Ex-Rebel Cullen Baker Was a Post-War Murdering Madman
After the Civil War many dispirited Southerners rallied around Cullen Baker, a cold-blooded Arkansas killer they propped up as a defiant ex-Rebel who continued to champion the Lost Cause.
‘We Now Shot Them Like Dogs’
Long before he fought at the Alamo, Davy Crockett served as a Tennessee Volunteer in the 1813–14 war against Red Stick Creek Indians
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
Bret Harte’s Voice for the Wiyots
As a young man in California, future literary great Bret Harte received death threats for his truth-telling about an Indian massacre
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
Glenna Goodacre Leaves a Legacy in Bronze
The retired master sculptor's gifts to the art world include the Sacagawea dollar and many other beautiful works
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
Mark Nelson: A Tip to the ‘White Hat’
The author delivers the first biography of Indian wars officer William Philo ‘White Hat’ Clark
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
October 2019 Readers’ Letters
Readers share dispatches about the Big Die-Up, Billy the Kid and Richard (not Robert) Boone
Letter From Wild West — October 2019
Though raised a sickly child in New York City, Theodore Roosevelt became a substantial man of the West
