When wealthy trapper Ewing Young died in 1841 in what is Oregon today, he had no apparent heirs, and there was no way to determine how to handle his...
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Nellie Cashman, Angel of the Mining Camps: Part 2
Nellie Cashman’s many requests for donations to charitable causes brought her in contact with cowboys, miners, gamblers, outlaws and the ladies of...
Borderland Mystery
If These Walls Could Talk by James D. Crownover is a complex fictional story with a plethora of characters set in southern New Mexico and Arizona in...
Building your Western Library: Peter Corbett
Peter Corbett moved West in 1974 to attend Northern Arizona University. He had a 35-year career in Arizona journalism and recently was a “roads...
Nellie Cashman, A Single Mother of Five Children: Part 3
Nellie Cashman was the quintessential gold mining stampeder. For more than fifty years she combed the mining camps of the Far West. Her adventurers...
No Bull
In the early 1970s, Hollywood filmmakers were leaving the studio back lots of Los Angeles with fresh screenplays in hand, actors under contract and...
Cowboy Pens Best Rodeo Movie Ever Made
Prescott, Arizona, has been a center of Cowboy Culture since 1888, when civic-minded merchants first posted cash prizes for a cowboy tournament,...
A Shallow Faith
Father Emanuel Schneider became the first priest at Tombstone’s Sacred Heart Church in January 1881. He lasted just six months—probably because he...
Nellie Cashman, The Real McCoy: Part 4
Nellie Cashman had the “Luck of the Irish,” to go along with a keen knowledge of geology and business. She’d arrive when a boom town was in its...
Fire Engulfs Paramount Western Ranch
The cost in human life and property from the fires that blazed through California in November 2018 cannot yet be calculated. The cost to Western...
A Hot Ticket
The S.S. California was built in 1848 to take mail and passengers from Panama to California. But its services grew in demand when the Gold Rush...
Big Ben
Ben Thompson, one of the most noted gunmen of the Old West, was a man famed in his own time for his prowess with a pistol. Yet only two biographies...