The tale of Tom Carson fits the bill of Old West fabrications that have been recorded as fact.
Storytellers claimed Tom was the nephew of legendary mountain man Kit Carson—who could not comment on the relationship, as Tom showed up thr
November 2015
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- Croquet in the West
- The Cisco Kid
- Western Events for November 2015
- Did Wyatt Earp carry his pistol in a holster at the O.K. Corral gunfight?
- Wild West Debut Novel
- Bad News Travels Fast
- More Guts Than Sense
- Sweet Spot: Pie Town, New Mexico
- Who was the narrator at the beginning of The Lone Ranger?
- City of Destiny
- Little Miss Sureshot
- Reading, Writing and Riding with Spur Award-Winner Rod Miller
- Shoot ‘em, Groom ‘em, Entomb ‘em
- 22 Guns that Won the West!
- Dan Dedrick and Billy the Kid
- Lemon Power
- West Texas in the Rain Shadow
- Divine Intervention
- Cattle is King
- The Australian Jesse James
- Illuminating the Past
- Hays in an Uproar
- Remembering Butch Cassidy
- Custer’s Last Stand
- Warren Earp’s Lover?
- Writing Bill Tilghman’s Biography
- The First Frontier
- Hooker’s Turkeys
- What can you tell me about the town of Fairbank, Arizona?
- Reverend Peabody Comes to Tombstone
- Bunkhouse Belly Cheaters
- Elmore Leonard Rides Again
- Soldiers At Play
- The Lost Jesuit Treasures
- In your June 2015 column, you discussed animals killed in 1925’s Ben-Hur. Wasn’t a man killed during the chariot race in the 1959 version?
- The Mystery of the Great Medicine Gun
- Digging up Billy the Kid
- A Surgical Disarming of Outlaws
- Independence Day at Independence Rock
- Pat Garrett’s Buffalo Hunt Adventure
- The Regulator-Moderator War
- Camels vs Mules
- The Hero’s Tragedy
- Will you find the TV documentary on Pancho Villa and the Mexican Revolution that aired years ago?
- Bill Boren’s Revenge
- History of the Mullan Road
- Gary Cozzens
- Joking Bandits
- Water and the West
- Billy the Kid Experts Weigh in on the Croquet Photo
- On the Trail of the Buffalo Hunters
- Epic Western Saga
- The Buffalo Hunters’ War
- The Mother of Women Suffrage in Wyoming
- Not Always in Distress
- Yellowstone Was Only the Beginning
- The Legend of Johnny Ringo
- Robin Hood of El Dorado
- Giving the Ladies the Vote
- The Sinking Ship Survivor
- The Coward of the Little Bighorn
- Mothers and Babies on the Frontier
- In 1973’s Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Bob Dylan played the Kid’s knife-throwing buddy Alias. Was he real?
- The Great Die Off
- High-flying Western Director
- Rustling Felines
- A Tale of Kit Carson’s “Nephew”
- How easy was it to get a cup of coffee in the Old West?
- Augustus Thomas Goes West
- Bozeman’s Darkest Night
- Poodles in the West
- A Toast to the Dead
- Giving Thanks
- The Call of the Canyon
- Lottie Deno’s Gambling Past
- Rifle and Pen
- Sam Walker’s Gun
- Blood Brothers
- Louis L’Amour’s West
- Nobel’s Blasting Oil
- Memories of the Duke
- Los Goddammies
- No School Left Behind