To The Point
Seeking Common Ground
The good news first: the end of the 1918 influenza pandemic in 1920 led almost directly to the Roaring Twenties because everyone in the country was so ready to kick out the jams after all the death and depressing times. So let’s hope that history repeats itself this year.
From The Blog
From Mountain Man to Entrepreneur
Uncle Dick Wootton made his mark in many ways. “Uncle” Dick Wootton was a frontiersman and mountain man during the […]
A Forgotten Fighter at the Battle of Lincoln
Sebrian Bates is one of the forgotten Regulators in the Lincoln County War. A Black man, Bates was employed by […]
She Couldn’t Take a Joke
May Woodman’s response came with a bullet. Count Billy Kinsman among those who have markers at Tombstone’s Boothill—but the bodies […]
Departments
A Tall Tale of Two Bills
Did lawman Bill Tilghman really arrest outlaw Bill Doolin?
Shooting Back
Our readers remind us of the variables and vagaries of HISTORICAL truths, “well-established” facts, headlines and historical photographs.
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Opening Shot – The Dead of Winter
Indian Infantry Company in winter uniforms pause from their training—possibly as Indian police—to have their photo taken in the winter of 1890.