Johnny D. Boggs
Fueled by a lifelong passion for American history and a more recent desire to make mortgage payments, Spur Award-winning author Johnny D. Boggs has written more than 20 nonfiction books and novels, plus thousands of newspaper and magazine articles. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his wife, son and basset hound.
Stories by Johnny D. Boggs
On Oklahoma's Centennial Trail
Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plains, hitting the century mark. Oklahoma, a state for 100 years.
The Beecher's Island Boys
This is the kind of fog you expect to find on the coast, in London, in a horror movie or Casablanca, not traveling along U.S. Highway 385 in eastern Colorado...
That Ain't Country (Let Alone Western)
If there's one constant in music, it's this: It's always changing.
Mining Vs. Ranching
I'm on that scenic and historic stretch of Interstate 90 in Montana's "Gold West" country, showing my bias against "mining" and for "ranching."
Civil War in the West
The Civil War was gonna be won in the West, Sherman told Grant after the second bloody day at Shiloh.
Rendezvous Deja Vu
Most Mountain Men re-enactors don't dare miss the Green River Rendezvous held in Pinedale, Wyoming, every July.
Loping Along the Guest Ranch Trail, Dude
The 4x4 pickup slides in the mud as Patricia Chesser and I head toward the branding corrals on the Burnt Well Guest Ranch outside of Roswell, New Mexico.
On the Trail of John Wayne
I'm in Madison County, Iowa, not to view all those covered bridges, though they are charming, but to pay tribute to a great American. Unheralded. Practically unknown.
Sacking Lawrence
The clerk at the bookstore recommends that I grab supper and a beer at the Free State Brewing Company.
Top 10 Western Museums of 2007
Charles Lummis had a vision when he founded the Southwest Museum of the American Indian 100 years ago.