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Few Old West outlaws have had so many myths written about them as Pearl Hart, the Arizona stage robber. Despite the legends, Pearl, unlike almost every notorious woman of the Old West, was a real frontier bandit.

Columnist Terri Schlichenmeyer ("The Bookworm Sez") takes a look at Mary Roach's "Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law," a recent nonfiction release from W.W. Norton & Company.

Online Writers Workshop, Online Monthly Classes taught by published authors and industry professionals and Robust Literature Magazine with Columns, Interviews, Reviews and more.

To most Americans, Frank Hamer is known only as the “villain” of the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde. Now, in The New York Times bestselling Texas Ranger, his...

The Baron, the Cow-boys and the Trail Boss James Addison Reavis’s life as a charlatan in the Arizona Territory was dramatized in the Vincent Price Western, The Baron of Arizona (1950). Poster courtesy Lippert Pictures I’ve read more than one article (including items from your books) about James Addison Reavis, the so-called “Baron of Arizona.” Which side did he fight on during the Civil War?  Mark Manning Mesa, Arizona Reavis first joined the Confederate Army in Missouri. He was runnin...

Letters to the editor: Its time for mandatory COVID vaccinations San Francisco Chronicle readers FacebookTwitterEmail Vials of the Janssen vaccine, during a COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Pamplona, northern Spain.Alvaro Barrientos / Associated Press Maybe the answer to vaccine resistance or apathy is for private businesses and — once children’s doses are approved — school districts to start requiring vaccinations for users. Schools already have vaccination requirements for incoming stud...

True West Magazine Robert M. Utley (right), author of True West’s best Western history nonfiction book of 2020, The Last Sovereigns: Sitting Bull and the Resistance of the Free Lakotas (University of Nebraska Press), has been a Western history hero and mentor to fellow historian Paul Andrew Hutton (left) since their first meeting at Indiana University in 1977. Utley’s The Last Sovereigns is excerpted on pages 18-25, followed by Hutton’s profile of his mentor on pages 26-27. – Courtesy P...