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
America’s Worst Wildfire: The Big Burn of 1910
In the summer of 1910, the largest wildfire in U.S. history ravaged the drought-stricken northern Rockies, burning millions of acres of forest and killing scores of people
Elaine Horwitch: The Mother of Southwest Pop
The Tucson Museum of Art honors the art dealer who had a big hand in fostering new Western art
Charles E. Rankin: Bound to the Western Story
The retired University of Oklahoma Press chief editor isn’t about to ride off into the sunset
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
A Winning Essay: Bill Pickett, the Bulldogger
In her winning essay Mayumi Torres, a sixth grader at San Antonio's Pieper Ranch Middle School, profiles Texas-born rodeo legend Bill Pickett
Book Review: Terror on the Santa Fe Trail
Title aside, Hocking takes a balanced look at the Jicarilla Apaches and their relationship with the famed Kit Carson as Indian agent
Book Review: The Cornett-Whitley Gang
David Johnson examines the exploits of a gang that terrorized Texas for two years in the late 1880s
Book Review: Surviving Genocide
Jeffrey Ostlers relates the clashes and pores over statistics to determine whether or not the Indian wars amounted to genocide
Book Review: Killing Pat Garrett
David Thomas stokes further controversy surrounding the death of the man who shot Billy the Kid
When the Sioux Ambushed Pawnee Hunters at ‘Massacre Canyon’
Eager to attack their traditional foes, a powerful Oglala/Brulé force thundered down on a hapless Pawnee hunting party in southwest Nebraska
California Artist Rick Hill: King of the Hill
He’s earned kudos for his Western and wildlife sculpture and has high hopes for his oil paintings
