For Charles Stewart Stobie, the decision to travel from Eastern cities to the Indian lands in the rugged American West would last a lifetime. Although he is not as well-known today as Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill Cody and Frederic Remington, they not only were his contemporaries, he considered each of them a friend. Born in the Chesapeake harbor town of Baltimore, Maryland, on March 18, 1845, Stobie discovered his passion for drawing while studying architecture at Madras College in St. Andr

October 2013
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- Dibs on Doc
- Son of a Gunfighter
- From Silver Screen to Gun Room
- The Lovable Liar
- Mountain Charlie
- History Mystery Solved? Hiding in Plain Sight
- Favorite Docs on Film
- Robert Taylor Westerns
- Uptop in the Spanish Peaks
- New Mexico: A History
- The Call of the Road
- Soaking Up the Truth
- October 2013 Events
- Vested Interest
- The Beef Craze
- Blood, Glory & Greed in Texas
- The Outlaws: Tales of Bad Guys Who Shaped the Wild West
- Rush to Gold: The French and the California Gold Rush, 1848-1854
- History and Art Along the High Road
- Willcox, Arizona
- Of Grave Concern: An Ophelia Wylde Paranormal Mystery
- King of the Covers
- Extraordinary Art of the West
- What is Stuart Lake’s middle name?
- What information do you have on that old cowboy staple, coffee?
- What happened to Etta Place?
- The June issue shows Doc Holliday’s tombstone in the Linwood Cemetery in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. Is that his real burial spot?
- Rough Drafts 10/13
- How common was postmortem photography in the Old West?