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
Saloons
A saloon might also be known as a “watering trough, bughouse, shebang, cantina, grogshop, and gin mill.” The first saloon […]
Sam Walker’s Last Battle
Their reputation of the mounted Texans was so great, Walker’s Rangers, along with those of fellow-Texans, Colonel Jack Hays and […]
Nobody Believed Him!
A James Gang member couldn’t turn himself in. Jim Cummins was not the most enthusiastic member of the James-Younger Gang. […]
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.
More In This Issue
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.