The Mural Art of Fred Haberlein
'Lightning Heart' produced 140 murals, some historical and some religious, over his six-decade career
Roland De Wolk: About an American Disruptor
Roland De Wolk tackles the life, times and scandals of Leland Stanford, one of the Central Pacific Railroad’s ‘Big Four’
How a Reverend’s Hard Pioneer Life Inspired His Dark Christmastime Tales
Itinerant reverend and Western author Cyrus Townsend Brady related Christmas tales not necessarily for children.
December 2020 Readers’ Letters
Readers share dispatches about wickedest Wild West towns, deadly gunfights, lawman Fred Dodge and Bat Masterson
Letter From Wild West — December 2020
Though not all Hispanos were fans, some spoke of the Kid as a brave and loyal friend
On-Screen Review: Tombstone Rashomon
Writer-director Alex Cox examines the 1881 O.K. Corral gunfight using Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's storytelling techniques
Book Review: January Moon
Jerome Greene looks at the Northern Cheyennes' desperate and ultimately tragic 1878–79 flight for freedom
Book Review: Sand Creek and the Tragic End of a Lifeway
Louis Kraft takes another look at the 1864 Sand Creek massacre, the beginning of the end for the Cherokee and Arapaho way of life
Book Review: Wrecked Lives and Lost Souls
Jerry Thompson profiles outlaw Joe Lynch Davis, a catalyst of Oklahoma's bloody Porum Range War — and the author's grandfather
Scratchboard Artist Kody Bundy
Bundy connects with horses and Western wildlife in her chosen medium
Book Review: Cherokee Bill
Art T. Burton reveals Cherokee Bill, one of the deadliest badmen of wild and woolly Indian Territory
Book Review: American Disruptor
Roland De Wolk tackles the life, times and scandals of transcontinental railroad mover Leland Stanford
On-Screen Review: First Cow
Writer-director Kelly Reichardt relates the offbeat tale of frontier roomies and a cow they milk for profit
601 Reasons Not to Set Fires
When arsonists targeted Virginia City, Nevada, in early 1871, the 601 Vigilance Committee took decisive action
October 2020 Readers’ Letters
Readers share dispatches about legendary lawman Wyatt Earp, actor Buck Taylor, Western cavalrymen and deadly gunfights
Letter From Wild West — October 2020
Unlike the heroic cowboys of 1950s big- and small-screen fame, the Cowboys in real-life Tombstone, Arizona Territory, were badmen
