ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: San Antonio Doctor Had a Batty Idea for Controlling Malaria
Charles Campbell believed in the winged mammals' voracious appetite for mosquitoes
Book Review: The Cornett-Whitley Gang
David Johnson examines the exploits of a gang that terrorized Texas for two years in the late 1880s
Missionary Ridge Is Now a Cozy Neighborhood With Cannon Lawn Ornaments
Magnificent views of the city below created a real estate bonanza
‘This Place Is Called The Wilderness’
Civil War soldiers who fought in the tangled forest west of Fredericksburg created a hellish mythology
Book Review: Surviving Genocide
Jeffrey Ostlers relates the clashes and pores over statistics to determine whether or not the Indian wars amounted to genocide
Rebel General from Abolitionist Enclave Massachusetts
General Daniel Ruggles turned his back on his Yankee roots to fight for the Confederacy
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Russia Got Into Its Own “Folly” in Alaska
A battle at Sitka in 1804 began the vast northwest territory's tilt into American hands
Book Review: Killing Pat Garrett
David Thomas stokes further controversy surrounding the death of the man who shot Billy the Kid
Mother Mandelbaum, New York’s Smartest Female Felon
Hard-working immigrant mama built a business empire buying and selling stolen goods
Congress Changed the Way Lincoln Fought the Civil War
Radical Republicans pushed for aggressive military policy, emancipation, and Western expansion
War in Their Words: ‘I Can Make My Time Endurable’
A Norwegian immigrant wrote letters home in his native language and invisible ink
This Week in History: August 24 – War of 1812: The British Set Fire to the White House
At the height of the War of 1812, the British invade Washington DC, setting fire to everything as they stormed into the capital.
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
Brenden W. Rensink: People of the Borderlands
In his recent book Native but Foreign the author takes a close look at the Yaquis on the southern border and Crees and Chippewas on the northern border
Letter From Wild West — April 2020
In the April 2020 issue writer Don Chaput writes about Old West lawmen—the good, the bad and the two-faced
