A Collage of Difficult Western Historians

 February 3, 2026

   Sometimes I get very constructive and inspiring suggestions from this blog: "How about a collage of difficult western historians?" That is a very funny twist on the History of Difficult Women, which I intend to use as a title for an upcoming art show.

   Okay, so if I was going to execute a cascading collage of difficult Western historians, what would that look like? Here's a start.

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"A Cascading Collage of Difficult Western Historians"

   So, for starters the collage would be color-coded with the real difficult historians in red and the counter-historians who were helpful and did battle with the difficult ones, would be in blue. And, if you'll hang around I'll ID all these "difficult" cats and explain why they were so damn difficult, as we go along. Yes, I have a story for each of them.

   Meanwhile, here is the ad Dan The Man came up with for the inside back cover of the next issue of True West magazine which goes to press a week from today.

Your mileage may vary. . .

   "Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."

—Wernher von Braun