Book Review: Eanger Irving Couse
Virginia Couse Leavitt reveals her grandfather Eanger Couse, famed for his Southwest landscapes and Indian portraits
Book Review: Texas Women and Ranching
Editors Deborah Liles and Cecilia Venable profile ranch women who made their mark on the Texas cattle frontier
Book Review: Cripple Creek, Bob Womack and the Greatest Gold Camp on Earth
Linda Wommack traces the role her great-grand-uncle Bob Womack played in the rise of Colorado's famed Cripple Creek mining district
Book Review: The Black Legend
Doug Hocking reviews the circumstances and figures involved in the Bascom Affair, a catalyst of the 19th-century Apache wars
Letter From Wild West — February 2020
In the February 2020 issue writer Gregory Michno argues the "mythical frontier of straight-arrow, sharpshooting riflemen never existed"
Book Review: True Grit
Colorado's Ridgway Western Heritage Society offers John Wayne fans a wide-format, photo-laden 50th anniversary look at the filming of True Grit
Book Review: A Wyatt Earp Anthology
Editors Roy Young, Gary Roberts and Casey Tefertiller sample the body of biographical works written about famed lawman Earp
Book Review: Rosebud June 17, 1876
Paul Hedren delves into the 1876 Battle of the Rosebud, long overshadowed by that "other" Montana Territory battle
Book Review: Sharps Firearms
Authors Marcot, Paxton, Marron and contributors roll out the second of their three-volume history of Sharps
Book Review: West Like Lightning
Jim DeFelice gives readers a smooth, enjoyable and fairly fast read through the history of the legendary Pony Express
Book Review: Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith
Mormon professor Thomas Alexander furnishes a surprisingly balanced picture of the controversial LDS leader
Book Review: Fight to the Finish
Ron Jackson recalls one of the most dramatic, if long forgotten, bare-knuckle bouts of the Old West era
Book Review: Doc Holliday’s Nemesis
Peter Brand plumbs the life of gambler Johnny Taylor, one inextricably linked to that of Doc Holliday
Book Review: Tales of the Oregon Country
Oregon has its share of frontier drama, as Carole Nielson proves in this compilation
December 2019 Readers’ Letters
Readers share dispatches about outlaw Jack McCall and the First and Second Battles of Pyramid Lake in Nevada
Letter From Wild West — December 2019
In the late 19th century an unlikely cast of characters helped rescue buffalo from the brink of extinction
