. For the last seven years of his life, Maynard and his wife, muralist...
Lincoln County’s New History
"My Aunt Jenny had been taken by the Indians as she was four....” The family bought her back with 500 pounds of shelled corn a decade later, in the...