Fall 1878. Twenty-one-year-old Henry Brown took a job as a lawman in Tascosa, TX. It’s a bit of a change. He’d just finished a stint as one of Billy...
A Change of Heart
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George Catlin Paints the West
In 1830 lawyer George Catlin packed a case with pencils and paper, paint and brushes, and went to St. Louis where he met with William Clark, then...
The Sole Survivor
Henry Brown is known as a pal of Billy the Kid, marshal of Caldwell, KS, and a robber killed by a lynch mob in 1884. He wrote a last letter to his...
Bad Bill Longley
Bill Longley has been called one of the deadliest of gunfighters, unpredictable, ruthless and quick with both his gun and temper. His ambition to be...
What Can you Tell me about Joaquin Murrieta?
What can you tell me about Joaquin Murrieta? Joe Manriquez Whittier, California Author John Boessenecker says, “Walter Noble Burns called him the...
Burial Site: Battle of the Alamo
My grandma, Rosa Trimble, was a great storyteller. The Trimble’s came to Texas around 1840 and settled around San Antonio. She was an Edwards and...
Guns of the Gunfighters at the O.K. Corral
The question frequently comes up, are the guns used by the participants at the Gunfight behind the O.K. Corral in museums or in the hands of private...
American Plains Artists Exhibiting at San Angelo’s Fort Concho
The special summer show from the American Plains Artists (APA) group opens at Fort Concho’s Barracks 6 with an evening program on Thursday, June 27...
Who Was The Real George Hearst?
As students of both broadcast entertainment and Western history should be aware, there are two George Hearsts, and the contrast between them could...
Guns That Won the West
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...
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...