Reviewed by B.B. Swan By Liston E. Leyendecker, Christine A. Bradley and Duane A. […]
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Nimrod: Courts, Claims, and Killing on the Oregon Frontier (Book Review)
Reviewed by Luc Nettleton By Ronald B. Lansing Washington State University Press, Pullman, 2005 […]
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Book Review: Buffalo Bill’s America / William Cody and the Wild West Show
By Louis S. WarrenAlfred A. Knopf, New York, 2005 Buffalo Bill will never be […]
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Gunsmoke and Saddle Leather: Firearms in the Nineteenth-Century American West (Book Review)
Reviewed by Johnny D. Boggs By Charles G. Worman University of New Mexico Press, […]
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Caldwell: Kansas Border Cow Town (Book Review)
Reviewed by B.B. Swan By Tom S. Coke Heritage Books, Westminister, Md., 2005 As […]
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Book Review: Lincoln and the Sioux Uprising of 1862
Reviewed by Chrys Ankeny By Hank H. Cox Cumberland House, Nashville, Tenn., 2005 Civil […]
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The Pony Express: Riders of Destiny
The Pony Express only operated for about 18 months, but the picture-perfect enterprise captured the imagination of a nation and has grown larger than life through the years.
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Terrorism in the Ancient Roman World
Pax Romana was the rule against nations, but even the empire could not control vandals, rogues, and rebels.
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Soapy Smith: Con Man’s Empire
A master of graft, Soapy Smith lived by his charm, his wits and, when all else failed, his gun. It was to be by the latter than he would make his final stand.
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Robert Charles Tyler: Last American Civil War Confederate General Slain in Combat
Against impossible odds and following orders issued half a year earlier, Robert Charles Tyler became the last Confederate general slain in Civil War combat.