By Paula R. Stiles Golden Gazette News Historical fantasy tends to center around medieval Europe. Recent shows The Borgias and Game of Thrones have moved the action somewhat farther south and east into the [...]

By Paula R. Stiles Golden Gazette News   As a former colony like the United States, Mexico has a history that in some ways mirrors that of its northern neighbor. It’s had a fight for [...]

By Thomas McNulty Golden Gazette News Charles Lindbergh, a twenty-five-year-old barnstorming pilot, became an overnight sensation as a result of his nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic (May 20 and 21, 1927). Lindbergh flew [...]

By Lee Barwood, Golden Gazette News Pulp writers had a field day with their fictional detective creations during the golden age of pulp fiction. From Lady Molly of Scotland Yard to Philip Marlowe, Nero Wolfe [...]

By Lee Barwood, Golden Gazette News Readers of everything from pirate yarns to mysteries thrill to the words “X marks the spot,” despite the fact that treasure maps—drawn by those possessed of vast quantities [...]

Dakota and Sunny Livesay, who run the website, newspaper and radio show Chronicle of the Old West, keep alive the spirit of the cowboy and the trail with their preservation and dissemination of history—but [...]

By Thomas McNulty, Golden Gazette News A cowboy’s best friend was his horse. His horse provided not only reliable transportation but was critical to surviving the sometimes harsh elements of the Wild West. A [...]

By Lee Barwood, Golden Gazette News Modern fiction and movies are beset by a plague of zombies—shuffling semblances of living beings that are generally bent on destroying those actually still alive and devouring either [...]

By Lee Barwood, Golden Gazette News One of the favorite genres of the early pulp fiction magazine writers of the 1930s and 1940s the mystery genre. To writers like Dashiell Hammett, Walter B. Gibson [...]

by Lee Barwood, Golden Gazette News One of the most popular categories in pulp fiction was the western. The cowboy led a tough life, living in the open much of the time as he [...]