The Coward of Little Big HornOr not? Depends on which witnesses you believe in the inquiry against Marcus Reno.
Marcus Reno’s historical reputation is: coward. He was a man who ran at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, leaving Lt. C…
Bill Hickman
Bill Hickman was an early follower of and bodyguard for Mormon founder Joseph Smith in 1839. After the move to Utah, Hi…
War and Peace in the WestPeter Cozzens’s The Earth is Weeping sets a new standard for Western Indian Wars history, as do adventurous stories about Pat Garrett, law and order on the border, Utah’s Wild West and the Oregon Trail.
Peter Cozzens’s The Earth is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West (Alfred A. Knopf, $35) is the most comprehensive, insigh…
The Coolest Guy in the RoomTRIBUTES: Paul Cool • 1950-2016
Paul Cool was just that: cool. The coolest. And that went beyond the Old West field. Oh, he was the coolest there, for …
Preserving Polygamy
Preserving Polygamy became a women’s campaign in the late 1800s—a point that will surprise many, who assumed women hated the plural-wife dictate…
Entertainment and the Arts
Back in the days before radio, movies and television, lectures were a popular form of entertainment in Arizona communiti…
The Unbroken Peace TreatyAfter Texas gained statehood, Penatekas stayed true to a treaty negotiated with German emigrants.
The young warriors of the Penateka Comanche tribe, several hundreds of them, lined up on one side of their camping groun…
Their Name Lives On
It started with one Pima basket, bought in the late 1890s somewhere around Phoenix, Arizona. Newcomers to the Southwest—…
The Unbroken Peace TreatyAfter Texas gained statehood, Penatekas stayed true to a treaty negotiated with German emigrants.
The Deadliest EnemyHow stalwart cattle ranchers in the Lone Star State survived the Big Dry Up.
The Wandering VisionaryCharles Fletcher Lummis’s epic life began in the East but his exploits transformed the West.
A hidden assassin with a shotgun blasted Charles Lummis in the face and chest. He was bloodied, blown off his feet, and left to die in the doorway of …
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