In the spring of 1876, Henry Antrim worked as a bus boy at the Hotel de Luna at the edge of Camp Grant, Arizona Territory. Later he would change his name to Billy Bonney and become known as Billy the Kid.
April 2016
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- Another Reason To Love “Buckey” O’Neil
- Mickey Free S.O.B.
- What is locoweed?
- The Godfather of Westerns
- Bank Robbery at Round Rock
- Traveling the Chisholm Trail
- Johnny Western
- What Do the Donkey, the Elephant and Santa Have in Common?
- Stinking Badges!
- Tiffany Schofield
- Leader of Destiny: Sitting Bull
- Crash at Crush
- A Square Deal for the Women of Arizona
- The Graham Family vs the Tewksbury Family
- Loser Mountain
- I’ve heard Westerns state “something” is a day’s ride away. How far was a day’s ride in the Old West era?
- A Long Shot
- Famous Last Words
- Bub Meeks and Butch Cassidy
- The Brotherhood of Empirical Failure
- Dining on the Iron Horse
- Betting the Farm in Arizona Territory
- A Fist Full of Double Trouble
- The True History of Lonesome Dove
- Taming Ash Fork, Arizona
- One of the Toughest Lawmen in the West
- Nebraska’s Homestead Settlement Trail
- Trail of Horses
- The Night I Discovered Pluto
- Aztec’s Astonishing Arches
- Gold on the Klondike
- Tom Horn’s Gun
- Wyatt Earp’s Wild Times in Nome
- Hitching Your Wagon to a Star
- History of the Gunfighter
- Back to the Future with J. Frank Dobie
- Arizona’s Laddie Godiva
- Now That was a Party
- The Wild West of James D. Horan
- New Mexico’s Rio Grande
- Wyatt Earp: The Missing Years
- Arizona’s Cowboys and Cattle
- The Apache Joan of Arc
- Bean Belly Egged On
- Why do people mount horses from the left side?
- The Lonesome Dove Trail
- The Legend of Red Ghost
- The Old White Lady with Many Stories
- Dance Hall Queens and Broadway Beauties
- Ben Johnson’s Last Trail Ride
- Henry Clay Hooker’s Turkeys
- Frank Reno Didn’t Get the Last Laugh
- Legendary Dishwasher
- Nevada’s Bonanza of History
- Little Gertie the Gold Dollar
- John Reno’s Biggest Mistake
- The True West January 2016 issue published a photo of John Slaughter and several of his cowboys. Which one was his foreman at the San Bernardino Ranch?
- Deadlines Missed
- Thankfully, She was a Song Catcher
- Rocky Mountain Cloak and Dagger
- A Drunken Debacle
- Assault on the Deadwood Stage
- The Bandit Queen
- She Cradled Lincoln’s Head
- Getting Rich Behind a Counter
- The Amazon of the Border
- Why did the great artist Charlie Russell wear a red sash?
- The Camp Grant Massacre
- Cornish Miners in the West
- The Perfect Name for a Madam
- Happy Jack Morco
- Cowboy Lingo
- Nourishment at the Homestead
- Danger in the Mines
- Arizona’s Confederate Governor
- Russian Bill Swings at Shakespeare
- Bringing the American West to Life
- House of the Rising Sun – A Blood Red Sun
- Eva Dugan’s Noose
- Butch Cassidy’s Castle
- How come Arizona never extradited Wyatt Earp for the Vendetta Ride killings?