Book Review: Eanger Irving Couse
Virginia Couse Leavitt reveals her grandfather Eanger Couse, famed for his Southwest landscapes and Indian portraits
Book Review: Texas Women and Ranching
Editors Deborah Liles and Cecilia Venable profile ranch women who made their mark on the Texas cattle frontier
Book Review: Cripple Creek, Bob Womack and the Greatest Gold Camp on Earth
Linda Wommack traces the role her great-grand-uncle Bob Womack played in the rise of Colorado's famed Cripple Creek mining district
Book Review: The Black Legend
Doug Hocking reviews the circumstances and figures involved in the Bascom Affair, a catalyst of the 19th-century Apache wars
Alamo Next of Kin: ‘Bought With the Blood of My Child’
The families of the Texians who died defending the Alamo wove their own stories of courage and survival
Renaissance Birdman: Sculptor Greg Woodard
Woodard blends a fascination with birds, other wildlife and history with his skills as a master sculptor
Tucson’s Medicine Man: Dr. Mark Sublette
The former physician runs an art gallery, hosts a podcast and writes—most recently a biography of painter Maynard Dixon
Letter From Wild West — February 2020
In the February 2020 issue writer Gregory Michno argues the "mythical frontier of straight-arrow, sharpshooting riflemen never existed"
Book Review: True Grit
Colorado's Ridgway Western Heritage Society offers John Wayne fans a wide-format, photo-laden 50th anniversary look at the filming of True Grit
Book Review: A Wyatt Earp Anthology
Editors Roy Young, Gary Roberts and Casey Tefertiller sample the body of biographical works written about famed lawman Earp
Crockett and the Creek War: ‘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
