Like many American children of the late 1950s, Alan Rockman spent his childhood in the not-exactly-Old West-town of Scranton, Pennsylvania, with the...
What History Has Taught Me: Alan Rockman
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Cherokee Stories
When Robert J. Conley died in 2014, the Cherokee Nation and Western literature lost a tremendous voice. Evelyn Conley, his widow and driving force,...
A Killer Gets His
Frank McNab (or MacNab) was second in command of The Regulators, the Lincoln County (NM) outfit that tried to settle the score for the murder of...
Max Evans in Hollywood
"Ol’ Tony Hillerman told me one time, ‘Max, you know, if you option a novel, you’ve got to hope they don’t make the movie. Because then you can’t...
The Comanche and his Horse
The acquisition of the horse in the 1600s brought immediate and sweeping changes to the Plains Indians. For the first time it gave them a wide range...
Golden Jayhawkers
After news of the discovery of gold in California in 1848, thousands of individuals made their way to the west coast of America. Fueled by the...
What Can You Tell Me About Wild Bunch Associate Laura Bullion?
What can you tell me about Wild Bunch associate Laura Bullion? Darrell Clements Memphis, Tennessee Laura had a hardscrabble life. She had flings...
Railroad Water Tanks
While watching westerns on television and movies you see trains pull up and stop at a water tower and fill up the steam engine. How did those pumps...
Grand Canyon’s Grand Meals
Today, visitors arrive at the Grand Canyon either by train, car or bus and have hotel and dining options because of the Fred Harvey Company. When...
The Martyrdom of Mangas Coloradas
Mangas Coloradas was a great Apache chief, and he felt betrayed by the U.S. Settlers and miners had been taking over Apache land in the Southwest,...
You Gotta Die Right to be an Icon
Many famous outlaws died robbing banks and trains. Some, however, died in peculiar ways. For example, during a train robbery the Tall Texan, Ben...
Western Events for February 2019
Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West this February. Adventure Cripple Creek Ice Festival Cripple Creek, CO, February...