The Cow-boy and Earp factions were already at loggerheads in the fall of 1881. A stagecoach robbery took things to another level. On the night of...
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The Man who Brought Down the High Fives
Fred Higgins was an unsung US deputy marshal who helped bring down the High Five Gang, which roamed the Southwest in the 1890s. In November 1896,...
The Youngers of Missouri: First Blood
The Younger brothers present a classic example of how the war destroyed families. If any family could be called "Rebels with a Cause," it would be...
DVD Review: The Durango Kid Collection
From 1945 to 1952, Charles Starrett played undercover hero the Durango Kid in 65 hugely popular Columbia Pictures B-Westerns. Unseen for decades, a...
Should Have Stucky to Cowboying
Code Young went to outlawry in the mid-1890s, joining up with the High Fives Gang that roamed the Southwest. The former cowboy was involved in a...
Starr of a Publicity Photo
Blue Duck is famous for two reasons—Larry McMurtry had a character by that name in Lonesome Dove, and the real man was photographed with Belle...
One Proud Hostile
Wes Studi, fresh from the success of Hostiles, appeared on the 2018 Oscars to present a movie montage highlighting military service, the 70 year old...
Westward from the White House
Glenda Riley and Richard Etulains’ Presidents Who Shaped the American West is a highly satisfying narrative spanning two centuries. The study traces...
What History Has Taught Me: Alden Big Man Jr.
A former cabinet head of Crow Homeland Security for Crow Agency, Montana, Alden Big Man Jr. earned his Ph.D. in the History department at University...
Tubac on the Spanish Colonial Frontier
The presidio at Tubac, founded in 1752, was the first European settlement in Arizona. The name came from a Pima Indian word meaning “Where something...
What were the Strongest Indian Tribes of the 19th Century?
What were the strongest Indian tribes of the 19th century? Paul W. Hughes Vacaville, California That’s kind of like trying to pick the greatest...
Horse Race at Castle Gate
In the spring of 1894, Butch Cassidy was running a small outfit at Horse Creek in the Upper Wind River country near today, Dubois, Wyoming with a...