Most every Sunday afternoon as I was growing up, my father would load us into the car and off we’d go on a family day-ad…
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Pioneer Women Life on the frontier was especially hard on women.
There’s an old folk song titled, “The Waggoner’s Lad” and the first lines were, “Hard luck is the fortune of all womenki…
Stacking the Deck Clarence Darrow likely used bribery to get a client off.
Famed defense attorney Clarence Darrow tried to ensure a victory in the 1907 trial of Western Federation of Miners offic…
What History Has Taught Me: Dolan Ellis
As a kid, we lived on a small farm in eastern Kansas, where I literally had no playmates. My play consisted of doing lit…
Max Evans in Hollywood At 93 years old, the award-winning New Mexico author is reflective on the movie business, actors, directors, and his legendary friendship with Sam Peckinpah.
“Ol’ Tony Hillerman told me one time, ‘Max, you know, if you option a novel, you’ve got to hope they don’t make th…
When the West was True Our Western heritage is under assault.
We live in a time of national discord. Americans find themselves adrift in a cultural malaise highlighted by overheated…
Was “Wild Bill” Hickok’s Failing Eyesight the Result of a Venereal Disease?
Was “Wild Bill” Hickok’s failing eyesight the result of a venereal disease? David Durost Lancaster, California If James …