Matthew Kerns's Blog: The Dime Library

The Movie Star & The Cannibal

Did you know that Hollywood’s greatest leading man, an Academy Award winner and heartthrob of a generation, once served as a pallbearer...

Robert Redford

Robert Redford, one of Hollywood’s true icons, has died at 89. For more than half a century he embodied the golden era of American...

Red Sapphire Now Available in Paperback

Yesterday marked the paperback release of Julia Bricklin’s Red Sapphire: The Woman Who Beat the Blacklist . I read this book when it...

RIP Graham Greene

Graham Greene has walked on. The Oneida First Nations actor, who was good in every role he inhabited, died this week at the age of 73....

Book Review: A Most Noted Man

Azariah Wild. It’s one of the great names of the Wild West. But even most serious students of American history have either never heard of...

The Family of Jonathan William & Mariah Shuman Kerns

This photograph, that I saw for the first time yesterday, is a rare moment in time from my family's history. It was taken around 125...

Take Two, They're Small

The other day my dad mentioned a song my grandfather, Lee Jackson Cooper, had written with Dalton Roberts. That sent me digging—and...

Sgt. George Jordan ~ Buffalo Soldier

I’m working on a couple of podcast episodes about the Buffalo Soldiers, the Black cavalrymen who rode for the U.S. Army after the Civil...

Of Cowboys & Bicycles

In the decades after Texas Jack Omohundro helped define the image of the cowboy for audiences across America, his namesake and...

Author James B. Mills Talks With "Chasing Billy"

If you’re a fan of Wild West history—and especially of the Lincoln County War and the legend of Billy the Kid—do yourself a favor and...