A lot of folks out there are investigating history—and that’s a good thing, or else this column would not exist and yours truly might be out of a job. But few of them happen to chance upon undiscovered materials. Even rarer is the case of two people independently finding the same historical fact. One recent example of this involves the 1907 Arizona Rangers General Orders written by Capt. Harry Wheeler. Wheeler was a law and order, by-the-book kind of guy. To keep his Rangers from behavin

February 2013
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- E.M. Horton
- Fifty Years of The Virginian
- The Mean-Nice Man
- The 5-Man Army
- February 2013 Events
- Inventive to a Fault the inventor and the tycoon
- Object: Matrimony
- With Blood in Their Eyes
- Comanche Crusader
- Weapons of the Lewis & Clark Expedition
- Geronimo by Robert M. Utley
- Frontier “Forty Four”
- Bruce Boxleitner
- In November 2012, True West discussed the “45 Lawmen You’d Want On Your Side.” Bass Outlaw is one—but he’s later listed as an outlaw. So was he somebody you wanted on your side—or a bad guy you didn’t want to mess with?
- Were gun silencers used during the Old West era?
- When did the last U.S. stagecoach robbery take place?
- How many prospectors got rich during the California gold rush?
- What was the first college created to educate American Indians?
- When the pioneers crossed treeless country, where did the women go to the bathroom?
- Matt Braun Picks
- Black Gold Gushers
- Historical Twins
- Top 10 True Western Towns of 2013
- “War to the Death”
- Honor in Defeat
- The Rocky Mountain Rangers
- Men Behaving Badly
- The Death Tent
- Almost Getting Killed…
- The Tucked-In Rangers
- Sourdough
- Looking for the Shawnee Trail