A legendary screenwriter gets his final byline. In early 2003 my agent called me to tell me the Westerns Channel wanted to start running True West...
Secret Agent Man
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To the Point
Finding Truth in All the Noise
Let’s celebrate seven decades of lively debate about our imperfect past. For the past seven decades we have been having a very lively...
A Photographic Memory, or Two
We have done a feature on the most important historical photos of the Old West (see January 2018) and we have done the most iconic photos, so this...
Black and Blue
Some things just have to be said. In this time of renewed racial contention, it is somehow fitting—and timely—that one of the unsung heroes of the...
The Kids Return
This issue marks the return of two of my favorite “Kids.” One is the legendary outlaw who sparked in me a lifetime of research on his short and violent life, and the other is the legendary scholar who, so far, has had a long and peaceful life, interrupted by eloquent tirades against the machine.
Say Hey, Alchesay!
A White Mountain Apache finally gets his due.
A Plague Hits Close to Home
A lost family connection is reclaimed.
The End of an Era
Bob McCubbin was a friend of mine.
Survival Time
This fight has commenced.
New Kid In Town
The third time is a charm?
New Eyes on the Earps and the Cowboys
How a gang of young, upstart historians dug deep and got the goods on Tombstone’s finest.
Twenty Years Running in Front of a Train
It’s full steam ahead as we barrel into our third decade.