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Red Cloud Remembered

Stuart Rosebrook
henry-newton-brown-blog

A Bank Robbery Gone Wrong

Mark Boardman
Hell-on-Wheels_Chinese-experience

Workin’ on the Railroad

Henry C. Parke
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Saving a Piece of True West

Jana Bommersbach

World’s Most Gorgeous Saddle

Meghan Saar
Buffalo-Bill-Center-of-the-West.-Top-10

The Top 10 Western Museums of 2015

Stuart Rosebrook

The Scandalous Boomtown Temptress

Chris Enss
Texas-Territory-foot-soldiers-at-Fort-Davis

Dust-Covered Foot Soldiers

John Langellier
Lewis-and-Clark-on-the-Columbia

Fighting to Cross an Unknown America

Meghan Saar
Frontier-Fare-Hermit-Rasin-Cookies

California Raisins

Sherry Monahan
Wild-West-Fest-Dodge-City-KS

Western Events for September 2015

Darren Jensen
Bronco-DVD-Cover

Bronco: Final Season

Henry C. Parke
Bob Boze Bell at Museum of the West in Scottsdale AZ

Museums We Love

Bob Boze Bell
RICK-WALLNER_CHIEF-RANGER.

Rick Wallner

Rick Wallner
john waynes brother

What became of Hickok’s weapons?

Marshall Trimble
john waynes brother

“The Severed Heads Campaign” (March 2015) was a most interesting story. Did some frontier bounty hunters also collect heads?

Marshall Trimble
john waynes brother

What kind of rifle was Bull Harris using in 1966’s El Dorado?

Marshall Trimble
john waynes brother

What’s the story behind the phrase “There’s gold in them thar hills?”

Marshall Trimble

Rough Drafts 9/15

Stuart Rosebrook

Rough Drafts 8/15

Stuart Rosebrook
john waynes brother

What was life like for people living in “soddies?”

Marshall Trimble
adah-isaacs-menken-blog

Boomtown Goddesses

Marshall Trimble
walkdown_04-blog

Why Did Hollywood Take So Long to Discover Wyatt Earp?

Bob Boze Bell
stephen_w-blog

Western Conquest

Mark Boardman
sheriff-george-ruffner-blog

Arizona Sheriffs

Marshall Trimble
wyattinsmoke-blog

Tombstone vs. Los Angeles

Bob Boze Bell
john-wesley-hardin-in-1871-blog

The Words of an Outlaw

Mark Boardman
Felix-St-Vrain_-by-Illustrator-Andy-Thomas-

Hooked On Firewater

Terry A. Del Bene
frontier-farewell-blog

A Frontier Without Borders

Stuart Rosebrook
hope-az-blog

Naming Arizona

Marshall Trimble
wyattcominatya-blog

Wyatt Earp’s Arrested Development

Bob Boze Bell
few-dollars-more-blog

Eastwood in Hollywood

Stuart Rosebrook
frank-canton-blog

Only One Shot to Make

Mark Boardman
Green-River-1896-oil-by-Thomas-Moran

First Sketch Made in the West

Meghan Saar
wyattsupermarshal-for-post

Going Behind the Scenes

Bob Boze Bell
stagecoach-butterfield-overland-mail-blog

Struggles of the Stagecoach Driver

Marshall Trimble
fouroutlaws-blog

The Last Outlaw Town

Bob Boze Bell

Going Behind the Scenes

Bob Boze Bell
steamboat-explorer-blog

Small Boat, Grand Canyon

Marshall Trimble
george-scarborough-blog

Lawman George Scarborough Meets The Wild Bunch

Mark Boardman
oregon-trail-blog

New Adventures on the Old Oregon Trail

Stuart Rosebrook
camels-blog

Cowboys on Camels

Marshall Trimble
dead-horse-blog

Wyatt Earp Returns Without a Horse

Bob Boze Bell
wayne-brazel-blog

The Fate of Pat Garrett’s Killer

Mark Boardman

Wagons Ho!

