‘The ‘Sneaken’est Man’ Book Review
Jim Harmon presents short stories of Montana people and places drawn from newspapers of yesteryear
‘Jo Mora’ Book Review
Peter Hiller profiles Jo Mora, the Uruguayan-born artist who left a legacy of art in various media across the American West
‘Augustine Chacón’ Book Review
David Grassé plumbs the records to separate the myth from facts about Arizona outlaw Augustine Chacón
‘From the River to the Sea’ Book Review
John Sedgwick describes the race between railroad barons of the American West to reach the Pacific Coast with tracks
Were Black People ‘Scarce’ in the West? Hardly — As These Books Show
Black men, women and children had a place in the American West from the earliest days on the frontier
‘Terror on the Santa Fe Trail’ Book Review
Doug Hocking, who grew up on New Mexico's Jicarilla Apache Nation Reservation, relates the war this little-known band waged along the Santa Fe Trail
‘Bison’ Book Review
Photographer Audrey Hall and collaborator Chase Reynolds Ewald present a paean to the iconic American buffalo of the Western plains
‘Texas Jack’ Book Review
Matthew Kerns sets out to prove that little-remembered Texas Jack Omohundro, a pal of Buffalo Bill Cody, epitomized the 19th century cowboy
December 2021 Readers’ Letters
Readers share dispatches about General O.O. Howard, the Indian wars, the Boonslick Road and firearms out West
‘Cheyenne Summer’ Book Review
Terry Mort relates the 1868 Battle of Beecher Island after introducing the participants, namely the Cheyennes, the U.S. Army and Colorado Territory civilians
Letter From Wild West — December 2021
Like Jesse James, Billy the Kid brought notoriety to his home state — but also welcome attention from curious tourists
‘Geronimo & Sitting Bull’ Book Review
In this third volume of the Legendary West series author Bill Markley compares the iconic Chiricahua Apache and Lakota Sioux leaders
‘Aces and Eights’ Book Review
Ralph Estes deals up a lighthearted history of poker in the Old West and the legendary figures who played it
‘Buffalo Bill’ Book Review
Kellen Cutsforth retraces the path Buffalo Bill Cody took to becoming the nation's—and perhaps the world's—first superstar
‘Firearms of the Texas Rangers’ Book Review
Doug Dukes reviews firearms carried by the Texas Rangers and stories behind the men who carried them
October 2021 Readers’ Letters
Readers share dispatches about Rabbit Ear Mountain, Las Vegas (N.M.), Bat Masterson, Bill Longley and Colonel John Gibbon
