By Harry Alexander If you weren’t able to attend the 16th Annual Empire Ranch Roundup & Open House on Sat. Nov. 5, you missed out on a rip-roaring good ol’ cowboy time! The Empire Ranch
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Fred J. Eckert: ‘The Apache Wars’ book review
THE APACHE WARS: THE HUNT FOR GERONIMO, THE APACHE KID, AND THE CAPTIVE BOY WHO STARTED THE LONGEST WAR IN AMERICAN HISTORY By Paul Andrew Hutton Crown Publishing Group, $30, 544 pages On a
Read more‘Californio Lancers: The 1st Battalion of Native Cavalry in the Far West 1863-1866’ book review
By Emil Franzi TOM PREZELSKI. Californio Lancers: The 1st Battalion of Native Cavalry in the Far West 1863-1866. University of Oklahoma Press. Cloth, $32.95, oupress.com The story of the Hispanic volunteers first conscripted into
Read more2015 Podcasts
After our website was hacked, we had to do some scrambling to get things put back together. One of the issues was podcasts. The entire 2015 podcast package has been updated year to date. In
Read more‘Goin’ Crazy With Sam Peckinpah and All Our Friends,’ by Max Evans, as told to Robert Nott book review
Article appeared at the Southern Arizona News-Examiner: By W.K. Stratton Around the time of Sputnik and the advent of color TV, a new kind of Western novel began to appear. Here, pickups challenged the horse
Read moreImages of the Historic Empire Ranch
All images by Sally Reichardt, board member of the Empire Ranch Foundation and the Photo Editor for the Southern Arizona News-Examiner.
Read moreWestern author Cotton Smith passes away at 76
From the Southern Arizona News-Examiner: By Harry Alexander / Southern Arizona News-Examiner Acclaimed western author Harold “Cotton” Smith, Jr. passed away suddenly Aug. 8 at his home in Kansas City, MO. He was 76.
Read moreVoices of the West Honored with Lariat Award from WWA
VOW Host Emil Franzi at 2014 WWA convention. Voices of the West is the 2014 recipient of the Western Writers of America Lariat Award. Program host Emil Franzi is the first broadcaster to be awarded
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