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Remembering a Western Literary Icon
- Published January 06, 2010
- Written by Johnny D. Boggs
Elmer Kelton leaves behind some big boots to fill.
Elmer Kelton (1926-2009)
- Published August 24, 2009
- Written by TW Editors
Our dear friend and world-renowned Western writer, Elmer Kelton, passed away on Saturday morning, August 22.
Did She Strike Down Custer?
- Published November 01, 2006
- Written by Candy Moulton
The end of the world began that day. Not slowly or quietly, not piece by piece or by degrees, but as a calamity that brings another and another and another.”
Vote Longmire for Sheriff
- Published August 01, 2007
- Written by Candy Moulton
The Old Cheyenne were with me, and I could feel their strength as I continued along the trail, my heavy boots forming the snow as I went. The drums were there too, matching my progress in perfect fashion, providing an easy rhythm and keeping my legs moving. I felt strong, like I hadn’t in many years, perhaps like I never had. I watched as my breath began blowing out ahead of me, and it was as if the wind did not affect it. The searing air felt good in my lungs, and I almost felt as if I could run; but the steady beat of the drums held, and so did I.
—The Cold Dish
Military Chronicler
- Published July 01, 2006
- Written by Candy Moulton
Sandwiched between his first writing and editing jobs with the Valley Morning Star in Harlingen, Texas, and his current gig as a history professor at South Texas College in McAllen, Texas, Charles M. Robinson III has written of sea stories and classic cars, but mainly has followed the men of the frontier army from Texas and Arizona to the Northern Plains.
An Endless Attraction to Billy
- Published April 01, 2007
- Written by Allen Barra
Michael Wallis’s first outlaw biography was on Oklahoma’s social bandit Pretty Boy Floyd, published in 1992. Now he’s written Billy the Kid:
The Endless Ride (W.W. Norton), which brings into focus the legend of the frontier’s more enigmatic figure.
In His Blood
- Published January 03, 2005
- Written by Johnny D. Boggs
Before you dismiss Thomas Eidson as some Easterner who doesn’t know a whit about the Old West, think again.
A Half-Breed Son-of-a-Basque
- Published February 01, 2007
- Written by Candy Moulton
Like two horses harnessed together, the West of change and the West of complexity alternatively gallop and prance, slip and stumble,” writes Richard Etulain in Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West.
