John Wesley Hardin the Old West gunfighter who not only faced down Wild Bill Hickok but also gained infamy for (allegedly) ...

And yet Gilbert, who was also a fierce advocate for interracial cooperation, is little known to the general public. Now, a new biography aims to correct that oversight. “The First Black Archaeologist: ...

Robert A. Johnston, also known as BJ Johnston, will be coming to Cape Girardeau and Jackson to perform a one-man play called “The Life of John Wesley: The Man from Aldersgate”. Johnston said the ...

Introduction, by Robert G. McCubbin -- Preface -- The life of John Wesley Hardin -- Appendix -- The death of Hardin -- The killing of Selman ...

THERE have been many lives of Wesley and histories of the rise of Methodism written already, but there is still another before us by Julia Wedgwood, an Englishwoman, who states in her Preface that her ...

Biography of John Wesley Powell, explorer, geologist and anthropologist, who served as director of the Smithsonian's Bureau of Ethnology from its founding in 1879 until his death in 1902. Written by ...