1870s

When John Williams penned the gritty, Colorado-set novel “Butcher’s Crossing” in 1960, he faced a herd of Western writers stampeding in the other direction. Seminal novelists of the genre such as Zane Grey and Louis L’Amour had already…

By Matthew Perrone | Associated Press WASHINGTON — A 19th-century “anti-vice” law is at the center of a new court ruling that threatens access to the leading abortion drug in the U.S. Dormant for a half-century, the Comstock Act has been…