Bøker av Erik J Wright

Since 2017, historian Erik J. Wright has interviewed many of the leading historians of the American West. This book is a collection of many of those candid discussions. Published between 2017 and 2023 in The Tombstone Epitaph and the Journal of the Wild West History Association, Wright's interviews have helped shed new light on Western historiography and what it means to be a historian in the 21st-century. Included are the last known public interviews with renowned historians Robert M. Utley and Robert K. DeArment as well as talks with Pulitzer Prize winning-writers and leading experts in the field of Western expansion, violence, outlawry, and warfare.

In the pre-dawn hours of February 17, 1930, on a cold and sleepy Monday, a burning streak three times brighter than any full moon flashed across the sky. Seen across the central United States many residents, some as far away as St. Louis, and Topeka, Kansas believed the event to be that of an aircraft that had crashed. But in northeast Arkansas three separate sonic booms were heard and soon some of the oldest known matter in the universe would be uncovered from the sticky mud and clay of Greene County. The Paragould Meteorite is among the most famous of meteorites discovered by amateur sleuths. When the meteorite fell to earth in 1930 it was then the largest one ever to have been witnessed and subsequently recovered. The story of the Paragould Meteorite after its recovery from a farm field in northeast Arkansas is one that has not yet been fully told until now.

From the foreword by Tombstone historian Peter Brand: "This book represents his [author's] first collection of articles, dealing with frontier gamblers, murder, jail breaks and rough justice. Primarily dealing with the lives of four Tucson gamblers and a gang of cut-throat opportunists, these articles provide previously unknown information about some of these lesser known nefarious characters. During the early 1880s, many men, who devoted their time to the high-risk vocations of mining and gambling, found their way to Tucson, Arizona Territory. The author provides biographical sketches of four such men - John Murphy, William Moyer, David Gibson and their murdered victim, gunman James Leavy."