Candy Moulton
gordon_macrae-rod_steiger-oklahoma-blog

An Award Winning Western Musical is Left on the Cutting–Room Floor

Stuart Rosebrook
justin_smith_morrill_-_brady-handy-blog

The Land Act That Built Universities

Jana Bommersbach
doc-huckleberry-blog

Dancing With the Doc

Bob Boze Bell
painted-journeys-blog

Traveling Western Art Exhibit

Stuart Rosebrook
kit-carson-blog

Kit Carson’s Cross Country Mule Ride

Mark Boardman
Michael-Blake_Dances-With-Wolves

A Quarter-Century Tribute

Henry C. Parke
double-cannon-blog

Heavy Artillery Designed By A Dentist

Cameron Douglas
martha-summer-hays-blog

A Good Time to Swear

Marshall Trimble
andrew_carnegie_three-quarter_length_portrait_seated_facing_slightly_left_1913-blog

The Gospel of Wealth

Jana Bommersbach
short-storm-blog

Arizona’s Deadliest Address

Bob Boze Bell
mcdonald-ranch-house-loc-113919-blog

Historic Ranch House Open Twice a Year at Trinity Site

Stuart Rosebrook
butch-and-sundance-blog

Demise of the Wild Bunch

Marshall Trimble
denton-mare-blog

The Denton Mare

Mark Boardman
Eureka Nevada Fourth of July parade 1913

A Mining Bonanza and Bust

John Stanley
dutchman-and-the-devil

Phoenix Novelist Mines Muses of Art and Writing with Lost Dutchman Novel

Stuart Rosebrook
edward-canby-blog

Edward Canby

Mark Boardman
johnny-mack-brown-blog

Johnny Mack Brown

Marshall Trimble
helen-hunt-jackson-blog

A Writer Who Made a Difference

Jana Bommersbach
pat-garrett-blog

Historic Markers and Back Roads in Land of Enchantment

Stuart Rosebrook
tiloukaikt-blog

Cayuse Chief Tiloukaikt

Mark Boardman
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Chalkley

Tom Augherton
hole-in-the-wall-blog

The Outlaw Trail – From Canada to Mexico

Marshall Trimble
statue-of-liberty-blog

She Wasn’t Always so Loved

Jana Bommersbach
stuart-blog-image

Mysterious Desert View Tower Still Inspires Roadside Visitors

Stuart Rosebrook
texas-rangers-blog

The Best of the Best

Jana Bommersbach
butch-cassidy-blog1

The Folk Bandit

Marshall Trimble
salias-soule-blog

Captain Silas Soule

Mark Boardman
cgf-short-storms

A Short Storm

Bob Boze Bell
thomas-jefferson-blog

Jefferson’s Fourth Try

Cameron Douglas
galen-clark-blog

Galen Clark

Mark Boardman
arkansas-tom-blog

Arkansas Tom

Marshall Trimble
cowboy-war-bag-blog

Pack Your “War Bag”

Jana Bommersbach
emmet-dalton-blog

Emmett Dalton

Mark Boardman
ih-Only-known-photo-of-Jack-Swilling

Justice for Jack

Mark Boardman
Navy-Arms-.41-Short-Rimfire-copper-cased-cartridge.

A .41 Derringer Barks Again

Phil Spangenberger
ows-Edna-Seminole_Ralph-Red-Fox_-Ednas-son-Winslow

Liberty, Not Death

Jana Bommersbach
Union-Pacific-Railroad-Tunnel-number-3_Weber-River-Canyon

Engineering Marvels of the Western Railroads

Michael Zimmer
Theophilus-G.-Steward_chaplin_author

Soldiers of the Cross

John Langellier
1862 Battle of Apache Pass by Joe Beeler

The Alleged Bascom Affair

Doug Hocking
Dodge City Peace Commissioners-Luke short

The Man Behind the Dodge City War

Jack Demattos and Chuck Parsons
Durango-Silverton-True-West-Rail-Fest.

August 2015 Events

Darren Jensen
Elizabeth-Fenn_Pulitzer-Prize-Winning-Historian

Elizabeth Fenn

Elizabeth Fenn
Yellow-Rock-DVD-cover

Yellow Rock

Henry C. Parke
Legends-and-Lies-by-Bill-O-Reilly

Trails to the Truth

Stuart Rosebrook
Out Where the West Begins

Entrepreneurs or Robber Barons?

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David-G-McComb_The-City-in-Texas

The Urban Texas

William Groneman III
Epitaph--A-Novel-of-the-OK-Corral

A Tombstone Soliloquy

Allen Barra
Mystery-of-Chaco-Canyon-by-Doug-Hocking

Old West Adventure in the Land of Enchantment

Michael Zimmer
Scotch Barley Broth

Sitting Duck

Sherry Monahan