Book Review: Here Lies Billy the Kid
David Turk plumbs the life of Billy the Kid, from his mysterious origins to the fight over his remains
Book Review: Massacre in Minnesota
Gary Clayton Anderson shares a new perspective on the roots of the 1862 Dakota War
August 2020 Readers’ Letters
Readers share dispatches about the 1885 Frog Lake Massacre, guns of the Johnson County War, the prairie, bison and Theodore Roosevelt
Book Review: Billy the Kid & Jesse James
Bill Markley's second volume in TwoDot's Legendary West series is an odd pairing but a worthwhile read
Letter From Wild West — August 2020
In our August 2020 cover story we consider 13 rough-and-tumble towns of the Wild West era
Freeda Hartzell: That Other ‘Champion Rifle Shot of the World’
Among those to follow in Annie Oakley's footsteps was trick-shooting prodigy Freeda Hartzell.
George Custer and the ‘Other’ 7th Cavalry
Before George Armstrong Custer’s 7th U.S. Cavalry made its mark out West, the 7th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry was busy battling Plains Indians.
Book Review: Tombstone
Tom Clavin completes an entertaining trilogy with this treatment of Tombstone, the Earps and the Cowboys
Book Review: Ride the Devil’s Herd
John Boessenecker pores over the history behind that most legendary of Western gun battles near Tombstone's O.K. Corral
Book Review: Photographing Texas
Texas historian Richard Selcer presents images from "Fort Worth Five" photographer John Swartz and brothers
Book Review: The Real Dirt
Jim Motavalli profiles 17 frontier figures, both legends and little-known characters
Book Review: Where the Rivers Ran Red
Michael Donahue's well-researched book chronicles the Indian fights of George Armstrong Custer
Book Review: “Horses Worn to Mere Shadows”
Robert Watt presents the stirring second volume of his trilogy about Mimbreño Apache Chief Victorio
Letter From Wild West — June 2020
Contributor Gregory Michno recognizes that disagreements and controversy go with the territory when one writes about history
Book Review: Rocky Mountain Train Robberies
W.C. Jameson relates a selection of the most notable outlaw train heists in the Rocky Mountain region of the Old West
