Book Review: The Cowboy President
It was in the Dakota Territory, writes Michael Blake, that Roosevelt learned to carry a big stick as well as the importance of conservation
Book Review: The Making of Tombstone
John Farkis provides absorbing insight into the creation of a film many critics rank among the best Westerns
Book Review: The First Americans
Author Jay Wertz covers the grand sweep of American Indian history from prehistory to the present, with rich illustrations
Book Review: Wild Bill
Best-selling author Tom Clavin turns his authoritative gaze on Wild Bill Hickock, presenting familiar material in new and entertaining ways
Book Review: All Because of a Mormon Cow
The editors present all available literature and let readers decide who was to blame for the 1854 Indian-army encounter that got 30 soldiers killed
Book Review: The Mormon Handcart Migration
Candy Moulton traces the tragic path of five Mormon handcart companies that set out for Salt Lake City in 1856
Book Review: Arizona’s Deadliest Gunfight
Heidi Osselaer searches for the truth about a 1918 Arizona shootout—no, not in Tombstone—that left four men dead
Book Review: The Other Custers
Bill Yenne explores the constellation of familial connections that centered on Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer
Book Review: Old West Showdown
Wild West contributors Bill Markley and Kellen Cutsforth square off to debate contentious tidbits of Western history
Book Review: The Ranger Ideal
Darren Ivey tracks the Rangers' exploits and contributions while separating them from the Texas-sized myths
Book Review: Blood Moon
John Sedgwick relates the drama and figures behind the intertribal clash dubbed the “Cherokee Holocaust"
Book Review: Pioneers of Promotion
Joe Dobrow sheds light on the marketing geniuses behind such Western legends as Buffalo Bill Cody
Book Review: War in East Texas
Texas state historian Bill O’Neal looks at the bloodiest of the Lone Star State's 19th-century blood feuds
Book Review: The Revenger
Aaron Woodard builds on the work of the late Joseph Rosa to reveal the complicated gunfighter and his fate
Book Review: Ben Thompson
Thomas Bicknell and Chuck Parsons tag team to profile one of the West's storied gunfighters
Book Review: Deadwood’s Al Swearingen
Jerry Bryant and Barbara Fifer confirm Deadwood's Al Swearingen was bad—but was he as bad as all that?
