Paul Andrew Hutton’s The Undiscovered Country, plus new books on Montana’s racehorses, the notorious Kellys, Jose Cuervo, and a rare diary of the...
Beyond the Blue Horizon
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Cultural Wyoming
Art and history meet on the route from Bighorn Basin through Powder River Basin to Casper. Master artists have long been drawn to the scenic beauty...
I Found the Planchas de la Plata!
Has one of the most famous of lost mines been found? Will the home of a lowly javelina turn out to he the treasure cave of the Santa Ritas? The...
Battle of Rosebud
Crook vs Crazy Horse & Sitting Bull "Heap Sioux! Heap Sioux!" June 17, 1876 General Crook is leading the Bighorn and Yellowstone...
The Pretendians
From Apache To Cree To Mohawk, here are some great pretenders that never were. In 1980, on a lunch break from our security guard gigs, I...
A Century of Tribal Disenrollment
First the Dawes Commission, Now Casino Tribes, Profit by Erasing Indian Heritage Starting in 1887, The Dawes Commission tried to...
Setting the Record Straight
Correcting a Misidentification in the C. S. Fly Photograph of the Tombstone Baseball Team As a collector I look for patterns and...
The Dancing Horse
The Fateful Friendship of Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill The Showman, the Chief, and the Birth of America’s Wild West Spectacle 'Near the end...
Only Hits Matter
Old West gunfighters had two secrets for accuracy when shooting the Colt Peacemaker. Skill was the defining aspect of both the gunfighter and...
Collecting The West
From the Plains to the Parlor Buffalo Bill’s Wild West ignited a collecting craze. When Buffalo Bill began his show in 1883 the general public had...
Old West Saviors
Soldiering Onward after the LA Inferno Unsung heroes like Dr. Brian Dervin Dillon are emerging after the California fires with a message…listen to...
Shooting Back
Our readers remind us of the variables and vagaries of historic truths, “well-established” facts, headlines and historical photographs Ornate in...