The old saw about guns that “won the West” may be overstated, yet undoubtedly, armament did play a major role in frontier expansion along with the...
Guns That Won the West
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Articles
Never Going Home
Arch Wolfe was just 18 when he holed up with kinsman Ned Christie in the latter’s cabin in Indian Territory in 1892. Christie was killed by a posse...
Butch Cassidy Would Do a Double Take
Sometimes you have to travel a “road to nowhere” to get somewhere you should be. Like the road to the Little Snake River Museum in a Wyoming...
A Botched Execution
Silon Lewis was the last man executed for murder under Choctaw law. But the November 4, 1894 execution didn’t go very well. The attending physician...
What Exactly is Locoweed?
I’ve seen cowboy movies from the 1950s where the actor said he had to shoot his horse because it ate locoweed. What exactly is locoweed? Were they...
Burnin’ Love
April 25, 1896. Dance hall girl Jennie Larue and her boyfriend Otto Floto get into a fight in Cripple Creek, Colorado's red light district. A gas...
Young Doc Holliday was a Traveling Man
For a man who was slowly dying from consumption, Doc Holliday didn’t let any grass grow under his feet. He was diagnosed with the dreaded disease in...
George Washington Told a Lie
There are many strange tales of Lincoln, NM. In 1879, George Washington was allegedly shooting at a stray dog near the ruins of the McSween house...
Clearing the Gunsmoke
With 635 television episodes, 480 radio shows and five movies, no other series in any genre has equaled the longevity of Gunsmoke. And to fans who...
Bad Luck Ranch
It just didn’t pay to own ranch land along the Feliz River in Lincoln County, NM. Robert Casey (photo) squatted on the land, building a dugout and...
How did Settlers and Cowboys Calculate Miles?
How did settlers and cowboys calculate miles? Jason Bledsoe Felton, Delaware Trail riding cowboys had no way to calculate the miles—but the “cookie”...
Shoot the Messenger
Lincoln, NM deserved its reputation as a deadly town. Example: February 21, 1878. Private Edward Brooks is carrying messages from Ft. Stanton to...