I’ve enjoy researching and writing about Elizabeth and George Custer, but find it difficult to recount the brutal behavior of both the Native Americans and the Whites on the frontier. For example, on this day 145 years ago, outraged Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Sioux warriors launched a series of attacks all along the valley of the read more…

The new book that was just released and the book I’m currently working on feature the complex issue of marriage in the Old West. In the Many Loves of Buffalo Bill I highlighted the affairs he had and in the book Howard Kazanjian and I are writing about Elizabeth Custer, we look at the extra-marital read more…

If you’re looking for a cool comeback to a tough character, trying to get out of an unhappy relationship, fed up with the office hussy, or need a new job, there’s nothing like snappy lines from a great western book or film to draw from. I thought I’d start the week off with bits of read more…

Think I’ll return to the Old West today. On this day in 1877, lawmen, gambler, businessman and rancher Pink Higgins gunned down all around bad guy and cattle thief Merritt Horrell. Higgins shot Horrell with a Winchester rifle at Jerry Scott’s Saloon in Lampasas, TX. Horrell got back up each time after being shot twice. read more…

I get by with a little help from my friends. Thank you, God. Kathie Miller Floyd commented on your status: “Oh, YES!!! You are DEFINITELY a child of God!!! May the joy of the Lord and the healing balm of His Spirit fill your awareness all DAY — over and above all the evil that read more…

I received this email this evening. I have passed the entire ramblings on to the Feds, my own attorney, and to the the Dean at BYU. “Dear Chris, I am the person who you are now calling “the culprit”. Since you claim to know who I am, I am now going to explain to you read more…

Home again. The 17th Century attorney general Edward Coke wrote “The home of everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defense against injury and violence, as for his repose.” I don’t think that applies now that homes have the internet. My fortress has not protected me from injury or the read more…

Book Review. The Many Loves of Buffalo Bill: The True Story of Life on the Wild West Show. By Chris Enss. Globe Pequot Press, Guilford, CT. ISBN 978-0-7627-4815-0. $21.50. xviii + 150 pages. Soft cover. 24 illustrations. Endnotes. Bibliography. Index. Reviewed by Chuck Parsons. Even a cursory glance through Chris Enss’ bibliography suggests there is read more…

More than 130 years ago today the folks at Fort Sumner, New Mexico were dealing with another murder at the hand of Billy the Kid. Billy shot and killed Joe Grant after having disabled the man’s gun earlier in the day. In 1894 in Bannock, Montana Sheriff Henry Plummer was hanged by vigilantes. You can read more…

Cowboy True’s Christmas Adventure Author: Chris Enss Illustrated by Melissa & Jeff Galpin ISBN: 978-1-4363-6648-9, Pages 28, Paperback, Published by Xlibris, Publication Date December 2008, Age Level: 3 to 7 Review by Clark Isaacs and Clark’s Eye on Books Article 12/20/09 Chris Enss is well known as a writer of western women’s tales, and now read more…